Frank Deford: The Lost Interview

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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A never before heard interview with the late Frank Deford from 2013. Topics ranged from personal interactions with legendary athletes such as Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, and Bill Russell to Deford's perspective on the state of sports journalism today. Frank Deford's Wicked Gracehttps://www.thenation.com/article/frank-defords-wicked-grace/—http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | https://www.instagram.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE)—Music: Eye Examination - Del the Funky Homosapien | Frontin' - Jay-Z feat. Pharrell | Brain - Jungle Brothers | Still Fly - Big Tymers | Don't Sweat the Technique - Eric B & Rakim | The Wire Outro Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	What worries me when anything else is not sports or what's going to happen, sports is the end of the investigative piece?
0:06.0	Right.
0:07.0	Because that costs money.
0:08.0	Right.
0:09.0	And that's what's disappearing.
0:10.0	Right.
0:11.0	You don't give somebody six months to do something not knowing whether they're even going to come up with anything anymore.
0:15.0	Well, we can't afford that.
0:17.0	Right.
0:18.0	And that's what's frightening because that's where journalism was most important and most valuable to society.
0:33.4	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.
0:35.7	I'm Dave Ziron.
0:36.7	This week we have a 27-minute interview that I did with Frank DeFord back in 2013.
0:45.0	I don't believe this interview has ever gone public before, and I think that it will be a remarkable way for you, the Edge of Sports audience, to understand why this guy was so singular.
0:59.1	Mr. DeFord, thank you so much for being on the show.
1:02.3	Well, I'm delighted to be with you.
1:04.4	I always ask this question of writers, give them the chance with the first question to just say,
1:09.8	why did they choose to write this book
1:11.7	why did you choose at this point in your life to write overtime i didn't choose it i was talked into
1:17.1	and uh that's a new answer which i was asked to do in sports illustrated sort of remembering
1:24.8	the early days of sports illustrated or anyway the early days of Sports Illustrated, or anyway, the early
1:27.9	days when I got there in the 1960s.
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