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I'm really excited about this one because I've never told this man how I actually feel about him.

Beyond being a pioneer and someone who gave me and others like me permission,

shared the stage with me, he's the original gangster.

He taught all of us what sports writing could be, what friendship and partnership with someone you love could be,

changing television with one of the best sports television shows ever made, and a long journalism career before that,

before you gravitated toward the cotton candy, and one of the hardest workers I've

ever met. I don't know where your ambition comes from, but I'd like to ask you a bunch of

questions that I have never asked you before. But first, to express my profound respect and love

for a legitimate teacher of mine. You and Tony showed me the way, showed me what could be

possible. I'm 10 years older than you and that means Tony's 20. You know, Dan, first of all,

that that means a lot to come from you. It means a lot to come from the people that are in a group

that are a half. if a generation is 20,

and, you know, half generation is 10, it means you and Stephen A. Smith and certain people

that are, that are exactly, you know, 10 years younger, we don't think of you guys as being

younger, but you are. And if we showed anything, if we did anything that reveals some sort of humanity,

my mother was a teacher taught public school in Chicago for 35 years, so teaching is important.

So that's a hell of a compliment. Thank you for saying that.

I'm so grateful to you and Tony and Ride Home and Kelleher and the entire environment that you had

around you because it showed me what kind of environment I wanted around me. I tell people all the

time. It wasn't even the friendship of Tony and Mike that made me gravitate toward how I would do it

in its evolution. It's what they had behind the scenes, caring for them, the people

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