The Matt Jones Podcast: E45 Muhammad Ali’s Life with Dave Kindred

The Matt Jones Podcast

Matt Jones

Sports

2.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The Matt Jones Podcast takes its turn honoring The Greatest. It begins with Tony Vanetti giving some hometown perspective before Matt is joined by Dave Kindred. Kindred began following Ali as a young reporter for The Courier-Journal before authoring the book Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship. A few highlights: -- How Ali's image changed after the '96 Olympics in Atlanta. -- Kindred's personal perspective of Ali and how he will remember him. -- The symbiotic relationship between Ali and Howard Cosell. You can have every podcast delivered straight to your phone by searching for “The Matt Jones Podcast” on iTunes and clicking “subscribe.” It doesn’t get much easier than that. If you aren’t an iTunes person, you can also stream every podcast on Podbay or check it out on the Stitcher app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was gambling in Havana
0:04.0	I took a little risk
0:09.0	send lawyers guns and money.
0:14.0	Dead, get me out of this.
0:19.0	Ha!
0:20.0	Welcome everyone to episode 45 of the Matt Jones podcast taping this on Monday
0:26.3	it is June 6th which is D-Day also the first day of Ramadan a lot of stuff
0:31.2	happening here we're gonna make this a special episode, a very
0:35.4	special episode of KSR, where we talk about a famous Kentucky and who passed away this weekend
0:41.8	Mohammed Ali.
0:43.0	I'm going to be joined in just a little bit
0:45.8	by someone who probably wrote and knew Mohammed Ali
0:49.5	as much as any sports writer that exists.
0:52.4	Dave Kindred, who was with the Louisville Courier Journal,
0:55.3	Sports Illustrated, followed him for 20, 30 plus years,
1:00.1	wrote a book about the relationship between he and Howard Cosell
1:03.0	and I read his article on Fox Sports and thought it was great and he doesn't normally do
1:07.6	interviews and stuff anymore but agreed to come on here which was very nice.
1:11.0	You had to pay him? I called his house and asked him I was
1:14.4	clearly annoying him. Like it was clearly like he was well not annoying but he was
1:19.4	called his house he has a landline? No no I mean I called his cell phone and he was
1:23.8	clearly like he had other things going on but he was nice enough and said he would do
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