Legendary sports writer Frank Deford spent five decades as one of the defining voices of Sports Illustrated.

It’s funny, all those references that slip past you as white noise.

The reference to golf elsewhere on the page was sparked by a book I borrowed last week, Over Time by Frank DeFord, which contains an elegantly exasperated head-shake over the pretentions of that sport.

THE fight game continues to crumble in the City of Brotherly Love.