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Benjamin Franklin Deford III [1] (December 16, 1938 – May 28, 2017) was an American sportswriter and novelist. From 1980 until his death in 2017, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR 's Morning Edition radio program.
Alex: The Life of a Child is a biography and film about the life and death of Alexandra Deford from cystic fibrosis. [1] After her death in 1980 at the age of eight, her father, Frank Deford, a sportswriter, was inspired to write a memoir about Alex three years later. The book depicts Alex's determination to make the best of her circumstances ...
Frank Deford, who began his career at Sports Illustrated in 1962 and remained with the magazine for decades, died Sunday in Key West, Florida.
Deford immediately set out to get what was referred to by Bill Simmons as a "murderer's row" of sportswriters to join The National. [2] Deford said that hiring Atlanta Journal-Constitution sports editor Van McKenzie away from the paper was the "best thing he did" and was the linchpin for getting many of the writers who eventually signed up to ...
Some have said that the main character in the novel is based on Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice, a real-life North Carolina football star. [4] Then, after the movie was released, simply because the film had been relocated to Louisiana, there were rumors that Deford had based Gavin Grey on LSU's All-American running back, Billy Cannon.
Jelly Roll and his wife, Bunnie XO, have been married for eight years, and they have had quite the whirlwind romance. After meeting in 2015, Jelly, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord ...
[10] Sports Illustrated magazine's Frank Deford wrote "If North Dallas Forty is reasonably accurate, the pro game is a gruesome human abattoir, worse even than previously imagined. Much of the strength of this impression can be attributed to Nick Nolte...Unfortunately, Nolte's character, Phil Elliott, is often fuzzily drawn, which makes the ...
Jelly Roll‘s wife, Bunnie XO, marked the one-year anniversary of retiring from sex work.. Bunnie (full name Bunnie DeFord), 44, took to Facebook on Tuesday, March 5, to reflect on the decision ...