He was the quintessential sportswriter. For almost 75 years, Shirley Povich wrote a daily column that mixed sports with sociology and statistics with historical insight, and kept Washington Post's readers absorbed. We look back at his career, and the influence he had on sports as a whole.
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Life of Shirley Povich
Listen Thursday, May. 19, 2005 at 12:06 p.m. in SportsGuests
George Solomon
Columnist and former Sports Editor, The Washington Post; Shirley Povich Professor, Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland; also former ESPN Ombudsman
Maury Povich
co-editor, All Those Mornings at The Post (Public Affairs)
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