Starting down the homestretch

All good things must end...

I started getting paid to be a writer back in 1983. I was a 19-year-old that decided I wanted to be a freelance writer and that was that. So off I went.

My first sports assignment was a high school playoff game in Odessa, Texas. I still have the press pass for that one laying about somewhere. I covered two golfing events that included then PGA stars in M…