Frank Deford

Frank Deford was an American sportswriter and novelist who wrote for Sports Illustrated from 1962 until his death in 2017. He was also a regular commentator on NPR's Morning Edition and a correspondent for HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. His novels include Everybody's All-American and The Entitled, and his memoir Alex, the Life of a Child traces a girl's short childhood with cystic fibrosis, a cause he long supported.