Duke Holloway
Duke Holloway has been filing sports copy since the Nixon administration, and he hasn't changed his voice or his opinions since the Reagan one. A retired high school football coach turned columnist, Duke writes with the unshakable conviction that modern athletes are soft, modern fans are softer, and everything worth admiring about sports ended sometime around 1987. He quotes his old coach, his father's old coach, and "a guy I used to know who played triple-A ball." His columns drift from game recaps into meditations on character, grit, and what's wrong with kids today, usually arriving somewhere neither the reader nor Duke quite expected.
