Bud Collins, Who Covered Tennis With Authority and Flash, Dies at 86
Bud Collins, the passionate, often irreverent face of tennis for ... His death was announced by his wife, the photographer Anita .... “Before smog, there was Forest Hills,” he wrote in TheNew York Times in ...
New York Times - 15 hours ago
RE: Bud Collins. NYT Obit
not the least of which included pants
of multicolored hue
of multicolored hue
plus a flashy tie too.
But this smiling sartorial menace
was totally dedicated to tennis
and though in his life, as in all, there were things to repent
by and large it was very well spent.
Still when he was finally removed from our terrestrial hook
why did his (current and last) wife first announce it on FACEBOOK?
For those of his "Friends" already in the hereafter
this gesture might possibly bring sympathetic laughter
but I suspect for most
their ghost, as well
would feel dejection
since neither Heaven nor Hell
has an Internet connection.
Is this the start of a trend
of how best to inform a friend,
Or even a foe
who might want to know when you go
to that final resting place?
In any case,
while slaking a publicity thirst,
please remember that you saw if here first.
HzL
3/5/16
Bud Collins, the passionate, often irreverent face of tennis for nearly half a century in his Wimbledon broadcasts and his newspaper and magazine columns, died on Friday at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 86.
His death was announced by his wife, the photographer Anita Ruthling Klaussen, on her Facebook page.
Mr. Collins had largely been away from tennis since tearing tendons in his left leg in a fall at his hotel room while attending the 2011 United States Open in New York. The injury required many surgical procedures.
But last September, accompanied by Ms. Klaussen, he attended a ceremony at the Open in which the new media center was named in his honor. A plaque for him reads, “Journalist, Commentator, Historian, Mentor, Friend.”
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