RIP Kenny Moore

[DanOregon]

https://www.oregonlive.com/trackand...lympian-journalist-and-author-dies-at-78.html


He wrote about distance running as no other writer could. Such a talented guy. Great runner. Great writer. Right up there with DeFord, Gary Smith and Scott Price in making you care about people deeply who you had only "met" a few pages before.

 

[HanSenSE]

The stories he wrote on running and runners for SI (back when it cared about the Olympics) were epic. RIP.

 

[Donny in his element]

https://www.oregonlive.com/trackand...lympian-journalist-and-author-dies-at-78.html

He wrote about distance running as no other writer could. Such a talented guy. Great runner. Great writer. Right up there with DeFord, Gary Smith and Scott Price in making you care about people deeply who you had only "met" a few pages before.

Dang. He was an important character in the great “Without Limits,” which he co wrote.

His Bowerman book was one of the important titles of my HS cross country/track coaching career.

 

[Azrael]

One of the best who ever lived.

Sons of the Wind

Articles by Kenny Moore

 

[Michael_ Gee]

One of the best writers and lived a terrifically interesting life in his own right. RIP.

 

[goalmouth]

Back in the day, there was an abundance of outstanding longform magazine writing on sports, which actually inspired a young me to be a sportswriter. It could be found not only in SI but in Sport (edited by **** Schaap) and Inside Sports (Charley Rosen, for example).

So one day on college break I put on a sportsjacket, marched into the Time-Life lobby, and pointedly asked the guy at the information desk how to get a job with Sports Illustrated. He gave me a cursory glance up and down and in a haughty tone said, "We only hire Ivy League graduates!"

 

[playthrough]

My teenager is a runner with sports journalism aspirations (ugh, I know) and I told her last night about Kenny Moore. Her jaw was on the floor.