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A 'NATIONAL' DISASTER: How wild, reckless spending sent this country's first and last sports daily to an early grave — from someone who was thereBorn on death row, The National Sports Daily perished of its own hand 30 years ago today, June 13, 1991....

Charles Barkley Was Always A PunditOriginally published in the November, 1994 issue of GQ, this story appears here with the author’s permission....

Why Paul Newman Just Got Better With AgeThis week's curation at the Beast is Peter Richmond's fine 1995 GQ profile of Paul Newman:...

The Death Of A Cowboy

Sometimes you read a story and everything about it is in harmony—narrative, character, setting, emotion, and insight. Such is the case with Peter Richmond's 1990 tribute to Lane Frost. I'll get out of the way now and let you appreciate it for yourself:...

The True Greatness of Ali

On the table in front of him sit a copy of the holy Koran and a plate holding three frosted raspberry coffee cakes, and when he leans forward on the couch and reaches out it is not for enlightenment. It is for a piece of pastry. With his right hand wobbling just this side of uncontrollably, he guide...

The Secret Of Phil Jackson's Success: He Never Stopped Questioning

You've seen Peter Richmond around these parts a time or two. He is the author of some of our favorite magazine stories, and for his most recent book he found a subject worthy of his sensitive and searching style: Phil Jackson. The book is called Lord of the Rings, and it's available now. We spoke wi...

The NFL+Phish=Bad Vibes

Phish meets the NFL. Dogs and cats, living together. Two of Peter Richmond's favorite things collide and he doesn't dig it:...

Bill Murray, The Sports Fan

Since we're talking Chicago this week, it's a good time to revisit Peter Richmond's story about hanging with Bill Murray that we reprinted earlier this year....