Daily News | Grant Wahl: A remembrance of an accomplished sportswriter whose untimely death shook the World Cup
If it was a UEFA men’s Champions League Tuesday or Wednesday, you’d find Grant and a collection of friends sitting at an outside table: fellow journalists, TV presenters, ex-players, social media creators, and more. I happened to be in town one day and went over. By coincidence, so did former ESPN president John Skipper, who teamed up with Dan Le Batard to hire Grant to Meadowlark Media.
The word is that Smithfield Hall will name Grant’s outdoor table in his honor. Another of the regulars, My memories of Grant are his instantly recognizable shaved head and constant grin. The first World Cup I covered with him in 2006, he laughed at me riding up on a rented bicycle to the USMNT hotel in Hamburg for their press conference, saying how I’d become a local already. It didn’t matter that he was long-established at Sports Illustrated and I was a contract writer at ESPN, because he never lorded his success over anyone.
Yes, he was serious about his writing, but he was also just plain fun, and I recall him on the dance floor at MLS All-Star parties, or organizing outings to what he’d heard was a great restaurant in town or gathering people for a watch party of whatever big game was going on abroad.
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