"Yeah, it would be slow, but death by typewriter is what the [bleep!] deserves."

Ron Sirak pays tribute to Dan Jenkins and there is no way you can pass up a column quoting the single greatest lede in the history of literature.

And there was this from Sirak about Jenkins' place in the world of sport:

But even more than his best-selling novels, Jenkins joined journalists Bernard Darwin and Herbert Warren Wind in the WGHOF because he reinvented sports writing. If the late Hunter Thompson gets credit for creating "Gonzo Journalism" -- the art of immersing yourself in a story and making fact read with the entertainment of fiction -- Jenkins is the guy who brought that attitude to sports, although he will hate to have his name mentioned in the same sentence with Thompson. Both blew up the form and invented a new one.