But they were always worth it."Īctually, Nack came to sports writing a little late. "Anyway, his stories would always come in a little late. True story - the SI business office once questioned his expense account because they couldn't believe anyone could drink that much coffee. He took such voluminous notes, and it took him a while to get everything organized. "He would literally lock himself in a room, at home or on the road, with a pot of coffee for 24 hours.
"He agonized over every story," Padwe says. And he would always tell the students that it was the reporting that drove a story."Īs for the writing, as good as the prose was, it never came easy. "He would do a class for me every year, never missed one. "He loved that part of the job," says Sandy Padwe, who edited him at both Newsday and SI and taught a sports journalism class at Columbia University for 26 years.
First and foremost, he was a great reporter.
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