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Los Angeles Times
Glenn F. Bunting says his examination of Frank Deford's work finds that the Sports Illustrated legend "frequently uses breathtaking overstatement to portray athletes and their accomplishments -- such as forever, never, greatest ever, most unique and one of a kind." But, he says, "not all of Deford's troublesome passages were mere exaggerations. Many were flat out wrong and had not been corrected in print." DEFORD'S REACTION: "Honestly. Hundreds of thousands of words I've written and you're taking two or three little things. You act like this is sort of an epidemic."
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