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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Art Spander began covering sports for the Santa Monica Evening Outlook in the early '60s. He's still on the beat today, most recently at this year's golf U.S. Open, in columns for his own website. The Athletic catches up with the 86-year-old throwback to another era. "No one has ever been as romantic about sports as Art," said Al Michaels, a friend of 52 years. "He works. He works hard. He cares. He cares hard. I don't know how, but no matter what, he's never lost that sense of wonder."

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Art Spander, 86, is one of the last of his kind, a big name of another era. Nearly blind and unable to type his own stories, why does he still cover sporting events at 86? Because of Liz. http://dlvr.it/TLX881

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-- The Athletic (@theathletic.com) Jun 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM

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".... he's never lost that sense of wonder."

I Am Waiting

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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