The unexpected deaths of two former journalism colleagues — Grant Wahl and Alex Yannis — have left me with a sadness, and a spell of that “this shouldn’t be happening” feeling. Grant I ran into frequently enough, but I was never close to him. Always pleasant to talk to, he brought a sharp mind to his soccer coverage, one of the new generation of soccer journalists who could, right from the start, treat soccer as a top pro sport, one worthy of serious, intelligent study.
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