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The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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