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unusual facts about Bob Ryan


Bob Ryan

At that time, Ryan said that Joumana Kidd, then-wife of then-New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd needed someone to "smack" her for taking her son T.J., then 4 years old, to NBA play-off night games where they could be taunted.


Bob Lobel

During a 2003 edition of Sports Final, Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan said that the wife of New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd needed someone to "smack" her for taking his young children to NBA playoff games where they could be taunted.

Drive: The Story of My Life

Published by Doubleday in 1989 and coauthored with Bob Ryan, the book chronicles Bird's life and career up to the 1988–89 NBA season.

Peter Gammons

For many years he was a colleague of other legendary Globe sports writers Will McDonough, Bob Ryan, and Leigh Montville.

Will McDonough

After graduating from Northeastern University, he started at the Boston Globe as a copy boy in 1955 and was promoted to sportswriter in 1960, working for many years with other legendary Globe sportswriters such as Peter Gammons, Bob Ryan and Leigh Montville.


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