Bill Whittington

It has been a very interesting few weeks in my life.

A good friend of mine passed away a couple of weeks ago.

His funeral was Friday.

And finding out that Terry had passed away on Friday just kind of,

full-circled it for me.

My admiration for Terry Boers stems from listening to, well, actually it's from reading his column when I was a much younger person.

And being able to meet him and have conversations with him, not going around going, hey, I talked to Terry Boers today, because some of the stuff I can't repeat that he said.

But being able to meet him

and Dan McNeil and beginning to have relationships with folks who work at the score then and now it's because of him.

He's the linchpin for, um, sports radio.

I don't think it's a big secret.

I have a radio show that I do weekly and it used to kind of make me mad because the one day of the week I couldn't listen to my favorite show on the score was the day I had to do my job.

Um,

I patterned a lot of the radio program after what he and Dan Bernstein did.

The way to analytically approach sports, how to really get into the minutia without being in the minutia, it's because of Terry Boyce.

Being able to handle an interview when it goes south, like that Jordan interview went.

And then quick...

as it could possibly be done, he goes, we must have had a misconnection.

That type of stuff.

You don't teach that.