Grant Wahl’s life celebrated at New York City gathering
Associated PressNEW YORK — Grant Wahl was remembered for his peripatetic life as a sportswriter, pursuit of social justice and lasting impact on family, friends and people he mentored. “Grant really did write to Sports Illustrated in late elementary school to say: `My name is Grant Wahl and I want to write for your magazine,’” recalled his brother, Eric Wahl. Keep writing.’ But the fact that he received a reply stuck with him.” Wahl’s rebuke of retiring Princeton basketball coach Pete Carril in the Daily Princetonian in 1996 was recalled as an early sign of Wahl’s moral backbone and his 2002 SI cover story on LeBron James as an example of his prescience. “Grant’s effort to be Anthony Bourdain of soccer without ever trying heroin,” said Joel H. Samuels, dean of the University of South Carolina’s College of Arts and Sciences, host of the celebration, a friend from Princeton days and the officiant at Wahl’s wedding. I wasn’t a sports fan, which confused many of our friends when we first got together.” “Ït was hard at times sharing Grant with the rest of the world,” she added.
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