Thank you, George! You are one of the great ones.
JJC

I don't read the Sports Section of the NYT and I don't care about sports. So how is it that I know your name and must have read any number of your columns? I don't know! Can it be because you write about sport as the human condition? Can it be because you take the banality out of endless competition and focus on the humanity of sport, sportsmen and sportswomen? Good luck with your non-Rword future endeavors.

good luck, George. you're as clear as when i interviewed you & Marianne for a hofstra chronicle feature on the yearbook's co-editors. you made it--gloriously--to the NYT; i missed it. as a former bklyn dodger fan, this is your only blemish as far as a former NY (now SF) giants fan is concerned.
i tried posting this at NYT but kept getting an error.
be well.

George,
Thanks for your terrific work over the years. You are an important part of why the NYT is the greatest paper in the world. I look forward to your occasional contributions there in future. I recently did the R-word from academe, and I have never been busier. I hope that is true for you too!

Thanks, George, for all your great work over the years and for your constant professionalism. I look forward to continuing to read what you have to say.

From all of us in the Kitt Family, we wish you the very best! We enjoyed reading your column!

Kathryn:) (Howard, Judy, Jeff and Thomas)

Great website! Can't wait to read your posts!

Best of luck with the new direction. Will never forget that after I wrote you a letter in 1996 or so (I was 21), you actually wrote back. You're class.

George,

I was sad to hear the news... and then glad to hear it wasn't all true. I am glad I will still get a chance to read your work.

I am glad and a bit humbled that our paths crossed. I wish the crossings would have lasted longer.

All the best.

Phil

hi pop. i miss you and i am going skating with a friend. ps. love the website. miss you have fun in the big NY and tell gram hi and have a good day love lot!

I am grateful that you will continue to share your thoughts in this space. Without elaborating to any extent, I have admired your writing for some time, and my life would experience a void without it. Label me a fan.

All the best for the future, George: as an expat in the US, I've truly appreciated how you've conveyed the way that soccer enchants so many around the world, helping to turn an unfamiliar audience into one increasingly familiar with the beautiful game.

It's the one on Main St. Flushing in the downstairs arcade. Our grand-daughter loved the lamb and a noodle dish, too. I got a taste for the lamb patty in Beijing, in an old neighborhood (the hutongs.) It had a soft dough surrounding it that I haven't found in NYC. Thanks for the tip. GV

Mr. Vecsey, it's a pleasure to see you here, and you will be bookmarked (if you aren't sure what that means, the grandkids will tend to that). I'm glad you're going to write even more than you suggested in your last Sports of the Times column.

Decades ago when I was studying film and TV, once a week I'd hang out in the J-school library in the pre-Internet days. I'd read you, Red Smith, Dave Anderson, Dave Kindred, Ira Berkow, Jim Murray, Blacky Sherrod, Shirley Povich, Peter Gammons, Bud Collins, and some other immortals whose names time and a heart attack have robbed me of, at least until I click that "Submit" button.

After graduation, I took a job in the largest out-of-town newsstand in Northern California so I could continue reading all those names on my lunch break.

Now I get to mentor a young college sportswriter by sending him links to your columns and the immortals who survived. He's gonna be reading a lot of your writing.

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