Rick Telander Rick Telander is the senior sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Hired in 1995 from Sports Illustrated, where he was a Senior Writer, Telanders presence at the newspaper was expected to counter the stable of sports columnists the rival Chicago Tribune had. Early life Telander is a native of Peoria, Illinois and attended Northwestern University on a football scholarship. He played for coach Alex Agase as a cornerback (and punter junior year),making All-Big Ten his senior season and two-time All-Big Ten Academic. His teammates included Mike Adamle, who is also now a member of the Chicago media. Career After graduating from Northwestern, Telander was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in 1971 but was cut in training camp. Soon after, he moved to New York, where he played basketball on city playgrounds and wrote the book Heaven Is A Playground, which later was made into a movie. In the 1980s, he was a Senior...
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:20:05 +0000
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