Roy Blount Jr.

Roy Blount Jr. is a Vanderbilt grad, but he's not too shaken up by the school's recent decision to dissolve its athletic department and rethink its approach to sports. "Going to Vandy did a lot of things for me, and...

If The Star-Spangled Banner is running through your mind thisweek, well, fine, but I'll tell you what these Olympics haveplanted firmly in mine: certain passages from the Dogon-Peulh, aseduction dance of Burkina Faso...

As he stood in sun-scorched Woodruff Park last Friday afternoon, waiting among thousands of giddy Atlantans for the Olympic torch to pass by, Roy Blount Jr. confessed to feeling disoriented. "I get all these sort of...

It Rankles Roy Blount Jr. that, at least on some subjects, he knows less now than he did in ninth grade. "When I was 14, I was up on all the baseball statistics," says Blount, the Southern humorist and former third...

THE CAMPANIS AFFAIRThanks to Peter Gammons for his excellent editorial on "The Campanis Affair" (SCORECARD, April 20). It's about time a writer with the power to describe this sorry situation spoke out about it.LARRY...