Jerry Magee puts a '30' on it

Jerry Magee, the great San Diego sportswriter, has retired after more than a half-century in that town. Right up to the end, his was the liveliest copy in the San Diego Union-Tribune. His column in Pro Football Weekly always was the first thing I turned to in that publication. Colleague Nick Canepa paid tribute to Magee in a Saturday column (click here). Magee signed off with a Sunday column from Oakland about the Raiders (click here). "End of career," Magee wrote, "if what a newspaper guy does can be called a career. I would call it a joy." With Magee, it always read that way too.