Jim Bailey, a longtime sports writer for the Arkansas Gazette and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, died Wednesday night after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.
He was 86.
Bailey's son Bob Bailey said his father died at 6:15 p.m. at his home in Little Rock. Bailey had suffered from Alzheimer's since 2008, his son said.
Bailey covered the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference, the Arkansas Travelers and boxing for the Gazette from 1956 until the newspaper's closing in 1991. He then worked for the Arkansas Times and the Democrat-Gazette before retiring in 2013.