I hate December 5.
I've had tough days in my 39 years in this business. Not ones where we were trying to meet some kind of deadline for a release or a media guide, or where phone messages (20th century) or Emails (21st) were overwhelming. No, the toughest always have involved injuries to (Ed Reinhardt, Don DeLuzio, Curt Koch) or deaths of current athletes (Derek Singleton, Sal Aunese, Laura Flood, Tiger Bussey, Lucie Hanusova, Spencer Nelson, Kyle McIntosh).
December 5, 2005, is when we lost our longtime golf coach and one of my best friends, Mark Simpson, to complications from lung cancer.