Where to start? Iceball attacks in The Meadowlands? Champagne showers in Atlanta? The scowl of Jack Clark? The boyish laugh of Tony Gwynn? The Holy Roller? The unholy hours?
For four and a half decades, Dave Smith owned one of the best vantage points to survey and chronicle San Diego sports. He didn’t just see the biggest events. He heard them. He smelled them. Camera at the ready, he lived them.
The photojournalist for NBC 7 walked off the golf course at Torrey Pines after Sunday’s final round of the Farmers Insurance Open and into retirement. The mainstay’s signature visor, the sports media equivalent of Michael Jackson’s white glove.