He has been covering athletics for the paper for 28 years, many of those on a staff that included his wife, Elizabethe Holland. They sometimes traveled together for assignments, including covering two Super Bowls.
Their son, Bennett Durando, later was a recipient of the Post-Dispatch internship that is awarded and funded annually by the St. Louis chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America and is named after legendary former P-D baseball writer Rick Hummel. It is presented annually to a University of Missouri journalism student and Bennett had the unfortune of receiving the honor in 2020, the pandemic-hampered year, when sports as well as life in general largely went on hold.