(Editor's note: This is an updated version of a "Media Views" column from January, after Chris Duncan stepped down from his radio job. Duncan died Friday.)
The news this week that Chris Duncan’s battle with brain cancer has reached the stage that he officially has relinquished his job as a sports-talk radio host at WXOS is sad. But it also brings back fond recollections of just how refreshingly independent he was in his role, as he shined in his transition from ballplayer to sportscaster.
Duncan simply wasn’t afraid to say what was on his mind, and didn’t care whose freshly painted canvas he smudged.