There's no shortage today of chatty TV entertainers, but the man who famously mined the minds of everyone from Ali to Mantle may have been the last of the great sit-down, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants talkers.
In Azerbaijan, where an authoritarian president menaces the media, an outspoken reporter was physically attacked because of his Facebook post about soccer. Did he die for what he wrote? Or for what he represented?