- Will McDonough
William "Will" McDonough (
July 6 ,1935 —January 9 2003 ) was an Americansportswriter for theBoston Globe .McDonough attended the
English High School of Boston , where he starred inbaseball as a pitcher and in football as a quarterback (a college knee injury ended his sports career). After graduating from Northeastern University he started at the Boston Globe as a copy boy in 1955, becoming a sportswriter in 1960.McDonough became a hero among Boston sportswriters after a 1979 altercation with Patriots cornerback
Raymond Clayborn , in which McDonough leveled Clayborn after Clayborn had poked him in the eye [ [http://www.boston.com/sports/specials/mcdonough/loss_of_a_legend?pg=full Loss of a legend] Boston Globe. Accessed 20 October 2007.] .McDonough regularly referred to Roger Clemens as the "Texas Con Man" during Clemens' tenure with the Boston Red Sox. [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADDE7ECB4529B7&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM] Boston Globe 10 - 28 - 2000] [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F7183FE4D94EA19&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM] Boston Globe 11 - 03 - 2002]
He died of a heart attack at his home in Hingham at age 67.
His son,
Sean McDonough is a sportscaster forESPN .Notes and references
ee also
*American Football League players, coaches and contributors
External links
* [http://www.conigliofamily.com/AFLHallofFame.htm AFL Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.conigliofamily.com/AFLcontributors.htm#AFLCONTRIBUTORS McDonough's citation on the American Football League Hall of Fame Website]
* [http://www.boston.com/sports/specials/mcdonough/mcdonough_obit/ Boston Globe Obituary]
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