William Louis Nack (February 4, 1941 – April 13, 2018) [1] was an American journalist and author. He wrote on sports, politics and the environment at Newsday for 11 years before joining the staff of Sports Illustrated in 1978 as an investigative reporter and general feature writer. [2]

2018年4月14日 · William Louis Nack died Friday, at the age of 77, at his home in Washington, D.C., of complications from the cancer that he had been fighting for several years. He is survived...

2018年4月14日 · William Nack, a legendary sportswriter for Sports Illustrated and several other publications, died Friday. He was 77. AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley. Around long enough to have written about athletes...

2018年4月17日 · In one of my favorite pieces, Bill was assigned to find the mad genius Bobby Fischer, the chess master who degenerated into a ranter of anti-Semitism and ugly conspiracy theories. Ahab sought his whale with gusto. He worked his …

2018年4月23日 · William Louis Nack was 77 when he died of cancer on April 13 at his home in Washington, D.C. He is survived by his wife, Carolyne, four children and six grandchildren. Bill was a towering figure...

2015年1月2日 · An SI 60 Q&A with William Nack on his famous 1990 Sports Illustrated story, "Pure Heart," a personal reminiscence on the life and death of the great racehorse Secretariat. In 1971, William Nack...

2018年4月17日 · Bill Nack, an elegant sportswriter, best known for his work at Sports Illustrated, who found an early outlet for his love of horse racing as a teenage groom and went on to chronicle the...

William Nack was born on 10 February 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Secretariat (2010), Rocky Marciano (1999) and The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... (2005). He was married to Carolyne Starek and Mary Scott. He died on 13 April 2018 in Washington, D.C., USA.

Bill Nack, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated for 23 years, wrote one of the most important stories the magazine’s history, exposing racehorse owners who used cortisone shots to mask the pain of injured horses — a practice that often resulted in broken …

2018年4月14日 · William Nack, a longtime sportswriter whose deep grasp of his subjects and stylish prose invigorated a biography of Secretariat that many consider to be one of the greatest racing books ever...