other past "Sports of The Times," columnists — Red Smith, Arthur Daley and John Kieran. Anderson was the 1994 winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) Red Smith Award for distinguished sports column writing. In 2005, he received the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism. Anderson was inducted in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2006. Anderson retired from The Times in 2007, though he continued to contribute occasional columns, his last being an August 2017 article on the US Tennis Open. In 2014, he was honored with the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. Personal life Anderson resided in Tenafly, New Jersey. His wife, Maureen, died in 2014; they had three children, one of whom, Steve, was an ESPN vice president. Anderson died on October 4, 2018, at the age of 89 at an assisted living center in Cresskill, New Jersey. References External links 1929 births 2018 deaths American male non-fiction writers College of the Holy Cross alumni Dick McCann Memorial Award recipients The New York Times columnists The New York Times sportswriters People from Tenafly, New Jersey Writers from Troy, New York Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winners Red Smith Award recipients Xavier High School (New York City) alumni Sportswriters from New York (state) People from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn