at various times included Joe Klein, Jon Landau, Janet Maslin, Curt Raymond, Sidney Blumenthal and David Denby, while nurturing the early careers of fellow sportswriters Mike Lupica, Michael Gee, and Charles P. Pierce. In 1980 he became a columnist for the Herald, and for the next quarter-century covered major sporting events around the world, including Super Bowls and World Series, NBA Finals and the Olympic Games, golf's four majors and Ryder Cups, Wimbledon and the America's Cup yacht races. He covered nearly 400 world title fights, and was the 1985 recipient of the Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism. Kimball also received ‘Best Column’ awards from the Boxing Writers Association of America, the Golf Writers Association of America, Boston Magazine, and United Press International. Books (with Tom Beer) Chairman of the Boards, Masters of the Mile—Red Rock Press, Dublin (2008) (with Eamonn Coghlan) (introduction by George Foreman) (foreword by Pete Hamill). London/Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing (July 1, 2008) (with John Schulian) (with John Schulian and Colum McCann) London/Dublin: Transworld Ireland, 2011. Anthologies The New Olympia Reader The World Anthology Baseball Diamonds Baseball’s Finest Come Out Writing Impossible Dreams A Commonwealth of Golfers Rolling Stone Record Review Patriots Day Forewords Football’s Blackest Hole by Craig Parker The Regulation of Boxing: a history and comparative analysis of policies among American states by Robert Rodriguez Broadcast career Beginning in the mid-1980s, Kimball served as a regular co-host for several sports talk radio programs in the Boston area, as a television analyst for boxing broadcasts on the Fox SportsNet and Comcast networks, and as a panelist for several PBS programs produced by WGBH-TV. He appeared (as a boxing writer covering a fight between Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas) in Ron Shelton's 1999 film “Play it to the Bone.” Family In a ceremony officiated by former heavyweight champion George Foreman, Kimball married New York psychiatrist Marge Marash in 2004. The couple lived in New York City. He had two children, Darcy Maeve Kimball of Denver, Colorado and George E. Kimball IV of Brooklyn, New York, stepsons Kim, Chris, and Jeremy Seeger, and four grandchildren. Kimball was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, and died from the disease in 2011 at age 67. Editorial reviews Product Description Roberto Duran, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns all formed the pantheon of boxing greats during the late 1970s and early 1980s—before the pay-per-view