Happy Birthday Bob Ryan

Happy Birthday, Bob Ryan. The long-time Boston Globe penman turned 65 today. He’s had a fairly illustrious sportswriting career – Bill Simmons once called him the best basketball writer ever. Another fun factoid I just learned from his Wikipedia page is that he once directed fans to his Wikipedia page instead of admitting to a mistake that he made in an article when he was questioned about it on Around the Horn. Also it says on there that him and Peter Gammons started as interns at the Globe on the same day back in the 70s. Happy Birthday from me, Bob. I’ve decided it would be weird to post a birthday message on your Facebook wall so I’m not going to do it – it’s weird enough that you accepted my Facebook friend request in the first place.