Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: A Seven-Footer with Roots, 1977

[Most of us are familiar with the dry humor of ESPN’s former anchor Kenny Mayne and current Sports Center host Neil Everett. Humorous though they can be, Mayne and Everett walk on the shoulders of print journalists past. One is the deadpan columnist Charles Maher, who covered pro sports for the Los Angeles Times from 1965 through most of the 1970s. Here…