Jerry Greene
SPORTS COLUMNIST, ORLANDO SENTINEL
ASSIGNMENT: Inform, entertain and, every once in a while, enlighten. If that fails, grab the check and run.
BACKGROUND: Was broke and out of work in 1967 on a beach near Fort Pierce. My three job opportunities were selling shoes, pumping gas or being the second man in a two-man sports department. I wasn't smart enough for the first two but got the third job in a close battle with a guy who had just got out of reform school. The rest, they say, has been history.
HEROES: Any person I know who has the strength to survive without sacrificing decency. Mulder and Scully.
LOVES: "The X-Files", science fiction, Chinese food, foot rubs, hot chocolate, most other foods, card games,"Buffy the Vampire Slayer", jai-alai, horse racing, old rock 'n' roll, family, friends.
BIGGEST HATE: Lines, All lines. And all folks at the front of the line who are not doing everything humanly possible to get out of myway.
SECOND BIGGEST HATE: Meatloaf. The food, not the singer
IF I WEREN'T A JOURNALIST: First of all, the jury is still out about whether I AM a journalist. But the job I'd really like is being "A Consultant." I like the idea of walking around a factory for a week,then saying: "You should paint everything red. That will be $10,000 please."
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