Bob Ryan posted his farewell column on the Boston Globe’s website today, ending a 44-year career as one of the most famous sportswriters of the 20th century. He started back as an intern in the summer of 1968, and worked his way up to national prestige and respect.

Just as the Giants are the champions of the NFL and Novak Djokovic is the number one tennis player in the world, so too is Bob Ryan the best in the field of NBA history. Respect, Bob. Props. Swag.

The Portland Timbers’ home crowd performing an impassioned version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was a moment impossible to dislike…for most people, anyway.

Kevin Blackistone, Woody Paige, and Bob Ryan weighed in on the backlash felt by their co-sports shouter in the wake of his arrest on domestic disturbance charges.

One of my most memorable moments of my college paper career occurred during the spring of my senior year. I was sitting across a meeting room table from Boston Globe writer and ESPN contributor Bob Ryan, who had come talk with upperclassmen at his old alma mater about the industry.