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This raises some red flags. >> cindy, what do we know about his family situation. is there anyone close to him, a mentor, a parent, somebody who could be intervening? >> well, honestly, that has been missing since the death of his father. his children are still very close to him, but they're very young. he broke up with olympic skiier lindsey vaughn a year ago. he is in intense pain even though he had four surgeries on his back. >> i always want to take some time, cindy and rich, to talk 5b9 fran about fran deford. he was more than a sports

Writer, an essayist. >> yes, one of the best things that ever happened to me is when he hired me to work at "the national." we meet to many people in our lives that you think meh, but he was better than advertised. kind, giving, funny, and a wonderful, wonderful man. >> and rich, what was his influence throughout, beyond sports, throughout the culture? >> i think if frank deford wrote something, a four-page article, you read it, if it was a 44-page article, you read it. he was that good. a giant, a tall man to begin with, but a giant in the industry and humanized sports. he was a gentle so, to...