Dan Pires: 1956-2008

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Dan Pires: 1956-2008
Published 6/26/2008 by Doug Farrar at Football Outsiders
Dan Pires: 1956-2008 I wasn’t that familiar with the work of Dan Pires, who passed away Wednesday morning at the age of 52. Judging from what I’m hearing, I missed out. Pires covered many sports (including Patriots football) for the New Bedford Standard-Times , and a friend who runs his own Pats website sent me an e-mail saying, “If there were ever the perfect representative of the sportswriter we all want to be, Dan was it.” With all the controversy surrounding Boston sportswriting in the last year, it’s a good time to remember a guy who did his job the right way, ...

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Published 6/27/2008 by David at Scott's Shots
... • I will most miss the periodic voice mail messages from Dan Pires where he called me a “mishoogie” and instructed me to call him. I’ll also miss the out-of-the-blue email with a link or attachments that made me blush or giggle or both. ...