The HQ will admit that we watched as much "Nick and Fred" as much as we did the "Big Show" to keep up with things in the business...
Nick Charles and Fred Hickman took the 24-hour idea of Ted Turner's Cable News Network and ran with it... CNN "Sports Tonight" was the standard-bearer for the network with live shots from everything and everywhere.
They would regularly run full-length feature stories in their hour before it was cool to fill time to do it. Charles' beat was boxing and horse racing and Fred's was hoops.
When CNN decided that CNNSI was a failure and that they really didn't want to compete with everyone else anymore, the show faded away.
Hickman spent some time in Bristol himself, and is now at FSN South in Atlanta.
Charles has done boxing for Showtime...
But the big reveal is that the man with the pluperfect hair is in the fight for his life. Charles has Stage 4 bladder cancer that has spread, and he's calling it a career at the end of the month.
The AJC's Steve Hummer gives us the update...
Here's some video from the Nick and Fred days at CNN...
((HT: FreshWesss))
Charles has another round of chemo scheduled, according to Hummer, in May at MD Anderson in Houston, and the HQ sends its thoughts and prayers to one of the coolest cats around...
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