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and eventually published a condensed dual biography of Howard Cosell and Ali in 2006. In his first year at the
Courier-Journal, while working at the copy desk, he was informed that Ali was in town and told to find him. Upon finding him, Kindred and Ali drove around Louisville to his neighborhood and
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Atlanta High School where he played on their basketball team, leading them to the 1959 regional championship. He continued his aspirations to become a sportswriter although he was discouraged by his English teacher who said, "Maybe one day you can grow up and be a foreign
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in the summer of 1977 as their new sports columnist. Speaking of his time there he said, "I wrote four or five times per week from everywhere in the world on every major sporting event, every time trying to make the column the best one I ever wrote." His first column for the Post was on
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hometown hangouts for the day. As they became more familiar with one another, Ali nicknamed
Kindred "Louisville" for he was his hometown guy. Kindred estimates that he interviewed Ali around 300 times across numerous locations including
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and received the 2010 PGA Lifetime
Achievement Award in Journalism. In 2019, Kindred donated his sports journalism collection of over 50 years to his alma maters Tate Archives and Special Collections.
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Division III baseball team. While in school and for two years after, he worked full-time on the sports section of
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