That’s Dan❤️‍🩹🦅

I hope Hip Hop was there to pay respects.

And, of course, the Rocky 50k, also known as the best thing that happens in Philadelphia every year, started with him, then finished with @rebthebarber.bsky.social. Here they are at the start in 2021.

Dan McQuade was generous with my students, visiting Sports Narratives every year except when he was in treatment, offering help as recently as last week. He’ll always be on the syllabus but I’m crushed that he won’t be with us to give his favorite advice to young journalists: “Have rich parents.”