Arnie Pepper is having the worst day of his life.
Overheard and subsequently posted on social media,.
Then one day, within the confines of an impromptu gathering of fellow reporters, he tosses out a characteristic one-liner.
The Pulitzer-prize winning sports columnist for the Washington Post has lived a thrilling, prestigious and (mostly) blameless existence over nearly four decades of rubbing shoulders with athletic royalty at all the most prestigious sporting events of our times.
Arnie Pepper is having the worst day of his life