![]() ![]() ![]() Nack came to the University at the time when Dick Butkus - who Nack called “the greatest middle linebacker that ever played” - was here and Illinois won the Rose Bowl. “I went to college and I loved it,” he wrote. Eventually Nack decided to start school, and if he really hated it, he could drop out. “I began to really love horses and racing,” Nack wrote in a piece for the Povich Center. Just before starting college, in the summer of 1959, Nack told his parents he wanted to forgo education in order to join the racing outfit. “The last time I heard Bill tell this story was at a dinner in 2016.” “Swaps walked over to the rail, lowered his head and licked the back of Bill’s hand,” Layden wrote. In a Sports Illustrated story, Tim Layden recounted Nack telling his favorite story of Swaps. It was the 1955 Kentucky Derby that introduced Nacks to his first favorite horse, Swaps. Growing up in Skokie, Illinois, Nack spent his time cleaning horse stalls. Nack is most known for his book-turned-film Secretariat about the 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat. Master of Science in Strategic Brand Communicationīill Nack, legendary sports journalist and 1966 University of Illinois alumnus, died April 13 at his home in Washington, D.C., due to complications from cancer.Frank Center for Leadership and Innovation in Media. ![]() Link to University of Illinois website Degrees ![]()
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