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On Tennis: Celebrating Bud Collins, a Tennis Treasure Told in Words and Pants

Across the decades, Bud Collins had a standard line for when someone — typically a newspaper competitor — would rush over and wonder if he had a moment to answer a question. He would cheerily look up from his keyboard and say, “Ask two.”

He would not have minded a third, but even a desperate journalist knew when enough was enough and knew that Collins, too, had a deadline to make.

Can you spare a few moments to read about how the United States Tennis Association honored Collins, a busy man who has always had time for others?