A Selection of Tributes To Nick Charles

We lost a good friend in Nick Charles on Saturday. Due to the many requests received, please find a selection of obituary tributes and living tributes from the past year to him.

A memorial service will be scheduled in his beloved Santa Fe later this summer. Details will be announced soon. In lieu of flowers, the Charles family has requested that donations be made in Nick’s memory to World Vision and TEACH NOW, a project dedicated to preventing child labor in the Philippines and improving those children’s lives. http://bit.ly/ixmnpy

Let’s all remember Nick’s lessons to us during his brave battle, to embrace life and to love what you are doing.

OBITUARY TRIBUTES

Joe Posanski, Sports Illustrated: “My Friend Nick Charles”
http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/06/25/my-friend-nick-charles/

Ron Borges, TheSweetScience.com: “Rest in Peace, Nick Charles”
http://tss.ib.tv/news/articles-frontpage/12827-rest-in-peace-nick-charles

Wayne Drash, CNN: “Renowned CNN Sports Broadcaster Nick Charles Dies at 64”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/25/nick.charles.obit/index.html

Bob Raissman, New York Daily News: “Nick Charles, Former CNN Sportscaster & Top Boxing Voice, Dies at 64 From Incurable Bladder Cancer”
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/2011/06/25/2011-06-25_nick_charles_former_cnn_sportscaster__top_boxing_voice_dies_at_64_from_incurable.html

Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports: “Boxing Loses Inspirational Charles”
http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news;_ylt=Ama_rsxqpCfIaClvFppD3J2UxLYF?slug=ki-iole_nick_charles_death_062511

LIVING TRIBUTES TO NICK FROM PAST YEAR

Joe Posanski, Sports Illustrated: “Lessons of the Fight Game”
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1182632/index.htm

Joe Posanski, Sports Illustrated: “Behind The Back Page”
http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/03/03/behind-the-back-page-3/

Joe Posanski, Sports Illustrated: “Honesty”
http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/04/06/honesty/

Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports: “Charles Won't Go Down Without a Fight”
http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ki-iole_charles_fights_the_good_fight032411

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Blog: “Lessons from The Fight”
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/16/lessons-from-the-fight/

“Sanjay Gupta MD,” CNN: “Nick Charles: Lessons From the Fight”
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/podcasts/gupta/site/2011/06/20/sgmd.charles.lessons.cnn?iref=allsearch

Kevin Cowherd, The Baltimore Sun: “Former CNN, WJZ Anchor Charles Making Most of His Final Months”
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-04-16/sports/bs-sp-cowherd-column-0417-20110416_1_wjz-sports-anchor-bob-turk

Tim Smith, New York Daily News: “Longtime Boxing Announcer Nick Charles, 64, Calls Final Bout While Battling Stage 4 Bladder Cancer”
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more_sports/2011/03/27/2011-03-27_final_round_for_a_boxing_soul.html

Steve Hummer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Veteran Sportscaster in Fight of His Life”
http://www.ajc.com/sports/veteran-sportscaster-in-fight-467523.html

Franz Lidz, Sports Illustrated (1994): “Hickman And Charles”
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1005973/index.htm