Remembering UT's Haywood Harris

Quickie Talking Points this morning:

• Sportswriters remember Haywood Harris " GoVolsXtra
  Haywood's nature was to treat everyone like they were the most important person in the world. As a student at UT, I was working on a video news segment for a television class and I was doing something on the expansion of the upper deck in the north end zone. Haywood took time out of his day not only to allow me as a student to interview him on camera but also to spend the next 45 minutes giving me details about all the expansions of the stadium and stories behind them that can't be found anywhere. And he did it for a 19-year-old student for a project that was never going to air anywhere but in the classroom for teachers to grade.
  
  - Brent Hubbs, Volquest.com
  
  I’ll start by going back to 1985, my first full year on the UT football beat. The night before No. 1 Auburn came to Neyland Stadium, Haywood invited me to dinner with one other scribe: Rick Reilly.
  
  I left that dinner pleased that, judging from Haywood’s hospitality, an eavesdropper couldn’t have guessed which writer was the new beat guy at the local paper and which was writing the cover story for Sports Illustrated.
  
  - Mike Strange, GVX

• Mattingly: Memories of a Vols ‘legend,’ good man " GoVolsXtra
  Where Haywood Harris is concerned, everybody has favorite recollections, their set of special memories. I have more than one such recollection, memories of a man of uncomplicated virtue, who, given a pad and pencil, a typewriter, or, in later years, a personal computer, could create magic with the King’s English.
  
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  They say a man needs six friends, so his wife won’t have to hire pallbearers. In Haywood’s case, that shouldn’t be a problem. The line stretches out the door, down the street, and as far as the eye can see. Haywood Harris’ friends were everybody he ever knew.