Who Is This Guy?

Ron Maly wrote and edited at the Des Moines Register for 39 years and 9 months.  He somehow kept most of his sanity and some of his health during that time.  He was voted Iowa's Sportswriter of the Year four times, won lots of Associated Press writing awards and a number of other writing awards that he can no longer remember.

He liked covering Rose Bowls and NCAA basketball tournaments, Woody Hayes and Hayden Fry, Dan McCarney and Johnny Orr, Maury John and Larry Eustachy, Bo Schembechler and Bobby Knight, Chuck Long and Fred Hoiberg, Willie McCarter and Dolph Pulliam. 

But he also found time to write stories about a bar in Donnybrook, Ireland, churches in Russia and the home he grew up in at Cedar Rapids, Ia. 

He had fun doing what he did, and he plans to continue writing occasionally about anything that interests him.