But each subsequent home left him with
the familiar panoply of headaches, flulike symptoms, insomnia, the inability to concentrate and fatigue.
McKay did plenty of conventional reporting — he was a mainstay at the big horse races and
familiar at major golf events, as well as all those Olympics, and he did earn 13 Emmys — but it was his eagerness to announce every offbeat recreation out there that so affected a certain generation, one slowly being weaned from traditional sports, freed up for the
panoply of experience to come.