NEW YORK — Rarely a day goes by anymore that sickness and death isn't on my lips and in my ear, or dialing or e-mailing.

For years now, every time I see a certain identity show up on my cell I know he's calling to report a sports friend of ours is either gravely ill or has passed away.

Pancreatic cancer and its treatments have shrunk Chuck Daly to his dating weight when he and Terry met as students at Bloomsburg State, Pa.