
Longtime NASCAR and motorsports writer Ed Hinton died Thursday in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. He was 76. Hinton, a native of Laurel, Mississippi, who attended Ole Miss and graduated from Southern Mississippi, retired on Dec. 31, 2014, after a 47-year career. He was a senior writer for ESPN at the time. Hinton covered many sports, including NASCAR, starting out at the Orlando Sentinel in 1974. He moved to The National Sports Daily in 1989 and after it folded went to Sports Illustrated, where he covered the NFL, MLB and...