Sportswriter Trent Frayne dead at 93

TORONTO, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Longtime Canadian sportswriter Trent Frayne, who died of complications from pneumonia in Toronto at age 93, was praised by a colleague Saturday.

Stephen Brunt, who worked with Frayne at The Globe and Mail, called him a "terrific guy" and "wonderful colleague."

"It's his elegance as a writer, writing about sports but mostly writing about people, that will be remembered because that's what he liked to do," Brunt told the CBC.

"He was a guy who could write poetically about events and people and sports. He was regarded as a wordsmith."

But Brunt said Frayne could also "eviscerate someone in the most stylish way possible."

Frayne, born in Brandon, Manitoba, started out working for a local newspaper before moving on to the Canadian Press, the Winnipeg Tribune and then the Globe.