Don Riley, who wrote a sports column called The Eye Opener for the St. Paul Pioneer Press for three decades, has died at 92.
He went from Minneapolis Roosevelt High School to St. Paul's morning newspaper in 1943 and worked there for the next 45 years.
Riley especially loved to agitate fans of the Green Bay Packers. "There has been one master when it comes to agitating Packers' loyalists with the written word — and he was so good at it that, 10 years after his retirement, he can still fill an auditorium and get booed vociferously at any hamlet in western Wisconsin," wrote Star Tribune sports columnist Patrick Reusse in 1998. "The name's Don Riley."
Reusse worked with Riley at the Pioneer Press.
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