Rick Alvord, former sports editor of The Daily News of Longview, Wash., died Tuesday morning after a battle with colon cancer. He was 50.
Before joining The Daily News in 1998, Alvord was a sportswriter for the East Oregonian in Pendleton, Ore., the Coeur d'Alene Press in Idaho and the World in Coos Bay, Ore. He covered the Mariners and Seahawks for the Eastside Journal in Seattle and wrote for Mariners Magazine.
He was promoted to sports editor of The Daily News in 1999, succeeding John Pisapia.
Here's The Daily News story on Alvord.
