sort of amazing...

but my favorite part was that he was "a guest columnist for USA TODAY who calls in his analysis by phone". nice.



MONTREAL (AP) — Jacques Demers, who coached the Montreal Canadiens to the Stanley Cup in 1993 and was later a general manager in the NHL, admits in a newly released biography that he is illiterate.

"I could read a little bit but I can't write very well," Demers said at a party for the book's launch. "I took to protecting myself. You put a wall around yourself. And when I was given the possibility of talking, I could speak well and I think that really saved me."

In the book Jacques Demers: En Toutes Lettres, which roughly translates to "All Spelled Out," Demers — a guest columnist for USA TODAY who calls in his analysis by phone — said his inability to read and write was the result of an abusive and impoverished childhood.