Bud Collins

Bud Collins
Collins in May 2008
Born	Arthur Worth Collins Jr. (1929-06-17)June 17, 1929 Lima, Ohio, U.S.
Died	March 4, 2016(2016-03-04) (aged 86) Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Sports columnist TV commentator

Arthur Worth "Bud" Collins Jr. (June 17, 1929 – March 4, 2016) was an American journalist and television sportscaster, best known for his tennis commentary. Collins was married to photographer Anita Ruthling Klaussen.

Bud Collins was born June 17, 1929, in Lima, Ohio, and was a 1947 graduate of Berea High School in Berea, Ohio, and a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. After his U.S. Army service, Collins decided to attend Boston University graduate school. He drove the 700 miles from Lima to Boston with "The mission: convince Boston University to let him study journalism. The promise: if accepted, he would be an excellent student." He would not graduate from the College of Communications until 2009.

From 1959–1963 he served as the tennis coach at Brandeis University, where one of his players was Abbie Hoffman, class of 1959. Afterward, Hoffman became a political and social activist. At the time of his death in 2016, the 1959 team was the only undefeated tennis team in Brandeis history.

Collins started writing for the Boston Herald as a sportswriter while he was a student at Boston University. In 1963, he moved to The Boston Globe and also began doing tennis commentary for Boston's Public Broadcasting Service outlet, WGBH. From 1968 to 1972, he worked for CBS Sports during its coverage of the US Open tournament, moving to NBC Sports in 1972 to work that network's Wimbledon coverage. He also teamed with Donald Dell to call tennis matches for PBS television from 1974 to 1977.