Michael J. Celizic was an American author

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 and columnist

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Celizic was born in Leroy Township, Ohio, and was a graduate of Painesville Riverside High School

Riverside High School (Painesville, Ohio)

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 and the University of Notre Dame

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Celizic authored seven books, including The Biggest Game of Them All: Notre Dame, Michigan State and the Fall of 1966.

Celizic had been a reporter for the Home News Tribune

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of New Brunswick, New Jersey

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, and a sports columnist for The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey. He was also a columnist for msnbc.com

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 for 13 years. He was known for a trademark look that always included a hat.

Celizic died of cancer, survived by a wife, Margaret, and four children. He had covered the treatment on his lymphoma

Lymphoma

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 in a journal for MSNBC up until his decision to forgo further chemotherapy

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 treatments following an unfavorable diagnosis of the cancer's return from remission

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