There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.

In 1988 McKay was inducted into the U. During World War II he served in the United States Navy as the captain of a minesweeper. McKay won the George Polk Award for his sports and news coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics.

McKay is best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961–1998). James Kenneth McManus (September 24 1921 – June 7 2008) better known by his professional name of Jim McKay was an American television sports journalist. His introduction for that program has passed into American pop culture.