Woody Anderson has always been a storyteller. “I’ve written 6,700 stories,” said Anderson, who worked for the Hartford Courant for four decades, covering sports at all levels from high ...

His “Sanford and Son” character Uncle Woodrow “Woody” Anderson was the husband of Aunt Esther, known for never turning down a drink. Allen appeared in nine episodes of “Sanford and Son ...

It was the way Sherwood “Woody” Anderson greeted me whenever I walked into The Courant’s sports department for nearly 20 years, before he retired in 2006. And that’s how he greeted me when ...

If I were to offer Woody Anderson any advice, it would be this: write a book about your 36 years at The Courant. Woody retired on Thursday. It would be a sports book. But better than that ...