As widely reported recently in much of the San Diego media, on the internet and other news outlets, longtime San Diego media personality George Chamberlin, who was among other things KOGO-AM 600 radio’s longtime business news editor for more than 22 years, died Sunday, Sept. 1, after a difficult 3-year battle with a lymphoma cancer at the 21st century “young age” of 73.It was particularly upsetting news to me, as I am sure it must have been to countless others, since I had been a friend and admirer of his since the mid-1980s. Chamberlin and I first met on the tennis courts of a private tennis club in Escondido, which is called, of course, Tennis Escondido. He was an incredibly likable, humorous, kind and considerate gentle giant at 6-foot-4. He was a man of unquestioned character
