[5] When Sugar Ray Robinson was making his famous comeback, Cannon told him not to return to the ring.
[8] [9] On frequent occasions, when Cannon had no particular sports news to report, he would still manage to fill his daily column space by starting off with the phrase "Nobody asked me, but..." and then filling the rest of the column with his random opinions on any and every subject outside of the sports world.
Columnists who "borrow" this device will typically lead off with some lip-service tribute to its originator, such as "In the words of the immortal Jimmy Cannon: Nobody asked me, but..." and then they're off.
Felix Leiter hands Bond a cutting on the horse-racing in Saratoga Springs from the New York Post, telling him, "This Jimmy Cannon is their sports columnist.
Cannon is described as "an attractive young man with wide, straight eyes and a rather thin-lipped smile."