Longtime Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke revealed that he is battling Parkinson's disease.

The 66-year-old Plaschke formally revealed the diagnosis in a Sunday column, where he said he's turned to a boxing regiment to combat the effects of the disease.

"I, too, am living with Parkinson's disease," Plaschke wrote. "The irony, huh? I've spent my entire career writing triumphant stories about athletes overcoming illness and adversity, only to reach the home stretch struggling to find a similar triumph in a story about me. It's not easy. Now I know what all those subjects of all those feel-good stories understood about the truth behind my positive prose. Degenerative disease sucks beyond any inspirational adjective. Incurable illness stinks beyond any hopeful headline."

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