Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.

I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

The writer identifies the thought behind every written word.

Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.

The fundamental disagreement most Republicans have is they don't think health care is a right. They think it is a privilege, not a right.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.