I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate - slowly at first, then all at once.

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

Only having valued a thing, can you truly be thankful. You can not be sincerely thankful for what you have not valued.

Greatness is never free; it must be earned.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'.

You've got to audition! It's tough out there, no matter how well-known you are.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.