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LeBron will not likely win six rings.
Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.
I've been to all seven continents on assignment for 'SI.'
Golf balls are sweet: dimpled and sometimes even smiling.
As a kid, I always had my nose buried in the side of a cereal box.
History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
I can't stand another night in a hotel. Just being away. You miss the kids.
The only thing wider than my family's mean streak is my family's cheap streak.
There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.
If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool.
The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.
Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.
Recording shows for later viewing is what TV types call 'time-shifting.' It's a beguiling idea.
Quitting has always been the worst possible thing you can do in sports. It's downright un-American.
Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don`t just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness
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.
If you've never quit anything, you really ought to try. And if at first you don't succeed, try again.
I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.
Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.
I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits.
Hurricane Irene's advance coverage was heavy on worst-case scenarios. Thank goodness they didn't pan out.
Golf tough guys - like movie tough guys - are almost always inscrutable, just beyond our full understanding.
In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.
Though we endow them with human features - heads, faces, heels, toes - golf clubs are profoundly inhuman tools.
The real driver of my golf game is family. The family that plays together stays together, at least literally so.
Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
At its root, 'quit' means 'to set free' - think of an acquittal in a court of law - and to quit is often to be liberated.
As a bald man who happens to play golf, or a golfer who happens to be bald, I'll never know the pleasures of a golf visor.
In our house, the name for all athletic shoes - any that weren't dress or 'church' shoes - was 'tennis shoes,' or 'tennies.'
Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.
Sports and fashion move so fast that I can't possibly keep my ear to the ground. For one thing, my ear trumpet gets in the way.
Trying to keep up is the ultimate act of uncoolness. And so I still retrieve not one but two daily newspapers from the driveway.
Every era has its cartoon rich guys, but most of them are actual cartoons - Daddy Warbucks, Scrooge McDuck, C. Montgomery Burns.
'Hard Knocks' seems to have done for the self-serious NFL what the witch did for Rapunzel: persuaded it, somehow, to let its hair down.
I'd happily cover the British Open every year until St. Andrews slides into the sea or Scotland runs out of beer, whichever happens first.
The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path.
If Charlie Sheen is the 21st century figure most closely associated with 'Winning,' it is perhaps time to consider an alternative to victory.
Yes, sports are very often very boring, which is good and necessary: If games were one long highlight, we wouldn't have any highlights at all.
A great presidential address - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Truman's Farewell Address, Kennedy's Inaugural Address - has the power to inspire.
In the Gospels, we are reminded, 'The very hairs of your head are all numbered.' And your numbered hairs, like your numbered days, recede daily.
When people ask if Marquette University is in Michigan, and I tell them my alma mater is in Milwaukee, they sometimes say, 'What's the difference?'
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.
I'm a recovering jersey wearer who can't bear to get rid of the blaze-orange Knicks warmup top that makes me look like James Carville on a highway repair crew.
Hype is supposed to overpromise and underdeliver, not overpromise and overdeliver. Usually, it doesn't deliver at all - it takes your money and keeps your pizza.
A lot of people say they eat, drink, and sleep sports, but does anyone really do it, ingesting nothing but Dodger Dogs and Soda Shaqs and Greg Norman Zinfandels 24/7?
Cinderella is older than she lets on. She's ancient. She's had work done. The Disney film was based on Charles Perreault's French story 'Cendrillon,' published in 1697.
All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they're rather impressive.
Nouns are seldom improved by the modifier 'public.' Few of us, given a private alternative, prefer public restrooms or public transportation or public displays of affection.