An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.