A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.