In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

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

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.