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

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

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

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.