Champions don't become champions in the field---they are merely recognized there.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.

If OJ Simpson did not have a handgun, Nicole and Ron would still be alive today.

I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.