If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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

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

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

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

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.