Mickey Mantle was baseball.

Mickey Mantle was baseball.

There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news broadcasters do, they aren't there to dramatize. They're there as journalists.

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

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

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

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