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

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

America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.

I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.

17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

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

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