It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example.

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.

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

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

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

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