I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.