I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

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.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.