If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.

A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.

Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.