There's also a down side.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all, the cream of the national sporting press.

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.