Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.

For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.