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

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

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

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

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.

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.