It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.

Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.

It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

A man is more than his failings.