I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a urinal at a bar, or Giants Stadium or Yankee Stadium. You've got a bunch of drunks behind you, often in a hostile, adrenalized environment like a football game. What's to prevent the guy behind me from slamming my head into the porcelain wall in front of me?

Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.

I can enjoy an Arsenal-Chelsea match without having to worry about getting exclusive quotes afterwards from one of the participants as he makes his way to his Bentley. I was never very good at steaming up to someone and engaging them in conversation like that.

Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate - slowly at first, then all at once.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.