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

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.

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

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

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.

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.