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.

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don`t just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

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

My first interview at SI, I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.

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

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