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.

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

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.

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.

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

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