When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.
Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
...Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful, ...
She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
It is important to view current events through Christ-like eyes.
'The Night Following' is very interior; the events are, to a large degree, mental events.
When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.
If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
