Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.
Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.
I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.
When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.
I'm interested in all kinds of sports. I'll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I'll come back to the rest of the paper.
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.
It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
