At Heart, Of Course, A Story Itself

If Sportswriting Teaches You Anything, And There Is Much Truth To It As Well As Plenty Of Lies, It Is That For Your Life To Be Worth Anything You Must Sooner Or Later Face The Possibility Of Terrible, Searing Regret. Though You Must Also Manage To Avoid It Or Your Life Will Be Ruined.

Someone Wanted Me To Write A Profile For Espn About The Commissioner Of Baseball, And I Said, "he's Just Some Suit! Some Republican. No!" I Mean If You Want Me To Write About Baseball, Boxing Or Football, I'll Write About Those Things Because I Watch Them, I Think About Them A Lot And I Like Them. But I Don't Want To Write About Barry Bonds.

Maybe I'm A Serial Regional Writer. First Here, Then There, Across The Map.

Love Isn’t A Thing, After All, But An Endless Series Of Single Acts.

Only Sometimes You Can't Feel Anything About A Subject Without Hypothesizing Its Extinction.