Thomas M. Boswell (born October 11, 1947, in Washington, D.C.) is an American sports columnist.
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.
Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.
Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U. S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.
When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be at a college football game this weekend. We need it. And deserve it, too. Not like a New York fireman deserves it. Or a medic at the Pentagon. But enough.