Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.
Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.
Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.
It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.
A man is more than his failings.
Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered
Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.
Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing.
He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.