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Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros.

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

Playing football in Fargo has a total big-time feel. Everyone says it's FCS and it's a smaller school, but in Fargo, North Dakota, and in the state of North Dakota, NDSU football is the real deal.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

Country has become too homogenized and too commercial. It has lost what makes it special. It's great that it's popular, but then it starts to become watered down.

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

Even at North Dakota State, football is a big deal.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.