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Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.