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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.

In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.

Sports is entertainment.

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

You can call anything a sport if you want.

I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.