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Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.

Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger.

I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms.

There is nothing wrong with athletes coming back from retirement.

Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'

Some great players, like Ted Williams and Stan Musial, had one more great hitting season left around the age of 40.

For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.

In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.

I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.

No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.

FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.

Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.

The Boys of Summer were heroes in Brooklyn for a full postwar decade partly because the players could not entertain higher offers.

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

Into La Bombonera danced the most agile, rhythmic, beautiful, sensuous people I have ever seen. And that was just the fans.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses.

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

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

As my wife will attest, I do not shop casually.

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.

Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.

Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left.

What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

Some people insist that hallowed professional teams should never change their nicknames.

Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories.

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.