One cannot help but be aware of the great scurrying to borrow, spend, invest, divest or just flat out hide things in the next three months before the wisdom of Congress falls upon us.

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

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

I've seen fire, and I've seen rain. I've also had to scramble over tundra to get to the Super Bowl and seen baseball turf fields that could fry a fielder's soles.

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

Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer - but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.