Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate - slowly at first, then all at once.

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

Person-centred counselling may be thought of as 'not enough'. In my experience it is. It allows for self-determination through an acknowledgement of a person's human rights.

Think street, train sport.

Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.

The people of Aleppo have suffered like no one else for so long. There has to be a political solution.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.