When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.

Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.

The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

Fighting is the only sport where fans don't understand this is our living.

Football is a pretty complex numbering system most of the time: run the three back through the four hole, things like that. We kind of do the same thing - the three man sets for the four, or whatever.

When my father played in the local team, I always used to go with him to watch him. He played as a striker. He was very good; he used to score a lot of goals. Once, he scored seven goals in one game.

When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.