For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinct finds its most insistent voice, what Robert Kagan calls the military 'career path' is not widely seen as a plausible future. Pulling a trigger is what Jose, Tyrone, and Bubba do, not early admission students at the better private universities.

In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.

I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

Even if we were friends, I consider this a sport, a competition, so there are no ill feelings towards any other fighter or whatever.

I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.

Koeman may have been head coach at Feyenoord, but I never felt like he was my manager, as I was in the youth team. I don't even know if he knew I was there. I don't have anything to prove to him.

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.