Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.