You don't have a lot of transplants in Baltimore. And I think that makes sports mean more to the people who live there. It translates to the passion of the fans and how the stadium reacts on Sunday.
Even at North Dakota State, football is a big deal.
Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.
When you live around a working-class environment, you see what sports means to people. You see that it's the escape over the weekend. you see how they build their lives around it. People sort of want to get away from their lives.
I have a hard time imagining a life without basketball.
Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.
Baseball, my son, is the cornerstone of civilization.
The Olympics are great, but they only truly mean something when the moments that come out of them are bigger than the individual sports.
If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
Memphis is like the heart of wrestling.
I wanted this title to matter, I wanted women's wrestling to matter.
I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.
I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.
I think MLS is as important as any of the national leagues.
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
An Australian prime minister once said that his job was the second most important job in the country - behind being captain of the cricket team. It's not a job you take on lightly.
There is always great significance playing against India, and it is always special and a treat for people in both countries.
