Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That’s how I got my first taste of football – when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.
It’s part of the juice of sports that you tend to find certain sports figures that you cheer on from other cities and others that you’re a bit skeptical about.
If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he’s a funny guy. He’s a good guy. He knows sports.
We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can’t just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that’s something I picked up from home.
The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is that Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics teams he led stand alone as the ultimate winners.
We live in a social world now, and there’s no denying the power that Twitter has yielded across all verticals. Sports is a perfect fit because fans are highly emotionally charged and things happen quick.
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
I’ve practiced a lot of different sports. I stopped counting after 15.
If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn’t be sitting here – but I don’t think I’d be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.
Well, the league is changing every year. It changed when I came. It changed before me. First of all, we have to be thankful for all those guys in the ‘60s and ’70s. They made this league one of the best sports leagues in the world.
I love sports – I am a die-hard fan of soccer, and I am always at Maracana Stadium in Rio watching Flamengo play. I am also a big fan of basketball; I stay up at night to watch Lebron James play whenever I can.
I’m glad you’re doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We’re so much prettier than all the other women in sports.
Eric has pro athletes on both sides of his family – plus, I used to play sports – so I’m sure our son will develop athletic ability.
I’ve always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I’m always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I’m super-active in that sense.
I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, ‘You’re gorgeous.’ And I was like, ‘What?’
I was six years old and I had major back surgery and that paralyzed me for three months. When my back got fixed the first thing the doctor said was no contact sports and no trampolines.
Watching boxer Dingko Singh’s performance at the Asian Games, Bangkok, where he won gold, was the defining moment. I was 15 and enjoyed sports more than anything else. Singh’s performance changed my life and inspired me to follow boxing.
To know that you will be in the International Sports Hall of Fame and that people for hundreds of years will know who you are and what you did, it means everything.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
When it comes to wrestling, I use that word instead of sports entertainment, I use wrestling all the time, because I am a wrestling fan.
The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.
