I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.

The problem is, we haven't gotten to that point,