(Sport) is a great window on society,

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.

Late in his career, when the L.A. Times started pursuing him in its new incarnation during Watergate, it was one of the great 360-degree turnarounds.

It was the first time in American history a war had been declared over by an anchorman.

I think he was such a magical figure, so compelling a figure, he inevitably drew the interest of very talented writers.