The impetus [for the auction] is to honor the founders who are still with us. But we also want to highlight the properties that are with us thanks to the work of the trust.

It's a pleasure and honor to be here, knowing what y'all have been through.

This is an enormous honor, and a huge recognition of the coverage of a news story that has become a major commitment of this news division.

It's really important for us to explain to everyone what an honor and a blessing it's been to feel the embrace of this city. We've always felt so supported and honored.

The NCAA unfortunately has put us in a box where we now have to defend our honor, as it were, ... They've called us 'hostile and abusive,' and we know, because we live here, that there's no such thing here. We'll have to prove it, I guess.

That would be important to us to honor our dad.