A lot of people say they eat, drink, and sleep sports, but does anyone really do it, ingesting nothing but Dodger Dogs… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Yes, sports are very often very boring, which is good and necessary: If games were one long highlight, we wouldn't have any… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Sports and fashion move so fast that I can't possibly keep my ear to the ground. For one thing, my ear trumpet… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Quitting has always been the worst possible thing you can do in sports. It's downright un-American. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
With each new pair of shoes, each new wrist-watch, each new Walkman or moisture-wicking wonder-material that runners put on, the sport became… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
When should a man stop wearing sports jerseys? When the buttons of his White Sox top finally pop, like rivets on a… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't know that 'All in the Family' was satirizing male chauvinism or that Bobby Riggs was a self-promoting… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
The first words Rebecca Lobo ever spoke to me when we met in a Manhattan bar in 2001 were, 'Aren't you the… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
I had almost nothing published until I had something published in 'Sports Illustrated.' I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
I had started writing for 'Sports Illustrated,' which was really my dream job growing up. But the writing probably read like I… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Golf mogul Donald Trump sports an arrangement of hair that is less a comb-over than a 'do-over, a candy-floss confection of gossamer… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more glamorous. At… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
As good as NFL Films is at making players human, it's even better at making players superhuman. No Hollywood studio has made movies that… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits. — Steve Rushin Copy Share
I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer. — Steve Rushin Copy Share
Scarcity drives up demand, and the short golf season in Minnesota makes residents of that state mad for the sport. It's the same reason… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
The Metrodome was built for football. Fans seated down the third-base line at a baseball game faced centerfield, so that they had to turn… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57.… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
“At that hour, a shaft of sunlight shone through stained glass. Which is to say, windows whose glass was comprehensively stained—by a double-glazing of… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
“Madman Muntz was a wildly successful automobile salesman who had pioneered the loud television hard sell to move cars off his lot.” — Steve Rushin Copy Share
