He pulled the shade, climbed into bed, thought of the…

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

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

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

I'm a product of the 1970s.

— Steve Rushin

I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits.

— Steve Rushin

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

— Steve Rushin

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“Madman Muntz was a wildly successful automobile salesman who had pioneered the loud television hard sell to move cars off his lot.”

— Steve Rushin