Steve Rushin

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

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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Steve Rushin

After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Steve Rushin

All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most…

— 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

There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.

— Steve Rushin

Years ago, children helped my brother search for his lost ball at Jackson Park Golf Course in Chicago - and even offered…

— Steve Rushin

“Between screams, Mom managed to cover the snake with a bucket, which she duct-taped to the floor, so that when Dad came…

— Steve Rushin

If you've never quit anything, you really ought to try. And if at first you don't succeed, try again.

— Steve Rushin

I can enjoy an Arsenal-Chelsea match without having to worry about getting exclusive quotes afterwards from one of the participants as he…

— Steve Rushin

Everything gleamed or glinted on TV in the '70s, from the 'flavor crystals' in Folgers coffee to the yellow dentures dipped in…

— Steve Rushin

The real driver of my golf game is family. The family that plays together stays together, at least literally so.

— Steve Rushin

You never forget your first felony. Mine was mail tampering. As a hoops-crazed 13-year-old, I rifled through a new neighbor's mailbox to…

— Steve Rushin

Golf tough guys - like movie tough guys - are almost always inscrutable, just beyond our full understanding.

— Steve Rushin

“In dying, she allayed my greatest fear -- of death. Dying joined shoe tying and coat zipping and bed making on the…

— Steve Rushin