I was there. I was the one who talked a mile a minute.

Yes! The great thing about the book is that I got to play for Pat Summitt without doing any of the running.

No, just with a better vocabulary.

I'm posting this just as an example of my saintly forbearance.

It's entirely possible I did more than either of them my junior year in college. I just can't remember it very well.

Litigation, and more litigation. Not sure where it will all end up.

No, tennis didn't die, but it's never quite recovered it's former good health, either. I miss the old boom — like when World Team Tennis, which is a GREAT event, was played in downtown arenas. I think the central point in that piece still holds: somehow in the space of a generation tennis acquired a reputation of…

I do stand by everything I wrote in that column.

Tony Kornheiser raised me. You won't hear anything bad about him here. Gave me what little knowledge I have of columnist trade, and I wish he still wrote and hadn't been spoiled into quitting by those bags of television money ESPN dropped on his head out of a helicopter.

Favorite sportwriters: Dan Jenkins, Will Leitch, Tommy Craggs, David Sheinin, Rick Maese, Barry Svrluga among others. Some favorite general journo writers: William Saletan, Anthony Lane, Peggy Noonan,Eugene Robinson, and I wish David Remnick wrote more, and wrote sports like he used to. Favorite all time genius…

Pat Summitt came up with the title years ago. It started as a joke, whenever she was ticked off about something she'd say, "That's going in my last book and I'm gonna call it Sum it Up."

No, what I said was they should grab Manning if they could. It wasn't a choice between Peyton and RGIII. When they were pursuing Peyton, they weren't in position yet to draft Griffin — that only became possible when they acquired the No.2 pick from the Rams. At which point they quite rightly gave up their pursuit of…

See, the Masters is a different proposition than Doral. And I don't think Tiger's issue is putting, I think it's nerve. Two bogeys in his last three holes? That was so uncharacteristic. Botching a par-5 down the stretch? We're talking about a guy who has been one of the great door slammers. I'm not sure he gained the…

Until he became a friend of Deadspin, I'd have said Buzz Bissinger, who was too stupid to know a young genius when he met him in Will Leitch. And watching Leitch turn Bissinger into a slinky on TV was a timeless classic.

You know what? No. I've never seen another player who reminded me of Bias — until LeBron, just a little bit. Bias had an interesting mix of brawn and grace and elevation. But LeBron is more labored looking. Bias had more ease in his movements. As a personality, he wasn't electrifying, and it would have been…

I answered the Paterno question earlier, I think. But I will amplify: I don't regret the interview or the story, in which I tried to take the long view of a dying man fighting for his reputation. I think I pressed him on some important points, but certainly wish I'd pressed him harder on others, and in a couple of…

Well, but they WERE cocky and brash and obsessed with their legacy, and what's wrong with that? They were fabulous — and in some ways what they did was more difficult than their predecessors because they had the weight of all that legacy on them. The group that came before them was plenty cocky and brash too. It…

See, I don't think there is one vein of feminism, and I don't think there is a "right" side to issues that all good women should subscribe to. There is a lot of subtle pressure out there to be "supportive" on so-called women's issues, whether it's to criticize Tim Tebow's mother for a right to life ad at the Super…

Writing for free launched some VERY great writers. But the other side to writing for free is that it encourages bad writers. I think it was Noel Coward who said, "If you MUST write poetry, you probably shouldn't." ...

The system seems to be functioning better so I will try to pick up the pace.