Things seems to moving better now?

Ooooh! Title IX baiting! Yeah, Title IX is still necessary because the instant it wasn't there any more, Geno Auriemma would be be back coaching out of a unheated attic in an auxillary gym, and women would be sewing on their own numerals, in order to cut the budget so more ivory could be inlaid in the coffee table in…

The continual attempts to de-offensify the name are hilarious. And they get knocked back on their ass every time by the fact that the term has the word SKIN in it. Just put any other color in front of it, and ask if it would be acceptable. In what other universe except the NFL would anyone try to defend using an…

Farther than I can punt a question, obviously.

I gotta tell you, I'm a cat in yarn with this thing.

Yes, I do think Lance has remorse. A lot of it. I think the intimidating is the real unsavory offense, and he knows it, and my impression is that it's what he regrets most. He's a very combative hombre, and I'm glad I've never been his adversary.

These questions make me arm weary.

First, I didn't "cover" Lance. I ghost-wrote his autobiography, which immediately disqualified me from acting as a reporter because I had a financial arrangement with him. Autobiographies aren't journalism — far from it. They are people's own account of themselves and I'm not sure anybody tells the full truth about…

I pressed Paterno repeatedly on what to me was the critical issue: how could he claim to have zero knowledge of the previous investigation of Sandusky. "I never heard a thing," he said. How is that possible, I asked him? "It's not like it was all over the building," he said. "Nobody knew." Not a word? No. "Not even a…

HAHA! It was a long time ago and I was much younger and less accomplished. I'd only written one other book.

Every now and then I make the mistake of saying something missionary-like to Feinstein on the subject of women's hoops, like, "Just try it," so it's my own fault we get in these discussions. The issue with Feinstein is not that I have to defend the game, but that he's never even watched it. His opinion is based on a…

I'm trying to wipe the foam off these posts so I can try to answer them. Look. The butter thing is a joke — along with kittens and Hitler. Of course I'm upset Lance lied to me, and I've expressed that to him. But indisputably, Lance did enormously good work in the cancer arena — he fought the disease fairly and with…

Lance paid me as a writer-for-hire back in 1999, and no, he's not still paying me. I was a freelance writer not in a position to command a great deal — and forty percent went to the guvmint, and 15 percent to the agent, the rest to rent. Let's put it this way. I still needed money badly enough afterwards that I went…

There is a definite are-you-kidding-me quality to that remark, and I certainly wish I had paused and said, "Joe, you read the classics. You never heard of such a thing before?" But it was a tense interview with a LOT of questions to get through, and I was trained on the list, instead of responding. I was very focused…

Oh, I place it around 0.5 on the disgusting scale, in the same category as leaving the butter out overnight. The guy rides a bike, okay? He's not the Pope, old or new. He's a bike rider. I tend to scale my outrage to that simple fact: he rides a bike. He is my friend and I still like him a lot. I'm not happy he misled…

There were a lot of them, and they were all around the kitchen table hungover. The late great Bud Shrake, for starters. There were writers crawling all over the furniture from the time I was a baby. Nick Pileggi, who wrote Wise Guy which became Goodfellas. His wife Nora Ephron was my hero. Gary Cartwright, Larry L.…

The cardinals are famous for infighting. There must have been a lot of Pope-a-la-dope in that room.

The white smoke went up as SOON as I went live. I am the new Pope.