“The Cowboys were never America's team any more than Anthony Weiner was...” — Frank Deford Quote

The Cowboys were never America's team any more than Anthony Weiner was America's congressman.

NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture.

As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it play a game that had been scheduled when Cumberland still had a team, or Heisman threatened to demand a $3,000 forfeiture fee that could well have put the school out of existence.

At all levels - with men and women - the 3-point shot has utterly transformed the way the game is played. More and more, the players are spread out, looking to pop behind the 3-point arc.

There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman.

It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.

There's no way that I could be a congressman in a California district at 32.

I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

Tom McMillen was a three-term congressman from Maryland. He is the tallest member of Congress. Period. He's 6'11''.