Sports Journalists Gifts

Liberty Leading The Steeplechase

'Uh-oh ... Manning got hit hard, and he's not getting up.'

Bull's eye for Russian doping

The Boys of Roids

The True Achievers.

Sports Interviews are Stupid

Monster Baseball. The team's continuing to have some problems this season. Jekyll is good one day and bad the next. Dracula only shows up for night games. The Mummy is always covered in bandages and on the injured list. And King Kong can't keep his mind on the game --- Whenever he sees a pretty woman, he climbs up into the stands after her! At least Frankenstein has been pitching great again, just like when he was young! Yeah, he has a completely new arm!

"Good game."

'Reading, writing and arithmetic are important, son. Someday you might sign autographs for money.'

"Break his third chakra!" "Knock the dharma out of him!"

"England losing from a penalty shootout again!"

'They were hoping to gradually introduce him to the pro game, but injuries left them no choice.'

Missing Persons...'I'm not sure when she disappeared - sometime during the football season.'

"Let's go watch TV I hear there are bowl games on."

What McWit lacks in speed he gains in nose.

'These goalscoring celebrations are getting out of hand.'

Radar Gun Readings at Baseball Stadium

If nobody had invented graphics

"Really? They're now giving out non-participation trophies?"

'At least now the injury worries are over, we can concentrate on slagging off the team.'

"Now we move over to the sports desk."

You can take the boy out of Wimbledon...

I think you're ace

'He's got abdominal pain, dizziness and soreness in his extremities. I'll know more when I see X-rays...'

Political Candidates' Playbook Signals from the sidelines

Perils of the double play.

Cricket Accidents.

Sport: Crisis in the Real Madrid.

Kenny Dalglish

'The 'Leviathan Bat,' or many centuried marvel of the modern (cricket) world. (Dr. William Gilbert Grace.)'

"I'm less a role model than a cautionary tale."

No Baseball

United Football Club: In, Out, VAR.

The Other Cooperstown

Novak Djokovic