Playing With The Prose

GARY SMITH

[A college basketball coach on recruiting] "Where else does a 50-year-old man chase a 17-year-old athlete? That's called pimpin' and hookin'. I hate it."

Hello, Trouble, I'm Dale Brown

--NOVEMBER 18, 1985

BIL GILBERT

Then I looked down and saw [my dog] walking quietly at my side, head and tail down, a figure of depression. My God, I remember thinking, he has a sympathetic hangover.

Mirror of My Mood

--MARCH 24, 1975

KENNY MOORE

[On Kenyan runners]To make men who could run a hundred miles on a handful of millet and a spurt of cow's blood, the Kalenjin tribes employed powerful means. The most potent was ritual circumcision.