"I think there's only one Phoenix Suns, and we rest in the West. And that's how it's going to be for a while."

Not to call out Amare Stoudamire, but seriously, when did people start thinking in marketing cliches? There's nothing quite like the beauty of a good quote. It sound smart. It ends a paragraph! A quote like this is a reporter's triple threat position. Do you take a pun back to describing Amare, maybe go into the game recap portion of the article? All game recap sports writers lack personality.

Wherein lies the general malaise of sports reporting?

There are no solutions. Good writers want to be comedians. Comedians want to be taken seriously. Those who are taken seriously? I just don't know what becomes of them.

I like the courts at the Australian Open, it makes for good tennis...serve returns and rallies but almost always with one side clearly in control. The point is almost always in danger. The lack of extremity just lets Federer roll, because he's only going to lose to a specialist, but that's just what happens when you have a dominant talent.

I dig his personality too, even if he doesn't play himself larger than life and isn't quite marketable.

What do I know anyway