"The joy of sports can’t quite be explained, but you can happily spend a lifetime trying" -- Headline for longtime WASHINGTON POST sportswriter Thomas Boswell's farewell column (WASHINGTON POST, 7/1).
“I get it. I once had to run for the bus with a belly full of Doritos. I didn’t make it, but it was really about representing America” -- CBS’ Stephen Colbert, on U.S. heptathlete Lindsay Flach competing at the U.S. Olympic track & field trials while 18 weeks pregnant ( “The Late Show,” CBS, 6/30).