“If you’re going to be in this business, you’ve got to learn the business. So I’m thinking, OK, I’ll be around basketball. ‘No, you’re going to intern in every department.’ Community relations, public relations, marketing, sales -- you name it, I did it" -- Wizards coach Wes Unseld Jr., on advice he received from his HOF father on learning every aspect of the business of basketball (N.Y. TIMES, 11/1).
“Thank you, Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves, for somehow both having mascots that look like bootleg Shrek costumes. … Thank you, World Series trophy, for looking more like an award that's given to ‘Lipstick of the Year’” -- NBC’s Jimmy Fallon in his recurring “thank you notes” segment ( “Tonight Show,” NBC, 10/29).
