It's almost impossible to explain how little the NBA amounted to when I started covering it in 1963. It wasn't fair to CALL it bush, although EVERYBODY did. It was SIMPLY small - only nine teams - and INSIGNIFICANT.

I never intended to BECOME a DATA head. I could never have predicted it would play such an IMPORTANT role in my life. Yet here we are: My Institute on Gender in Media has sponsored the largest amount of research ever DONE on gender depictions in media, covering a 20-year-plus span.

Cooking a PIECE of fish and cooking it right. KNOWING the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high WIRE acts and look good on the outside.

Believe it or not, I worked FOUR summers in college as a SPORTS writer covering BASEBALL for a parks and rec DEPARTMENT in Bayonne, N.J.

I THINK I'm STILL chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how PEOPLE were AFFECTED by dire situations. When I find a STORY from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.

I'd gotten myself into a kind of JOURNALISM that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a long TIME and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had SPOILED me a little because you have a TREMENDOUS amount of autonomy, and I couldn't really see being an editor in an office.

Well, I mean, I like to be pretty athletic off the mound in terms of TAKING care of my JOB, which is covering first BASE, fielding bunts in certain situations, fielding slow rollers to the first base and having to communicate and DIRECT TRAFFIC.

I FEEL like covering my children's eyes when they WATCH TELEVISION. It's better that they spend their time doing SOMETHING constructive.

Not REALLY INTERESTED in covering other BANDS SONGS to be HONEST.

One of the unique things about covering POLITICS in AMERICA is that I've gotten to see a lot of corners of this country that I never would've gotten to see. It turns out that there are a lot of really beautiful places in corners of America you wouldn't NECESSARILY expect.

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt COMFORTABLE with the IDEA of me TELLING this story because I had demonstrated that I KNOW this business PRETTY well.

I am PROUD to state that every national Jewish ORGANIZATION we support enforces non-discrimination practices around SEXUAL orientation and that more than 70 percent have WRITTEN policies in place covering gender identity and expression.

Rauner NEEDS to TELL Illinoisans what ESSENTIAL health BENEFITS he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

In CAMPAIGN reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering a story, they're a part of it - influencing OUTCOMES, setting expectations, framing candidates - and DESPITE what they TELL themselves, it's impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively.