Troy Aikman’s career will end someday with him carried off the field, never to return. And Steve Young might be in the adjoining coffin. . . . Michael McCambridge’s new book on the history of Sports Illustrated might include a little too much inside baseball for some tastes, but I think it is one of the great sports book reads of all time. . . . I’m sorry, but at this stage of our participation, we ought to be more of a force in international soccer than we are. . . . Dean Smith did it when he did it in order to make sure they had no choice but to give the job to his 30-year assistant, Bill Guthridge. It’s that simple. Now you know why all those Tar Heels would crawl over glass for this man. . . . I doubt very much that I’m the only one who watched the baseball postseason and arrived at the conclusion that Charles Johnson might already be the best defensive catcher of all time.
