"It's the stupidest test ever. For so many years in the NBA, they never had to do that stuff, and now they come up with all that concussion protocol crap" – Mavericks C Chris Kaman, who will not be cleared to practice with the team until after he has passed an NBA-mandated test for players who sustain concussions (ESPNDALLAS.com, 2/5).
"Between U.S. Soccer and the American government, we always get taken care of very well" – U.S. men's national team MF Michael Bradley, on the team playing a FIFA World Cup qualifier today against Honduras in San Pedro Sula. The State Department recently named San Pedro Sula the most violent city on the planet (N.Y. TIMES, 2/6).
“You get to talk to a lot of executives when you go down to the Super Bowl. A surprising number if you get to the parties about town. … The overall sense of things right now is [that] Washington didn’t screw it up so badly that business is hurt. In fact, with Washington off the front pages, we can thrive again” – CNBC’s Jim Cramer, on feedback he got from business execs in New Orleans during Super Bowl week (“Mad Money,” CNBC, 2/5)
