Quick Hits....

"One of the biggest challenges is you are rehearsing for something that is kept top secret. ... So it's not like you can have full preparation on our end" – ESPN Senior Coordinating Producer Jay Levy, on the net's coverage of tonight's NBA Draft Lottery (SI.com, 5/18).

"I said, 'You know, we lowered your corporate taxes, we lowered the (personal) income tax, we cleaned up the issue of what was a (3 percent gross-receipts) tax embedded into my Panther tickets and yet for the last two years I've increased (my payments because of higher prices)'" – North Carolina State Sen. Bob Rucho, on a conversation he had with NFL Panthers President Danny Morrison (BIZJOURNALS.com, 5/19).