"It's sort of unprecedented where we own the game and we're going to place the game in a bowl, so there's a level of complexity that goes with anything that's new and different" – SEC Commissioner Mike Slive, on the conference meeting with Big 12 officials about a site for the inaugural Champions Bowl in '14 (Nashville TENNESSEAN, 10/11).
"We don't want to be the ones who quit on this team and this league and cause it to fold. But we're hearing there's a possibility it could fold" – Las Vegas Locos TE Spencer Havner, on the viability of the UFL (SACRAMENTO BEE, 10/11).
"It might be the most attention we've had since Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr" – Weehawken (N.J.) Mayor Richard Turner, whose town hosted the famous Hamilton-Burr duel in 1804, on a portion of the proposed F1 Grand Prix of America running through the municipality (WSJ.com, 10/10).
"I felt like a quarterback trying to take his team in for a score – you want to hush your fans for being too loud. But we appreciate the fans" – A's DH Seth Smith, who played QB at Ole Miss, on the crowd noise at O.co Coliseum almost distracting him during his ninth-inning at-bat in yesterday's ALDS Game Four against the Tigers (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 10/11).
