Quick Hits....

“I would say it is like being on a high hilltop in Scotland and tough to see too far into the distance” -- ESPN President John Skipper, on the odds of re-signing ESPN’s Bill Simmons (SI.com, 2/16).

“Deception demands real, meaningful sanctions” -- A two-person majority ruling that Lance Armstrong must pay prize-insurer SCA Promotions $10M for lying under oath about doping (Mult., 2/17).

“I cannot lie when a writer asks me what’s my feeling not doing the game. ... I’m a loyal, team player. I will go where my bosses tell me to go. But in my heart I will absolutely miss being a part of North Carolina-Duke” -- ESPN's Dick Vitale, on being taken off tomorrow night's telecast from Cameron Indoor Stadium (Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER, 2/17).

"You have to be (at least partly) a lunatic to believe it, you really do—to believe that this time, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are finally going to fight" -- The WALL STREET JOURNAL's Jason Gay (WSJ.com, 2/16).