Quick Hits....

"Our field can't handle a bunch of football games. It's a million dollar field we have" – MLS Real Salt Lake President Bill Manning, on Rio Tinto Stadium this weekend hosting high school football games for only the second time since the soccer stadium opened in '08 (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 9/23).

"We're not college. This is high school football. High school. ... Just let the kids play" – Lake Worth Park Vista (Fla.) High School football coach Brian Dodds, who recently called for Palm Beach County schools to stop appearing in nationaly televised games (South Florida SUN-SENTINEL, 9/23).

“Only if it’s a musical. Tom Petty as Larry Bird and Seal as Magic” – ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser, on reports of a Larry Bird and Magic Johnson Broadway play (“PTI,” ESPN, 9/22).