Quick Hits....

"It's our Madison Square Garden. ... It's like a Broadway stage for us. We welcome every opportunity to play there. I just wish we could get more people to play us there" -- Davidson basketball coach Bob McKillop, where his team will host Duke in a neutral site game at Charlotte's Time Warner Cable Arena (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 1/2).

"It was cold and it was windy and the stands were full. It was amazing" -- Hyundai of El Paso CEO Oscar Leeser, on the  crowd for Monday's Georgia Tech-USC Hyundai Sun Bowl (EL PASO TIMES, 12/31).

"This is not how I should be spending my life. ... I felt increasingly concerned that talk radio is fundamentally trivial. It made me miss writing even more" -- Author Buzz Bissinger, on his decision to quit doing his sports talk radio appearances on Philadelphia's WPHT-AM (PHILLY.com, 1/2).

"I, from day one, I didn't think they would let the season go. It seems to be kind of like the same timetable that we went through in 1994-95" -- Former NHL player Mike Eagles, on the NHL labor talks (CBC.ca, 1/2).