“I’d rather play with a full deck and make decisions that are based on baseball, talent, and market” – Dodgers GM Ned Colletti, while reports surface that the team has agreed to a six-year, $147M deal with free agent P Zack Greinke (BOSTON GLOBE, 12/9).
“This situation is, from all standards, unacceptable. It’s disappointing, it’s embarrassing but this is where we find ourselves” – Raptors President & GM Bryan Colangelo, on the state of the team after a 4-16 start (TORONTO STAR, 12/9).
“Now, someday, we’ll have a screen that covers the whole court. You can probably buy a JerryWorld screen for a third of what he paid for it now” – Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban (DALLASNEWS.com, 12/9)
“That northeast corridor, all the way to the south, continues to grow. ... [Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany] felt that someday, if we didn’t have anyone else in that corridor, someday it wouldn’t make sense maybe for Penn State to be in our league. That they would go into a league somewhere on the east coast. By doing that, it keeps us in the northeast corridor" – Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez, on the motivation behind the Big Ten adding Maryland and Rutgers (BALTIMORE SUN, 12/8).
