<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> When reading dispatches from training camps around the league, you would like to presume that pronouncements are being made by individuals who are sober.</p> It seems unlikely that even the most devoted <font color="blue" style="color: blue ! important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13.2px; position: static;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px solid blue; color: blue ! important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13.2px; position: static; padding-bottom: 1px; background-color: transparent;" class="kLink">sports</span></font> journalist would be cornering subjects in the hotel bar, because most sports journalists normally engage in other forms of entertainment at such establishments.</p> But in viewing material that colleagues in other cities have been forced to write with straight faces, I am hoping that the individuals responsible for the quotes had a designated driver to take them home.</p> Let's begin with the Hawks, whose players must have spent the off-season in Bizarro World, because in training camp they have been breaking huddles with the chant: "One, two, three -- playoffs!"</div></p> Star-Telegram</p>
