Skip once said that he could beat Lance Armstrong in a footrace.
Skip inexplicably said that Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren had a great gameplan for the Super Bowl.
Skip says he can't wait to look in the mirror each morning because he gets better looking each day.
A wag once quipped that Skip put the anus in the planet Uranus.
Skip's least favorite NFL team is the Pittsburgh Steelers. He once likened them to a criminal gang.
Skip frequently refers to the Ohio State Buckeyes as the Ohio State Suckeyes.
Skip once played the tail end of a donkey in a grade school play. Many say he's continued to play that role throughout the course of his life.
Skip's brother, Rick, owns two restaurants in Chicago which specialize in Mexican food: Topolobampo and Frontera Grill.
Skip is an amateur movie reviewer who often needlessly inserts movie reviews into his columns about sports.
When Skip was born the doctor took one look at him and slapped his mother.
Skip writes a regular column for Page 2 of ESPN's website.
According to Skip the only two baseball teams in existence are the Bahstan Red Sox and the Noo Yawk Yankees. He refuses to talk about any of the other major league baseball teams which is in accordance with ESPN's policy that the Yankees and Red Sox are the only two teams that matter.
Skip occasionally substitutes for Jim Rome on both Rome's radio and TV shows. The ratings usually suffer a substantial decline when this occurs.
Skip said he quit the Chicago Tribune in 2001 because they wanted to shorten the length of his column but others say that Tribune manangement was simply fed up with his lousy writing and fired him.
Skip's favorite drink is Diet Mountain Dew.
Skip hates the sport of ice hockey.
Sklp's first sportswriting job out of college was with the Miami Herald. As would be the case with subsequent jobs, he was eventually fired.
In 2005 Skip referred to the Noo Yawk Yankees and their aging pitching staff as the Old Yawk Yankees.
In 2005 Skip criticized Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops' decision to suspend star RB Adrian Peterson for skipping classes saying that it was Stoops' job to win football games not graduate players.
Skip once wrote a book about former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry entitled God's Coach.
Skip attended Vanderbilt University on a scholarship but hated the place and never misses a chance to denigrate his alma mater in one of his columns or on television.
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