OMC: Did your parents make you play sports?

ST: My parents never made us play sports. I regret that I didn't have my kids play tennis more, because I love it. But I thought, why should I? I let my kids do what they want to do. I still believe that parents shouldn't attend all of their kid's sporting events. You want to go to some of them, but it shouldn't be their life.

OMC: What are your impressions of Milwaukee?

ST: The greatest place to live, as far as traffic. For a town this size, it is the best. It amazes me that you can get around as easily as you can. It's the best thing about this town by far; you can have a life that's not determined by traffic. It's an old-fashioned town, too. I know why Ed Debevik's didn't work, because we still have those types of places here today.

Milwaukee's a good sports town, too. It has a lot of teams for a town its size. There are more teams than there probably should be -- because you really count the Packers, too. We have everything; not an NHL team, but an NHL team has no business being here. I'm sure a lot of this has to do with the Pettits, but this is a great sports town.

But people are really fanatical about one thing: the Packers. And that's good if you are in my business. I really contemplated at one time doing "all Packers all-the-time.' Back in '95-'96, people just couldn't get enough. I could have probably done it, could have burned an hour with the trainer talking; "How you taping Brett's ankle?" I love that stuff.

Though this will change if they continue to lose. I don't want teams to lose. People just don't follow sports as much when teams are bad. Like now at 0-3, there's no point in Mike Sherman talking. Nothing you can say is going to appease the fans.

OMC: What's the best sport to watch on TV?

ST: Football is so good, and it's so good now in HD. It's just perfect.

OMC: Did you stay up for the James Blake vs. Andre Agassi U.S. Open match?

ST: Yes, I did. Agassi said it the best, "this is great for tennis." The sad part is it didn't make a damn bit of difference. And that match was as good as anything that McEnroe, Borg, Connors ... it's sad, but you can't make people like something. Tennis had its phase, then people started playing it and finding out it's hard. But, now look we are really starting to like sports that require real little, if any, athleticism (like) poker, Texas Hold 'Em.

OMC: I'm going to give you a bunch of names, give me your thoughts: Brett Favre.

ST: Paul Horning said it the best, "The best player to wear a Packers uniform." He's significantly smarter, not just a little smarter, than people realize. The country QB thing is just garbage. You can see why he's a good quarterback; he has the ability to see everything around him. Living on the edge is the essence of his family, and he has the intellect go with that.

OMC: Michelle Wie.

ST: The golfers seem to say that she's phenomenal. Unlike Tiger Woods, she hasn't won anything. You got to learn how to win. She may be so good that she can. I could see her being more like Greg Norman, or someone who is viewed as having incredible talent but doesn't win as much as people think. I'm not as strong with that opinion, because the golf fraternities that play with her say she's just that good. To this point, she's been in situations with pressure and performed terribly.

OMC: Al McGuire.

ST: No person in my life has ever entertained me more. For whatever reason, he was nice to me. I don't know why. I didn't see him all that often, but I would just laugh and he'd say incredible things. He just had an amazing way ... when you were done talking to him, you felt better and went away smiling.

OMC: Bob Costas.

ST: Really, really smart. And I think over the course of his career has become bored with sports and he's felt a need to be bigger than sports. So, he's taken on baseball with his positions. I don't sense the same joy anymore. Dick Enberg seems as happy at doing a game as ever. Costas seems like he wants to take a greater role than just calling games. He's been great, though, at what he does.