[John Olerud homered twice to back a solid performance by Bronson Arroyo on Thursday night and the Red Sox beat Tampa Bay 7-4 to complete a four-game sweep. It was the third consecutive game that Boston has rallied from an early deficit to beat the Devil Rays.] I love the way it ends, ... I'd like the formula to change a little bit. |
[Johnston's neighbors decided to weather the storm because they believed it would be similar to what they'd experienced in 1969 with Hurricane Camille.] Camille had strong winds of 200 mph, but it was much smaller, ... People who lived through both told me this one was much worse. This hurricane moved slow and devastated everything. |
[Only two lines change in that opening each week. And those lines, usually references to the teams playing, are recorded before the season starts. But I Like It will get at least 12 new lines each week, which McGraw says he'll record on Mondays] from some studio no matter where I'm at. ... God, I sure hope somebody else writes them. |
[State child-welfare administrators presented plans Thursday to improve services for children and families they serve, but some critics said the plan wasnt going far enough.] To look at continuing to assess, define and take steps is not enough, ... It feels like a much more urgent situation than to just sit back and look any longer. |
[Still, no one's ever done anything like this before, so we don't know yet if it's an improvement on existing indexes. With a statistical pool of nearly 15,000,] it's hard to qualify the respondents, ... It's hard to tell if the people answering the survey are actually who they say they are, with the buying power they claim to have. |
[Tampa Bay | The commissioner's office upheld bench coach John McLaren's three-game suspension for his outburst during a game in Boston last week. McLaren, who met with baseball officials Thursday, began serving his suspension Friday.] They were kind enough to hear his rebuttal, but they didn't change it, ... We're all disappointed. |
[The timing thus raised questions about whether Frist had somehow traded on information he obtained in advance from the company.] Frist has been in the Senate for many years now, and the conflict is not new, ... Why did he decide to sell it then? Why not years ago? What's changed? Did he know that the stock was about to take a fall? |
[Though Coughlin publicly finalized her decision this weekend, she told teammate Jenny Thompson about it at a photo shoot in New York last month. That eases the road for Thompson, one of the medal favorites in the 100 fly at the trials.] I was like, 'Wow, thanks,' ... I was surprised, really, but she does have other choices to make. |
[Though other teams have expressed doubts about Miller's leadership, saying he was too quiet and passive during his season in L.A., the Nuggets are confident they have the right man.] Andre is a hungry, driven young man who wants a team that plays with discipline and unselfishness, ... He wants what we have, and we want what he has. |
Ralph Nader (1934-) |
[While the broader audience waits and stews, Lotus business partners and selected customers already have beta code in their hands and have issued positive early reports. The private beta] is currently being evaluated by thousands of business partners and hundreds of customers, ... Posting on the Web is the next step in that process. |
[With strong companies such as these opting not to go public, one can't help but wonder how accommodating the market is for tech issues.] The IPO is no longer a reflex action, ... M&A may be a better alternative. Companies are assessing whether they should try the IPO or take the cash, where they know they'll at least get something. |
A big part of my job is making sure these guys understand they belong in the big leagues and they can do it. That's going to be my message, that just because you're young doesn't mean you can't play. I expect you to do it just like you did in Double-A and Triple-A. It's the next step up, but if you make your pitch it's a good pitch. |
A chance to redeem ourselves. We just weren't ourselves in the Villanova game. They took us out of our offense and defense and in the second half we didn't get out on shooters as much as we could. If we do the same thing against West Virginia, it's going to be the same thing because they're a great three-point shooting team as well. |
A lot of the guys were going to bed early because there were guys who had slept on the plane and guys who hadn't. I talked to a lot of guys (yesterday) who were able to sleep until 9 a.m. Hopefully, the adjustment isn't going to be that difficult and we're able to get the rest we need as we go forward for the rest of the tournament. |