Thought For The Day

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

- Will Rogers -

Thought For The Day

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

- Johann von Gothe -

Thought For The Day

A mind, like a house, is furnished by it's owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

- Louis L'Amour -

Thought For The Day

Bring your life to life: stop planning, start doing.

- Contributed by Megan B. Johnson =

Thought For The Day

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

- Frank Leahy -

Thought For The Day

A clear conscience is a good pillow.

- American Proverb -

Poem For The Day

Red Sox, Patriots, BC Hockey,
Soccer, football, NASCAR and others
Too great to number.

Budweiser, Cape Cod Chips,
Nachos, Pepto, oh I can't wait
For rest and for slumber.

- R. Foss -

Hymm

By the rude bridge that arched the flood
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled.
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.

The fog long since in silence slept,
Alike the conquerer silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept,
Down the dark stream that seaward creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare,
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare,
The shaft we raise to them and thee.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Sung at the completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836

Thought For The Day

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.

- Horace Greeley -

Poem For The Day

Listen to the mustn'ts child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shoudn't haves,
the impossibles, the won'ts
Listen to the never haves,
then listen close to me.
Anything can happen child.
Anything can be.

- Shel Silverstein -

Quote Of The Day

"When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing, and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower -

Baseball Thoughts

It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti -

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, and the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
- Rod Kanehl -

Thoughts For The Day

Never insult seven men when all you're packing is a six-shooter.
- Zane Grey -

You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think.
- Elbert Hubbard -

Thought For The Day

Why in the world
Would anybody put chains on me?
I've paid my dues to make it.
Everbody wants me to be
What they want me to be.
I'm not happy when I try to fake it!

- Lionel Richie and the Commodores from "Easy Like Sunday Morning" -

Thought For The Day

"Illegitimis non carborundum."

Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down."

- Gen. Joseph Stilwell -

The 10,000 Hour Rule

Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, is #1 on the Wall Street Journal's list of business books.

In Outliers, the premise is simple: Why do some people succeed far more than others?

Gladwell dedicates an entire chapter to what he calls the “10,000 Hour Rule.” In that chapter he asks a very simple question: is there such a thing as innate talent? Which is to say, are there some people out there who are just naturally gifted and just float by effortlessly to the top of their chosen field? The obvious answer is, yes. However, in typical Gladwell fashion, he digs a little deeper.

Gladwell points out that the problem with this view (natural talent) is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger role preparation seems to play.

What separates elite violinists from “good” violinists to those who only end up music teachers? Practice. 10,000 hours to be exact. Why is Bill Gates able to take baths in hundred dollar bills? He spent hours upon hours (hello, 10,000) honing is computer programming skills as a high school student.

The point is, if you want to be great in anything, you’re not just going to get by with talent alone. You have to attend seminars, network, and read more than two books. The common denominator is time (10,000 hours). Which begs the question, what have I spent 10,000 hours doing that would label me an expert? Lets see, hmmmm…..

Thought For The Day

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

- John D. MacDonald -

Thought For The Day

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

- Robert Byrne, chess master and newspaper columnist -

submitted by Julie McKeon

Dalai Lama Personality Test

Just 4 questions. Do not cheat by looking up the answers. The mind is like a parachute it works best when it is opened.

This is fun to do, but you have to follow the instructions very closely. Do not cheat. MAKE A WISH BEFORE BEGINNING THE TEST!!

A Warning! Answer the questions as you go along..

There are only four questions and if you see them all before finishing you will not have honest results. Go down slowly and do each exercise as you scroll down. Don't look ahead. Get pencil and paper to write your answers as you go along. You will need it at the end. This is an honest questionnaire, which will tell you a lot about your true self.

Put the following 5 animals in the order of your preference:
a. Cow
b. Tiger
c. Sheep
d. Horse
e. Pig

Write one word that describes each one of the following:
a. Dog
b. Cat
c. Rat
d. Coffee
e. Sea

Think of someone (who also knows you and is important to you) that you can relate them to the following colors: (Please do not repeat your answer twice. Name just one person for each color.)
a. Yellow
b. Orange
c. Red
d. White
e. Green

Finally, write down your favorite number and your favorite day of the week.

Finished? Please be sure that your answers are what you REALLY feel...

last chance...

Look at the interpretations below.: But first before continuing, repeat your wish.

This will define your priorities in your life.

Cow: signifies CAREER
Tiger Signifies PRIDE
Sheep Signifies LOVE
Horse Signifies FAMILY
Pig Signifies MONEY

Your description of dog implies YOUR OWN PERSONALITY.
Your description of cat implies the personality of your partner.
Your description of rat implies the personality of your enemies.
Your description of coffee is how you interpret SEX.
Your description of the Sea implies your own life.

Yellow: Someone you will never forget.
Orange: Someone you consider your true friend.
Red: Someone that you really love.
White: Your twin soul.
Green: Someone that you will remember for the rest of your life.

Thought For The Day

"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."

- the Dalai Lama -

Thought For The Day

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

- James A. Michener -

Poem For The Day

Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.

- Robert Frost -

Thought For The Day

Peolpe only retire from jobs they don't like.

- Bea Arthur -

Anniversary

"To me, fair friend, you can never be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still."

- William Shakespeare -

Thought For The Day

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

- Robert Frost -

Thought For The Day

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

- Fats Domino -

Thought For The Day

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars, but a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?

- Peg Bracken -

Thought For The Day

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

- John Maxwell -

Thought For The Day

For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.

- Grantland Rice -

The Barkley

The Barkley is considered one of the toughest 100 mile races in the world. It has 52,900 feet of climb (and 52,900 feet of descent), more than any other 100 mile race. Since the race began in 1986, only 8 runners out of about 700 have finished within the 60 hour cutoff.

In 2009, Andrew Thompson (from New Hampshire) finished in 57:37. In 2005 he set the current speed record for the Appalachian Trail, 2160 miles in 47 days + 13:31 (breaking Pete Palmer's record of 48 days + 20:11 in 1999, who took the record from Horton).

The Barkley consists of 5 20-mile loops with no aid except for water at two points. The cutoffs for the 100 mile race are 12 hours per loop. The 60 mile "fun run" has a cutoff of 40 hours, or 13:20 per loop. To prove you completed each loop, you must find 9 to 11 books (varies) at various points along the course and return a page from each book.

Pete Stringer, forwarded an email he recieved from his friend, Allan Holtz, who ran in this year's Barkley. My favorite line is about that voice runners hear inside them when every part of your body wants to stop and quit................but you don't. Somehow, you gather enough energy and courage to keep going. Here is part of a very long email:

"This year Andrew Thompson finished all five loops, becoming only the 8th person in 23 years to do so. First time finisher, Mark Williams returned this year and quit after 1.5 loops. So far no one who has finished 5 loops has done so twice. Once you complete the Barkley it seems the motivation to put yourself though that much pain again is lacking, and that little voice inside says "mommie, I want to quit..."

"I watched Andrew come in off of his 4th loop as he strongly ran down the paved road and touched the yellow gate. I was showering when he started his 5th loop and I was heading home when he finished. There were not many left in camp for the start of his 5th loop. I suspect only a very few stayed for his finish, which is too bad, because it is a great accomplishment and demonstration of human endurance, tenacity, spirit and perseverance. Now that someone has finished the Barkley 2 years in a row, I can only imagine how Laz and Raw Dog plan to increase the difficulty for next year."

Thought For The Day

Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.

- Public Enemy "He Got Game" -

Thought For The Day

When there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

- Rogers Hornsby -

Thought For The Day

You manage things, you lead people.

- Grace Murray Hopper -

Poem For The Day

"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

- Hope, by Emily Dickinson, 1861 -

Thought For The Day

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it.

- Margaret Thatcher -

Thought For The Day

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait...The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply dont count.
- Robert Anthony -

Thought For The Day

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
- Paul Newman -

More Of The Last Lecture

"What's my secret to success? It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at ten o'clock and I'll tell you."

- Randy Pausch, from "The Last Lecture" -

The Last Lecture

"Remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people. "

- Randy Pausch, from The Last Lecture -

Thought For The Day

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby -

When I'm Sixty-Four

When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now.
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine.

If i'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When i'm sixty-four.

You'll be older too,
And it you say the word,
I could stay with you.

I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride,

Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When i'm sixty-four.

Every summer we can rent a cottage,
In the isle of wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera chuck & dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away

Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When i'm sixty-four.

- Lennon and McCartney -

Thought For The Day

Cool has no age limit.

- Contributed by Megan Johnson -

A Psalm Of Life

"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

This is on a plaque next to the Payne Stewart statue at the famous golf course, Pinehurst No. 2, in Pinehurst, North Carolina, where he won the U.S. Open in 1999.

Thought For The Day

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Best Time Of The Year

It doesn't get any better for basketball fans. Hoops from noon to midnight, buzzer beaters, barn burners, white knucklers. And the Big Dance hasn't even started yet. Start paying attention to these games so you can make your tournament selections.

I will continue my tradition, and take next Thursday and Friday off from work to watch every game of the tournament. Am I the only one who thinks Selection Sunday and NFL Draft Day should be national holidays?

Thoughts For The Day

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Sports Name Of The Year

The greatest name in all of sports, 7-foot-1 center Chief Kickingstallionsims of Alabama State. (Full name: Grlenntys Chief Kickingstallionsims Jr. Not a typo.) Who among us does not want to see the Chief get his moment in the Dance?

Trust me - the glass is half full.

Women who look on the bright side of life have longer and healthier lives than their pessimistic peers, while women who tend not to trust other people die sooner than their less cynical counterparts, a large study of attitudes and health found.

Dr. Hilary Tindle of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and her colleagues analyzed information gathered from more than 97,000 women who did not have heart disease or cancer when they joined the Women's Health Initiative, the massive national trial known for its conclusions on hormone therapy. The women, 50 to 74 years old, answered questionnaires on their attitudes at the start of the trial. Optimists expected good things to happen and cynically hostile women were extremely mistrustful of other people, according to survey definitions.

After eight years, optimistic women had a 14 percent lower risk of dying from any cause than their pessimistic counterparts, according to research Tindle presented last week. Women who scored high on cynical hostility had a 16 percent higher risk of death than their counterparts. These differences were more extreme in black women: optimists had a 44 percent lower risk of cancer-related death and cynically hostile women had a 142 percent higher risk of cancer death.

Tindle said in an interview the study does not say that attitudes cause good health or illness, but the association between them deserves more study, particularly because it held true even when age, education, and income level were factored in.

BOTTOM LINE: Optimistic women were healthier and lived longer lives than pessimists, while cynical hostility was independently associated with higher death rates.

Thought For The Day

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed).

- Dr. Seuss -

OFFICIAL College Basketball Rankings

Men's Division I
1. Pittsburgh - I know they lost to Providence - so what!
2. Memphis - 56 game winning streak in Conference-USA.
3. Louisville - This team just keeps coming at you. Final 4.
4. Connecticut - They can prove a lot Saturday at Pitt.
5. North Carolina - Huge ACC game vs. Duke on Sunday.
6. Michigan State - Playing great at the right time.
7. Oklahoma - Griffin injury has thrown them off stride.
8. Villanova - Host Prov. tonight. Must-win for the Friars.
9. Wake Forest - Nice win vs. Md, host Clemson Sunday.
10. Clemson - Tigers are struggling, at Wake on Sunday.
11. Missouri - Beat Oklahoma, at A&M Saturday.
12. LSU - Beat Fla. & Kentucky, lost to Vandy, go figure.
13. Marquette - Have lost 3 straight, but they can shoot.
14. Washington - Closes regular season Sat. vs Wash St.
15. Gonzaga - The are getting geared up for the Big Dance.
16. Kansas - They were rolling, then a bad loss to Texas Tech.
17. UCLA - Playing well again. Nice win at Cal. Oregon St. next.
18. Butler - 25-4, regular season is over.
19. Purdue - Bad loss to Northwestern, at Mich. St. Sunday.
20. Arizona St. - Dropped from #8 after Wash, Wash St. losses
21. Texas - I still think the Longhorns will be hard to beat.
22. Boston College - How far can Tyrese Rice take the Eagles?
23. Providence - Can get off the bubble with win at 'Nova tonight.
24. Texas - Arlington - Mavs end reg. season with Texas A&M/CC.
25. Massachusetts - Closes regular season at URI Saturday.

Men's Division II
1. Findlay - 27-0 Oilers host Mich. Tech. in league tourney.
2. CW Post - 25-0 Pioneers beat Molloy in legaue tourney.
3. Saint Anselm - Hawks stun Bentley in NE-10 tourney.
4. Bentley - Shocked by St. A, but should get tourney bid.
5. Bridgeport - Beat NYIT to advance to ECC Semis.

Men's Division III
1. Saint Thomas - 27-0 Tommies host Aurora in league tourney.
2. Washington U., St. Louis - 23-2 Bears play Lawrence in 1st round.
3. UMass-Dartmouth - 25-3, play Baruch at WPI in tourney game.
4. Newbury - Nighthawks are defending ECAC tourney champs.
5. Framingham State - 15-13 Rams lost to Becker in ECAC tourney.

Women's Division I
1. Connecticut - They are ready to make another championship run.
2. Stanford - Lady Cardinal host Arizona & A. St. to close reg. season.
3. Oklahoma - At Texas Sunday to close Big-12 regular season.
4. Maryland - ACC Regular Season Champs open tourney on Friday.
5. Boston College - Open ACC Tourney vs Miami tonight.

Thought For The Day

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
- Soren Kierkegaard -

Thought For The Day

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
- Franz Kafka -

Thought For The Day

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
- Warren Buffett -

Put On The New Man

The people who think they know say that given a second chance a man will make the same mess of his life he did the first time. Playwrights and novelists over the years have never given us hope that reliving our lives would have any different result the second time around. Our scientists and psychologists seem to agree. Even such disparate thinkers as Bucky Fuller and B.F. Skinner are together on this. ""We shouldn't try to change people," wrote Skinner. "We should change the world in which people live." It is a thought Fuller often expressed.

Some, of course, take an opposing view. The people who deal in Faith, Hope, and Charity seem to think that one day is as good as another for changing your personal history. Philosophers since recorded time have recommended it. From Pindar to Emerson they have told us to become the thing we are, to fulfill our design, to choose our own reality, our own way of being a person. What they didn't tell us was how to do it, or how difficult it would be. When Paul said to put on the New Man, he reminded us of the unlimited potential of man, but the lives we lead constantly remind us of the obvious limits to this potential.

Clearly the Good Life is not as accessible as the books say. And yet it is not from want of trying that we have failed. We start our new lives with almost as much frequency as Mark Twain gave up smoking (thousands of times) and with about the same success.

Can tomorrow be the first day of the rest of our life? And can that life be completely different from the mess it is today? The answer, of course, has to be yes, or all those great men wouldn't have said so. But how do you go about it?

The first thing to do, it seems to me, is to retrace your steps. To go back to that period of your life when you were operating as a successful human being (although you most likely weren't aware of it). To go back to those times when your soul, your self, was not what you possessed or your social standing or other people's opinion but a totality of body, mind, and spirit. And that totality interacted freely with your total environment.

Somewhere past childhood that integration of self and that response to the universe began to dissolve. We came more and more to associate who we were with what we owned, to judge ourselves by other people's opinions, to make our decisions by other people's rules, to live by other people's values. Coincidentally, or maybe not so coincidentally, our physical condition began to decline. We had reached the fork in the road. We took the well-traveled path.

One who took the path overgrown with weeds and rarely used was Henry David Thoreau. The world knows Thoreau as a man of intellect, a shrewd observer, a rebel against conventional values. What has not been emphasized was that he was an athlete, and a fine one. He was, of course, a great walker. This kept him in prime physical condition. "I inhabit my body, " he wrote, "with inexpressible satisfaction: both its weariness and its refreshments." It would not be too much to say that Thoreau's other activities derived their vitality from the vitality of his body. That the self that was Thoreau depended on being as physical as he could be. And that no life can be completely lived without being lived completely on a physical level.

If Thoreau was right, the way to find who we are is through our bodies. The way to relive our life is to go back to the physical self we were before we lost our way. That tuned-in self that could listen with the third ear, was aware of the fourth dimension, and had a sixth sense about the forces around it. That tuned-in self that was sensitive and intuitive, and perceived what is no longer evident to our degenerating bodies.

This may come as a surprise even to physical fitness leaders. Physical fitness programs have long been based on the desire to lead a long life, to forestall heart attacks, to feel better generally or to improve your figure. No one ever told us that the body determined our mental and spiritual energies. That with the new body we can put on the new person and build a new life, the life we were always designed to lead but lost with the body we enjoyed in our youth.

Now, common sense will tell you that you'll never see twenty-eight again, but the facts on fitness show that almost anyone can reach levels of vigor and strength and endurance equal to most of the twenty-eight-year-olds in this country. Given the good fortune to find an athletic activity that fits him, a man can recapture his youth and a second chance to listen to what his total self held important at that time.

If you think that life has passed you by, or even worse, that you are living someone else's life, you still can prove the expert's wrong. Tomorrow can be the first day of the rest of your life. All you have to do is to follow Thoreau. Inhabit your body with delight, with inexpressible satisfaction; both its weariness and its refreshments.

And you can do it if you'll just go back to that fork in the road.

- George Sheehan -

J.K. Rowling

"If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

From the Harvard University commencement speech
given by J.K. Rowling on June 5, 2008

'You're Awesome Baby!"

Fun college basketball website: www.dickvitaleonline.com

OFFICIAL College Basketball Rankings

Men's Division I
1. Pittsburgh - Almost as physical as the Pitt football team.
2. Memphis - Run and gun, perfect for March Madness.
3. Louisville - Similar to Memphis, free throws are a problem.
4. Connecticut - Bounced back vs So. Fla. at Marquette Wed.
5. North Carolina - Lost in OT to Maryland, Ga Tech next.
6. Oklahoma - Not the same team without Blake Griffin.
7. Michigan State - Bad loss to Purdue, nice win vs Wisconsin.
8. Arizona State - They make the Washington, Wash St. trip next.
9. Clemson - Needs to bounce back from Duke loss, Va. Tech next.
10. Missouri - Huge game at Kansas on Sunday.
11. Marquette - Beat G'town. UConn, Louisville next, ouch!
12. Villanova - Nice win at Syaracuse. Host Hoyas Saturday.
13. Wake Forest - Struggling, need some quality wins.
14. Butler - Young, talented Bulldogs whipped Davidson.
15. Kansas - Jayhawks are 10th youngest team in the country.
16. Purdue - Great Big Ten win vs Michigan State.
17. Gonzaga - On a roll since Memphis loss.
18. Florida State - Nice wins vs Miami, Va. Tech. At BC next
19. Washington - Led by 5-8 guard Isaiah Thomas. Nice name.
20. UCLA - What's going on here? They need quality wins.
21. Illinois - Lost to Penn St. 38-33. Should they even be ranked?
22. Boston College - Eagles came back down to earth vs Miami.
23. Texas, Arlington - Movin' Mavs have won 5 straight.
24. Providence - Friars bubble might have burst.
25. Massachusetts - Minutemen need to win A-10 Tourney.

Men's Division II
1. Findlay - Undefeated Oilers host arch-rival Ashland Thursday.
2. CW Post - 22-0, Dowling and Adelphi close out reg. season.
3. Bentley - Can lock up NE-10 title Saturday vs Pace.
4. Saint Anselm - 14-12 Hawks host St. Rose tonight.
5. Bridgeport - 18-7 Purple Knights are at Mercy Wednesday.

Men's Division III
1.Saint Thomas - Tommies finish regular season 25-0.
2. Washington U. - Lost to Rochester 70-69. Chicago next.
3. UMass Dartmouth -22-3, hosts UMass-Boston tonight.
4. Newbury - Opens NECC Tourney vs Daniel Webster.
5. Framingham State - 14-11, close reg. season vs Wor. St. tonight.

Women's Division I
1. Connecticut - 10 point win vs ND was closest game all year.
2. Oklahoma - Tough schedule. Beat Baylor, lost to A&M by 1.
3. Stanford - 9 straight wins, at UCLA Friday.
4. California - 22-3 Lady Bears are at USC & UCLA this week.
5. Boston College - Close out regular season vs MD & NC State.

The Election That Never Ends

Believe it or not, the election held on November 4, 2008 to choose a U.S. Senator for the state of Minnesota is still not over.

First, the incumbent, Norm Coleman, had the lead, gave a victory speech, and declared himself the winner. Then, Al Franken, the challanger and former Saturday Night Live comedian, asked for a recount. Amazingly, the recount gave Franken a 225 vote lead.

Since then, they have battled in court over every vote. The trial, with a three judge panel, has been going on for five weeks with no end in sight. Franken's lead is still around 200 votes and it looks like he might be declared the winner.

But wait! If he loses the trial, Norm Coleman may take the case to the United States Supreme Court. Obama might be in his second term before Minnesota gets its' second senator.

Thought For The Day

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
- Bill Rodgers -

Thought For The Day

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
- George A. Sheehan -

Thought For The Day

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon -

OFFICIAL College Basketball Rankings

Men's Division I
1. Oklahoma - Best team, best player, Blake Griffin.
2. Pittsburgh - Beat West Va, Cinci, and UConn, what a roll!
3. North Carolina - Great wins vs Duke, Miami. NC State next.
4. UConn - Pitt exposed their weakness, they can't shoot 3's.
5. Memphis - Tyreke Evans is the freshman of the year.
6. Michigan State - Nice win vs Michigan, at Purdue tonight.
7. Louisville - Bad loss to ND, should beat Prov. & Cinci this week.
8. Wake Forest - Could be fading, Ga Tech and Duke next - ouch!
9. Arizona State - Swept UCLA & USC, hosts Arizona Sunday.
10. Missouri - Beat Kansas & Texas. Hello March Madness.
11. Marquette - I know they lost to 'Nova, but they are better.
12. Villanova - Classic Big East "big game" at Syracuse Sunday.
13. Clemson - They could be big trouble in March, Md. tonight,
14. Illinois - A very quiet 21-5, at Ohio State Sunday.
15. UCLA - Swept in Arizona, no Final Four this year.
16. Butler - 1 Soph, 3 Frosh start, big test at Davidson Saturday.
17. Syracuse - Hot & cold Orange lose to UConn, beat G'town.
18. Boston College - Beat NC & Duke in the same year. Wow!
19. Purdue - A loss to Mich State will knock them out of top 25.
20. Dayton - Great win vs Xavier. Flyers are 23-3.
21. Kansas - Lost to Missouri, but everyone does. Iowa St. next.
22. Xavier - Struggling Musketeers lost badly to Dayton.
23. Utah State - Upset at Boise, still the best shooting percentage.
24. Providence - Big game for the Friars at Louisville Wednesday.
25. Massachusetts - Lost 5 of last 6, host URI Rams tomorrow.

Men's Division II
1. Findlay - 22-0, Final 2 road games, at Mich. Tech, at N. Mich.
2. CW Post - 20-0 Pioneers beat Bridgeport 107-71.
3. Bentley - Has won 13 straight, at So. Conn. State Wednesday.
4. Saint Anselm - Close out regular season with St. Mike, St. Rose.
5. Bridgeport - Smoked by CW Post, hosts Queens Wednesday.

Men's Division III
1. St. Thomas - 23-0 Tommies end reg. season vs St. Johns, Hamline.
2. Washington U., St. Louis - 12 straight wins, Carnegie Mellon Fri.
3. Elms - Blazers host Lesley and always tough Newbury.
4. UMass Dartmouth - 20-3 Corsairs host UMass Boston tonight.
5. Framingham State - 14-10 Rams close out season vs Westfield.

Women's Division I
1. Connecticut - 25-0, beat Pitt by 53, Providence, ND next.
2. Oklahoma - At Texas Tech tonight, hosts Baylor Saturday.
3. Auburn - 25-1, led by DeWanna Bonner, at Vandy Thur.
4. Baylor - Huge Big 12 game at Oklahoma Saturday.
5. Boston College - 18-7 Lady Eagles host UNC Thursday

Thought For The Day

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King Jr. -

Thought For The Day

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
- Albert Einstein -

Thought For The Day

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare -

The No Asshole Rule

Quiz: Are You an A------?

Based on concepts from Robert Sutton's new book, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, find out if you would be considered one of Suttton's "assholes."

Below is a list of 12 common everyday actions that assholes use, or as Robert Sutton likes to refer to it, "The Dirty Dozen." Score yourself based on how frequently, or how little you think you commit the following actions at work.

1 -- Never 2 -- Once a year 3 -- Once a month
4 -- Once a week 5 -- Daily

1. How often do you dish out personal insults?
2. How often do you invade the "personal territory" of others?
3. How often do you start uninvited physical contact with coworkers?
4. How often do you use verbal and non-verbal threats and intimidations?
5. How often do you make sarcastic jokes or teasing remarks?
6. How often do you send out withering e-mail flames?
7. How often do you intentionally demean people's status in front of others?
8. How often are you the instigator of public shaming or "status degradation" rituals?
9. How often do you interrupt people in a rude manner?
10. How often do you make two-faced attacks?
11. How often do you give coworkers dirty looks?
12. How often do you ignore others as if they are invisible?

SCORING:

Under 13: Not quite an asshole. You understand proper workplace etiquette, but you aren't perfect. You have some slip-ups every now and then; just make sure you keep them to a minimum and only when you're having a really bad day.

Under 25: Borderline asshole. Another mean move could put you over the edge. Your coworkers are developing hateful feelings towards you. Redeem yourself now while there's still time.

Between 26 and 45: Asshole alert. You have officially turned into a jerk and your negative demeanor is affecting everyone around you. You may want to start looking for a new job because you are probably in hot water with your boss.

Over 46: Extreme asshole. What's wrong with you? Didn't your mom teach you how to treat anyone right? You won't get anywhere if you continue to act the way you do. The polite thing to do is to dismiss yourself before your band of enemies team up and resort to drastic measures.

The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government : of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Delivered by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.

Poem For The Day

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

- Emily Dickinson -

OFFICIAL College Basketball Rankings

Men's Division I
1. Connecticut - Huskies should roll over Syracuse & Seton Hall.
2. Oklahoma - Good road test tomorrow night at Baylor.
3. Louisville - Lost to UConn, but who doesn't? ND next.
4. Pittsburgh - Nice win vs West Va, hosts Cincinnati Saturday.
5. North Carolina - Bilas thinks they are #1, at Duke, at Miami, ouch!
6. Memphis - Great win at Gonzaga, they are for real.
7. Wake Forest - Stumbled vs Miami, tough game at NC St. Wed.
8. Michigan State - Playing well again, at Michigan tonight.
9. Marquette - Lost at So. Fla, another road test at Villanova tonight.
10. Arizona State - Sun Devils host UCLA Thursday
11. Clemson - Beat Duke, lost to Fla. St., go figure, at BC tonight.
12. Xavier - Bad loss to Duquesne, at 21-3 Dayton Wednesday.
13. UCLA - Beat USC & ND, now they take the Arizona trip.
14. Butler - They are the team nobody wants to play in March.
15. Villanova - Every Big East game is tough, Marquette tonight.
16. Missouri - Beat Texas, Iowa St, Kansas; enough said.
17. Illinois - Tall and athletic, N'western and Indiana next.
18. Utah State - 23-1, Best shooting percentage in the country.
19. Purdue - Slumping Boilermakers host Penn St. Wednesday.
20. Florida State - Great wins vs Ga. Tech & Clemson, WF Sat.
21. Syracuse - At UConn Wed., they will be tourney tough.
22. Davidson - How far can Stephen Curry take them?
23. Boston College - No easy games left for the Eagles.
24. Providence - Friars have lost 3 straight, at South Fla. tonight.
25. Massachusetts - Struggling Minutemen have lost 4 of 5.

Men's Division II
1. Findlay - 20-0, Powerhouse Oilers host Northwood Wednesday.
2. CW Post - 18-0, Pioneers host Bridgeport on Saturday.
3. Virginia Union - Watch out! The Panthers have won 15 straight.
4. St. Anselm - 13-9 Hawks hit the road, Pace tonight, LeMoyne Sat.
5. Bridgeport - Teairez Stennis is coming off a 23 pt, 20 reb. game.

Men's Division III
1. Saint Thomas - 21-0 Tommies rule the division.
2. Washington U., St. Louis, - 19-1 Bears walloped Brandies.
3. Elms - Blazers beat Daniel Webster by 30, host Becker tonight.
4. UMass-Dartmouth - 19-2 Corsairs are at R.I. College tonight.
5. Framingham State - Josue Almodovar is averaging 20.9 pts.

Women's Division I
1. Connecticut - Men's team is also number one.
2. Oklahoma - Men's team is also number two.
3. California - 12 straight wins, at Stanford Saturday.
4. Baylor - Bounced back after 2 close losses.
5. Boston College - 3 straight losses, at Miami next Monday.

Thought For The Day

The most powerful tool you have is taking responsibility for how you think and what you focus on. What you think is what happens."
- Patricia Moreno -

Thought For The Day

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
- Warren Buffett -

Home Of The World's Worst Weather

Conditions At TheSummit of Mount Washington

Temperature: -15.3°F
Wind: 57.4 mph
Direction: 315° (NW)
Wind Chill: -54.6°F
Thursday 8:00 PM

The Day The Music Died

On February 3, 1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, killed three American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. The day was later called The Day the Music Died by Don McLean in his 1971 song "American Pie".


I cant remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.

- "American Pie" by Don McLean -

My Day At The Frozen Fatass 50K

This morning I had the pleasure of attending the 3rd Annual Frozen Fatass 50K at beautiful Sandy Neck Beach on Cape Cod Bay, sponsored by the Cape Cod Ultrarunning Society. Actually, Sandy Neck is a beautiful place in the summer. On a cold, windy January day, it is a nasty place for running event. I had received an invitation from my friend, Pete Stringer, the founder of the Cape Cod Ultra group, and I didn't want to let Pete down, so off I went.

This was my first brush with these "ultra athletes", and they are a special breed. I knew that already, but you really need to be there to experience it first hand. The course is a lopsided figure 8, one loop is 5 miles, and the second loop is 10.5 miles, so one lap is 25K. The figure 8 crosses at the bath house/parking lot, and serves as the starting line, finishing line, and aid station. They had a heated camper, hot soup, food and refreshments.

Needless to say, the weather was cold and very windy - just brutal. But there were about 25 entries, including a few females, some dressed warmer than others. Most of the runners called it a day at the 25K mark, had some soup, and either went to their cars or into the warm camper. There was a Park Ranger on duty, and he provided an electrical connection.

Amazingly, there were some competitors who stopped at the 25K point only long enough to check in, get something to eat and drink, and off they went for another lap. It was impressive and mind-boggling at the same time.

As I left, I promised Pete that I would be back next year as a volunteer at the aid station. I'm looking forward to it.

OFFICIAL College Basketball Rankings

Men's Division I
1. Connecticut - Nice wins vs 'Nova & ND, Providence next.
2. Oklahoma - Blake Griffin is playing like a #1 NBA pick.
3. Wake Forest - Bad loss to Va Tech, great win vs Duke.
4. Michigan State - Bad loss to N'Western, at Iowa tonight.
5. Louisville - Playing as well as any team in the country.
6. North Carolina - They are on a roll - I think.
7. Pittsburgh - Panthers didn't look good in Villanova loss.
8. Marquette - They are probably ranked too low.
9. Xavier - The X men host UMass on Saturday.
10. Texas - Beat A&M and Baylor, K State next.
11. Arizona State - 16-3, hosts Wash. and Wash State next.
12. Clemson - Tough schedule, at Va. Tech tonight.
13. Purdue - Beat Minn & Wisconson, Michigan next.
14. Butler - 18-1, Bulldogs host Valpo Friday.
15. UCLA - Bad loss to Wash, tough game vs Cal tonight.
16. Memphis - Great win vs in-state rival Tennessee.
17. Villanova - They will be a great tourney team.
18. Illinois - Illini have a big game tonight at Minnesota.
19. Gonzaga - Hosts Saint Mary's late tonight.
20. Va. Commonwealth - Loss to N'Eastern snapped 7 game streak.
21. Syracuse - What happened? 3 straight losses
22. Georgetown - What happened? 3 straight losses.
23. Boston College - 10 wins, then 4 losses, then 3 wins.
24. Providence - Friars upset Syracuse, at UConn Saturday.
25. Massachusetts - Lost 5 of last 6, at Xavier Sat. - ouch!

Men's Division II
1. Findlay - 16-0, host Lake Superior Lakers tonight.
2. CW Post -15-0, Pioneers host Queens Saturday.
3. Catawba - Where is Bucky Pope, the "Catawba Claw"?
4. Saint Anselm - Rained down 3's on poor Bridgeport.
5. Bridgeport - Athletic team, but couldn't handle St. A.

Men's Division III
1. St. Thomas - 18-0, the last of the undefeated teams.
2. Washington U., St. Louis - Bears will be judged at Brandies Friday.
3. Elms - 15-1 Blazers are at Daniel Webster Saturday.
4. Amherst - Have won 2 after loss to Brandies.
5. Framingham State - 10-9 Rams host Fitchburg Saturday.

Women's Division I
1. Connecticut - Women and men are both #1.
2. Oklahoma - Lady Sooners are a distant #2.
3. Baylor - Lost to #2 Oklahoma, play Texas on Super Sunday.
4. California - 8 straight wins. host UCLA tonight.
5. Boston College - 3 straight wins, at NC State tonight.

Thought For The Day

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson -

Thought For The Day

One man's floor is another man's ceiling.
- Paul Simon -

Thought For The Day

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

George S. Patton

Contributed by Megan B. Johnson

OFFICIAL College Basketball Rankings

1. Michigan State - Spartans are playing like a Final Four team.
2. Wake Forest - Beat BC by 20, host Va Tech tonight.
3. Connecticut - 16-1 Huskies host tough Villanova tonight.
4. Oklahoma - How far can Blake Griffin take them?
5. Pittsburgh - Rebounded from 1st loss by beating Syracuse.
6. North Carolina - Big home game tonight vs. Clemson.
7. Louisville - Beat Pitt, next big game at Syracuse Sunday.
8. UCLA - Bad loss to A St., at Wash. & Wash. St. next.
9. Marquette - Moved way up. Great shooting team.
10. Clemson - At UNC tonight will a lot about this team.
11. Georgetown - Nice win vs Syracuse, West Va Thursday.
12. Syracuse - Have lost 2 of last 3, Louisville on Sunday - ouch!
13. Texas - Longhorns host A&M on Saturday.
14. Xavier - A team nobody wants to meet in March.
15. Arizona State - Underrated? Great win at UCLA.
16. Butler - 16-1 Bulldogs are rolling towards March.
17. Purdue - Huge Big Ten game at Minnesota Thursday.
18. Minnesota - Fell after a bad loss to Northwestern.
19. Villanova - How good are they? At UConn tonight.
20. Florida - 10 straight wins, at South Carolina tonight.
21. Memphis - Big game at rival Tennessee Saturday.
22. Va. Commonwealth - 5 straight wins for the Rams.
23. Illinois - We'll find out how good they are vs. Wisc. Sat.
24. Boston College - Nice win at Ga. Tech., NC St. Saturday.
25. Massachusetts - Inconsistant Minutemen at Charlotte next.

Men's Division II
1. Findlay - Only loss is an "exhibition" vs Xavier.
2. CW Post - Beat Bridgeport, Molloy and Dowling next.
3. Central Oklahoma - Lone Star Conf. Bronchos are 15-2
4. Saint Anselm - Struggling Hawks are at AIC Friday.
5. Bridgeport - Lost to CW Post. Looking ahead to St. A's?

Men's Division III
1. Wheaton, Ill. - 15-0 Thunder host Elmhurst Saturday.
2. St. Thomas - 15-0 Tommies are at Concordia tonight.
3. Washington U., St.Louis - Big game vs Rochester Friday.
4. Amherst - Lost to Brandies, at Trinity Saturday.
5. Framingham State - 3 straight losses. At MCLA Thursday.

Women's Division I
1. Connecticut - Should be ranked 1-5. Nobody else is close.
2. Oklahoma - Big game vs Texas Saturday.
3. Baylor - 15-1, on the road at A&M and Texas Tech.
4. North Carolina - Trounced by UConn, can they recover?
5. Boston College - Hosts NJIT tonight. Why?

At Last

At last, my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
Oh, yeah, at last
The skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped up in clovers
The night I looked at you
I found a dream that I could speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to rest my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known
Oh, yeah when you smile, you smile
Oh, and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
For you are mine
At last

Lyrics by Etta James

Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy

This is the last part of J.F.K.'s speech on January 20, 1961

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Thought For The Day

The more I observe people, the more convinced I become that the secret to a successful life is that there is no secret. You get out of it what you put into it - end of story.
- K.R. Johnson -

Thought For The Day

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
- Oprah Winfrey -

OFFICIAL College Basketball Rankings

1. Michigan State - Great win vs Kansas, Penn St. tonight.
2. Wake Forest - Beat N. Carolina, at upset minded BC tonight.
3. Pittsburgh - 15-0, Big test at Louisville on Saturday.
4. Connecticut - 2 big wins vs West Va & Cinci, St. John's next.
5. Oklahoma - Moved up a notch after beating Texas, A&M next.
6. UCLA - I watched them beat USC, very impressive.
7. North Carolina - Lost to Wake, they need to get on track.
8. Syracuse - Overrated? We'll see, at Georgetown tonight.
9. Clemson - 16-0, big test Saturday vs #2 Wake Forest.
10. Georgetown - They are falling, they host the 'Cuse, tonight.
11. Texas - The Horns are also slipping after Oklahoma loss.
12. Xavier - The Musketeers will be hard to handle in March.
13. Minnesota - Another Black Crows team (Hard To Handle)
14. Louisville - They are very athletic and will be hard to beat.
15. Marquette - They are a typical, solid Big East club.
16. Arizona State - Moved up, but at USC and UCLA next.
17. Butler - The Bulldogs are quietly getting ready for March.
18. Purdue - Boilers fell after a bad loss to Penn State.
19. Villanova - Lost to Louisville by 1, but they are very good.
20. Florida - 14-2, 8 straight, host Auburn tonight.
21. Memphis - Very good, but they squeaked by Tulsa.
22. Arkansas - Beat Texas and Oklahoma, enough said.
23. Virginia Commonwealth - Impressive, quick, athletic.
24. Boston College - Can they pull another upset tonight vs. Wake?
25. Massachusetts - Nice win vs Dayton, at St Louis tonight.

Men's Division II
1. Findlay - The Oilers are rolling, host No. Michigan tonight.
2. C.W. Post - Pioneers are at Bridgeport tonight.
3. Bellarmine - Highest ranking in history for the Knights.
4. Saint Anselm - Struggling without Baudinet, hurry back!
5. Bridgeport - Critical game vs CW Post tonight.

Men's Division III
1. Wheaton, Ill. - Thunder are led by All-American Kent Raymond.
2. Saint Thomas - 12-0 Tommies are at St. John's, Minn. tonight.
3. Washington, St. Louis - Host Case Western Reserve Friday.
4. Amherst - Lord Jeffs are back on track, Wesleyan tonight.
5. Framingham State - 9-6 Rams travel to Worcester Saturday.

Women's Division I
1. Connecticut - Lady Huskies will be tested at UNC next Monday.
2. North Carolina - Coach got her 800th win. Hosts UConn Mon.
3. Baylor - Lady Bears continue to roll.
4. Oklahoma - Boomer Sooners host tough Kansas St. tonight.
5. Boston College - 5 straight wins, at Wake tomorrow night.

Ramblings

I can't believe the Republicans are "concerned" that Obama's recovery plan might add too much money to the national debt. Where were they when Bush turned a $267 billion surplus into a $1.2 trillion deficit; the largest deficit in the history of the United States? We didn't hear a peep out of them then.

I don't know what infuriates me more, Cheney defending kidnapping and torture, or Bush defending the Hurricane Katrina response. Both of them are pathetic. Is there really anyone in the world who believes Cheney when he says that waterboarding is not torture, and that it was only used three times by our agents? I think he meant to say three hundred times, or maybe three thousand times. We should try it on him and see if he still thinks it's not torture.

Bush seems to have forgotten all of those poor black people outside of the New Orleans Convention Center after the hurricane literally dying of thirst in the heat. I still think if they had been white, there would have been National Guard helicopters bumping into each other trying to deliver water to them.

I have a poster on my cubicle at work of a flooded New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. It's been there for years, and every now and then someone asks me when I'm going to take it down. My answer has always been, "when Bush and Cheney are gone and we can start cleaning up the disaster they left behind." It's hard to believe that day is almost here!

Thought For The Day

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan -

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
- Rita Mae Brown -

OFFICIAL College Basketball Rankings

1. Michigan State - 3 straight Big Ten wins, host Kansas Saturday.
2. Wake Forest - 13-0, huge game vs North Carolina Sunday.
3. North Carolina - Upset by BC, but can't fall too far. At Wake.
4. Pittsburgh - Convincing win over G'Town, hosts Johnnies Sunday.
5. Connecticut - Lost to G'Town but beat West Va., Cinci next.
6. Oklahoma - Lost to Arkansas, tough game at K St. Saturday.
7. Georgetown - Oops, losses to Pitt & ND. Providence on Sat.
8. Texas - They also lost to Arkansas. Host Iowa St. Saturday.
9. UCLA - Wins at Oregon & Oregon St. at rival USC Sunday.
10. Syracuse - Off to a great Big East start. At Rutgers Sat.
11. Clemson - Outstanding 14-0 start, moved way up.
12. Xavier - I really like the Musketeers. St. Louis tonight.
13. Minnesota - Lost to #1 Mich. St., beat Ohio St. at Iowa next.
14. Purdue - Lost to Ill. & Penn St. by a total of 7 pts. Wisc. next.
15. Louisville - Lost to UNLV by 1, beat Kentucky, at 'Nova Sat.
16. Marquette - Beat Vill, smoked Cinci, West Va. next.
17. Villanova - 12-2, big game vs Louisville Saturday.
18. Arizona State - Bad loss to Cal, Oregon & Oregon St. next.
19. Florida - 13-2, 7 wins in a row, host Ole Miss Saturday
20. Butler - 12-1 Bulldogs have another excellent team.
21. Memphis - Coach Cal's boys have won 5 straight.
22. Tennessee - OK, I have to put them somewhere. Ga. Tech next.
23. Virginia Commonwealth - Only 11-5, but I really like the Rams
24. Boston College - Great win at UNC, terrible loss to Harvard.
25. Massachusetts - Stumbled vs Houston & Vandy. Dayton Saturday.

Men's Division II
1. Findlay - 10-0, at Wayne St tonight, at Northwood Saturday
2. C.W. Post - Undefeated Pioneers host Concordia next.
3. Bellarmine - Knights play big game vs Kent. Wesleyan tonight.
4. Saint Anselm - 10-1 Hawks lost to Stonehill tonight.
5. Bridgeport - Have won 5 straight, at Adelphi tonight.

Men's Division III
1. Wheaton, Illinois - 12-0 Thunder are at North Park Saturday.
2. Saint Thomas - Undefeated Tommies play Carleton Saturday.
3. Washington U. St. Louis - Bears have a big game Sat. at Chicago.
4. Amherst - Lord Jeffs were upset at Wesleyan, at Williams next.
5. Framingham State -Rams have won 4 straight, at Fitchburg next.

Women's Division I
1. Connecticut - Lady Huskies might run the table.
2. North Carolina - Lady Heels are at Clemson tonight.
3. Baylor - Kim Mulkey's Bears travel to Colorado Saturday
4. Texas A&M - 13-1, suffered first loss at Florida St.
5. Boston College - 12-3 Lady Eagles are at Ga. Tech tonight

Thought For The Day

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau -

Thought For The Day

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
- Barry Switzer -

Thought For The Day

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
- Ted Turner -