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    Sitting in his hotel room in his New York City hotel room last Friday a few hours before his team was to play top-ranked Wake Forest, Olson confessed that his decision to write those words wasn't exactly spur-of-the-moment. No, I think you wait for the right opportunity to get that point across, ... That's the perception the Pac-10 always deals with. We want to make sure that we don't fit that description.

    Arizona has played the toughest schedule by far in our conference, playing some of the top teams in the country. (Olson) had done a good job of what works best.

    It's his arm action. Then, he gathers himself well on the mound and lets it go. (Olson) even commented that his arm action is better than it was a month ago.

    To be honest, at the beginning of the year, in Maui, I tried to force the issue with scoring. Coach (Olson) basically said to play within the offense, get open shots. So I bought into that. I've grown a lot. I've seen a lot of improvement in my game.



    An obvious focus will be online sales. Bertelsmann is already working with AOL to develop its own online book store. Adding Random House's titles gives it more inventory and more clout. But Olson said it makes sense to not corner the market. If we are successful in starting a major online business, we will service other publishers equally, and not just Random House, ... As to whether we would have a partner, that's the subject of negotiations and discussions which are proceeding at this time.

    Tucson and the U of A and (men's basketball head) coach (Lute) Olson and the basketball program really stepped up and gave us everything we needed, ... (Olson) just was involved in the process of discussions about facilities and what it would take. Obviously, there were some financial terms to the deal, and they were receptive to us coming down. It just turned out to be a great scenario.

    This year, coming back in great shape from the knee injury (at the end of 2004) and the competition he faced in training camp (from Ben Olson) has put him over the top. He's playing now at a level he visualized himself playing at over the summer.

    Lute Olson teaches the NBA system. If you look at his players, they may not be dominant in college but they're going to make a bigger impact in the NBA just because of the way they play up and down. Players learn and develop and make mistakes and learn for themselves.

    I am convinced that these responses show no inconsistencies or evidence that Mr. Olson misled or was less than truthful to the committee in any way. Rather, they show him to be forthright and honest,

    Without question, my most highly contested selection was Arizona. Matt S. of Dallas provided a typical understated response by writing Arizona will make you eat crow Salim will make you repent, as you bow to the great Wildcat in the sky and chant, 'There is no God but basketball, and Lute Olson is his prophet' ... I will be e-mailing you at the end of the tournament when Arizona wins it all.

    Sitting in his hotel room in New York City last Friday a few hours before his team was to play top-ranked Wake Forest, Olson confessed that his decision to write those words wasn't exactly spur-of-the-moment. No, I think you wait for the right opportunity to get that point across, ... That's the perception the Pac-10 always deals with. We want to make sure we don't fit that description.

    That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!

    It's not our job to go and participate in this campaign. They're trying to sell the voters on something. We didn't know if we would oppose the bond or not. We actually conversed with doctor (Stan) Olson and toured twelve of the schools.

    We're aware of the situation with Hassan Adams. I've spoken (with) head coach Lute Olson and we've decided to delay any further comment, or provide any reaction, until Monday.



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