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    When you end the season like we did against USC, you really don't want to go through that again, ... So I think there's great inspiration for our team since we have a majority of those kids back. They certainly have a deeper motivation to not let that happen again.

    Whether he reaches that level of invincibility again, I don't know if he will, because the guys behind him are much better than they were five years ago.

    We might not be popping the champagne bottles yet, ... but we're chilling them already.

    It's time to show them El Paso hospitality, ... The evacuees that come to El Paso will be wonderfully surprised.

    Those kids will get a standing ovation. It's like they say here, once a Husker, always a Husker, and I can tell you they will get a huge, huge ovation.


    I told my family and friends I didn't want to go out that way, ... but I was going back and forth.

    It's a national championship, so it should be tough. It's got length, it's not a short golf course by any means. It's got all you want. There's a premium on every phase of the game. You have to drive the ball in the fairway, you have to control your irons well and you have to putt well. If you miss the greens around here you will have such a difficult shot that you will have at best five- to 10-footers for par.

    If the other team makes a great play, they will applaud and recognize that. I've seen them give standing ovations to the opponent when a team beats us. It's a very sophisticated volleyball crowd.

    She's gone from not being able to lift the bar, a skinny body that wasn't very strong, ... to now starting to look like a big time college volleyball player - an international level athlete. Hopefully she's going to see great results on the court.

    They're putting their money where their mouth is. The city historically had little money to put into economic development, ... will start getting us up there with the big boys.

    The second had wedding bells ringing for Tiger at some point during the next 10 days. I'm going fishing next week, ... Nobody's getting married. At least nobody I know.

    I really wanted to put an end to this.

    We have a better understanding of how tough it will be getting into those late rounds of the NCAA tournament, going to the next level to get to the Final Four and compete for a national championship, ... We've got a lot of wisdom.

    But the intent is still there and the drive is there, and we see that at home. People may not see it as much out here. They don't think he works as hard as Vijay, but he's every bit as driven as Vijay is. He just brings it here. He doesn't try to find it here, he brings it with him.

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    They were cut down for a better view of the river and for more yard space.

    We have to play a lot right now because once we get into conference, it's hard to play other teams, ... So you have about two weekends to play matches, and we'll have played six. But once we get into conference, we'll only play twice a week.

    She lit us up. That showed me she was ready to get out there and compete.

    We will likely see even higher prices this spring.

    The word we felt was disbelief that something like this actually happened. We couldn't believe that it happened.

    Hopefully, we'll learn that when we go on the road, teams aren't going to roll over for us,

    There's no doubt, when Tiger's playing his best, there's only a Big One. There's him and there's four other guys. When (Tiger) is kind of just OK, that's when you bring Vijay into the mix. He's clearly the world's No. 2.

    I look at it as three really good matches to get us ready for the Big 12, ... We just have to work on it one point at a time and see where we end up.

    Phase 2 may have to be altered. It may need to be shrunk because of parking.

    We all are (superstitious) in some ways. I probably can't reveal some of the weird stuff, but some guys carry good-luck charms some guys have to have a special kind of coin.

    I just said, 'There's been an accident, and Timmy was killed, ... There's no good way to do that.

    If you don't like these tournaments, don't come. They are what they are. In Dallas or at Colonial, it wouldn't work. These do.

    I had a good weekend of practice and felt good coming in here because it's a golf course where you don't have to be super long, ... It's playing fast enough that I can reach some of the par 5s in two and on the long par 4s I'm not hitting long irons in. I think I can compete that way.

    Beyond internal support for wireless connectivity standards, Secure Digital will add media storage. You could have a song database on your Palm, ... SD already complies with the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI).

    Everyone had the opportunity to give it their best shot, and it sends the wrong message if we reject the bids at this time, ... I would hope the council would support awarding the bids.

    We're just erring on the side of caution. It's a very remote possibility that it is contaminated.

    She was representing our profession.

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    It caused consternation (among the judges) that the City Council was looking at it, and they want a separation of powers, ... They're the judicial branch, and they don't seem to think the executive branch or the legislative branch of city government should be looking at them.

    The greens are receptive it's a slaughter waiting to happen.

    The main thing is we're trying to get them involved in is making healthy choices.

    It'll be hard to think Bob or anybody could shoot in the 60s twice and get beat. It's a slaughter waiting to happen.

    The two-setter system we tried tonight went smoother than I thought it would. We hit .400 in the first game. We were pretty focused and had a lot of adrenaline going. But that was the first time Hawai'i had seen it so they had no idea. It's a hard system to defend because you've got three hitters coming at you in three different spots every time. We had a lot of single blocks when we were hitting.

    We're not sure of the exact cause. We believe it was related to a surge situation.

    and Howell insists, ''He's the most straightforward, no BS guy I've ever met.

    One of the things I notice in a big arena is that it's very easy to lose the speed and power of the game. That's what makes the Coliseum so special. Everybody feels like they're a part of what's going on down on the court. It's very easy to get emotionally involved, and people want to feel that. They want to feel like they are part of something like that.

    There's some golf courses that fit my style of play, ... Thank God there's a couple of them left that we play. I can count on one hand how many like those are left.

    It's something that will be addressed. At some point, you've got to protect the field. If you see a guy that walks around the hole like Phil does or some of these guys do, and they've got 8-millimeter spikes on, there's no doubt that is a disadvantage to whoever might be playing behind those guys.

    It doesn't matter what you're ranked or how good you are, you have to prove it every night.

    It's a philosophical difference that Ray and I have about whether the Palo Verde rewards should have gone back to the ratepayer or should it be applied to the city to be used to lower electric costs in providing taxpayer services,

    I had good practice sessions, ... We always hit a lot of balls, then we go play. Nobody hits more balls than (Woods) at home, I'll tell you that. Vijay (Singh) included.

    We're prepared to receive them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and do whatever is required,

    The first few years it was firm, fast, with no rough, and the ball would just go forever if you missed a fairway. That's the way I liked it. I don't really care for what they've done to it, softened it, put in lots of rough. It's still quite a test, but I think it was meant to play firm and fast.

    We will be operating (the Emergency Operations Center) 24 hours a day until this situation is under control,

    We are disappointed ... the military value and homeland security value of Ellington wasn't realized by the commission.


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