My goal for this season was to go out on the mound and put my team in position to win read more

My goal for this season was to go out on the mound and put my team in position to win every time I step out there. We lost a lot of guys from last year and I knew I had to step up. I trained really hard in the fall and spring to throw as many pitches as I need to.

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something read more

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

We wanted to be here because it was a brand new theater and it gave us an opportunity to really read more

We wanted to be here because it was a brand new theater and it gave us an opportunity to really shine,

Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer service in a global marketplace where read more

Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer service in a global marketplace where purchasers have more choices and less time than ever before. Selectively investing in high-value customers empowers organizations to boost revenues, reduce operational costs, and to increase customer retention/acquisition rates.

That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck read more

That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck with beans on toast.

You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, read more

You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, which are too narrow; you are playing at about a hundred miles a minute. But somehow they don't. As long as they don't you know you're all right. You're going good, well-oiled like an engine. Not too much sweat, not too little.

I?m just tired. That was rough. Those last 10 seconds were a lifetime, as usual against Michigan State.

I?m just tired. That was rough. Those last 10 seconds were a lifetime, as usual against Michigan State.

In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all read more

In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all going to decline within a decade of each other.

Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly read more

Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly affected by the hurricane. Last year, they had 60 stores in the path of major hurricanes, and it affected earnings by about a penny. At least with respect to the hurricanes, it should be less (of an impact) than what happened last year.