In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week.

In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week.

Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10- kilometer radius.

Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10- kilometer radius.

Overall, it was a good team effort, ... Our serving at times needs to improve.

Overall, it was a good team effort, ... Our serving at times needs to improve.

At halftime, I told them not to come out of the locker room unless they would come fight, scratch, claw, read more

At halftime, I told them not to come out of the locker room unless they would come fight, scratch, claw, whatever they had to do until the end of the game.

It was a bull moose, walking right through town. I had been to Alaska before, and I've seen moose, but read more

It was a bull moose, walking right through town. I had been to Alaska before, and I've seen moose, but that was a hell of a deal. That's not something you see on your average recruiting trip.

We appreciate everything they are doing to make the road safer, but the curve needs to be straightened.

We appreciate everything they are doing to make the road safer, but the curve needs to be straightened.

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern read more

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks read more

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

The Gold Cup is the biggest headache on the schedule. We want to be respectful of the confederation championship and read more

The Gold Cup is the biggest headache on the schedule. We want to be respectful of the confederation championship and put our best team out there and try to win it. However, our focus has to be on World Cup qualifying. Those 10 games are the most important.