In the second match, Thomas was challenged by our staff to get blocks and she got eight in the second match. She just went off. The way she was running around, going after it, she's not bad for a walk-on.

I know that I have big shoes to fill, and I am anxious to hit the ground running.

Every new device is a potential user of our content and every new stream of programming is potentially a new source of revenue.

The odd thing about last night is we played bad. We just could never get into a comfortable rhythm. I was really surprised looking at the stats after the game because we're almost doubling the numbers we thought they had.

There's a tremendous amount of passion about this issue by family-business owners. On this, no stone is being left unturned.

Doug has spent more than 20 years in Washington as an outstanding advocate for the communications industry. His experience working with Congress and administrations from both parties will be invaluable to our public-policy work promoting radio and television broadcasting.

We expected her to do good things, but to have a freshman with 17 kills is fantastic. We need to keep giving her the ball. That's a big key, is seeing if we can get her into the lineup more and get her to do more things. We are sorely lacking outside hitter depth and she brings in a strong arm and good defense.

We hung (in there). That's the main thing. We played well. Now we're back home again and back against local competition and we can show why we were ranked fifth in the nation.

We are especially encouraged that the legislation thwarts the cable industry's desire to degrade delivery of HDTV pictures to consumers.

We're young. We only have three kids on the floor who saw significant time last year. Other than that, no one else played. It's nice to be able to get some other people to step up and learn how to be leaders.