Satan demands to sift us like sand through his fingers, and God, knowing everything, allows it.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That’s why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

That's the real excellent scary part, that feeling, and that feeling won't come if the lady from next door is there and your mom won't ride the ride, because what brings on that feeling most is when your mom rides wedged in tight with you and your brother on nights like this, when your mom will scream the excellent scream, the scream that people you see in snatches on the boardwalk stop and stare for, the scream that stops the ride next door, the scream that tells us to our hearts the bolts have finally broken.

(Cairns) made some big-time saves for us. And if it weren't for that bad bounce, we would have won the game 1-0.

There's work there that needs to be done and one thing we have to put in place is an improvement plan.

It's not easy to make changes like this, but we think it's better for us to break up the middle part of the schedule. We're trying to loosen it up a little bit. There are so many things to consider -- what happens to the other teams, the television contracts. It's a complicated process.

This is something we will remember for ever.

As of right now, we do not have any penalties. The only way they would come into effect is if (a player) would leave the team and not come back, and they would leave ineligible.

We might not win even if we do that, but we'll give ourselves a chance at least, and that's all you can really ask for.