Hillary at Village of Coventry

Go figure, Senator Clinton spoke at Sara's at the Village of Coventry, about a mile from my house, and here I am, 6 or 7 hundred miles away.... it's almost as if I planned it. :)

I-64 Shootings

We were southbound on I-64 on Thursday morning, wondering what all the Northbound fuss was, and didn't learn until later that someone had taken pot-shots at cars from an overpass. I'm glad they're caught.

Mt. Airy, NC

If you're not up on your Andy Griffith lore, he was born in Mt. Airy, North Carolina and somewhat modeled Mayberry after Mt. Airy... now Mt. Airy is modeling itself after Mayberry, as well. So here we have Wally's Service Station (where you can schedule a ride in the squad car to tour the city), Emmitt's fix-it shop, Otis Cambell's favorite cell in the court house and Floyd's Barber Shop (where Andy Griffith's childhood barber still gives haircuts).

Hillary's coming

It looks like Hillary will be the first 2008 presidential candidate to make her way to Ft. Wayne.  I guess Bill must have told her how nice we were to him.

Harding lost to the Twin Towers

Washington's big team was too much for Harding, with Ft. Wayne losing by 24 points.

The Luers Question

St. Joseph's Track Team stayed home during the Easter Tridium, forgoing the Hoosier State Relays -- but Bishop Luers' basketball team and Bishop Chatard's track team played and won on Saturday.

Last weekend, the Easter celebration, was the holiest of holy times on the Catholic calendar. During that time — from 5 p.m. Thursday through the rest of the weekend — the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese mandates that athletes at the Catholic high schools be restricted from practices or competitions.

I am inclined to agree with St. Joseph's. Sunday games and practices in many sports are becoming standard practice and would not have been allowed when we Sevens were in school. If Bishop Luers would have stood up and refused to play on Saturday due to the Tridium and Diocese rules, it would have been very hard for them to bear -- I wonder if they might have even lost some players to public schools off the team next year -- but it would have raised awareness of what the IHSAA is doing to the kids' family lives.

And we cannot know that the IHSAA would not have moved the game to avoid an outcry.

Olgivy Wins

Tiger Woods ended up losing by two strokes

Katharine McPhee

Katherine McPhee was great on American Idol, wasn't she. I thought she should have won that year she came in second to Taylor Hicks... it's obvious, isn't it -- he would look ridiculous in a short, silver spangled dress.

Western Kentucky

Are you enjoying the upsets? It's playing havock on my brackets... too bad about IU, although that wasn't much of an upset, really.

Will Tiger play today?

Play was suspended yesterday due to the rain and was set to begin again this morning at 8:30, but I do not yet see any changes on the leaderboard so I don't think the weather is cooperating this morning either... they may end up finishing tomorrow if they can't finish today.

They are golfing now... Tiger's down 5 strokes now, to Olgivy who continues smoking the course at -16.

Even though Woods is shooting par, other golfers are passing him like he's standing still. Vijay Singh and Graeme Storm, for example, shot -9 for this round to Tiger's even par. Just look at today's rounds on that leaderboard above.

Luers brings it home

Bishop Luers 69, Winchester 67

DeShaun Thomas is known as an outstanding scorer and strong rebounder, but it was a pass that the Fort Wayne Bishop Luers sophomore made that proved pivotal Saturday.

In the final 90 seconds of a tie game, Thomas passed out of a double-team to Jake Kuhn, who dropped in a short jumper for his only points and the Knights posted a thrilling 69-67 victory over Winchester for the Class 2A boys basketball state championship Saturday at Conseco Fieldhouse.

The title was the first in program history for Luers (24-3) but capped a football-basketball double for the parochial Catholic school this academic year.

Congratulations, Luers! What a great year.

Climate Facts

Check it out, as I mentioned the other day, the Earth stopped warming a decade ago.

"The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."

Duffy: "It's not only that it's not discussed. We never hear it, do we? Whenever there's any sort of weather event that can be linked into the global warming orthodoxy, it's put on the front page. But a fact like that, which is that global warming stopped a decade ago, is virtually never reported, which is extraordinary."

The global warmers are having difficulty swallowing the fact that their models are failing -- so they ignore the data as best they can.