It helped us build the hospital, but it is cutting us at the back of our knees at this point.

We make contributions to good Samaritans. We match everything that comes in here from our customers and so sometimes they can go to good Samaritans and get some help as far as their utility bills.

April 1st at 9.9%, which if that comes into effect, we'll have no choice but to pass that on to our customers.

I can't kid myself. I'm looking forward to the Big East and to LSU. But we have to stay focused. We can't skip a team we're playing. We just have to go game by game, prepare ourselves and be ready.

It was on Government Island, which is now Alameda, when they held the (1940) World's Fair.

I want to play against tough teams and tough opponents. That gets you going. I'm very excited for the heat of the schedule coming up. I know my teammates are excited, too.

Marcus is such a good player and he contributes a lot. He's had the attitude in practice that he's going to help us. He's been real good. He's had an upbeat attitude. I think all of us as a team are looking forward to him coming back. He knows what's coming (on the road). Marcus is the type that he'll use that to his advantage. He just has to block that out and play his game.

He's a good teammate. To see him on the court today, it's an amazing feeling because you just know how much better our team's going to get.

When I'm out there people say I'm not a scorer. I still have it in me. But we have a whole group of people that can score. I've got to do the things that sort of make us a championship team, diving for loose balls, using my size under the basket. That's what I have to do.

Compulsory attendance is not new. Really, this ordinance just adds a little enforcement to an educational policy that's been around.

It's like a little city within a church.

If that's the case, then that's fine. If they want to get up in us, fine, more power to them. We'll be ready.