No doubt about it, facing Jackson is a tough test at the beginning of our season, ... But we're ready to line up, put our best against their best and see what happens.

People don't like to be delayed trying to go somewhere and everybody else is coming to a screeching halt.

There's not a lot of opportunities here, and if you ain't mining, you're living somewhere else. A lot of people did just that 20 years ago, but that's changing awful fast.

You are seeing ads in the newspapers for (mine) orientation classes. They used to teach mining in the high schools 20 years ago, but they stopped. Well, they're teaching mining again now.

We're going with Dixon, ... he's our quarterback.

They are better than Raines, ... They've got the folks. They've got a Super 11 receiver [Jamal Harvey], a tailback that is as good as ours, a huge tight end - it's going to be a great game.

We did not mind driving it when people were working on the road, but no ones worked on it for about a year.

Alan was awesome! At a 7:06-per-mile pace, he's one heck of a runner on snowshoes. Alan took advantage of the weather and the snow, and made it a great day for course records and for the race.