We're holding our own. We just need to work on our defense.

Ultimately, they want a stable, a more effective relationship with their child. A lot of fathers don't know how to have that.

We're moving in the right direction. At this point, that's all we can hope for.

They were really tough, man. I think we could have had [the game] but guys didn't step up and do what they needed to do at the time.

As in earlier mediation, including peace-making efforts when he was the state's attorney general, Kobayashi served without extra compensation.

When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.

I had messed up that game, and I thought coaches wouldn't have much faith in me. I was nervous. I was seeing the plays, but I wouldn't react to it.

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

The child still needs them (fathers) in their life.