She (Olivo) called me the day before she left (for La Academia USA). She was so excited and her enthusiasm was contagious.

I actually turned my head away and heard our crowd go up in enthusiasm and I knew the shot missed. It was a long nine seconds.

Everyone's excited and everything like that, no question. Whenever you can beat a powerhouse like the USA, it's a feather in baseball Canada's history. We're going to enjoy this, celebrate a little bit, but we do have one other game to play and there's no guarantee that we're going to the next round. We can be happy right now, but we still have a task at hand, and that after an hour or two we will focus on Mexico.

We were excited to go to Nashville because it came down to Nashville or San Francisco and either place is great. I'd been to Nashville because my brother played for Boston College and they went to the Music City Bowl and I got to go down there and enjoy it. I told the guys it should be a good environment to spend a bowl game.

It's very exciting. The enthusiasm of the students has been great.

Mortgage rates have crept up a bit, but not enough to dampen the enthusiasm for home-buying activity in Greater Cincinnati.