That was frustrating, but there's nothing we can do about that. We just had to pick ourselves up and go right back at them.

That was a lot closer game than the final score would indicate, and with a new coach (Jim Goff) who was successful at Archbishop Williams and several returning players, they should be tough again.

That makes this a must win for us.

We came here to win and I'll live with the decision.

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.