The authors, and the disciplined volunteers following the practice of caloric restriction, are to be congratulated for their important contributions to this effort.

Really, this has been a tough season. We've had some chemistry issues. We've had to practice with machinery going on, so that we could barely hear each other. There's just been a lot of adversity, some of it self-made, but we came together.

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

In that regard, it's very important for him to take as close to a full speed batting practice as he can. It looks like he's able to do that now, and I've never seen that before from him.

I think she was a distraction, because at the end of practice we would have 20 media members there to talk to a walk-on kicker who couldn't kick it through the uprights, ... That was an issue.

The thing I like the best about Josh is he's one of our hardest workers in practice. I've always felt it was real important that your best players be your best practice players, too. We're lucky in that with Josh and Cory.