The competition is the best in the country.

By making this a weekly must-see 'event', MIDNIGHT MADNESS will carry the tradition to bring live country music and its hit makers closer to its fans.

A bit over half of the country is online, but more than 75% of those users have broadband access. Competition to provide French consumers Internet access and Internet-based phone, TV and even wireless services is transforming the market. These wholesale shifts to new technologies in France make what is happening in the US look like baby steps.

Our store visits suggested that the company's various fascias were discounting earlier and more heavily than the competition and that is rarely a good sign at this time of year.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

That's why national competition is good. When you have the NCAA soccer competition, the best teams all qualify and then you bracket it out. In football, it comes down to the polls. There's value in won-lost records, but there can be misleading information in that too, if you look at it and call it the end all.