The kids that are out there doing this stuff to each other -- it's an awful waste of life and potential. It's terrible.

There's an awful lot of good stuff out there, and we want to make sure that viewers know where to find it. We found that with the nbcolympics.com Web site the vast majority of visitors came looking for programming information. We learned that lesson and decided that it was time to put it on the screen.

The kids watch TV and get this sense about how it's glamorous, or when you get shot, you're dead,

We've got an awful lot of stuff to cram in.

What does this mean to me? It means I have to coach another week. But if any group of kids ever deserved to advance to the national tournament, it's these kids. They've worked so hard and become a team in every sense of the word. This was a total team effort.

I can't tell you how proud I am of these kids. We just had so many kids step up again tonight.