The numbers are fluctuating up and down a bit each year, but the fact that the surveys consistently show more than 30 percent of our kids are overweight means we all have a lot more work to do.

It's good in terms of numbers and it's bad in terms of trying to choose teams. It's great for the program ... I guess for most schools it would be a good problem to have.

due to her fluctuating filming schedule.

Our numbers haven't looked this good in a year,

So far, our numbers look to be about the same as last year, if you subtract the 300 or so kids from Hurricane Katrina. We won't have our true count until early October.

[Sizemore (he's making $318,000 this year) and Lee ($345,000) come cheap, too. Those numbers are as important to Shapiro as batting averages and ERAs. The Colon trade -- he is making $10 million this season -- was Shapiro's way of announcing the Indian's new business model: Expensive free agents were out, hunting for prospects and bargains was in. It's a little easier to sell that small-market approach when trades work out as well as that one did.] The Colon trade was the start of everything, ... It started the change.