They're doing all the right things to play defense. It's hard to win longer-term just playing defense, and they don't have a lot of offensive weapons.

I want her [Thorn] to play defense all 90 feet and she's quick enough to do it and that's the type of game she plays. What she lacks in size, she makes up with her tenacity and her quickness and she uses it to her advantage defensively and offensively.

Qwest is definitely the orphan Bell. I really don't see Qwest as an attractive acquisition target for several years.

If this works for Level 3, this is a real turning point. This really gives them a good footprint in the mid-Atlantic and the Southeast.

They're continuing to show stable revenues and to reap the benefits of the cost-cutting they did last year.

The one thing that Qwest has is its local franchise, and over the next two years it's going to become increasingly embattled as (cable company) Comcast starts rolling out more aggressively with their digital voice service. I don't think they get acquired at all.