This will be a very time-consuming and expensive undertaking if owners are to salvage the vintage planes. As a practical matter, it's a good bet that many of these seaplanes will not fly again.

A call is developing to ban this out-of-control game of virtual economic extortion.

Our No. 2 (Hiroki Takagi) has been hurt so I kept him out of the lineup today. Our big match is Wednesday at Lewis & Clark and they're in our region. We hope that he is better for that.

At this level, the more they play with very good players they're going to improve quite a bit. Now I'm not saying that Mattoon didn't have good players. But they were all about the same. Really our practice sessions sometimes are going to be a lot harder than some of our matches.

I have five quality kids that I could rotate anyplace along the way.

Nobody really thought this mine accident would have a happy ending, but no one could have envisioned how much pain the families would suffer.