You feel like a second-class citizen when you have the No. 1 offense and the No. 32 defense year in and year out.

We were attacking them in the first half and playing good defense and in the roles reversed in the second half.

The key to stopping those two is playing defense early. You've got to front the players and prevent them from going where they can get off a high percentage shot.

These differences mean that a car buyer's best defense against rising gas prices is to shop carefully within the class of car they are considering. Consumers can save hundreds of dollars a year by simply buying a higher rated subcompact, SUV or minivan.

Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me."

It's not cool because you have to run to class.