You've got the place all to yourself. I was out paddling about two-three weeks ago. You don't hear anything but your blade hitting the water. You don't hear any traffic noise at all.

We do fundamentals like shooting, passing, dribbling and defense. As soon as we can, we get into game situations so they can become familiar with them.

I anticipate strong things from this group when they get into high school. The eighth-graders and sixth-graders are strong, too.

It's a challenge, because we typically have one week of practice before Christmas and then one week before we get into our games. The kids improved significantly throughout the season. It's always a challenge for us because there are so many other things to do in Steamboat.

The owner is not going to be able to sit there and manipulate a container containing a bomb through a port. To do that, it would take a conspiracy involving quite a number of people, including people on the ground, who are going to be (International Longshoreman's Association) members.

I'm hoping we'll have this continual glide path of rates going up and everything comes into equilibrium nice and easy.