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From opening the season at home versus the Big Ten, to closing the regular season by renewing a Thanksgiving weekend tradition (Ohio, Nov. 24), this is a great schedule for Miami football.

From a multibillion-dollar tourism perspective here in the city, this is one of the most powerful national signals that we can have, because it is the first major sporting commitment since Katrina. It is an event that attracts thousands of people, it has exposure all over the world, and it puts a highlight that weekend on New Orleans as a destination.

I feel like we spent a weekend in Scranton. My sons were wearing Gerry McNamara shirts (but) not during the game.

I feel good about going into the next race this weekend at Phoenix. I think Donnie (Bender), being a new crew chief, has learned some things to do and not to do. We hope to improve upon what we did at Pomona (Calif.) two weeks ago.

I feel good about going into this weekend and being productive,

I feel good about where my game is at, ... It's a kind of a stretch where you want to get things rolling. I hope it carries into this weekend and for the rest of the year for that matter.

If we show up and play defense, we are incredible. I feel we can have a great weekend and fight for first place come next weekend.

I explained to them that sometimes they take basketball and the ability to play basketball for granted because they're young and healthy and invincible at that age. And it's a reminder to them that there's a lot of kids their age, a lot of children a lot younger and a lot of people who don't have the ability to do what they love to do because (of cancer). Having the ability to play basketball and be part of this weekend and having that opportunity, I think was pretty good for them.

Give those kids credit. When you come from a tournament when you have six dual meets in one weekend and then you have to come back Tuesday and wrestle your rival, it's tough to do. Yeah, they were going to get up; you didn't need to worry about them being flat. But they had a long weekend. Those kids had to come back and make weight. Give them a lot of credit for what they did and what they accomplished. We came out and did what we had to do. We just came up a little bit short.

I don't think he would have visited Florida on the last weekend before signing day if he wasn't serious about them. But he can still only choose one team, and I think he ends up choosing Alabama.

I don't think I could have gotten any better of a draw. I saw Carlson this weekend and they're pretty even with Grosse Ile. I think it's going to be a pretty good game.

For us to win games, we have to do a lot of things very well. Most of this season, we've done that, but tonight just wasn't the case. We'll take the weekend off and then hopefully come back with a lot of intensity next week.

I don't think Simon is in the right frame of mind to play this weekend so he is not in the squad for the game at Newcastle.

For us there is 16 conference games to go and yet, boy, these games this weekend seem really important because they are home games. It's kind of early to call them must-win, but they are really important games.

I don't think we were expecting it to be so dramatic so quickly this year. We just didn't feel it was responsible to wait three more days during a holiday weekend to let clinicians know.

I don't think we played as well last weekend. We had an up-and-down week of practice and it showed this weekend. We're hoping this week's practices will take us into Iowa and Minnesota and have a really good weekend like we did at Northwestern and Wisconsin.

I felt I should've won this tournament by quite a few strokes, ... But this weekend I putted bad, and that's that.

Certainly as an opening weekend it's less than dynamic. Any time you have a release that takes less than ?ú1,000 per site, that's a worry.

Casey had a great first weekend in the league,

But we'd have to know what date they were looking at, because almost every weekend in November has UH football.

But we may throw Lauren against them this weekend if we get to the finals of the (Capital City Invitational).

Celtic will be even more up for it this weekend and that makes our task even more difficult. But we want to give ourselves a chance because this might be the last chance for some of us to play in a major final.

Based on the information we have, it looks like the officials at Fort Huachuca are not holding anyone responsible for the attack and the threats against Pvt. Lawson. According to Lawson, the guy who attacked him only had his weekend passes revoked. That's simply outrageous.

I don't know why they're giving up the sacks, or what the mood is that the guys are going through, ... But hopefully they'll give up 20 this weekend to us because I need my first sack of the season. That's what I'm looking for.

I felt a lot more comfortable than I did in our first weekend out. I felt more in control. It helps when we're at home and it's our comfort zone, I was a lot less nervous this weekend versus last weekend.

I feel very confident that we have people that can come in and fill in. I don't have any problem with the whole situation. I think we'll be as competitive as we can be and I look forward to a good series. Good teams make adjustments and we're going to find out this weekend if we're that kind of team that can make adjustments irrespective of some of the things that we have to do.

I felt like I was playing winter ball at one point. The fans were rowdy, but we expected that after what we saw in Tucson last weekend (in an exhibition against the White Sox at Tucson Electric Park).

Bear in mind this survey is always more volatile than the ISM, and there may be an outsized July 4 long weekend effect, too. But these are bad numbers.

I had intended to serve one more term as mayor pro-tem, then retire from public service and move out to my farm in the county, ... But over the weekend I decided it would be better for Gray for me to spend this last four years as mayor. If I stayed as mayor pro-tem, it would be like I was condoning the way Mayor Briley is doing things, and I don't.

I have all the respect in the world for Rodney Harrison. I told him that when we brought him here, and he's made great contributions to this team. There's no question about it. Unfortunately, he had a tough setback last weekend and so did the team, but that's the way it is. We're playing San Diego this week. Unfortunately, he won't be with us. I wish he was, but he's not.

To come here this weekend and dominate the race shows we have done the job right this year. We have shown speed and reliability. This is a dream team.

To compete that next weekend I would've thought was a setback because it wouldn't have given people a chance to deal with what was happening. To come together and try to play a football game and sort of smooth things over would have kind of cheated people out of their grieving.

We are extremely excited to announce the Frozen Four Skills Challenge and look forward to this event. This should be an outstanding event featuring some of the top college hockey players in the nation, both male and female, and will add to the fan experience to make this into a full weekend of exciting hockey action.

Having been a fan of him on the weekend CBS News in the '70s . . . he's good at what he does, comfortable with it, and in changing times has the impossible-to-rush benefit of being familiar to the audience. Plus, all former Rotisserie League commissioners make great news anchors.

Having this kind of concentration of musical talent in the city over one weekend is completely unheard of.

Having the program here on a weekend is a way for parents, who may not be able to get to the fairs, to have their children's information available in case it is needed. I was very pleased to see not only moms, but dads as well. I think the children really enjoyed it. This was a very good learning experience and will help us plan for next year.

Have fun this weekend because you are not guaranteed to get back again. Once they realize where they are, I think it will be a real confidence booster for both of them. I hope they enjoy the time they get up there.

Henson did a great job in relief. That's something that wasn't there over the weekend and our defense played really well.

What we have are log and timber frame home companies who build homes in this region and all across the country. And they're here this weekend to help customers in this region to answer questions about building their dream home.

What we wanted to do from the outset to build this film up to create a powerful momentum has happened right on time. We wanted to peak this weekend so we could (drop) Columbus Day weekend when you've got the big guys 'Intolerable Cruelty,' 'Kill Bill' and 'Mystic River' facing us. I think we can fare very formidably against that competition.

He's a guy we sort of identified has the potential to eventually be a weekend guy or battle for some weekend innings. He makes a case for himself a little bit, but we're not making any changes right now. We're going to leave him where he is. But he's building a resume for himself.

We surveyed attendance at 'Grease' over one weekend and of the 500 people who came to see the show 400 were from out-of-town,

We've got to live in the future now. As good as this (past) weekend was, you've got to let it go and get by it.

We're obviously concerned because he's a valuable part of our offense, ... We will not know on his status for this weekend until later in the week.

We're only a weekend through this and it feels like a month. But we're doing fine.

We talked a lot about this at the beginning of the season - about playing for something on the last weekend and certainly that's what we're doing. We want to take full advantage of the opportunity.

I look forward to every weekend during race season, especially if I'm traveling to watch a race.

I actually realized our potential the weekend before Crane at the Snyder Tournament. We went out of there 1-3 but we were two innings away from being 3-1. I had a pretty good feeling we had a chance to be real good.

I almost wanted to take the weekend off because we were so sick and banged up, but the guys really wanted to wrestle. They wanted to learn how to wrestle with adversity.

Hunter's Weekend will be way down if it keeps up like this. Especially with the TABC in town, you can count on Hunter's Weekend to be a flop.

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

He was in the finals again last weekend (Wapakoneta Tournament) finishing second in his class. This is the third time he has been in the finals and he has won twice.

I am incredibly pleased with our performance this weekend. We knew going in this was a big weekend and our guys responded with a sweep. Today we just kept battling back and found a way to secure the sweep. This was just a great weekend of baseball.

I am going to try to lower the temperature if I can. We're just exploring ideas, particularly over the weekend when the legislature's not sitting.

I am going to have a great Friday and a fantastic weekend and hope you do too.

If that didn't let him know this weekend that he can be a great player in this league, then nothing will. But I think he got the message.

If we win the game, we'll go onto the Final Four tournament this weekend in Portland, Maine.

He scheduled three visits today. He's going to Pittsburgh this weekend. He's tentatively going to Rutgers the following weekend and to Kansas the weekend after that.

He has a very tough match this coming weekend against another freshman. If we can win some of those toss-up battles, and I consider that a toss-up, then I think we have a good chance to beat them this weekend. But if it goes the other way, it's going to be a tough, tough weekend for us. But we're ready for them. We've been progressing and getting better, and our freshman, sophomores are getting a little bit more battle-tested.

He hasn't responded to treatment as we would have liked. He will have an MRI scan this weekend to determine the extent of the inflammation and therefore the best course of management. Only then will we be able to gauge the likelihood of his availability for the second Test.

He will definitely miss next week's game against Wakefield but, with the first weekend off in the play-offs, he is aiming to be right for the St Helens game,

He will dictate if we go at the weekend and where we go,

He was there from April 30 to May 26. It was the first time he was away from home. I went there every single weekend to see him for 30 minutes a day. Thank God I had a credit card and some savings.

Hollywood and entertainment people are in Las Vegas on a regular basis. Sports stars and legends from all sports are in our town, and now you bring in the best basketball there is in the world, the NBA All-Star game. Combine that with their legends, it is going to be a tremendous weekend for all the participants.

Historically, St. Patrick's Day and the weekend is one of the largest alcohol consumption weekends of the year. Financially this is painful at this point of time, but to weigh that against changes we want to make there was no question it should be done.

Going into the weekend and hitting the 2,000 mark accomplishes our ultimate goal, which was to be the widest we could possibly be in concert with the Academy nominations.

There is an opportunity, perhaps with what has happened over the weekend with the intervention of Tony Blair from Japan, to concentrate people's minds on the issues.

The rain this weekend will help us out a lot. It is going take the high danger down until we get some cover on the trees.

His No. 1 hobby in life was snowmobiling. He'd go home for the weekend and come back and say, 'I started the snowmobile,' and we'd say, 'but there's no snow!' and he would say he just wanted to smell the smoke.

He should be fine. We'll talk to him again after this race weekend and if he is okay next week, then we'll want him to run for a day at Silverstone.

Unless Tropical Storm Maria follows in Katrina's footsteps, we may be able to look back on this weekend as the worst of a bad situation.

He's doing better. He got here early today for treatment, he ran on the track, said he felt good. He just has a little bit of palpable soreness, really doesn't have any evident swelling. We're going to progress him over the course of the weekend in regards to his running and just take it day-by-day, see how he feels.

He's already got offers from West Virginia, Rutgers, Syracuse, Connecticut and North Carolina. He's planning on going to Penn State's junior day this weekend and then Maryland's next weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if he came back from both of them with offers.

Hopefully, we can get (Person) in over the weekend and get (a signing) done Monday or Tuesday.

He's doing great. It's great to see him not only love Kentucky but he seems to love that Churchill surface. But we're excited to be here this weekend and look forward to it.

He's done enough. He and obviously I would have liked him to play another two or three games, but he's a very, very fit player and he had a run on the weekend and he's ready to go.

He's good. He's always square to the puck. We have a weekend off. We'll change a couple things. We've just gotta find a way to win. There's no reason we can't score. This is the wrong time of the year to go into a drought.

I feel that the goals we gave up this weekend were preventable. But, overall, I think we learned a lot this weekend.

This was not a weekend destined to be a blockbuster weekend. Really, really slow. Audiences seemed somewhat indifferent again. That's the scary part for the industry. It really takes a lot to get them out there to see a movie. It seems like any competition, like baseball, really cuts in big-time.

We've been throwing really well. After a weekend of great pitching you couldn't expect it again, but it happened. The bottom line is, the better the pitching, the lower the other team's score is going to be.

We try to focus on just ourselves and our performance and not really who we are playing against. But this weekend is going to be really big.

We talked about wanting to maintain the type of play that we had this past weekend and the girls came out and did that. They came out and played three solid games and played well, and the scores reflect that." ()

We took a lot of penalties this weekend which hurt us because it broke up the flow of the game. Against St. Lawrence, we definitely need to limit the number of penalties we take. When we've played 5-on-5 hockey against them, we've been very successful.

We took delivery of the Smart Cars over the weekend and have been getting interest everywhere we go -- left, front and center. As we were parking them in front of the dealership, they attracted so much attention they literally stopped traffic, and even caused a fender-bender as people were gawking at them. I drove by my son's elementary school and the teacher invited me to bring the Smart Car for show and tell!

We took the whole weekend off which was really nice. We really needed those couple of days off to let our bodies recover a little bit.

We took two steps forward last week and only 1 step back so far this week. So there is some comfort in that. Hopefully we'll get through this weekend without incident and that should give people some reassurance.

We're pretty pleased with where we're at. We're right in the middle of it, and it's going to be a very important weekend for us.

My preference would be the weekend when Edmonton plays.

My preparations leading up to this weekend have been fantastic. I feel the most confident I have ever been going into a marathon.

My wife, Jan, and I are shocked by the apparent triple homicide that took place on our ranch in Hondo, New Mexico, sometime over the Fourth of July weekend while we were away in Santa Fe,

My weekend was awesome and I'm happy. A lot of us knew we were coming in here going for second place.

Many economists will end up eating humble pie this weekend because, while the relationship between the weekly initial unemployment claims and non-farm payrolls is fairly robust, we should also realize that it is not always a stable relationship from month to month.

Labor Day weekend is not as important from an economic standpoint as it used to be.

Markets are basically in a holding pattern. We had some good economic numbers, but it's Friday ahead of a long Christmas weekend so people aren't going to make much a commitment.

(Martin) just has a little injury issue. She could have competed and we're saving her for this weekend (at Iowa State University) where there will be much better competition than at UNI.

Some of our weekend guys should be rested enough to throw, so we'll have a little bit more depth.

That can change at the drop of the hat. Although this weekend looks fabulous, we could get 20 inches dumped on us by the end of next week.

That cold spell last week seemed to get a lot of deer out and moving around. I was bow-hunting last weekend near Julian and saw 20 deer, including a couple bucks. It should be a good opener.

Spending patterns last year for the weekend of Dec. 7 when the storm hit were significantly above the average for the holiday season, up 19 percent, ... While it's difficult to predict exactly how consumers will respond this time around, a winter storm certainly does increase the convenience appeal and the likelihood that consumers will shift their spending from offline to online channels.

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