Anyone on our team could win the race on a given day. We're all so close it's just a matter of who has a better day.

Coach gave us some goals to shoot for, and that's about what they wanted us to run.

It's awesome. I went and talked to them before my race, and then, after, I talked to them, too, and gave them my flowers. I want to go be with them right now.

We had a great week and one bad day. We just didn't hit.

The whole day we were behind the whole time. We're just finding ways to lose which is really frustrating as a coach. We're not pitching very good at all, and we're not getting that timely hit. We make an error at the most inopportune time. Right now everything is going against us.

But why immediately link blacks and crime. Bennett told me on the phone that race was on his mind because of recent stories in the media about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.