He steps into that situation understanding offense, understanding defense, understanding players. Another thing is ... he understands the unique coaching requirements of single-A.

Both teams were playing hard. As a defensive coordinator, it was a good high school football game.

He was tired and we thought it was too far. We're just going to have to go for it.

I felt that we could stop them (in overtime). I really wanted to put it in the hands of our defense.

Dr. Alt's discoveries have led to a greater understanding of the ways that cancers of immune cells develop and they hold promise for finding ways to control or perhaps prevent these diseases. Dr. Alt's studies of the instability of the genome are central to our understanding of the events that lead to transformation of normal cells to cancer cells.

When we need those plays, both on offense and defense, they're coming through,'' Rams quarterback Marc Bulger said.