I want to dispel any notion that coach Waters' resignation was due to the unfortunate circumstances surrounding his missing our game with Marquette. That is simply not true.

[There was] no relationship between denunciations and my resignation, ... Several reasons that make circumstances that oblige me to announce resignation here. It's not easy to understand, I know.

I have lived in this tree, in this same hollow," the owl said, "for more years than anyone can remember. But now, when the wind blows hard in winter and rocks the forest, I sit here in the dark, and from deep down in the bole, near the roots, I hear a new sound. It is the sound of strands of wood creaking in the cold and snapping one by one. The limbs are falling; the tree is old, and it is dying. Yet I cannot bring myself, after so many years, to leave, to find a new home and move into it, perhaps to fight for it. I, too, have grown old. One of these days, one of these years, the tree will fall, and when it does, if I am still alive, I will fall with it.

We sold it in the upfront under relative conservative circumstances, actually expecting that there would be a decrease in ratings,

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.