My goal is to make that team, like every other Des Moines kid's dream.

It would be such a great accomplishment for the program and the little kids who want to play for the Oak leafs when they get older. It'd great to have another Des Moines team win a championship.

I didn't even think I would even get close to 100. I had 65 last year. I knew we'd have three more games, so maybe I'd get a little more than 60, but I never would have dreamt 100, or 101.

Most kids have been skating since they were 3 on the ice. I'd say it probably took me a good year to get my stopping down. It was so tough. Everything else is different. Turning and everything. You have to get a feel for the balance on the ice.

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

If it were to become rooted in the African countryside, the consequences for a continent already devastated by hunger and poverty could be truly catastrophic.