The first quarter was just awful, but then Tommy (Kurth) banks in the 3 and we have the lead after the first quarter. I kept looking up thinking (the Cavemen) were up seven or eight points, but then, heck, we tied it and then took the lead.

That's what you would expect out of (a veteran group). You can't say enough about those kids and how they've played over the course of the season.

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

Right now, we should all be learning Mandarin. We are going to be so impacted by the growth of China and India.

International business has always existed in some form. But because of advances in technology and travel, we can do business with India as well as Indiana. In fact, it might even be cheaper to do business with India than Indiana. And that's true whether you're a large multinational corporation, or a mom-and-pop business ? there are new cross-cultural markets you can expand into. You've got to know how to work well with other cultures.

I think our kids knew they didn't play very well in that third quarter and wanted to make amends. Basketball is a fairly simple game. All we did was do a better job of passing to find the open man and get some better looks at the basket.