I'm not sure I see how stoppage time is confusing the audience.

I think one of the great things about the game is that it's scheduled to go 90 minutes and usually takes about 90 minutes to play. Unlike basketball, where the final two minutes takes about 90 minutes to play, or football where an hour-long game takes about 3 hours to play.

Sure, those sports don't have stoppage time, so when the clock expires the game is over. But at least soccer is much closer to the advertised time.

I'm not sure the second goal stat proves a whole heck of a lot Look at how many times the team that scored the first goal score the second one. After glancing at the the tournament results, I count 15 matches of the 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, etc. variety. If you let the other team score first, it's hard to come back and win. Heck, the US was 0-1-1 when scoring the second goal.

So I guess it shouldn't be surprising that Dane Cook has an audience.

Good comedy doesn't need to be "deep." I always got a chuckle out of Adam Sandler or Chris Farley. But after watching a few minutes of his special, I think the LA Times piece just about hit it on the head.

"Seinfeld is of the generation raised on Lenny Bruce and Klein. Cook, it seems, is looking to take the audience to lunch."

I'm not going to get into whether the film inappropriately "humanizes" the Japanese. That's a bit above my pay grade. But it is an issue that deserves to be in any review about such a film.

The only problem is, there is no review here. The only mention about the quality of the picture, the acting, the directing, etc. comes at the end, when Ms. Zacharek calls it "forced" and "unshaped."

That's it? That's your review?

That's news to me. He was Republican mayor of Carmel a few years back (he considers himself more a libertarian). Oh right, I forgot, California Republicans aren't really Republicans or conservatives, except for that Reagan guy.

I can pretty much assure you all that every Senator has the home telephone number of their home-state USAs. I'll bet it is in the US Attorney manual. Or some similar protocol document.

Elephantman, do you have any evidence to support this statement? I'm just sayin'....

And, for what it's worth, if you take Iglesis' testimony at face value, he called Domenici's phone call "unprecedented."

I don't watch much pro basketball, so staying up late to watch the Warriors beat Dallas the last few nights has been a change of pace for me. And even though Sir Charles was dead wrong with his prediction that Dallas would rattle off four straight wins after Game 1, I gotta say I've enjoyed every minute of the TNT studio show. Easily one of the best of any network/cable sports coverage. I might start watching more NBA next year just for Barkley.

I think the major flaw in the argument here is that everything but TV is art or can be considered art. Sure there's a lot of crappy stuff on the tube these days. But to completely rule it out as an artistic medium just because there's a lot of crappy stuff is to surrender and no longer demand that good shows be put on TV.

I'll add my name to the list of admirers of Schiphol in Amsterdam. I've only been through there once, for a brief layover, and I was actually a bit disappointed I couldn't stay longer -- modern, clean, easy to navigate, lots of customer service desks, a museum, etc. Great airport.

Also surprised to see no mention of Munich International (Franz Josef Strausse aiport). I really like the Lufthansa terminal. Very clean, open, modern. I've never had to wait more than a few minutes at the check in line. Very helpful employees.

Wesley_Powell is right, the 49ers defense was often unheralded. But he's wrong to say that's a knock against Wash. Go back and look who drafted those guys. That first Super Bowl team had three rookies on defense -- all in the secondary, all chosen by Walsh.

But when you have an offense that is so head and shoulders above the rest for so long, I think it's natural that the defense gets overlooked.

Walsh was a great coach and made many of my Sundays growing up much more enjoyable than the probably would have been without him.

Given how the Cardinals receivers have generally walked all over the Niner's secondary in past seasons, I think it was a mix of both bad offense and good defense.

I don't think there's any question the Niner's defense played much better last night than the previous three or four games against Arizona. On the flip side, I don't think Arizona played particularly fantastic defense, aside from a few plays where they got pressure on Alex Smith. More often than not, Smith was missing his receivers, until that final drive.

And oh how I wish Jaws had been calling that game. But at 1 a.m. (East coast), I was too tired to care.

THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY 5/13 - 38%

FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY 0/3 - 0%

according to the box score on Yahoo, those are Buffalo's numbers, not Pittsburgh.

For the Steelers it says they were 11/16 on 3rd down and 0/0 on 4th.