All the Giants fans I know are thrilled.

Patrick - Your premise is flawed on the basis that Nevada isn't like Iowa or wherever you came from five years ago. Those "career politicians" were largely from the north, and their legislative prowess - combined with a lack of such among relatively inexperienced newcomers in fluid Southern Nevada districts - led to politicians like Bill Raggio and Joe Dini consistently pillaging Clark County to benefit their home provinces.

As much as we tend to think that Brian Sandoval only cares about Nevadans who live within 100 miles of the McCarran Loop, imagine if the legislature was run by a similar mindset.

That's shocking. No coach in Vegas seemed to put as much attention on academics as Armstrong. To see him get bounced because of an academic reorganization is a cruel twist of fate.

Here in the scenic Pacific Northwest, coaches don't necessarily have to teach. Perhaps the CCSD should consider the costs and benefits of such an arrangement.

Patrick - Yes, you are supposed to pay them extra, because you (you being the state of Nevada) signed a contract saying you would.

Perhaps some of the suburban areas should incorporate.

Brewer - I don't have cable, all I gots is the ESPN3's. Grr

Will the Louisville game be on ESPN3?

Crowd reminded me of the game UNLV played in St. George during NFR a few years ago. I couldn't believe that 15,000 people will go to the Mack for a game but less than 2,000 will go 2 hours (in tonight's case, 4) down the road to watch the Rebs.

Great to see a game on ESPN3, for those of us without the cables/satellites. I'd never gripe again about the MWC TV situation if Versus/CSTV had a similar setup.

I don't think US 93 will be complete as a 4-lane highway all the way to Wickenburg. I think there are still segments from Interstate 40 to Wikieup and from the Santa Maria River to Wickenburg that are still two lanes.

(And, if I'm wrong, then US 93/60 is four lanes from Boulder City all the way to Phoenix.)

If you're going to consider taking a train that starts in LA proper, you're going to:

A) Drive to its stop, presumably Union Station
B) Park there (and pay to park in downtown LA)
C) Wait for the train, which will then take 45m-1h to get over the San Gabriels anyway.

So if you're not going to drive to Victorville to take DesertXPress, you're probably not going to ride it anyway.

As for maglev, let's be abundantly clear -- there isn't one maglev train on this planet that travels more than 20 miles. Steel-on-rail technology is workable, relatively inexpensive and is here today. Let's get it done.