>> we're getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we'll be breaking down all 32 nfl t ♪ ♪ >> coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars -- take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon's star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn't take any hits in friday's game -- well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now.

♪ captioning by captionmax >> welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. >> anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they'll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild card standings over san francisco, bottom seven, rockies down 4-2. not any longer. seth smith to center field. he was 4-5 with two doubles. this would score two and tie the game at 4-4. he had seven r.b.i.'s in his last seven games. bottom eighth. still the same score. pinch-hitter jason giambi, the power of the mustache. had a clutch hit on wednesday against the mets.

when it's all said and done, the rockies have now won three of their last four. franklin morales his second career save. huston street dealing with tendinitis. >> pressure on the giants. they entered friday a game behind the rockies in the wild card hunt. san fran visiting milwaukee, top eighth, 2-2 game, bengie molina. his 17th of the season. san fran goes up 3-2. he's got four r.b.i.'s in his last five games. it's the ball park not the beach. bottom nine, brian wilson gets casey mcgee to pop out, and san francisco, down 2-0 in this game, they come back for a 3-2 win. give credit to the giants bullpen. six relievers combined for five innings of three-hit ball. san fran has now won five of seven. >> trying to inch closer to the wild card spot, the braves. they have the reds. top of the sixth. brandon phillips.

r.b.i. opportunity to be had, and he comes up with it in a big way. joey votto comes in to score. reds have won a season-high five straight, 10 of their last 12. bronson arroyo -- he's dealing. a 1.17 e.r.a. over his last five starts. >> the oh, so functional marlins visiting the nats, florida entered play four out in the wild card chase, john "home run" baker, two-run shot to left, his ninth of the year. the fish beat the nats 9-6. baker 3-5. he ties a career high with four r.b.i.'s. florida has won three in a row, the nats have lost seven straight. we look at the wild card standings in the national league.

>> adam wainwright's been dominant in the second half of the season, looking to become baseball's first 17-game winner. he needs a little offense, so the machine, albert pujols, coming up big for him in the sixth, to left field, his 43rd of the year. for the career, number 362. passing joe dimaggio for 69th all time. moving to the eighth, ryan ludwick, dead center. it is gone. a three-run shot. he was 5-5, two home runs, five r.b.i.'s. it's his first career five-hit game. the cardinals, the 14 runs, that's a season high. the four home runs ties a season high, and ad-- adam wainwright allows six earned on the fifth. snaps a streak of 12 straight starts allowing two or fewer runs but he still gets the win. wainwright is one of several pitchers battling for the n.l. cy young award. tim lincecum having another great season. he's the reigning cy young winner and trying to become the first back-to-back n.l. winner since randy johnson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.

>> the college football season began thursday night. friday afternoon, it ended for oregon running back legarrette blount. the university suspended blount for the remainder of the season. in the aftermath of oregon's loss to boise state, blount was taunted by broncos defensive end byron hout. blount responded by punching hout in the face. blount did apologize. he said, "it was just something i shouldn't have done. i lost my head." blount who scored a school record 17 t.d.'s last year will remain on scholarship and will practice with the team, but for the senior, his playing days are over. >> it is my belief, and this university's belief, that playing football at the university of oregon is a privilege and with that privilege goes responsibility. legarrette blount will still be on our team. legarrette blount will just not play for us on saturdays. legarrette blount needs this football program. he needs structure. i think he's taking this very hard, and he understands that he made a mistake, and that he has to pay for that mistake, but

we're not going to throw legarrette blount out on the street. i love legarrette blount. and what i told legarrette, when we met together, was that i don't want people to see the legarrette blount that they saw last night. that's not him. and that that moment last night will not define him as a person. we will provide him with the structure that's necessary for him to succeed. he's going to practice with this football team. he's going to get the student-support services. he's going to go to class. and we're going to make sure legarrette gets a degree. and if this is a teachable moment for him, that he can bounce back from this and that legarrette blount won't just be a youtube clip of just what happened to him on september 3rd in boise, idaho. there is a lot more to legarrette blount, but he understands his actions last night are unacceptable. and that we will not put up with that. that is not the university of oregon football. that is not the university of oregon.

>> chris fowler and the "gameday" crew weigh in on blount's suspension. >> legarrette blount, who was a junior-college transfer, his career is over at oregon. it's a nightmarish situation for chip kelly in his head-coaching debut at any level, his offense was terrible. his team lost what was supposed to be a payback game. now he has to deal with this tough situation. what about the severity of the punishment against blount? >> i was actually surprised, but i guess when you think about what happened after he punched hout, and then he tried to attack a fan in the stands, i think that's what warranted a year's suspension. he's a senior.

his college career is finished. i hope that punch was worth it for blount. >> it definitely was not worth it. for oregon to have the night that they had against boise state, and then to lose their best offensive player, and as chris said, for chip kelly, who the last few years was one of the great minds in college football, all of a sudden he becomes a head coach, and he gets this thrown in his lap, oregon goes from a contender to a pretender in the pac-10. >> where they go from here interesting to watch. blount cost himself a lot of money if you believe the nfl personnel people with that one punch on thursday night. >> byron hout, the instigator in this, won't be suspended.

>> still to come on espnews, we'll tell you how the nfl punished brett favre for an illegal block. >> plus, four of the favorites to win a u.s. open title were on the hard courts. two cruised in round four while two had a hiccup. we'll tell you who did what. two hottest pitchers in baseball.

>> this one's for all the hosiery lovers out there, wild card leading red sox visiting the white sox. >> i'm a sandals guy. >> you don't wear socks? >> i thought that was in. >> what am i, 50 years old?

>> attacks's scott feldman looking to become the first rangers pitcher in more than 19 years to win seven straight away from home. he's in baltimore. need a little offense, nelson cruz, his 31st of the year. four home runs, 10 r.b.i.'s in his last six games. rangers win their fourth straight and improve to 25-17 against the a.l. east this season. feldman becomes the first rangers pitcher to reach 15 wins since kevin millwood and vicente padilla did it in 2006. >> crucial 10-game stretch for the rays -- the tigers, yanks and red sox in succession. begins with detroit, top sixth,

miguel cabrera feasts on that, his 28th of the year. tied at 1-1 at the trop. we go to the bottom of the seventh, tied at 1-1, two outs, justin verlander, 98-mile-per-hour heater gets evan longoria. verlander eight innings, one earned run, seven strikeouts. in the ninth, adam everett. tigers scored three in the top of the ninth. go up 4-1. gets interesting in the bottom of the ninth. fernando rodney gets willie aybar to ground out. tigers hold on for a 4-3 win. detroit ends a four-game losing streak at the trop. justin verlander gets his 16th win of the year. that ties him with cc sabathia of the yankees for most in the american league. here is your a.l. wild card picture -- the red sox lose, the rangers win. texas two back. tampa misses a chance. they are six back and fading fast. >> yankees looking for their eighth straight win, taking on toronto. roy halladay -- he's been

struggling as of late, lost five of his last seven. wouldn't know it, though, watching this game -- a complete-game one-hitter. he struck out nine, did halladay -- the last pitcher to throw a one-hit shutout against a team on a winning streak of seven or more games, jimmy key of the blue jays in 1986. key, by the way, did play for the yankees. the complete game was the sixth of the season for halladay tying him with kansas city's zack greinke for the major league lead. aaron hill two r.b.i.'s and six r.b.i.'s in the last six games. >> the nfl fined brett favre 10 grand for his crackback block during monday's preseason game, when lining up at receiver in the wildcat formation favre crouched down and threw his body at the feet of houston defensive back eugene wilson. on the play, wilson injured his knee. favre a spectator in the vikings preseason finale, minnesota hosting dallas, first quarter, it's tarvaris jackson.

improvising, and finds jeff dugan, his tight end. 36-yard touchdown. third t.d. pass of the preseason for jackson. he was 2-4, 42 yards and that score. third quarter, cowboys down two touchdowns, sage rosenfels picked off. patrick watkins, 23 yards. dallas within seven. 21-14. later in the third, john david booty, picked off by steve octavien. he's returning it 44 yards for the score. that tied it up at 21-21. dallas with two interception returns in the third quarter. they win 35-31. >> u.s. open tennis, number three seed rafael nadal going up against nicolas kiefer. first set, nadal up 2-0, rafa whipping that one. takes the first set 6-0. second set. kiefer up 4-2, this part of a

23-shot rally. kiefer in the second set had 18 winners, nadal 11, and kiefer wins the second set 6-3. third set, now. nadal working. kiefer at the baseline, and nadal, pumped up, breaks kiefer and wins the third set. into the fourth. match point. nadal a four-set winner. he's moving on to round number three. men's number two seed, andy murray taking on paul capdeville from chile, after winning the first set, murray having some trouble in the second, backhand winner, capdeville, murray the first man among the top-10 seeds to drop a set. third set now, murray takes control, the forehand winner -- nice. murray 44 winners in the match, cruising in the third, murray would end up winning the set 6-0.

advances to the fourth set. murray just dealing. on the hottest day of the tourney. andy moving on in four. >> venus williams battling knee trouble. she had to face slovenia's magdalena rybarikova in round three, first set venus the big forehand finish, she would take the first set 6-2, has the brace on the left knee, still. looks like the knee is not bothering venus here. great court coverage and she puts it away with the backhand volley, venus up 4-3 in the second. match point now for venus. she would finish it off at net. venus wins despite double faulting seven times. she will face kim clijsters in the fourth round -- clijsters the 2005 champ. sister serena facing maria jose martinez sanchez. they met in the french open. when they played in france, serena called sanchez a cheat. serena won the first set 6-3.

second set, serena, one of her 30 winners. this wasn't that much of a contest. serena got a little bit of a challenge in the second set, but she would take this in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. serena 28-1 in her last five majors. after the win, serena, the defending champ, said, "can't spell dynasty without nasty." coming up on espnews. we whet our appetite for college football's first saturday with a friday battle in the big easy. >> it was a rough day for tiger. see where the world's best golfer fell short. >> keeping you current on espnews. i'm here on this tiny little plane, and guess what... i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops can't. anything before takeoff mr. kurtis? prime rib, medium rare. i'm bill kurtis,

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>> "college football overdrive is back. it's year four on espnews. every saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 eastern, we take you live to the most exciting games from across the country. we offer expert analysis from kordell stewart and shaun king. our kickoff is september 5th, 3:00 eastern on espnews. >> notable games this saturday. >> green wave just six wins >> green wave just six wins the last two seasons, taking on tulsa in a conference u.s.a. battle.

first quarter, golden hurricane up 3-0, you can add a couple more points, g.j. kinne, play action, 15-yard touchdown, quarterback had 77 yards rushing. first play of tulane's ensuing possession, joe kemp's pass picked off, tulane down to the five yard line, tulsa would score on the next play to make it 17-0. fourth quarter, damaris jackson fields the punt, 66 yards -- he is gone for the score. tulsa, they've now won five straight against the green wave making them looking more like a little splash. >> round one, deutsche bank championship from t.p.c. boston. second of four fedexcup events, tiger woods the leader in the fedexcup points standings, knocks down the birdie putt on 14, moves to even par. he struggled from short distance, though -- tiger missed five birdie putts inside 12 feet. he said, "i didn't really do much of anything positive today." he can go home with this.

on eight, tiger a 35-foot birdie attempt. bingo. he finishes the day with one under. tiger shot a 70. tiger paired up with steve stricker. after the second hole, tiger said to his caddie, "stricker's going to shoot a 62." close. stricker fired a 63. this his tee shot on 12. part of a five-birdie streak. stricker shot an eight-under 63, your first-round co-leader with jim furyk. furyk's second shot on 17. he hit every green in regulation. furyk also shot an eight-under 63 -- his lowest round of the year. tough ninth hole for lefty. phil mickelson misses the short par putt. now looking at a bogey putt the other way. he would four-putt for double bogey. lefty finishes at even par for the day. stricker and furyk your co-leaders at eight under. they have a two-shot lead, stricker seeking his third win on tour this season.

furyk seeking his first tour win since 2007. >> cliff lee coming off his >> daddies and dodgers. jim thome making his debut as a pinch-hitter. not bad for a first impression. base knock into right center puts men at the corners. dodgers down 2-0, san diego calls for its closer -- heath bell. bell would get the four-out save. gets james loney to fly out to end the threat in the eighth. pads win 2-0. san diego's won four in a >> phillies and astros. cliff lee, six earned runs allowed. he's given up now 12 earned in his last two starts. the phillies have scored only three runs in their last four games. angels and royals, the angels top kansas city. jered weaver a career high 14th win of the season.

angels only have 13 hits in their last three games. vlad guerrero, two r.b.i.'s >> if you're an offensive coordinator in the nfl, make sure that resume is up to date. friday the bills canned their o.c., turk schonert. the third offensive coordinator fired this week. bills quarterback coach alex van pelt will assume the play-calling duties for buffalo. north carolina the alumni game, dean smith, michael jordan, roy williams, who's who, 2009 championship banner unveiled, 1998, vince carter's last year wearing the uniform. a who's who list. m.j.'s on the bench. he could still do this. maybe not the dunks. >> he said everybody in the media still thinks i can play."

>> our top stories on the way. the game day" crew debates the suspension of oregon running back legarrette blount.

>> matthew berry here, from espn.com fantasy with a couple of really deep, late-round, wide receiver sleepers for you, and

how about troy williamson of the jacksonville jaguars, one of the leading receivers in the preseason and whatever you think of williamson, he's better than they had last year in jacksonville when david garrard was top 10 in the nfl in passing yards. david clowney of the jets has won that starting job off jerricho cotchery, he has under 300 yards -- i like him as a safety valve for mark sanchez. the jets are going to throw more than people think. clowney could be a nice sleeper in deep leagues. finally, a guy you want to spend -- a late-round player on malcolm kelly of the redskins. he's 6'4" and they really like him a lot. jason campbell needs that big target in the red zone and i think malcolm kelly could be it -- he's now the starter for the redskins. fantasy news available free on espn.com.

>> we're getting you ready for the football season. do not miss the blitz preseason special, we'll be breaking down all 32 nfl t ♪ ♪ >> coming up on espnews. coors and cable cars -- take your pick. we check in on colorado and san fran in the wild card chase. after punching an opponent, oregon's star running back gets suspended for the season. but there is a catch. brett favre didn't take any hits in friday's game -- well, except one big hit to the wallet. and, the williams sisters dance their way into the sweet 16 at the u.s. open. espnews coming your way now.

♪ captioning by captionmax >> welcome inside the espnews studios. with mike yam, anish shroff here to keep you current. we head into the labor day weekend with the rockies the wild card leader but plenty of work to do. >> anish, if you talk to colorado rockies fans they'll tell you the postseason is not right now but every game they play is absolutely crucial. heading into play, colorado came with a one-game lead in the wild card standings over san francisco, bottom seven, rockies down 4-2. not any longer. seth smith to center field. he was 4-5 with two doubles. this would score two and tie the game at 4-4. he had seven r.b.i.'s in his last seven games. bottom eighth. still the same score. pinch-hitter jason giambi, the power of the mustache. had a clutch hit on wednesday against the mets.

when it's all said and done, the rockies have now won three of their last four. franklin morales his second career save. huston street dealing with tendinitis. >> pressure on the giants. they entered friday a game behind the rockies in the wild card hunt. san fran visiting milwaukee, top eighth, 2-2 game, bengie molina. his 17th of the season. san fran goes up 3-2. he's got four r.b.i.'s in his last five games. it's the ball park not the beach. bottom nine, brian wilson gets casey mcgee to pop out, and san francisco, down 2-0 in this game, they come back for a 3-2 win. give credit to the giants bullpen. six relievers combined for five innings of three-hit ball. san fran has now won five of seven. >> trying to inch closer to the wild card spot, the braves. they have the reds. top of the sixth. brandon phillips.

r.b.i. opportunity to be had, and he comes up with it in a big way. joey votto comes in to score. reds have won a season-high five straight, 10 of their last 12. bronson arroyo -- he's dealing. a 1.17 e.r.a. over his last five starts. >> the oh, so functional marlins visiting the nats, florida entered play four out in the wild card chase, john "home run" baker, two-run shot to left, his ninth of the year. the fish beat the nats 9-6. baker 3-5. he ties a career high with four r.b.i.'s. florida has won three in a row, the nats have lost seven straight. we look at the wild card standings in the national league.

>> adam wainwright's been dominant in the second half of the season, looking to become baseball's first 17-game winner. he needs a little offense, so the machine, albert pujols, coming up big for him in the sixth, to left field, his 43rd of the year. for the career, number 362. passing joe dimaggio for 69th all time. moving to the eighth, ryan ludwick, dead center. it is gone. a three-run shot. he was 5-5, two home runs, five r.b.i.'s. it's his first career five-hit game. the cardinals, the 14 runs, that's a season high. the four home runs ties a season high, and ad-- adam wainwright allows six earned on the fifth. snaps a streak of 12 straight starts allowing two or fewer runs but he still gets the win. wainwright is one of several pitchers battling for the n.l. cy young award. tim lincecum having another great season. he's the reigning cy young winner and trying to become the first back-to-back n.l. winner since randy johnson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.

>> the college football season began thursday night. friday afternoon, it ended for oregon running back legarrette blount. the university suspended blount for the remainder of the season. in the aftermath of oregon's loss to boise state, blount was taunted by broncos defensive end byron hout. blount responded by punching hout in the face. blount did apologize. he said, "it was just something i shouldn't have done. i lost my head." blount who scored a school record 17 t.d.'s last year will remain on scholarship and will practice with the team, but for the senior, his playing days are over. >> it is my belief, and this university's belief, that playing football at the university of oregon is a privilege and with that privilege goes responsibility. legarrette blount will still be on our team. legarrette blount will just not play for us on saturdays. legarrette blount needs this football program. he needs structure. i think he's taking this very hard, and he understands that he made a mistake, and that he has to pay for that mistake, but

we're not going to throw legarrette blount out on the street. i love legarrette blount. and what i told legarrette, when we met together, was that i don't want people to see the legarrette blount that they saw last night. that's not him. and that that moment last night will not define him as a person. we will provide him with the structure that's necessary for him to succeed. he's going to practice with this football team. he's going to get the student-support services. he's going to go to class. and we're going to make sure legarrette gets a degree. and if this is a teachable moment for him, that he can bounce back from this and that legarrette blount won't just be a youtube clip of just what happened to him on september 3rd in boise, idaho. there is a lot more to legarrette blount, but he understands his actions last night are unacceptable. and that we will not put up with that. that is not the university of oregon football. that is not the university of oregon.

>> chris fowler and the "gameday" crew weigh in on blount's suspension. >> legarrette blount, who was a junior-college transfer, his career is over at oregon. it's a nightmarish situation for chip kelly in his head-coaching debut at any level, his offense was terrible. his team lost what was supposed to be a payback game. now he has to deal with this tough situation. what about the severity of the punishment against blount? >> i was actually surprised, but i guess when you think about what happened after he punched hout, and then he tried to attack a fan in the stands, i think that's what warranted a year's suspension. he's a senior.

his college career is finished. i hope that punch was worth it for blount. >> it definitely was not worth it. for oregon to have the night that they had against boise state, and then to lose their best offensive player, and as chris said, for chip kelly, who the last few years was one of the great minds in college football, all of a sudden he becomes a head coach, and he gets this thrown in his lap, oregon goes from a contender to a pretender in the pac-10. >> where they go from here interesting to watch. blount cost himself a lot of money if you believe the nfl personnel people with that one punch on thursday night. >> byron hout, the instigator in this, won't be suspended.

>> still to come on espnews, we'll tell you how the nfl punished brett favre for an illegal block. >> plus, four of the favorites to win a u.s. open title were on the hard courts. two cruised in round four while two had a hiccup. we'll tell you who did what. two hottest pitchers in baseball. gentlemen, oreo has rejected my bid to buy the dsrl. so we lick race for it, right here with double stuf gold. but mr. trump, my brother and i are the defending champions. and, let's be honest, you don't even have a partner. oh, i've got a partner. no you don't. yes i do. no you don't. yes i do. me! no way, it's...

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>> attacks's scott feldman looking to become the first rangers pitcher in more than 19 years to win seven straight away from home. he's in baltimore. need a little offense, nelson cruz, his 31st of the year. four home runs, 10 r.b.i.'s in his last six games. rangers win their fourth straight and improve to 25-17 against the a.l. east this season. feldman becomes the first rangers pitcher to reach 15 wins since kevin millwood and vicente padilla did it in 2006. >> crucial 10-game stretch for the rays -- the tigers, yanks and red sox in succession. begins with detroit, top sixth,

miguel cabrera feasts on that, his 28th of the year. tied at 1-1 at the trop. we go to the bottom of the seventh, tied at 1-1, two outs, justin verlander, 98-mile-per-hour heater gets evan longoria. verlander eight innings, one earned run, seven strikeouts. in the ninth, adam everett. tigers scored three in the top of the ninth. go up 4-1. gets interesting in the bottom of the ninth. fernando rodney gets willie aybar to ground out. tigers hold on for a 4-3 win. detroit ends a four-game losing streak at the trop. justin verlander gets his 16th win of the year. that ties him with cc sabathia of the yankees for most in the american league. here is your a.l. wild card picture -- the red sox lose, the rangers win. texas two back. tampa misses a chance. they are six back and fading fast. >> yankees looking for their eighth straight win, taking on toronto. roy halladay -- he's been

struggling as of late, lost five of his last seven. wouldn't know it, though, watching this game -- a complete-game one-hitter. he struck out nine, did halladay -- the last pitcher to throw a one-hit shutout against a team on a winning streak of seven or more games, jimmy key of the blue jays in 1986. key, by the way, did play for the yankees. the complete game was the sixth of the season for halladay tying him with kansas city's zack greinke for the major league lead. aaron hill two r.b.i.'s and six r.b.i.'s in the last six games. >> the nfl fined brett favre 10 grand for his crackback block during monday's preseason game, when lining up at receiver in the wildcat formation favre crouched down and threw his body at the feet of houston defensive back eugene wilson. on the play, wilson injured his knee. favre a spectator in the vikings preseason finale, minnesota hosting dallas, first quarter, it's tarvaris jackson.

improvising, and finds jeff dugan, his tight end. 36-yard touchdown. third t.d. pass of the preseason for jackson. he was 2-4, 42 yards and that score. third quarter, cowboys down two touchdowns, sage rosenfels picked off. patrick watkins, 23 yards. dallas within seven. 21-14. later in the third, john david booty, picked off by steve octavien. he's returning it 44 yards for the score. that tied it up at 21-21. dallas with two interception returns in the third quarter. they win 35-31. >> u.s. open tennis, number three seed rafael nadal going up against nicolas kiefer. first set, nadal up 2-0, rafa whipping that one. takes the first set 6-0. second set. kiefer up 4-2, this part of a

23-shot rally. kiefer in the second set had 18 winners, nadal 11, and kiefer wins the second set 6-3. third set, now. nadal working. kiefer at the baseline, and nadal, pumped up, breaks kiefer and wins the third set. into the fourth. match point. nadal a four-set winner. he's moving on to round number three. men's number two seed, andy murray taking on paul capdeville from chile, after winning the first set, murray having some trouble in the second, backhand winner, capdeville, murray the first man among the top-10 seeds to drop a set. third set now, murray takes control, the forehand winner -- nice. murray 44 winners in the match, cruising in the third, murray would end up winning the set 6-0.

advances to the fourth set. murray just dealing. on the hottest day of the tourney. andy moving on in four. >> venus williams battling knee trouble. she had to face slovenia's magdalena rybarikova in round three, first set venus the big forehand finish, she would take the first set 6-2, has the brace on the left knee, still. looks like the knee is not bothering venus here. great court coverage and she puts it away with the backhand volley, venus up 4-3 in the second. match point now for venus. she would finish it off at net. venus wins despite double faulting seven times. she will face kim clijsters in the fourth round -- clijsters the 2005 champ. sister serena facing maria jose martinez sanchez. they met in the french open. when they played in france, serena called sanchez a cheat. serena won the first set 6-3.

second set, serena, one of her 30 winners. this wasn't that much of a contest. serena got a little bit of a challenge in the second set, but she would take this in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. serena 28-1 in her last five majors. after the win, serena, the defending champ, said, "can't spell dynasty without nasty." coming up on espnews. we whet our appetite for college football's first saturday with a friday battle in the big easy. >> it was a rough day for tiger. see where the world's best golfer fell short. >> keeping you current on espnews.

>> "college football overdrive is back. it's year four on espnews. every saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 eastern, we take you live to the most exciting games from across the country. we offer expert analysis from kordell stewart and shaun king. our kickoff is september 5th, 3:00 eastern on espnews. >> notable games this saturday. >> green wave just six wins >> green wave just six wins the last two seasons, taking on tulsa in a conference u.s.a. battle.

first quarter, golden hurricane up 3-0, you can add a couple more points, g.j. kinne, play action, 15-yard touchdown, quarterback had 77 yards rushing. first play of tulane's ensuing possession, joe kemp's pass picked off, tulane down to the five yard line, tulsa would score on the next play to make it 17-0. fourth quarter, damaris jackson fields the punt, 66 yards -- he is gone for the score. tulsa, they've now won five straight against the green wave making them looking more like a little splash. >> round one, deutsche bank championship from t.p.c. boston. second of four fedexcup events, tiger woods the leader in the fedexcup points standings, knocks down the birdie putt on 14, moves to even par. he struggled from short distance, though -- tiger missed five birdie putts inside 12 feet. he said, "i didn't really do much of anything positive today."

he can go home with this. on eight, tiger a 35-foot birdie attempt. bingo. he finishes the day with one under. tiger shot a 70. tiger paired up with steve stricker. after the second hole, tiger said to his caddie, "stricker's going to shoot a 62." close. stricker fired a 63. this his tee shot on 12. part of a five-birdie streak. stricker shot an eight-under 63, your first-round co-leader with jim furyk. furyk's second shot on 17. he hit every green in regulation. furyk also shot an eight-under 63 -- his lowest round of the year. tough ninth hole for lefty. phil mickelson misses the short par putt. now looking at a bogey putt the other way. he would four-putt for double bogey. lefty finishes at even par for the day. stricker and furyk your co-leaders at eight under. they have a two-shot lead, stricker seeking his third win on tour this season.

furyk seeking his first tour win since 2007. >> cliff lee coming off his >> daddies and dodgers. jim thome making his debut as a pinch-hitter. not bad for a first impression. base knock into right center puts men at the corners. dodgers down 2-0, san diego calls for its closer -- heath bell. bell would get the four-out save. gets james loney to fly out to end the threat in the eighth. pads win 2-0. san diego's won four in a >> phillies and astros. cliff lee, six earned runs allowed. he's given up now 12 earned i don't despair when they break you. they have broken all of us. pray. cough. my name is paul galanti, bang, the universal danger signal i

found out. paul galanti was hauled out of the cell and tortured. i did not see him for three years. i mean, honored one of the bravest men i knew. my friend, paul galanti. [applause] >> one thing i really like about not being in the same stage with snuffy smith, he and john ripley made it easy to stand higher in the class at the naval academy. [laughter] >> and kelly, this is -- a lot has happened since we talked on this book but today is a especially significant. on monday morning 6:27, thomas james galanti our first grandson was born and when he learns how to read, your book is going to be the first thing he reads. [applause]

>> and he lives up here about three-quarters of a mile. we're not very far apart. three blocks and we're looking forward to the duty. speaking of which, i'm fortunate enough to have a woman i introduce all the time as my better 75% and it's probably the real reason i'm here in richmond because she became quite a heroine when i became overseas. phyllis galanti. [applause] >> and i really don't have anything to talk about. my marine friends, snuffy will appreciate this, describe my experience as being a p.o.w. and they said, galanti you're the luckiest s.o.b. in the history of navy. you're the navy 20 years and you only had to make one crse.

[laughter] >> most of that was overseas shore duty. so everything is relative. i grew up in sort of a young forrest gump the whole way. every place we went something was happening. there's something -- some big news event when we were there. as a kid, we lived in japan. my dad was a career army officer. we lived in japan during the korean war so i got to watch all these things as an 11-year-old with stars in his eyes looking at jet airplanes which are comparatively new. i got to meet all the korean jet aces, all the air force jet aces. jim jabbara because we went to the same hotel they did. for r & r. and it was an interesting way to grow up. i knew what i wanted to do when i was a little kid. when i was actually in fourth grade atort leavenworth kansas and i saw chuck jager flying a plane and it was a long haul. i went to school in philadelphia

also at valley forge academy. and our alma matter was storming norman swartzkopf and a whole slew of other people. and, you know, when things really got rough in hanoi, my mind would flashck to those days where i was learning all my military transit stuff from brits. we had british drill sergeants up there that taught us everything. or the naval academy where even if you couldn't do something, he had did it anyway. if you told to do something you just did it, period. i'mitting here next to the two tims. tim, we both went to school if philadelphia, sort of and the other tim, wkrp was my favorite television show ever. and the reason -- it wasn't, sir. i mean, i really liked venus fly trap but lonnie anderson.

[laughter] >> when i came home from vietnam, you know, vietnam was awful for people who were over there, i've learned this -- the good news -- the good news about -- the good news about being in hanoi was i missed the whole antiwar stuff, i missed the country blowing up and going crazy. they'd tell us about it and we didn't believe them. they are loving every bit about it. we were probably the last idealist in the entire world. we didn't know about the moon shot till three years after it happened. and we found out about that just -- somebody -- hanoi hannah was talking about neil armstrong visiting the gis and has no need to tell them to tell us what the moon surface is like. well, one of our guys went to

the moon. total isolation for six years eight months, 2,042 days and yet it was a great experience. because i got to meet some of the neatest, finest men i ever met in for my life and i came back and found out to be a guy anymore and everybody is getting special treatment and when kelly and i started tking about this book, it just sort of lit up. ..

>> you have to be very careful, kids get hurt and stuff. thanks to all those trial lawyers, who cause of that sort of thing. there's no risk anymore. the risk-taking has all gone away. everything has to be failsafe. the thing that got me going was dreaming about flying jet airplanes when i watch them fly,

the blunders and the thunderbird in every airshow i could go to. now to talk about how safe it is. they come back bragging. we didn't have an accident in the entire cruise. they have computers like airplanes not. [laughter] expect i describe the a4 is the last airplane with a pilot was part of an airplane. [laughter] >> john, i will talk about my classmate john. is in the book also one of the biggest honors of my life last year atis funeral, there were seven marines and me. and the only one squid. remains in the navy are supposed to be on the same team, but they are not really. ripley was one of the biggest heroes i have ever known. i just think of what he did. the reason he had to take so many chips to blow the bridge up is because our classmate who that up. this bridge was built like the

george washington bridge. he was underneath that thing getting shot at by 21,020,000 troops, wounded three times. finally got 400 pounds of c-4 in this i-beam and twisted this bridge of. if he had not done that, i would still be in handling because the north vietnamese would have gone down and crushed south vietnam in 1972 with no peace agreement. and i was to be over there. so that is why ripley, is one of my favorite guys. he was a stalwart. steffi smith, profiles in courage, when he was, when he was in bosnia. scott o'grady had been shot down in an f-16. air force pilot. he came down in the middle of bosnia, and cnn started telling the world where he was. and they are showing maps and saying he is right here. scott was on the ground running around trying to evade.

and the bad guys what cnn does like everybody else. they were trying to pick this guy appeared he was with the marines. no word from washington. we want to go. we want to go at night. we want to go in and get them. no word from washington. on his own, snuffy flush the force and what you get this guy. two of the charter jet hit on the way back. two of choppers to hit on the way back end of one of them had gone down or something, snuffy would've been hung by the neck until dead. yet he had the courage to do that because washington they are all sitting there looking at each other and forming, doing a big staff study, doing a cost-benefit analysis, you know, should we really go in. i don't know. we might make somebody mad, you know. so anyway, snuffy in his wisdom punched the button.

the marines went in and got scott o. grady out. otherwise they would have captured him. i'm sure they would have killed him. my heroes. three things i learned from a expect in hanoi and i think they are in the book to. i think we put those in there. a. that whole experience in 2432 days, i talked french and learn spanish and german little bit of russian. i learned a lot of stuff. i taught a lot of stuff and came out a much better person than the lieutenant who went into that place. lieutenant commander came out and was a totally different guy. and i am very positive ever since. there are three things i learned from solitary confinement from beatings to just getting -- [laughter] >> i need a new mike.

[laughter] >> i learned i wasn't as tough as i thought it was so weird to. and we were very smart but we're pretty tough at the naval academy. and i used to think that there was no way. i went to a survival school and it was a piece of cake. i didn't like it either but got through it. it was no bigeal. this could be a piece of cake. i found i wasn't really as tough as i thought i was. i need a lot of help. i needed people i could turn to, use for examples. the other thing was no matter how bad i thought i had it, some of those times were awful, there's always somebody else who had it worse. and i think about what they're going to. all of a sudden my personal plight just didn't seem so bad. finally, the last thing, and it's on my signatures on e-mail and a lot of doors, my friends, i remind myself every morning that there is no such thing as a bad day when you have a doorknob on the inside of the door.

[applause] >> well, our last speaker certainly needs no introduction, but i'm going to give him one anyway. from all outward appearances, doug wilder start in life was impossibly difficult. the grandson of slaves, he grew up poor and in the segregated south. yet, his name will be recorded in every history textbook from this generation forward. why? because doug wilder is the first african-american in the history of our country to be elected governor of a state. and not just any state, but his home state of virginia, the former capital of the confederacy. that he could experience any measure of success in the face

of so much injustice and hardship is awe-inspirang, that he would rise above it to become governor of ginger is nothing short of practice. however, as he will tell you in his essay, he was raised with a certain intangible advantages that made it possible, more than possible even, for him to succeed at whatever he chose to do. doug wilder is a force of nature, as charming in person as he is demanding. his unparalleled success throughout his political and professional career is due in no small part to his te no prisoners style. he has alternate portrayed as the quintessential southern gentleman, orthopedist politician. however, in the time that i have spent with him, i have found him to be neither of these extremes. i met governor wilder for the first time today i went to his office to ask him if he would consider writing an essay for this book.

i began my pitch by talking about him, his life, his career. and all that he had experienced, overcome and ultimately accomplish. he brushed that aside with a smile. he wasn't interested in talking about himself. instead, as he mulled over my request, he began telling me storiesabout his mother and his father, and the ways in which they had softened the jagged corners of poverty for him and his siblings so that it never threatened to consume their lives. he reminisced about the older black man in his neighborhood where he grew up, who, having had no real opportunity to go to school themselves, instilled in him a profound understanding of the importance of education. they offered themselves up as a leading example of opportunity lost. and forge in him a deep appreciation for the power of a strong mind. at one point toward the end of our meeting, he stood up from

his desk and walked over to a small stack of papers that were neatly arranged on the stand and brought them over for me to see. they were letters he had received from children across virginia, and he seemed to remember the names and faces of each one he had met, and was obviously moved and invigorated by the memory. i am part of the older generation now, he says in his essay. and we are charged with the task of successfully instilling in your generation and understanding and appreciation of the providers that have been overcome and what it takes to overcome them. i like to think that this line came from those final moments of our meeting with a look at the letters from the children, reflected for a moment at the innumerable awards and honors that blanketed his wall, and then turned and told me to add his name to my list.

i am honored to introduce virginia's history making governor, the honorable douglas wilder. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. i started off like you did, paul. i came late because i wanted everyone to say everything they had to say before i got here. [laughter] >> the truth of the matter, i was probably around at saint christopher's -- i been the other campus for 15 minutes. you know, when you have to drive yourself these days. [laughter] >> hard to get around. but i wouldn't miss this for anything. my good friend, chief justice who is sitting here as you know, and in the essay he speaks of a

word that really impressed me. he spoke of civility. and he described how it was such a great part of george washington life and it is something he carried with him through every aspect, even when he was in civilian life at and i think it's something that should be a part of that thread for our society today, as it has been in sum in other instances about development as a nation is. tim reid eloquently describ it as a peoples that have come together, a nation that has endured so much. and you are right, kelly, i really do feel that i was lucky to have been born when i was

born. and people say what do you think you could do now with the advantage that are out there for kids. say, look what thomas edison could have done if he had a computer. you don't talk about what could have been. you talk about what is. and when i say that i'm lucky, i am lucky because of what you described by the society, the community. everyby was concerned with that community. everyone was concerned with the plight of the children, the plight of the neighborhood, the plig of the schools. everything. wasn't a question of this group about is, others thought that. and to the extent that i was lucky enough to have parents that valued education, really valued it, they made it very

cleathat that was the only way. unless you got smart, used a dumb. and then people run absolutely nothing. and i never really wanted to do too much, other than to be as good as i could be with whatever i did. and when ias fortunate enough to have the barbershop and i would use it, or the shoeshine park across the street as my forum, or even the pool hall were ultimately i had my first law officever the top of it on church hill. those people in those places encouraged all of us to stay in school, to participate in government. i was charged with the responsibility back in the early part of the '50s and 60s when voter registration was to

be a key, there was a yellow book that they wld put out and hang that book up in the barbershops. and you know the barbershop, it was for everybody. everybody's got to have their say. you see that show on television, the barbershop. philosophers of the world. they are better than the winos on the corner because they will step up. they became. anso the guys in the barbershop would say to me, if his name is not in that book, let us know. because we will shut him up. and i would be the first to run to that book, his name is not here. then shut up. don't you speak about anything that you know. if you know so much about something, you should be registered. you should vote. i don't care if it is a poll tax. pay it. and when you consider that on too many occasions today, our

society, across the board, not necessarily class, have said to our youngsters that they don't have to be the best. they settle for that mediocrity. just to get by. you and i know we have some high school students graduating today from college. high school students graduating from college, which means the college degree they get today in some places are not worth those high school degrees and diplomas that we got. they didn't know what the calculus was. you speak to kids today about algebra or the proper pronunciation today, and they think that you are as some would say talking white. didn't talk white. that's nonsense that swept through some portions of the

nation some years ago when they were speaking about ebonics. remember that, tim? ebonics. and they would ask me, and they would debate it and talk about ebonics. this is their language that you have to speak. wilder, what do you have to say about it? i say when they start speaking it on wall street, let me know. [laughter] >> that's the time to do it. our kids need to be challenged. you are right, tim, they are coming from all ovdr the world but when they are coming, they are coming with two in three disciplines. they are coming wi degrees. they are coming with two or 3 degrees, and they are coming ready to work, to the extent you're going to have a dropout society we can't afford that. and so it's lucky, i guess yes, i was very fortunate. we have lost this ability.

i think any other instance we have too many young people waiting for someone to tell them when it is time to move. waiting. and they will say well, you know, i am, what are you going to do? well, i don't know. what are you doing now? what are you doing now? well, you know. i've had youngsters come to me to ask for recommendations for scholarships at various places. and at one school when i was in the state senate, senator was going to send his kid to virginia military institute, each senator can send their kids there for a. so i had this youngster come there, and he had excellent paperwork in front of him on grades. and i said -- i didn't have it at the time. i said what are you here for? well, you kn. i heard you could, you know,

make a recommendation for me to get to thank. i said i can't hear you. [laughter] >> well, you know, you know, i want to get to go to school, you know. i said is your name such and such a you are this person here? yes. you've got aids all the way through. how did that happen? is this you? yes, that's me i said th - it ws like a metamorphosis. i said why did you talk that we can when you first came into he said well, you know, people accuse you of being cute or try to put on airs or trying to be smarter than they are. and i said and that's what you want to be. you want to be smarter than that next person. you want to be the best that you can be. you want to live up to the highest possibility of your attainment. that your parents might not have

the education in many instances that they could have had. and that's where we need to start. not just with the kids. we've got to start with the parents. we can't allow the parents to believe that someone is going to raise their children. we can't allow the father to believe that they can be the father at the time when those kids are able to play a sport. that's my son, but where were you when that kid needed some support and help they needed someone to guide her. we need to have paired you are able to say to these kids, no, you are going to do one or two things. you're either going to get a job and work, or you're going to go to school big and you're going to help yourself there to. at a has to be a cutoff period of time. it was built in. 10, it was built in your home i know. most of your. it was built in and my home because my father said i don't

have money to wast i tell you what. there were nine of us, 10 of us altogether. eight siblings. not going to be able send all of you to college. not going to be able to send anybody to college. but i'm going to guarantee all of you high school. i only had one home my entire life, 28th and the street. my father built that house. paid for the house. when i said builder, he had it built. his father who was a slave built his house across the street at if those two men could have these big families and build own homes and have it so that we knew we had the comfort of family, we didn't have to worry about whether rent was going to come from or who our neighbors were going to beat and we understood that we had to go to school because my father said if you don't do that, you can't

ay here. i told my mother, i was going to run away from he. she said oh, boy, you can't do that. i said i am. let everybody know it. so she did tell my father. she told me, i understand you want to run away from home. i said, yeah, did your mother tell that -- did my mother tell me? tell me what you want to go and i will carry you. [laughter] >> we don't do that today. we would read our children the matter with the spirit we wanted to be our buddies. we want them to be our pals. my granddaughter, my grandsons were asking -- my daughter asked me what she wanted me to call, what do you want them to call you? a lot of people like to be

called, i said i am their grandfather. call me granddad. that's the shortest i'm going to make it. they need to know that there is a figure in their lives that they respect, because family is all you have. and finally, i would say that there isn't anying you can do to these youngsters. you make up your mind what you want to do. you can do it. you can do in this country. and i am not talking about as a result of what happened in the last four, five, six, 10 or 20 years. that was always what i was taught. always taught. notwithstanding how things may be today. you worked for a better day because you can cut it, and that's why i always would say that. a little poem i would say to kids that i was persistent until i would succeed because i was not delivered into this world into the north is defeatism run in my blood or the blood of my

ancestors. i am not some cheap waiting to be prodded by that distant shepherd. i do want to know the sheep. associate with the sheep because the slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. and i will persist until i succeed. whatever they do, however they do it. persist until they succeed. thank you. [applause] >> next we are going to open it up for some questions and answers. i have some questions that people have sent in, butf you have a question for want of a mentor for me that you would like to ask, you could just step up to the microphone there and ask your questions. and if we thought we had trouble with microphones before, get ready. we're all going to have to speak up because this is the only

projecting mike. those are actually for c-span. theatrical voices, gentlemen are and if you would please state your name, so your name into the question is for. >> my name is steve sadler. my question is for tim reid. most interested in your view of media, the power of media and our culture i think is undeniable, but we almost always seem to talk about and look at media as a negative influence. is there some suggestion you might have on how to filter the media so that it i positive, or are there people out there doing positive things in the media that maybe we're just missing? >> yes, sir. there are people doing positive things. however, i think the issues about the media rest in ourselves. i think most of us, not only don't understand the media, but we are afraid of the media.

the media is just that. it is not a living, breathing thing. they haven't been able to put a diode or transistor in it yet. so it is just a thing. is what i'd consider, it is a negative word in our history books but a word i think is neither negative or positive. that is propaganda. when someone revolts and takes over a town, what's the first thing to take over? the radio station, new station. why? to control the propaganda. we have to understand as communities that if we don't control or have some say so within our communities about the information coming into our communities, to our young people, then we will lose controlf our communities. because the media is that powerful. and to tell eight young person or to tell on the computer come you can't guard and 24/7. they will go on to. so what we have to teach i think our young people is the

responsibility of the media. the responsibility of words. i am in show business. i am against censorship. i am against censoring begin with, the arbor, they be more. i am against the. because what you is you teach people the power of the words. every young person knows that a word is powerful than they will have their respect for the word. to tell young pers not to s that word they're going to find in other words. ifou teach them the power of the word, if you teach young people the power of media, they will have more respect for it and hopefully will begin to put responsibility in media. what's lacking in the media today is responsibility. we're not holding the media responsible. as a community. you have to hold it responsible. and how do you do that? you stop buying the product. we are on the air was there to call your local station. and you said you know, i don't want this garbage coming in my neighborhood. or if you're going to have a garbage and you have to give us something to balance that out.

so you have to be more responsible in your communities. and right now we are not being responsible as consumers of media. the more responsible, what happens to just about any book thing in our life but the most powerful things in our life, and that is the media. >> i am philip johnson and i have a question for tim seibles. did any of your friends give you a hard time when you quit playing football to write poetry? >> it's fun that you ask the question. not really. i think for the most part, i went to shool in texas. i grew up in philadelphia. my friends from philly, by the time i started coming back, i was only home, you know, at christmas and for a while in the summertime once i got to college. so i think some of them might have been disappointed that i didn't become, in a car as we all fantasize about. because i w one of the duke went to college and played a

little college ball. so i think maybe some of the hos of the neighborhood were resting on a. so when i didn't become a pro, i didn't get anyone made -- i didn't get any hard times, but maybe you t someone to look out of the corner of your eye li what happened. t not really hassled. the dus i played witin college, now that was different. because those guys, you know, we were football players for a little while to get a. that kd of, you know, what happened, man? did you go soft? [laughter] >> what's with this poetry thing, you know? [laughter] >> but you know, as i said, the name of my essay in the book was hardaded. and that's one of the thing that has saved me because really i didn't care what anybody said to me. once i made up my mind, you know, to do it, i was going to be a poet. i was doing pretty big guy. nobody was going to push me around anyway, right? but yeah, those guys might have

been a rougher. the dudes who played the college level, especially a lot of the guys, those guys did become pros. the were like athletes, some of them i have read about in sports illustrated before i g there. so some of these guys are real, like that was their life, sports. i was lucky. i had this other thing. i mean, my mother, i didn't get to mention is that we could probably all of us write several essays about our lives, but my mother had been a high school english teacher. so one of the things i was going to know if i was going to be in that house was how to read and write. i had that. i had that as a skill. so there was a path i could take away from sports that probably most of the guys who were my friends on the team, that was not an option they had. they were not going to suddenly become writers did they didn't have perhaps the level of ability of language that i did. now at the time i didn't think of myself as some propounding talented guy. but in retrospect, i realized i

did know things about words tt a lot of guys who were jocks quote unquote, didn't. and sure, you got it some hard time from your former teammates people what are they going to do? they had to get back on the field. they were in different worlds. >> and that's if i could add comment if you are not getting resistance, you are not pushing forward. >> my name is anecdotes and my question is for trantor. and i would like to point out up front that i am an irish trial lawyer and that would frustrate me also. but before becoming an irish traveler i was an army jag, i still am in the reserves. and it occurs to me obviously you in the hanoi for seven years. obviously, one of the most terrible pow expense in our military history. yet liening to you tonight i don't hear any bitterness about your expense. i hear a very positive description of what must've been a tremendously tragic time. and as a military officer, i

would want to know ho was it that you managed to come away from such a difficult experience without being embittered. >> everything is relative, and i pt thinking all my friends, the 58000 names on the wall, snuffy and i both had a lot of friends on there who were killed during the war, during training accidents. and just goes with the turf. most of us expected something bad happened would be getting killed. we would train for it and went to survival school and learned approximately what it was. but we weren't really prepared for the length of it. the one thing they couldn't simulate in survival school is we never knew when it was going to be over. it was christmas, 72, when i was back in solitary again. i started christmas 65, 66, 67,

68, 69, 70, 71, 72. i have been away from home for a long tim right after that i had an terrogation since 1968. the camp commander called me out and said according to denote your wife's activities are. know, how do i know that. i get no mail. he said maybe that's what you get no mail. and so i wasn't sure what she was doing, but whatever it was he didn't like it so therefore i did. [laughter] >> besides army jags are different than regular voters. governor wilder is also receiving. i think i am also the only one who wore it all the time and i think i was only one who commented on it. and it created more. attorney in the army is okay. [laughter] >> a follow-up question to other than admiral smith who you have described as a hero, are there any people today that you could

point you that you feel our heroes? and if you could tell us, why. >> i'm sitting next to one of them right here who blazed some trails. venus fly trap. [laughte >> that cracks me up. >> thinking. >> by the way, gordon jump is a friend of ours from other circumstances. he was at the send maytag repairman. also he was stationed manager, righ >> that's right. >> i've got a lot of heroes. in fact, i don't get hung up on turkeys and maybe that's one reason. there are a lot of just normal people here that are doing the best that they are doing a whole lot better than anyone thought they would ever do. they are heroes to me. the ones that are trying hard and they are making it, that's fine. a lot of young people i know we're given everything to them on a silver spoon. they just frankly blew it.

it's a classic second generation, third generation, some of these that we've had that were built up from scratch. and second generation lettuce or go to pot. just a lot of them. storming norman schwarzkopf went in and told the first president bush. he said if you want to syndicate here's what we're going to have to do. if you don't want to do it, i do want to go. and backed him up and president bush said a lot of times you want to pick up that right and they could do it right now and they could get right inside the ears of a squad leader. right in the middle of comt. he wanted to pick the phone up and didn't appear to have schwarzkopf that the first gulf war over in three weeks once they pushed the button. of course, i would do the same high school as he did. anyway, i've got a ton of them. we have a whole bunch of snuffy's. he is wanted by for what he did for scott o'grady.

besides, anybody anydmiral named snuffy has to be in a -- a neat guy anyway. >> my name is sean kelly. first off i would like to thank all of you for saying yes to do this book. i think it's a really great book, and i really appreciate. everything i've read on all do, it's really incredible. it will be mandatory reading for my sons. and i appreciate your example. i appreciate your service of military and the tching profession, and entertainment community activism. thank you grimmett for the. my question is for admiral smith. i am wondering if you could give any advice to how we can call hyung men to service. i don't mean just military, but i mean service to our country, service to their communities, who service in general.

if you could speak to that, please. >> when we were talking about the media earlier, and telling the media i don't want to hear, what i really was thinking about at that point wasn't the responsibilities that families and parents have too cautioned people to think for themselves about important things. we sometimes can do, and i think governor, you mentioned it, we tend to not give the kind of guidance and direction that is required. we tend to accept mediocrity. window cause our young people to really understand what's important. and i truly believe the young men and women with whom i served and i think you're exactly right. there are wonderful people out there today and i've got, i've got a couple son-in-law's and a daughter that is in the service right now.

i look at him and either something has caused them to come, there is no common thread other than the fact they sort of understand what the united states is all about. and most of them come in with a sense of responsibility that, you know, this ain't free. it's a good place to learn things. i real believe it's part of a growing up process but it all starts at home with the families understand what's important, teaching the people, young men and women to think for themselves. my name is read, and i'm a graduate of saint christopher school. i thank you all for coming and getting involved in this book, it is a topic that we talk a lot about being an all-male school. having a father figure and the family has got to be a major influence in building better men. and i would ask any of you that

we are at the beginning of a new era with a new president, barack obama, are we at a time now where a lot of people that didn't think they could get anywhere in this world for whatever reason now may think that they can, and that there is time for excuses, maybe over with now. that anybody can do anything. and will that allow or turn so many people having a responsible and had children and just left them for other people to raise. will they now say maybe i can be something and i need to be involved in my children's life and to raise them. could this be a new beginning of a new era?

>> of course, that cuts both ys of course there is a dark perception, the perception that makes people not try. and many other things, the image of obama, of course he is of european and african heritage, and hiskin is brown, that certainly will change some of the dynamics that govern the culture. but of course you still have a lot of other difficulties of people, those things didn't vanish because he became president. you stil have racism in an active force in this culture, still i think on the other, maybe, it is a deserted death mask finally. but i think it is still there pics so you are going to have issues of poverty and you still have issues of self-esteem that make it very hard for people to believe that they too could inhabit the white house did you know what an inquest but yes, i certain think oba's presence there, the perception that here is a man who 50 years ago

couldn't have sat, gone to a lot of hotel or gone to a movie theater, now president of the country, certainly that has two change. and perhaps poor white kids as well who want to stretch it and make them think of themselves differently. about what is possible even the circumstance. >> i think one of the most important things said during the election, the past election, was said by obama but actually he didn't writet if it was written by alice walker. and she said we are the ones that we have been waiting for. and i don't know why of all the dialogue i heard on the election, that particular phrase has stuck with me. and as i travel around the country and i listen to what's going on through the media, i don't think we realize, saying obama their yes, it is a very positive image. but that is one man. and i think we set ourselves up

for failure. we rely completely on that image as the sole tipping point to our future. i don't think he is the tipping point to our future. i think he is a glorious part of our present, and could be a part of our future in terms of his view and his ability to govern. but i think we are the ones responsible for our future. when i say we, simple thing. an when you get away from our shores andook back on our country, you get a different view as i said sitting in the military facility in okinawa talking tooung americans is different than sitting in streets of richmond talking to some guys. it's a little different. you get a different perspective. and what i am finding, i am concerned about, we, americans, and that as we become very negative, whining people. everywhere i go i hear people talk about, you want to do about something negative, i c say is one word and everyone will agree that it is a negative. host offers.

used a post office from everybody in the room says that's the worst possible. you know we have the best post office system in the world? in this country you can wk outside her with a letter, postmarked it, guam, stick it in a little box, any quarter, and in a matter of a week to two weeks it will be in qualm. tried to do that in italy. try do that in any country in the world. how many of you travel, you go to italy if you want to send a postcard back to europe and. you all beat them home. [laughter] stack people asked when we do in italy? [laughter] stack i mean you hear a politician and a state that post office is the worst run. we have the best postal system and the war but people wouldn't say that. why? perception. it's not the politics to give you these politicians thilk too much government. maybe. don't run for office next time and it will be one less. [laughter] >> the guy spends $10 million to become some and then he said we

have to much government. why did you think of that $10 million ago. we could have used that to build schools or for some books in a library. so i am saying that the perception. i get back to the perception. the perception is not that we have always been trumpeted there is a lot of things that are and we give them a reality for and this country that we need to start looking at. if you wana young person to have some feeling about his future, you better start telling him that he has no future. you better start telling these young people things are better than we thought because of these young people are going to turn on you. if you don't start givg them positive information, you don't stop calling them negative things, they're going to turn on your. you have trained their young minds. parents, careful what you name your kids. careful what you say to them. you're not going to be anything. like douglas was saying. when i was a kid, they were always asked the question in my

house, what are you going to be when you grow up, boy? i don't care who was. you better come up with something. i don't care what it was. i'm going to be a cowboy. will you better be a good one point. get the. [laughter] >> nobody cares what is going to be. just hope he stays out of prison. i think it's us. i think we have to be more responsible and better start speaking positive reality into our children. i wouldn't care whether their black, rich, white, poor. the ports can become the best and the best can become the poorest. but if you don't start speaking positive to them. let me tell you what image can do. i was at a church earlier this year, and a lady came in with her to grandnephew's. one point about so high, and the other one a little higher. and she said i wanted to meet you because they have heard about you. and they said well, you know, we

read about you in our fourth grade books. in the history of virginia. added one of them said yeah. and in one of them said haven't you been dead? [laughter] >> and then, and then she said to tm, tell him what you're going to do. one look at me and said i'm going to be the president of the united states. the others that i'm going to be the governor of virginia. and so it's in the image that is out there, the opportunities for them to see. your point is absolutely right. it's not just for the kids. it's for the world to see. i happen to have been in saudi arabia a day or two after the election. and even then, spirits were so uplifted.

shortly after that i was in another country. spirits uplifted as an asset. people all over are watching. but when those kids start saying to their parents what they are going to be, that puts it on their parents to say why can't they be and what your job going to do to help them, which are just going to help them to get there. your point is well taken. is a moment and a window, and opportunity, we need to take advantage. >> many communities of color, particularly, i think racism appear to be kind of a monolith, the idea that perhaps there was kind of a quiet conspiracy in the white community against communities of color, but everyone who knows that obama could not have been elected without a kind of convergence, white communities and communities of color. and i think that also changes the dynamic way some people and adult imagine the coulter,

american culture. anthat's what i think will help to. >> we have about two mutes we will have time for one las question. >> i addressed my question for each of you. my name is nikki. my question is really more about our culture and women in our culture. and how as women have changed, and they have changed our society, and as probably many of you know, in college today women are the scholars. more than 50% of our doctors and our lawyers are women. and i think that that has changed the dynamics tremendously from when. of course, you are all a certain age will you have traditional roles it was very clear-cut you were to be the provider and the wife is going to stay at home. and we had very different roles. and i think today it's so much harder for me to carve out what their role was supposed to be, at are they supposed to be in our society. and how i wondered if each of you could speak to that in terms of where you see the next generation fulfilling that role

and how they find their way into becoming the men they want to be as our culture has changed so much. [inaudible] >> i know it's a big question. >> think of her daughters and her granddaughter's. >> this is the guy that should've been the first black president of the united states. i -- there is no portrayal of white males in any kind of sense anymore on the news. just look at all the tv commercials that if there is a white guy in it,e is a clown. the fat guy and he was. and i'm not sure where this is coming from. i don't know what it is, but our boys know they can do anything theq want to do. they have to work for it and do whatever. but i don't -- role models, i can go into demographics. i was in the naval academy when they had the first women, the

first class, had four classes of them and they were treated horribly. and they still are. it's awful. but they plug along. i was most popular guy. i gave this sam woman away twice in two different ways that even though don't have any sons. i have just all sons and daughters. but i gave her away when she was in as a navy captain, and it is a different career pattern and they don't do 24/7. when i went into that military if the navy wanted you to have a wife they would have issued you when. and now the young females, single parent sailors, and they can do 24/7 because they have little kids to daycare. several several years ago, the largest single item in military construction, were day care centers for unmarried. give me a break. that's not real smart. and it causes a major problem.

but that's what the population wants. >> being challenged once by someone who's a little bi less accepted. he was talking about women who didn't have the stamina. and i looked him square in the eye and i said when is the last time you did an ironman? when is the last time you ran half a marathon on saturday and a full marathon on sunday? when was the last time you spent six months down in gitmo about 500 yards from people who want to kill you and then i told him that my 5-foot 5-inch daughter had done all of those. and she is a lieutenant commander in the navy. get out of my face. what we really need to understand, and i made this comment in a panel. you may remember.

it was, all these people talk about good women and how they should be in combat. that's the wrong question. nobody in his right mind wants to be in combat combat, for god's sake. what they want is the same opportunity to serve in positions of leadership as we have and in order to do that they have got to serve in the same positions to achieve the capability. and that's how it all started. >> if any of you have ever had the plsure of going to israel and saying the israeli female soldiers. i don't think you ever ask the question can a woman fight. [laughter] spirit so i have no issues about women in military. i would like to see more women get more invold in government. i think we have a life out of balance that. i think we need more feminine power in government in particular. i think the world would be different. i would like to see more women and re men step back and politics in particular, and

business. and to give more of a balance. i think women have screwed things up a little bit and we are ashamed. but we are still in charge. so we are going to do everything we can do. but i would like to see more women get involved or can what i say to my granddaughters and my daughter, i leave the gender aside. i say basically be prepared to take charg be prepared to lead. your life as an independent life that you don't have to follow the traditions of her mother, your grandmother. you can follow the traditions of your own. but be prepad. but keep your womanhood. don't try to become a man in terms of your thinking, in terms of your philosophy. keep your womanhood because that is the power that is needed in that positio and that's what i say to them. >> with regard to whether the rules for boys are not clearly

defined any longer, i don't know. i have heard people say that. i mean, i like being a man and i love women, and i want women to do well. i don't feel that, because women rise in terms of their intellectual power or their professional status etc. i don't know who i am. i know who i am. what i would like to thank that this book, a better man, could course have a book about a tter womanhood in each cas were trying to encourage kids of whatever gender to do whatever they can. and will be fine companions for each other. we will work it out. if i am 6-foot 3 inches, 240, i am not going to expect if my wife is 5-foot 3 inches, 100-point, for her to lift all the logs or sothing. you know what i mean? is not like i don't ow what to do. i know i can do. and i know what she can do. but those issues to me seem like just common sense. if we permit each other to realize full potential we would be good companions for each other.

usually just that to me. spec i'm going to tie it at there. thank you for those answers and thank you for that question. i'm going to take 30 seconds, and since i have a few young men in the audience captive i'm going to give you a 32nd message i want something that i learned having interviewed these men that i want to pass on to you. and th is this. that if you decide you have some desire to be a better man and you have to start with that decision, and it's not really a difficult one, but if you decide that, that i have a little bit of good is and i have a little bit of bad news for you. the bad news, if you want to call it that, is that to be a good man is going to require more courage, more persistent, more sacrifi, and more self-control than you can even imagine right now. it is not an easy road. if it were easy, everyone would do it.

i encourage you to make that choice. and i encourage you to strive for it. because i can promise you that if you do, if you persist, if you are courageous, if you know self-control and understand sacrifice, you'll find yourself waking up one day standing shoulder to shoulder with these gentlemen and the gentleman and his book. these are the men whose company you will keep. but you have to choose. you must choose, and i hope you choose wisely. so i thank my esteemed panel once again for the time. i thank you all so much for coming, taking time out of a beautiful summer evening to be here. these gentlemen and i are going to go directly behind here to the athletic building, where they wl sign books. the books are available for $25 a piece. cash, check or charge. so i'm going to have them over there and i hope some of you ll join us. thank you again so much.

[applause] kelly johnson is an attorney, writer and mother who has written for national parenting mazines. her work also appears in compilations of imperfect mind.

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