here's irwin.e dribbling right into traffic. >> steve: they are making a lot of bad plays right now. from not boxing out on one end to coming down on the other end. stuck in bad spots. right now, phil good time-out. crosgile took a bad shot. >> tom: 14-point lead for the temple owls. they are forcing some turnovers for st. joseph. not only that, they are cleaning up some missed shots. how about lavoy allen getting we got the spirit, we're hot, we can't be stopped! we got the spirit we're hot we can't be stopped! we gonna beat 'em and bust 'em, both: beat 'em! bust 'em!... announcer: the smallest moments can have the biggest impact on a child's life. both: let's. get. a little bit rowdy. r-o-w-whoop-d-y. announcer: take time to be a dad today. one more time. both: oh those boys are much too much, those boys... wswswswswswswswswswswswswswswswswswswsws >> tom: there's such a great tradition of basketball here at temple. i love the players. we just saw number 12 the head coach. bill as well in the 50s.

"washington post" staff writer neil irwin joins us now.d morning. >> good morning, david. >> let me just set this up for you. latest article, give you credit, you write the financial crisis is over, that the danger of it melting down, it's all over. but the job prospect outlook for 2010, what is it? >> it's not great, but it does look like things are starting to turn around. we might see job growth even as early as this past month. we will find out on friday what december job growth or loss was. the forecast is somewhere around zero. we might see a positive number. most economists are forecasting we will see positive job growth some time in the spring. job growth alone isn't enough because the population is always growing, labor force is always growing, so for the unemployment rate to come down, what you need is strong job growth, 130,000 jobs a month, we're a long way from that it appears. >> when you look at the periods in the united states, the last 20 years, where there has been strong growth, for example the tech boom, advent of compu

. >> tom: bryant irwin checks in for the first time. a slimmed down bryant irwin. st. joseph is in. >> steve: this is the first time i have seen st. joseph. bryant irwin looks like a different guy. >> tom: different guy. temple may have touched it. joe lindsay said no touch by the owls. so, backcourt violation. over and back and it will be temple ball. roger looked because he heard fran dunphy and all the fans barking, too. >> steve: that was a pretty clear over and back. surprising -- i think joe was surprised. >> tom: 12:40 to play in the first half. 14-11, temple on top by three. still no lavoy allen. >> steve: to tell you the truth, it is always great to be final keep a guy out like that while you are ahead. he is a guy who should know better. especially after you have a 33-point loss to not come on time, that is not what fran dunphy was looking for. >> tom: williams for three, no good. garrett williamson with the rebound. running it out, finding bryant irwin. they've gotten away with a travel. now he is called for the travel. i thought the first travel was cle

for more, let's bring in neil irwin, financial reporter for "the washington post."d morning to you. >> good morning, alex. >> for anybody unemployed and looking at this and had the hope with the start of the new year we'll bring new good things is there anything good from these numbers? >> some of the fine print is good. t it looks like the nation added a few thousand jobs in november. that's first time in two years. there is some signs that things will get better in the future. temporary employment was up by 47,000 jobs. it looks like businesses aren't willing to hire permanent employees yet, but are willing to bring on temps. that's a good sign for the future. that said, there is no two ways about it, this is a bad report and it shows we're still in a deep hole in the job market. >> i was looking at thursday, neil, not calling you out here but you did write the employment report could be a breakthrough for the u.s. job market. a lot of analysts seemed positive waiting for this report's release. what happened and why were analysts expecting better results? >> you'r

for more on this, let's bring in neil irwin, financial reporter for "the washington post." another good morning, neil. >> good morning, alex. >> what do these numbers tell us about the overall economy? >> well, it tells us we're in a really long, slow slog out of this weak jobs environment. you know, the signs have been pointing up the last few weeks, the economy has seems to have expanded at a pretty rapid pace in the fourth quarter, but apparently, businesses aren't confident enough to add to their payrolls. they're seeing better sales, are feeling better about things, but not enough to take the plunge and hire people, which is unfortunate. >> what happened? because analysts and reporters alike expected that this wouldn't be so bad. no, i know i called you out earlier, but you're like everybody else who's thinking this. the fact is, what happened here? ten times the number of jobs lost? >> yeah. keep in mind what happened -- you know, we've been seeing the weekly number of people filing for unemployment benefits has been declining pretty steadily the last few weeks. so, y

the krk dial hunter steve irwin is killed in a freak encounter with a stingray, saddam hussein executedt dawn in baghdad and on february 11th a story that the media still talks about three years later, vice-president dick cheney accidentally shoots and wounds his 78-year-old hunting partner, harry whittington while on a quail hunt at a ranch in texas. the hunting accident, it's sort of the gift that keeps on giving for main street media, isn't it judy? >> it really did. we went straight from the pictures of people stranded on roof tops in new orleans, the inability of the federal government to the bush administration to respond, straight, straight to dick cheney shooting his friend with a rifle. i mean, it couldn't have been better. >> shotgun. >> shotgun. >> there we go. >> na, na. >> i'm not an outdoor girl. >>, but you know, it really set the entire tone, anything was fair game now. >> and fair game, was the coverage fair? >> it was fair enough. >> i mean. >> yeah. if no one dies these stories are a lot more fun. >> if joe biden had done it he'd be center ice on "saturday night live,

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