Bruins all P.R. and stuff

Nana Meriwether, a.k.a. POY 1A (if Pavan was POY, then Nana was POY 1A), and Katie Carter have left the cozy confines of Westwood for the lush tropical paradise of Puerto Rico's professional volleyball league.

How's it goin'?

"I miss being a Bruin," Carter said.

Uh-oh...

"The fans love you if you do well and hate you if you mess up."

Fickle fans! BLAST their hides! You know, we took care of Cruz and Cepero, the least they can do is take care of Carter for us.

"There is a lot of pressure for me to perform well because each team is limited to two foreigners on its roster."

You know, it's that kind of policy that might've kept Lewis' men's program from mucking things up a few years back.

"But it has been a great experience playing here."

Uh-Huh. We feel for Carter, though. For every positive story about someone playing in a professional league elsewhere, there's at least one negative one. It can't help that a recent All-Star game between the native Puerto Ricans and the "reinforcements," as they're called, was won by the non-natives. The island hosts couldn't have taken that too well.