From the Monday Papers...

“We are going to be setting drills up that are very defensive minded this week, especially to go against a right side attack." - Maryland associate head coach Tami Ores. (Psst...anyone playing Maryland this weekend...set, the left, side. They'll never see it coming.)

"I didn’t want to go but my mom said, ‘I’ll give you $75 and you can get your hair done if you’ll just go to the tryout.'” - BYU's Kayla Walker, demonstrating the power, the lure the promise of a new hairdo has over America's teenagers, especially 6'5" teens from Utah.

"Vulcan women break into top 20 volleyball poll." - Headline from Hawaii247.org that caused Star Trek nerds everywhere to Twitter "The prophecies are true!" over and over again, and plan trips to their nearest volleyball poll.

"How tough is Oregon senior Sonja Newcombe?" - Oh I love these! HOW TOUGH IS SHE? "The all-American outside hitter wasn’t expected to play ... Sunday after suffering a subluxed patella (partially dislocated kneecap) in her right knee on Friday night. But Newcombe wasn’t about to miss a conference match." Hm...not as funny as I thought it was going to be. But I've heard Oregon humor is a lot different from humor here in the United States.

"We try to get the ball back and slam it down their throats. And that happened." - Plain speakin' Tom Hilbert on the Rams' 3-0 win over Texas Christian University. Poor Christians.

"According to Shipman, the three 'grabbed and detached leaves from the tree, which constitutes battery.'" - From the Daily Californian, in an article describing the arrest of three Cal fans after the Stanford match. "Constitutes battery"? Isn't this just pruning? Weren't they just engaged in forestry?