Well, I set my VCR to tape the Grier/Carter closeup, "Black Ice" at 8:00 pm. When I got home, I eagerly rewound the tape and turned it on. And I saw -- arrrgh -- BASEBALL. The Dodgers and Marlins, to be precise. Skunked by ESPN again. Saul Morgenstern "Let's hear it for college athletes; they never go on strike." (nobody famous -- or even literary and obscure -- actually said that, I just thought someone should)