[4/7/05]

“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking,” the voice rang through a nearly empty plane as it departed Cincinnati for Jackson on Monday night. “We will be reaching our cruising altitude of 19,000 feet and we expect our air time to be about one hour, 10 minutes. It looks to be a clear flight into Jackson so sit back, relax and enjoy the flight.

“Oh, by the way, North Carolina is up by three points with four minutes to play.”