"I voted for the winner. Congratulations to Arnold. Hopefully he does a good job. I had dream one time that Arnold was governor, Magic (Johnson) was mayor and I was sheriff. Only in L.A." � Los Angeles Laker Shaquille O'Neal, reacting to the results before the team's first exhibition game in Hawaii.

I just finished watching the game tonight and halfway through the game I thought I recognized the white guy sitting next to Shaq on the bench... I thought about it, ran through all the tall white basketball players I could think of - that's not Mark Madsen, we didn't get Shawn Bradley, I thought we got rid of Travis Knight... Then I remembered - that player that never smiled was Eric Chenowith!! I went to high school with the guy! VP represent. He played at U. Kansas and I remember him getting drafted but I thought he didn't make it.

Some other observations: I thought #5 looked kinda cute but he'll never replace Rick Fox in my heart. Karl Malone does play dirty. It was NICE seeing Shaq, Karl and Gary on the court. I still can't believe thats our starting lineup for the year. Kobe, Shaq, Karl, Gary and some random player (throw me in there)... you can't double team 4 players on the court! This is gonna be a fun season.

Anyway, bedtime. Great day today. Don't know why, but started feeling sorry for Gray Davis. Happy we have the Governator now though.