... didn't, for which he (I) apologize. Yours was the only entry, Allan, so you win your own chips back! <g> Now we all see why Travis doesn't want to play with you anymore.

My sniveling explanation is that I just got swamped unexpectedly and did not have time to even check the board the last few days, much less post anything re the Belmont. I fully expected to, but my trip to Memphis got extended to include business presentations and meetings in Chicago and Cleveland. End result was a miserable work week, a lot of time spent in airports and on airplanes and finished off with a 57 hour stretch from 5 pm Wednesday through 2 o'clock Saturday morning in which I logged 36 billable hours and spent 14 hours flying or sitting in the airport. Yes, left about 7 hours to sleep Wednesday & Thursday night. Not the most fun I've had lately, but was a success from a business point of view (took another $20 million a year away from Lucent).

I'll work on some other sports related chip pools in the near future. Anyone have any ideas of events they'd like to do? Post 'em here and I'll see what I can come up. ----- jim o\-S