During 1993 and 1994 there was a TV show called "The Adventures of Brisco County Junior," In the show the lead character, played by Bruce Campbell, was always in search of the "coming thing."

While the show was placed in the closing days of the Wild West, we saw the modern inventions of automobiles, lighter weighted dense metals, and even rocket ships.

But Brisco's main search was to catch the wave of the newest items that would influence society and make him famous, or at least rich.

In mid-season of 1999 I started the same type voyage.

My "voyage" was that I changed to the "Gerry Davis" plate stance.

Click the title to find out more.

Return to this page next Monday for the conclusion. That invitation, of course, holds true even if I drop dead during the run. My editor already has Part III. And after a decent interval for mourning, I know he'll run it.

We're happy to report Ray is still alive, his run having gone very well.

The final chapter of his series is just inside.

Veterans like us end up smiling knowledgeably: We've heard it all before. The nubies always start out thinking it's much ado about nothing. Boy, will they quickly learn a thing or two!

Here, then, is Emily's take on this "common" subject. It was so good, we decided to break one of our longest standing rules.

Click the title to read what she thinks — and what we did about it.

Hollywood takes things to the extremes quite often, and they may be very inaccurate in doing so. Let's combine our movie watching with some very early, preseason preparation by following along as Darin Hayes examines plays from football-related movies.

If the play happened in your game on Friday night, you would....

Go inside to see if you agree with Darin.

By our standards, baiting a coach is wrong. By their standards, it may be the only way to keep 'em guessing and thus remain alive and in control.

BTW: This is the first time in the 10 years of our existence that both articles on one day were written by the same contributor. I assure you, we're not going to get into that habit.