Me. Protect me from him."I think it's growing every year," Texans coach said. "We obviously use many statistics as we prepare for the draft. I know as a coach we go back and look at everything that's available to us going into the next season.

I suppose the problem is that, fundamentally, I quite like Twenty20. I find it sometimes entertaining if largely unengaging. Test cricket grabbed my sixyearold soul in 1981 and has never let go.Still, Culpepper, who completed 15 of 32 passes for 167 yards, looked very sluggish with his movement and inconsistent with his passes. He's hardly back to his preknee injury form. If Oakland keeps dropping these games they are in position to win, hopes for a mad dash within the weak AWest race will dissipate.

There are different things like that you grow up with that kind of mold you. When you're put in this position, to remain humble because you're in this position because of the man above looking over you. I haven't