Spent a restful weekend watching lots of good Premier soccer on ESPN. Liverpool managed to bounce back from their UEFA cup quaterfinals defeat to Celtic to over-power Leeds 3-1. A good win but there's still room for improvement. For the first 25 minutes, Liverpool was magnificent creating chance after chance. But after they were 2 goals up, they let Leeds get back into the game.

Manchester United and Arsenal also registered good wins over their opponents with United looking very impressive indeed. While the championship race is hotting up, the battle in Iraq is also gathering in intensity. The US is suffering a bit of set back with stiff resistance in a few cities south of Baghdad. They also had to suffer the inominy of having US POWs paraded on Iraqi TV, not mention the accidentally downing of a British fighter jet by a Patriot missile. Coalition casualties are also mounting.

The war is not over yet. The longer it takes, the tougher is the task. At the meantime, the body count continues.