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Yesterday I drove down to Los Gatos and watched Ellie's soccer game and then Caroline's soccer game. Jason and Susan are doing heroic work with the coaching. Afterward we had lunch at Live Oak Kitchen. In the late afternoon I watched Stanford beat Arizona in football. It looks like Oregon will be the only team to beat them this year. In the evening I watched the Sharks beat Tampa Bay 5-2 in hockey. Joe Thornton has been suspended by the league for two games because of a questionable call by the NHL. In the game against St. Louis he stepped out of the penalty box and was run into by a Blues player, who went down and stayed down for a long time. Joe was given a game misconduct penalty, and the Sharks lost the game 0-2, with the second goal being scored later by the player who supposedly was hurt so badly he could not get up for a long time. How could he have been well enough to re-enter the game and score a goal a few minutes later? I suppose Ethan and Julie and Alex have a different view of this incident. Anyway, I got most of The Economist read yesterday too.