Daylight Savings Time Ends

At 2 a.m. local time Nov. 7 – the wee hours of Sunday morning – Daylight Saving Time ends for much of the United States. That means turning clocks back one hour for an extra bit of shut-eye or an extra chapter or two in that novel before hitting the pillow.

The "Spring forward, Fall back" ritual was codified in the Uniform Time Act of 1966. States can opt out, of course. Hawaii and Arizona have said no thanks to the time changes that kick in on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November.

But the rest of the country, including the once temporally bifurcated Indiana, are now on board.

So before you venture off to sleep tonight, make the rounds and change the clocks. While you're at it, public safety officials nationwide add that it's a good time to put new batteries in smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors.

Savor the extra hour, if you get one. Come March, it's Daylight Saving Time again.

Volcanic Ash Cancels Jakarta Flights

Some International airlines canceled flights into and out of Jakarta on Saturday because of ash spewing from the Mount Merapi volcano.

Airport authorities said up to 10 percent of the 1,200 flights at the Indonesian capital's airport were canceled. But they suggested the 11 carriers' cancellations were premature because ash from the erupting volcano more than 200 miles to the east had not reached Jakarta.

The volcano continued to rumble and groan on Saturday, at times spitting ash up to two miles into the sky.  Merapi staged its most thunderous eruptions on Friday - blasts that volcano experts said were Merapi's biggest since the 1870s.

Various airlines canceled flights, including Singapore Airlines, Air Asia, Emirates, Malaysia Airlines, Japan Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa, China AIrlines, Korean Air, Tiger Air and the local airline Mandala.  Closer to the volcano, the Yogyakarta international airport is closed.

U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Indonesia, where he lived part of his childhood, on Tuesday as part of his 10-day Asian trip.

College Football Play of the Week: TCU at Utah

TCU at Utah is the game most people are pointing at today.  One of these unbeaten teams will no longer be mentioned in any talk of a BCS title game.

TCU's defense has been outstanding.  They are only giving up 8.6 pts a game.  Their closest game was a 30-21 win over a ranked Oregon State.  Their resume also includes a 45-10 win over Baylor

Utah scores points in droves.  They average 45 points a game and put up 68 at Iowa State.

This will be a close game, and with the Utes getting 5 at home, I love Utah.

Go with the Utes.

* Bonus Pick  -  Iowa State is getting 17 today at home against Nebraska.  It will be the last meeting for the two teams as members of the same conference.  They could meet up in years to come in a bowl game, but this is it as Nebraska is leaving the Big XII.  Iowa State shocked Nebraska last year in Lincoln, ISU will stay within 17 this year in Ames.   Grab the Cyclones.

Hurricane Tomas Hits Haiti

Hurricane Tomas was downgraded to a tropical storm early Saturday as it passed over the Turks and Caicos Islands, losing steam a day after battering seaside towns in Haiti.

Tropical storm warnings were in effect for Haiti, the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, the southeastern Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, although the warnings for Haiti and the Dominican Republic were likely to be downgraded later Saturday morning, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported.

Coming ashore at Haiti's far southwestern edge, Tomas slammed the coastline with 85-mph winds that killed at least four people with storm surge and rains.

It then flooded camps harboring earthquake refugees, turning some into squalid islands in Leogane, a town west of the capital that lost 90 percent of its buildings and thousands of people in the Jan. 12 quake. Two people were missing in the city.

Tomas turned streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, into canals of flowing garbage. The storm largely spared the city's vast homeless encampments, however, allaying fears that an estimated 1.3 million displaced people would suffer from high winds and rain on hillsides and in parks and streets.

Two Jockeys Fight at The Breeder's Cup

Louisianan Calvin Borel, the most well-known jockey in horse racing today, raced today in Louisville in a key race against fellow jockey, Javier Castellano. In a particularly aggressive maneuver, Castellano cut his horse, Prince Will I Am, across the path of the other horses.

Borel, who has won three of the last four Kentucky Derbies, took exception. And then all hell broke loose.

It looks to me like it was Castellano who threw the first punch.  Reports also say that they went at it again in the lockerroom.