MARK BORCHARDT'S FIRST FILM

That's for you American Movie fans.

Quick update on the score: It's 2-2 after six minutes. The Cavaliers scored two quick goals before Northwestern even got possession of the ball, but the Wildcats, aided by a goal by Tewaaraton Trophy (the lacrosse Heisman) winner Kristen Kjellman, have evened things up.

A few quick obserations, as Northwestern takes a 3-2 lead on Casey Donohoe's goal:

-- I like Virginia coach Julie Myers . It's a stifling hot day in Philadelphia--or at least it was-- and Myers has dressed for the national championship game in running shoes, khaki shorts, and a blue polo shirt with a Virginia emblem. It's rare, nearly unheard of, to find a coach as casually dressed as I am. But it's the smart move on this hot day.

--Did you ever see The In-Laws ? I mean the good one, with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk. Remember the advice about avoiding gunfire by running "serpentine"? Well, you absolutely need to learn how to run serpentine, it seems, to be an effective lacrosse player. Especially if you're the one with the ball.

--All the fans (many of them high school kids who brought their own lax sticks, which is a nice touch) are seated on the south side of Franklin Field, and all the media are seated on the north field. I wonder if word got out that I did not have time to shower after going for a slow and sweaty run along the Schuylkill this afternoon. My "shower" was two bottles of water poured over my head (if you happen to live in the Fairmount section of Philly and saw a guy changing clothes out of the trunk of his car at about 4:30 today, well, guilty.

--Too bad Don Imus isn't around anymore. When he and his producer saw the video of this game tomorrow--you know how Imus loved to opine on women's NCAA championship games--he might have coined the term "flaxen-headed ho's"....although I doubt he'd have said that.