It's always DougDay at Doug Bay -- that's what the locals call Douglaston Bay, "which overlooks the marshes of Little Neck Bay and is within walking distance of the Long Island Rail Road," according to a story today in the local Times Ledger newspaper.

Forget your proverbial sticky wicket, this Doug is dealing with a real one, over there in New Zealand. "Head groundsman Doug Strachan says bad weather has meant they have lost two days of preparation on the wicket and play will not start before the umpires' inspection at 2pm," NZOOM.com reports today.

Doug Anderson -- he's the County Administrator down in Florida's St. Lucie County -- says $8 million is expected to be available in the 2003-04 fiscal year to build a new housing pod at the Rock Road jail, according to today's Tribune. And it sounds like a good deal all around. The Trib reports that "an extra pod could pay for itself if the county made enough money housing federal prisoners," and that "The county could reportedly make an annual profit of more than $1.8 million if it installed 100 extra beds to rent to the federal government."

....Not to mention being able to grow all those new pod people....