"We couldn't get the ball down deep enough, " Brey said.

WSJ: No. 25 Notre Dame falls at No. 6 Syracuse, 63-47

One wonders if they shouldn't ease up, calm down, breathe deep, get more securely grounded.

WSJ: Way Too Much God

It isn't as if these virile athletes have discovered that deep down they're actually softies.

WSJ: Handling the Bawl: March Madness Turns Into the Crying Game

We've got a lot of feeling deep down, though we don't always show it.

CNN: Pataki: 'Bush says what he means, he means what he says'

Down deep, has he decided that he doesn't really care whether we solve the deficit mess on his watch -- that he accepts the liberal notion that it's a problem for 2020, not now?

CNN: Last chance to conquer the deficits

"Although this result isn't as exciting as some would have liked, it is what we all expected deep down, " Bertolucci said in a statement.

MSN: Those faster-than-light neutrinos ... aren't - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience | NBC News

Things get murkier still when oil companies drill deep below the surface of the ocean floor, since even robots can't go down there to see what's going on.

CNN: John D. Sutter