Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category

A Very Long Day

Ok, to be fair upfront, yesterday was an awesome day. However, a wonderful day was nearly ruined – and that is what I would like to share.
So, yesterday was the annual World Youth Day at Six Flags. It is an event where the Catholic teens of the Diocese of Dallas and the Diocese of Fort [...]

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Requests?

I had hoped to be posting about a Red Raider victory this morning, but that just didn’t seem to be in the cards. There was some positives about the game: namely, the fact that we did not fall apart when mistakes were made. They bounced right back and made good plays. This is a huge [...]

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If I Were The Big XII Commissioner…

First of all, thank God I’m not.
After hearing 7,000,000,000 different ideas on how to decide who wins the Big XII South three way tie, I decided to see if I could look at some numbers and figure it out.
To begin with, we all know this fact: OU, UT and Tech are all 11-1 teams. Which [...]

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Reason Number 59876538 Why I LOVE Mike Leach!

http://texastech.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=866497
A) Thank God Leach isn’t turning a blind eye to the kicker situation.
B) A&M is going to be pissed if this works out. Talk about your 12th man.
C) If I was a Tech football player, I’d be upping my game so Leach doesn’t replace me!

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Oh Mike Leach…

how I love thee!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxBsXzvENpo

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Phantastisch!

Back in 1979-1980, my parents hosted a 16-year-old foreign exchange student from Germany named Tina. Since then, we have remained in contact with her and her family, including several trips from both sides of the ocean. Tina got married 16 years ago and now has two children of her own. The last time we saw [...]

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On the Road Again

Sometimes, and I hope to make this more often, I visit a site that generates random writing prompts. You remember writing prompts: those things teachers would put on the board or overhead and tell to you to write five minutes about in an effort to improve your writing simply by having you write every single [...]

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