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October 2008
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Recently in High School CategoryHere's my back in the old days lecture. In the fall of 1997, my senior year at Plano East, there was nothing bigger in the City of Plano, maybe save for the Balloon Festival, than the annual football game between Plano and Plano East Senior High Schools. The city virtually shutdown and more than 17,000 people filled Clark Stadium, with many high school students sprawled out on grass that lines parts of the area above the south... As Hurricane Ike approaches, weekend football games are adjusting their times and dates to avoid the bad weather. The Texas Longhorns and Arkansas Razorbacks game in Austin, which was scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed and rescheduled for Sept. 27. The Saturday TCU game against Stanford has been changed from 6 p.m. to noon in Fort Worth. The Washington State-Baylor football game has been moved up to Friday nig... We're heading out in a few minutes to go to Rowlett's football practice, where we are going to do a story on Marquise Goodwin. He's a wide receiver and kick returner, but his real claim to fame is as a track athlete. Goodwin was the star of the 2008 State Meet in May (with apologies to the Class-A female athlete who won a state title by herself). Goodwin earned three gold medals, a silver and a bronze. He would have shattered the state... Lots of local guys are the best of the best on the Texas Football magazine "Super Team," on as the best players at their positions regardless of their classification. The 2008 all-class, all-star "Super Team" compiled by Texas Football magazine: FIRST TEAM Maybe some humans actually do work at the NCAA. James Bradshaw, who played on Trinity High School's state champion football team last year, has had his college football scholarship reinstated. Earlier this week the NCAA ruled that his scholarship was not valid because of the way his eighth grade Spanish class was coded on his transcript. Bradshaw's family says the NCAA reinstated the scholarship this afternoon, just in... News 8's Jim Douglas has an interesting story about James Bradshaw, a standout lineman form Trinity High School's state championship team. (Read it and watch video here.) At this point, he's not allowed to attend Arkansas-Pine Bluff next month on a full-scholarship because of a transcript glitch that misidentified a Spani... The USA Junior Olympic Girls Volleyball Championships began in Dallas today. There are 788 teams competing from across the country, including a team from Hawaii. It's the tournament's first trip to Dallas in a decade. The 9,000 girls range in age from 12 to 18 and will be at the Dallas Convention Center through July 5. <...The Texas All-State baseball teams, as determined by the Texas High School CLASS 5A Pitchers: First base: From The Associated Press: This year's Class 5A state football championships will be held at Reliant Stadium in Houston. It's the third year of the University Interscholastic League having the title games in Texas' biggest classification at the same site. The first two years were at San Antonio's Alamodome. Birdville High School has been playing baseball for eight seasons and this year for the first time, they earned a trip to the State Tournament. They Face Waxahachie on Wednesday in Round Rock. After spending an hour or so on their campus, my favorite part became the team mascot, a real live Hawk living at their stadium. "It's a Red Tail Hawk," according to Head Coach David Hatcher. And apparently, the bird has become Birdville's good... We are two days away from the high school baseball state finals, starting Wednesday in Round Rock. Four teams from the DFW area are going in class 4A and 5A: Waxahachie will play Birdville in the semi-finals; Southlake Carroll and Plano West could face each other in the championship game. Four teams from here, playing in the two biggest classifications are the most since ... ever, if my research on the UIL's website is correct. It's a very goo...
We went out to Plano West today, to do some interviews with the baseball team. That story will air Sunday night on High School Sports Special. They are doing something that baseball teams just don't do -- go undefeated... This is how they play basketball where I come from. The 3-A State Final in Iowa. Harlan and Dubuque Wahlert. Harlan was down 4 with 10 seconds to go but a lay-up made it a 2 point game. They steal the inbounds pass and Michael Kaufman gets the game tied at 67 with 2 seconds to play. But after a time-out, Dubuque's Eric May gets a shot off from mid-court and it goes in. Harlan, right up the road from my hometown Logan by... |
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