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Silsbee assistant coach Ira Brooks will be coaching his last home game tomorrow night. Coach Brooks will be retiring at the end of this season. Coach Brooks has been coaching at Silsbee for 32 years. He has been a mainstay and key component to the success of the Tiger Basketball program. His JV teams have always been successful and have won many district championships even when several freshmen and sophomores were playing varsity. Coach Brooks has earned the respect and love from many coaches in our area. He has been a fantastic coach but an even better man. He will be missed. Congrats to my friend Ira.

Final 71-62 Bridge City BIG TIME UPSET!!! Congrats Bridge City!!! The better team won.

This is the first time in school history that Bridge City has made it to the 3rd round of the playoffs. Also, their current 14 game win streak is the longest in school history. Definitely an historical season for the Cards.

Here is my take. I'm middle/upper, closer to middle class even though I have never felt like it. Within reason, I buy what I want, when I want, and manage to contribute to 401K and still have money to put in accessible savings. FYI, I bring my lunch to work daily and do not eat out often. I think we are spoiled as a country. I grew up never wanting for nothing. We did not eat out every night, my Mom cooked every day, We also didn't eat steak, it was mostly rice and gravy (round steak-cheap), chicken and pork chops....all cheap. I was blessed that my father shrimped on the weekends, so after he paid for his fuel selling shrimp, we got the extra. I actually got tired of shrimp and crabs.....which I would of thought was impossible. While prices are higher, Pork chops and chicken are still cheap enough, along with beans and rice, you can feed a family very reasonably. The problem is, we have been brain washed that everyone is equal and that is simply not true. A perfect example is years ago when I was single, I hung out with a Doctor and attorney who were also single.....After a couple months of living their lifestyle, looking at my bank account, we were NOT equal.....I could not afford to do what they did. A very expensive lesson in economics...not everyone us equal. As far as the Epstein files, only a very small percent of people care anymore, and majority are Trump haters hoping there is something that will make him look bad. I am 100% convinced that Biden admin would of added that to all the other tings they accused him of during the Biden term. The victims have stated they never seen Trump do anything inappropriate and he never went to Island. So, we can keep talking about it, but it will not change anything - Trump is still a powerhouse politically....

I really don’t understand urgency, priority or necessity of this.

Including you? You have made some yourself.

Long time listener first time caller a couple things here on warm ups 1. You are allowed 21 match games and 3 tournaments (can also do 23 games and 2 tournaments and a few other combinations but no one does that), how many games you play in a tournament doesn't change anything. You can play 6 or you can play 3 and it still counts as a tournament. Jamborees or showcases or whatever you want to call them count as one of your 21 games. The UIL changed this to 21/2 or 19/3 about ten years ago and then changed it back after a year or two due to coaches not being happy at all with the change. Not even sure what the original reasoning was for the change to be honest. 2. The warm-up era was huge when the UIL switched from allowing 2 teams to 3 teams to make the playoffs in the late 90's I think it was. At that point in time (most of the 00's) if you won district you had a first round bye which meant not playing for a week and a half and that was felt to be too long by most coaches, so that is when you saw the warm-up game really take off. Once the UIL allowed 4 teams to make it now there is only a week between games and you started to see less and less warm up games. I also think the mandatory UIL one game suspension for an ejection has played into this as well. Now not only are you risking injury with only a week between games you are also risking the potential of having a first round suspension due to an ejection, so that plays a small role as well. In my opinion (just one coach others may feel totally different), the only real value in warm up games now are like what you see with Coach Sutherland at EC and as mentioned above is you lose so many games to the football team making the playoffs and you have an opportunity to make one up because you didn't even get close to your game limit. Also, if you are a massive powerhouse like Silsbee and you more or less ran through your district without any close games at all like they did several times in the last decade, you don't want to go into the playoffs without having played a close game in a month and a half, so going and playing high level competition in a warm-up game adds value. Also think that if the UIL flips to what they did with volleyball ( and rumor is it is probably going to happen) and the regular season ends on Friday and the first round of the playoffs starts on Thursday/Friday the following week, which would leave Monday/Tuesday as your warm up game options, in my opinion the warm-up game is completely dead at that point.

@BMTSoulja1 why does United have a German shepherd on their scoreboard, a coyote mural on the wall, and their mascot is the Timberwolves? 😂

Personally, I think y'all are all too invested in this, and the ending you get will never satisfy.

This one is indefensible, which is why nobody is commenting in here. It's highly unlikely he watched the whole video before reposting it, but that's irrelevant. If you're the president of the United States you better check what you post before you hit send. If I'd posted the same video last night I would've been fired before I made it into work this morning.

Offense Amante Martin QB Port Arthur Memorial Defense Kaleb Menard LB Orangefield Congrats to these two well deserving young men.

These are the teams I am picking to win in our 19 2nd round games: Atascocita over FB Elkins North Shore over Pearland Humble over Dawson West Brook over Kingwood Park Baytown Sterling over Crosby Beaumont United over Lake Creek Livingston over Bullard Huntington over Trinity Orangefield over Hitchcock Buna over New Waverly Onalaska over Central Heights San Augustine over Overton Chireno over Douglass Big Sandy over Granger Brookeland over Lometa I got 15 of our teams moving on to 3rd round. I have Summer Creek, Crosby, Kingwood Park, Bridge City, Silsbee, Trinity, New Waverly, Central Heights and Sabine Pass ending their seasons.

Orangefield school board has set a bond election for May 2 for improvements to athletic facilities. The improvements will be turf to football, baseball and softball fields as well as expanded seating, additional lighting and additional parking. Also new pressbox at the football stadium. These are much needed upgrades. Hopefully it will pass this time.

7 years

Brookeland 58 #6 Moulton 43 Final Brookeland has advanced to the Regional final for the second year in a row

You can try that nonsense with someone else, I voted for the turd 3 times but will be critical of him if he’s not following through on his promises. You’re a cult member not a supporter. You need to layoff the orange dust.

Looking forward to Warren beating Newton this year when they get a good coach.

UIL rules have changed that doesn't allow some teams to play warm up games these days. Teams now have game limits and once they have reached those limits, you are not allowed to play any extra unless it's for district seeding or play in games. Most teams these days play tournaments that are pool play which allows teams to play more tourney games. That adds up over the season. Also several play in multiple holiday jamborees which adds to their totals. Really the only teams that can play warm up games these days are teams that have to wait till football is over to start their basketball season. Sometimes that's two to three weeks after everyone else has started. Usually that is only in the 3A and down classifications. We still have some teams that will play warm up games this year. I have already received info on some of the games. I will be posting a Seed/Play In/Warm Up Game Info thread on Wednesday morning.

I have no desire to “get” Trump or destroying MAGA. Go MAGA. I just don’t want him to deter pursuing the guilty, which he is doing.

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The people that are saying “all he is done is sue people and put his name on stuff” - are either brain dead, only listens to MSNBC, didn’t get past the first grade, very late stages of dementia, or a booted member named Cardinalbacker. Trump has done more in his second term that Obama and Biden in their combined terms….

Do you have any clue how disrespectful this is to the Service members and their families? Disagree with the policy. Disagree with POTUS. That’s fine. Don’t minimize or trivialize someone’s death who swore on their life—which they gave full measure—to protect you.

Amen, that’s what’s important here.

The TDS is very real if someone thinks taking this kind of action is a distraction from Epstein files or anything honestly. It appears the majority of Iranians are celebrating, rightly so, a leader killing 30K of his young people for protesting is not a place most would want to live. With mid-terms coming up, this is a huge risk if this goes south, but maybe doing the right thing is more important.

And if he'd been born a Biden, his Daddy would blindly pardon him... Or if her name was Mary Jo Kopechne it would've been swept under the rug... But wtf does Trump or anyone else have to do with this conversation???

I think JFK would be a little concerned that his party no longer knows what a woman is. He certainly did.

We can compare teams after the season. Let’s enjoy this one. (And it’s not particularly close to begin with which makes it even more silly to do so at this point.)

Russia Hoax was a perfect example of a crooked DOJ and no one has been arrested for it even with proof. We can’t run a country with a sitting President (Obama) spying on an incoming president and manufacturing nonsense against the incoming administration in order to destroy them. That’s just one example of many.

The district put out a survey that was pretty detailed about what people want in a HC/AD along with strengths and weaknesses of the athletic program. It's nice that they're listening for once. Anyway, they're closing that survey on March 1st. I would say that they're very early in the process.

FINAL 59-41 BH

Everything you says is true. Imagine that. They create an Act to protect themselves from legal opposition, even if they are in the wrong, and most are. Most are lawyers themselves anyway. They implemented no term limits. They provide themselves with elite health insurance, different from the American public while regulating our health insurance. They vote to shut down our government, halting services and pay for our government employees, except for their pay. They never miss a payday. The list goes on of their preferential self-serving treatment. No sympathy here.

not going to lie, I was more curious to hear from his supporters, who're being surprisingly quiet right now.

Was just informed by a very credible insider that Toby is very interested in Jasper and look for him to apply.

I can't wait for coach Iggy Azalea to come back and tell us all about his illustrious coaching career and how much smarter he is than all of us.

True dat!

Man! Where the heck are y’all buying groceries? KROGER: Choice Boneless Beef Brisket Untrimmed Whole in Bag (Limit 1 at Sale Price) $3.99/lb. I never pay full price even before inflation. Pork Butt was $.99/lb. last week. I’m smoking it tomorrow, vacuum packing what we don’t eat for stuffed spuds, brisket enchiladas, & barbacoa tacos. We gat about 4 different meals for about $12.00 total for the main course. 😀

I agree with that to a point. As I’ve preached my opinion on here many times, it’s a combination of coaches, kids & community support. Really gotta have all 3 if you want continued success. You gotta have a good horse and not a mule for sure. But you also have to have a good jockey/trainer and an owner who’s willing to spend the money it takes. Since we’re doing the Kentucky Derby thing.

What's that quote from future HOF and state champion coach Cornell Thompson once said? "You can't win the Kentucky Derby with a mule". I'll take a multiple state champion coach's word on the subject over anyone else. Now, back to Jasper being open.

Remember my bee and fly epigram? It applies here.

Not sure Republicans would do it anyway. They’re as bad as the Dems now. They may say they want cuts. But, they’re perfectly content to sit back until someone else does the cutting and takes the heat. House Freedom Caucus is the only group even trying to hold a budget. They’re the Ron Paul’s of this generation. Everyone calls them crazy troublemakers.

[email protected] Tom’s Track Volume 38, Number 1 Feb. 13, 2026 My apologies for missing last year. My wife passed away on Jan. 30, 2025 and your ol’ Bubba needed time to bounce back from that. I’m back but I should have sent out this opening installment sooner than this. I’m sure there are dozens of new high school area track coaches and athletes for me to learn in a big hurry. But I will give it my best shot. First, my new e-mail address is [email protected]. That is significant for all you folks who will host meets. I’m sure my attendance at some of these area meets will be hit and miss, and probably mostly miss. So please e-mail your meet schedules and your meet results before and after to this e-mail -- [email protected] As always, I will attempt to provide a list of area leaders as the information can be accurately determined. Thanks for your help because I’m sure I will need as much of it as possible. We begin with a tentative season schedule. Of course, these dates and locations are subject to change but here’s what I have as of Feb. 13. …. Let’s have a strong track season, tom halliburton if you would like to receive pdf-formatted updates in track season, please email [email protected] AREA OUTDOOR HIGH SCHOOL TRACK SCHEDULE FOR FEBRUARY Feb. 13 NEDERLAND BULLDOG RELAYS Feb. 19 PN-G JOE WILLIAMSON RELAYS Feb. 19 SPLENDORA WILDCAT RELAYS Feb. 20 CLEAR SPRINGS CHARGER RELAYS Feb. 20 DAYTON QUINN WOOD RELAYS Feb. 21 HUMBLE SAM MOSLEY RELAYS Feb. 26 BRIDGE CITY CARDINAL RELAYS Feb. 26 HAMSHIRE-FANNETT LONGHORN RELAYS Feb. 27 CONROE TIGER RELAYS Feb. 27 LAMAR CONSOLIDATED RELAYS Feb. 27 LIBERTY TRINITY VALLEY RELAYS tom track 1.pdf

Here you go, since you’re apparently too lazy to verify. Couldn’t find it on CNN or MSNBC so that’s probably why you weren’t aware. [Hidden Content]

Alabama's Bediako has been denied his motion for a preliminary injunction to continue to play. Now will NCAA make Bama forfeit the games he played in? NCAA had always ruled the player ineligible.

Any black person who voted for Obama practiced racism. They voted for him because he looked like them. They thought he understood their needs better than someone who didn’t look like them. They were wrong. He actually had very little in common as a shared life experience with any of them. They thought he had the same characteristics as them because he looked like them. They assigned him traits because of the color of his skin that he didn’t possess. This is the very definition of racism. Period.

Hypothetically, what 30 people said Trump had sex with underage women? The actual Epstein victims that have a list they won't release (but could and it would NOT violate their NDA) have said they never seen or heard of Trump acting inappropriate. I think I know 2 of the 30, and it would be Cardinalbacker and TheMissingBand.....actually, I could add a few more from here that claim it to be true without any proof what so ever......

Same. Except I use the Capital One (1.5% back) strictly for all regular recurring bills like utilities, insurance, prescriptions, etc. I use the one from the Credit Union for incidentals. I write one check a month still because I just can’t get myself to trust the City for the water bill, and they want direct bank access. Everything is paid off every month.

In the realignment, districts draw their schedules out. It's not done individually between each school but by district committee. Sometimes schools can negotiate the home and home after the order is set.

We will not cover their district. (standings, schedules, game threads) Doesn't mean Barbers Hill info is prohibited here. I encourage Barbers Hill talk to continue here. I was asked by a coach to post that Non-District schedule.

The man wearing the MAGA hat should have stayed in his truck. But, that’s another issue. He had as much right to his free speech as the kids. The 10 or 15 kids that jumped him while it looked like he was trying to retrieve his hat were assaulting—not protecting—as some of the parents were saying as a means to justify their actions. Great parenting. Teaching your kid it’s okay to resort to violence when someone questions your actions, and then congratulate them for it when they were supposed to be in school anyway. I did get a kick out of the video from Minnesota. Walz welcomed students to the Capital to protest, and they wound up fighting and destroying property while they were there. Imagine that. I think it beat out the drunk teen in Kyle, TX protesting and arrested, and the Atlanta kids destroying laptops and such by a nose.

5A DI District 9 Goose Creek Memorial, Baytown Sterling, United, West Brook, Galveston Ball, La Porte, Lufkin, New Caney, PA Memorial