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that's an impressive comeback! Keep it up girls!

ok, thanks for the info!

I don't doubt that he cheated, and i don't doubt that he lied. The problem that i have is that someone might go to jail for lying about cheating in A GAME! Who cares? Honestly. If this can be proven, then i guess it would be alright to ban him from baseball (even though a huge portion of the players were doing the same thing), but for this to lead to trying to put him in jail for a couple of decades seems absurd. And as for his record being tainted, that's not that big of a deal to me either. I'm sure many of his HR's came off of pitchers that were juicing, and there's no way that he's been on anything for the past few years. He's still been hitting homers in a pitcher-friendly park, even though he's almost 90 and he's had injury trouble. Now I'm not really trying to defend the guy. He's a jerk, he's a cheater, he's a liar. I think the thing that really bothers me is that he's being burned at the stake for this. He's not a terrorist, or a murderer, or a rapist. He simply cheated in a game, and he did it in a time where it was basically expected of the players to do so.

they're still just missing that one piece of the puzzle. they're to the point that they can play with anyone, but they need one more big name to join the elite.

Do you think orangefield would get enough to field a team? I'm not sure, just asking. I know that a lot of the smaller schools that aren't from soccer areas struggle to keep a team together. I wish there was a 3A playoff system. Because there is not, there can't be 3A districts... Hopefully the smaller schools will continue to start teams. Maybe eventually there will be enough 3A (and maybe 2A) teams to make a smaller soccer classification. When i played for HJ from 98-01, we had some fairly decent teams that would've done well in a 3A playoff system (instead of getting our butts handed to us by PNG or Nederland in the first round every year). If you scroll down on the topics, there is something about this in previous threads. I believe it is mentioned in a thread about UIL rule changes. You can get some concrete numbers about 4A and 3A soccer programs. It would be nice to see OF get a soccer team, but how many actual soccer players go there? The thing about soccer is that it's not nearly as prominent in the smaller areas of texas, and many of these areas don't have leagues. That means for the kids to play, they have to travel long distances, and many parents don't want to do that. If the schools in these areas form soccer programs, they generally will have a bunch of guys that have never really played before. Unlike football or basketball, size and speed is not really much of an equalizer. If you put 11 short fat guys who have been playing soccer for 15 years on the field against 11 great athletes who have never played before, the fat guys will just pass the ball around and have the other team running in circles. These smaller schools who will not have skilled players generally get killed when they form, and there usually aren't a lot of people trying to get a team together anyway. Because of this, many smaller schools don't have much incentive to start a program.

heck no it wouldn't! if you want to express yourself, you have to say piss. i know it wasn't the result ya'll were looking for, but congrats on staying undefeated on the year.

So what's the story here? Is BC good? Is Lumberton bad? Is L-town missing any key players that are still in football? I'm trying to get caught up with HS basketball, but people don't talk about it on here like they do football, so if you're not involved with a particular program, it's hard to find out much about it...

I know he's a great player from all that i've heard about him, but i haven't gotten to see him play. if brown + a big man= a national championship, you're saying he's going to be one of the best college players in the country. is he really that good? i'm not trying to hate, i haven't seen him play.

I don't think dayton will roll like they have been, but i think they'll win comfortably. Dayton 37 Texas City 21

I kinda think dayton will advance as well. PNG has a shot, but they're going to probably have to play their best defense all year. I'm pulling for lumberton, but i have a feeling lumberton is going to get la marque, and that's gonna be all she wrote. This is not disrespect, i wouldn't pick anyone to beat them from 22-4A at this point (although the way dayton is playing right now, they'd have a shot at making it interesting). Good luck guys, i hope everyone can advance!

Our boys from 22-4A made easy work of crosby, smiley, and galena park... how many teams will be left from 22-4A after the next round? Here are the matchups... PNG vs. Lamar Consolidated (defeated Dickinson 39-14) Dayton vs. Texas City (defeated Bay City 28-16) Lumberton vs. La Marque/El Campo So who moves on?

yup, 22-4a put a hurtin' on them... now the question is who will be left after next week.

hell of a finish to the game!

Congrats lumberton! more history in the making... now you get a real test next week.

Wow... png really turned it on in the second half!

HD is giving them a hell of a game!

I don't know anything about CC... was this expected?

Dayton is playing amazing football right now!

EC better pick it up!

sounds like a hell of a game here... go indians!

I'm not a huge bonds fan, but really? There is no way to estimate how many players used steroids or other performance enhancers over the past ten years, but i would say that 25% is a VERY safe estimate. I'm not sure why everyone has such a hard-on for getting Barry. I realize he's set the alltime record, and maybe that's upset some old white congressmen somewhere (even though it was already held by an African American), but who really cares? He is undoubtedly the best steroid-using player in the steroid era. Let it go and move on. I just can't believe that a player is going to be charged for a crime when he wasn't telling the truth about using products that probably weren't even banned yet when he used them.

this would be really helpful if he'd go ahead and resign with the yanks... that way i could go on hating both and not have to worry about whether strayrod is going to end up at a club i like or not.

My buddy got us tickets (or preregistered or something)!!! I can't wait!

It wouldn't be very practical. The way they are set up now, they have the ability to field strong athletic teams while not being governed by typical transfer and zoning rules. They are having a great year this year, with a legit chance of going all the way. If Kelly were to go public, they'd get slaughtered. Think of all the players they'd lose to zoning and tranfser rules. They'd also probably be playing against 4a competition, which i feel would be a little too much for them this year, much less the year after they're depleted by going public. I think that Kelly is in the best place they can be right now. Why mess with a good thing? On a side note, i would like to see kelly play some of the big names in the lower classifications in the years to come (WOS, EC, maybe even a lumberton or nederland). That would be a lot of fun to watch.

i definitely agree with both of the points highlighted in red. another plan that would work would be to suspend the player for the next four quarters after the hit. this way if someone pulls a cheap hit late in a game they're losing, they'll miss most of the next game as well, instead of just missing a few meaningless mop-up minutes. if they have a cheap shot in the first quarter, they'll miss the rest of the game plus the 1st quarter of their next game. I think if you are going to start ejecting for cheap and late hits, they should be reviewed on video by the officials. This will give them the opportunity to confirm the intent of the hit, and keep questionable calls from getting a player kicked out. This should be automatically reviewed upstairs without stopping the game, and if they player needs to be reinstated, they can do it after the next play. As for enforcing these rules in HS, i think it's very important to instill good values and clean play into our kids. The only thing i'd worry about would be a couple of hometown refs serving up home cooking and having the power to throw kids out on questionable late hits .