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Anybody remember the whole steriod issue during this time? Know there is not proof but alot of rumors been going around for some time.

Three Way is in their first year of having a high school. Them and Bluff Dale were K-8 schools who fed into Stephenville (mostly) but due to TEA funding this year have expanded to include high school. Lipan probably knew it would be a blowout and decided to just shoot instead of driving inside especially if Three Way ran a 2-3 zone. Lipan was probably just hot all night. Only 10 points were not three pointers. They are classy and probably did not mean to run up the score but if everyone is hitting what do you do, just hold the ball and not let the other team have it?

Tech for the 2nd time makes the dumbest decision. First with Leach and now Kliff. Yes the team was 5-7, but the defense was getting much better and look at West Virginia, Texas and Oklahoma games. If not for injuries this team was 9-3 or 10-2 and you fire him. The one coach who truly loves Lubbock and gave so much for this university and city. How stupid can Tech's administration be. And now to look at a defensive coach who will be eaten alive by Big 12 teams.

The city of Dallas is not going to like this. Both universities realize how nice AT&T Stadium is and very soon the game will leave the Cotton Bowl and cross the county line for good.

Region 1 may be a little bit easier, but there is still Lubbock Estacado and Dunbar who just dropped. Argyle may face more difficulty playing the fundamentally sound teams out west. Last year they only beat Lipan, with 95 students in the whole school, by 5 points.

Before I start by I want to just state that I know that this is a board about Southeast Texas sports and that the locker room is not often looked at but considering I do not do social media this is the best place for me to vent. On the night of October 23 and 24, 2018 the islands of Saipan and Tinian in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or CNMI, were completely destroyed by Supertyphoon Yutu. The CNMI is a United States territory just like Guam and Puerto Rico. Yutu made landfall at 180-185 miles per hour sustained winds and at one point its entire eye was over the island of Tinian and the tip of Saipan. It flipped cars, ripped jetways apart and moved them hundreds of feet, and it caused concrete buildings to collapse, yet to the mainland other than an quick article the day after the storm nothing. For the island of Saipan this is just 4 years after Typhoon Soudelor ripped apart the northern half of the island. Just like in Soudelor, when it was argued here on this board that the CNMI isn'r really a part of the US the mainland forgets about the 54,000 Americans that live on these islands. The military is here helping, as is FEMA, but unless you have a connection to these islands more than likely you did not think much about this storm. Today one month after the storm, maybe 20 percent of Saipan has power, while 80 percent has water. Some villages on the island have water every two days for two hours. On Tinian every house was damaged and they are not expecting power in the main village for another 2 months. Schools have been destroyed and 15,000 people are either homeless or living in damaged houses. These are Americans and there is no coverage. As I stated at the beginning this is not the best site for me to place this, but it is the one place I can. I know that to the few that read this many will not care. You might say we understand because we went through Harvey just last year. I lived in Allison; more specifically I lived in Friendswood during Allison. I know that damage that Harvey caused because I lived though its little sister and Allison haunts me to this day. That night of Yutu I was lucky because I was in a house where the windows did not break. The next morning it took another person and I over 4 hours to get a 30 foot flame tree cut using machetes and handsaws. We drove around my village and the people I was with said it was worse than Soudelor. The next day I decided to drive down to the southern area of Saipan and the only thing comparable was that of a tornado but covering about 20 square miles, or 4 miles north to south and 5 miles east to west. It was and is equivalent to a way zone. We have had soldiers driving around in military humvees and cargo trucks. Lines waiting for barrels of water. MREs and DHRs. The only thing missing from making this a true war zone is the machine gun on top of the humvee. I was able to go to Tinian 9 days after the storm to help out. They have no place for food. The restaurants were destroyed and the two gas stations were not working. After a week they finally got one pump going, but the stores were running out of food; they still are. The island can and will recover. They did it with Soudelor, but once again we are forgotten when it comes to the news. Yes we are a ways out here, but in this day and age of technology that is no excuse. I know many will not see this and will brush this off, but the last thought I would like to say to everyone is that these two islands changed American history. The Battle of Saipan was the battle in which Japan knew that they could no longer when the war. Tinian is where the atomic bombs went off that killed millions, but saved millions more because they forced Japan to surrender and the US did not have to go through with the invasion. These are US islands with Americans living here and yet there is nothing on the news. We can talk politics and sports left and right. We can talk about fashion and who were it best, but we cannot spend more than basically five minutes the 3rd strongest storm to hit the United States or the people that are having to suffer because of it. It's just not right. Thank you whoever reads this for letting me vent my thoughts and emotions.

Anyone hear about Yutu? 180 mph sustained striking US, wonder what's left of where it hit.

Just an update. Luckily my island was spared with only 80-85 mph winds. Our southern island Rota however had sustained winds of 130 mph with tropical storm force winds for about 8 hours along with about 10 inches of rain. Biggest issue was waves as 70% of the island live in a village that is maybe 1000 feet wide from one ocean to the other and the waves were 40 feet. Still hearing news and getting small info but it looks like bad. US Citizens in a US territory

2015 Soudelor This was the last storm that hit my island. I was not here for it, but just this year the trees are back to normal, but now another storm is coming straight for us.

Didn't see a hurricane topic created for this year. Might as well start one up. Looks like this might be the week of hurricanes for the US with 4 storms possibly slamming different places starting tomorrow night. Typhoon Mangkhut which is barreling down the NMI. Will hit one of the islands at about 125 sometime tomorrow night or Tuesday morning. As of yesterday morning it was going to hit guam but then last moved forecast moved it to Rota and now in between Rota and Tinian. I'm on the northernmost island and we have just recovered from Soudelor in 2016. That one left the island without power for three months. Cimaron passed through two weeks ago and gave us a foot of rain in one day. There is a navy ship ready just off the lagoon in case. Will be a fun ride on such a small island. Know we don't ever make the news in the mainland but in the past month we have had Cimaron come through my island, Jebi pass over the northern islands at 120 mph, and a 6.4 earthquake. Then Olivia is threatening to dump even more rain on Maui and the Big Island sometime Wednesday. Florence hitting Charleston Thursday possibly at 130 mph. Finally possibly Puerto Rico on Saturday being hit. Crazy week building up and thought this deserved a thread.

Wasn't Jacks the coach last year? What happened to him?

Figured just a wish. Always said and heard from mutliple coaches if you gave her Ozen players she would have a couple of championships. This is now a chance to prove everyone right.

Isn't Fontenot a vice-principal at Central? What if she applies? She was always the best coach in Beaumont just never had the players like Brown did. Give her Ozen players and you got a powerhouse at any level.

And now they can and not that crowded field game.

3-6A might not have the distance but will top that for time. San Angelo Central Abilene Weatherford Haltom Richland LD Bell Euless Trinity With traffic Central may have 5 hour drives to every school but Abilene and Weatherford. The West Fort Worth, Abilene, and Wichita Falls district is pretty baffling as well.

4A. Division 1. District 5. Enough Said.

San Angelo to Euless. Love those Tuesday night games.

It is 3 AM where I am at and I woke up just to see who wins the award for screwed over by UIL the most. My money's on San Angelo ISD and its two schools.

Nice effort, but Region 1 is missing Trimble Tech from Fort Worth. Also Abilene will be placed in a DFW district and not out west. Considering YMLA and Trimble Tech will appeal down, you could just slide Abilene in there, but UIL may not do that because it's no guarantee the two schools will win their appeal.

If this merger was 5-10 years ago they would have swept girls and boys 6A for a few years with Toe Toe and Hunter along Fontenot coaching the Ozen girls and Washington, but now not so much. Too much competition is 6A Houston with North Shore, Atascocita, Sam Houston, and the Cypress and Fort Bend Schools. West Brook have had some great players but haven’t done much. Could they be yes good and make some runs every few years probably but the new school won’t be top 10 year in and year out like people are thinking.

This might affect the Aledo State Championship rings being made for the next two years. Be Aledo or Manvel winning

Not local but 4A loses Wylie but gains Dunbar who could become a monster in boys sports. Was 5A representative in basketball 2 years ago with only 800 students.

Is 5A-D2 the most watered down or is one team just that much better?

Is it possible for the district to switch the games that are suppose to be played next week with November 3, Vidor's bye week? This would give Vidor until the 23rd before their first game. UIL would probably be understanding and allow the switch.

Remembered that Memorial was on the north side so I knew it should be good, but did not know about the students and coaches. If they can start playing next week that is great. As for Vidor I have not heard or seen much on it, which is understandable all things considered. Did the High School actually flood or did the water just get close to it?