KFDM COOP

I saw some video on them last week and they run the same Offense as Texas Tech, they never slow down.

A close one!

Clemens' name surfaces in steroids probe NEW YORK — Judgment day arrived for baseball's steroids era, with the Mitchell report set to be released and posted on the Internet for all to see. The first name to emerge today was seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens. ESPN.com reported that Brian McNamee, a former trainer for the Yankees and Clemens, said information he gave Mitchell on supplying the pitcher with steroids is in the report. The Web site, citing an unidentified source close to the trainer, said McNamee told investigators he supplied Clemens with steroids. Randy Hendricks, Clemens' agent, did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Mitchell's report exposes a "serious drug culture within baseball, from top to bottom," fingers MVPs and All-Stars and calls for beefed-up testing by an outside agency to clean up the game, The Associated Press learned. The report by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell will include names of 60 to 80 players linked to performance-enhancing substances and plenty more information that exposes "deep problems" afflicting the sport, one of two sources with knowledge of the findings told the AP. Both sources said the report would not address amphetamines. The two sources were familiar with discussions that led to the final draft but did not want to be identified because it was confidential until its scheduled release. They said the full report, which they had not read, totaled 304 pages plus exhibits. One person familiar with the final version would only speak anonymously but described it as "a very thorough treatment of the subject" and said some aspects were surprising. He said the report assigns blame to both the commissioner's office and the players' union. MLB's "not going to love it, the union's not going to love it," he said. One source said that while the report will cite problems "top to bottom," it also will expose "deep problems, the number of players, high-level MVPs and All-Stars," as well as clubhouse personnel who allowed steroids and other banned substances in clubhouses or knew about it and didn't say anything. The rest of the report, the sources said, focuses on recommendations that include enhanced year-round testing and hiring a drug-testing company that uses the highest standards of independence and transparency. Baseball's program currently is overseen by a joint management-union Health Policy Advisory Committee, with an independent administrator approved by both sides. Mitchell, a Boston Red Sox director, planned to release his report at 2 p.m. today during a news conference in New York City. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig was to hold his own news conference a few blocks away 2 1/2 hours later. The report comes at the end of a year when San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds broke the career home run record, only to be indicted 100 days later on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about steroid use. It also was expected to recommend that baseball develop a credible program to handle cases with evidence of athletes receiving or taking drugs but not testing positive for them. Just last week, Kansas City's Jose Guillen and Baltimore's Jay Gibbons were suspended for the first 15 days of next season, and media reports said they had obtained human growth hormone in 2005, after baseball banned it. Much of the first part of the report will be based on evidence obtained from former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski, and from information gleaned from the Albany district attorney's investigation into illegal drug distribution that focused on Signature Pharmacy of Orlando, Fla., the sources said. Radomski was required to cooperate with the investigation as a condition of his federal plea agreement last April. Radomski pleaded guilty to illegally distributing steroids, HGH, amphetamines and other drugs to players and is awaiting sentencing. Some professional athletes have been linked to the Signature probe, though none have been charged. Rob Manfred, baseball's executive vice president of labor relations, reviewed at least part of the report this week to ensure no confidential information from the drug-testing program was disclosed, a person with knowledge of the union's discussion with Mitchell said, also on condition of anonymity. Despite repeated requests by the players' association to Mitchell's law firm, the union had not been allowed to review the report, that person said. "I certainly hope after 21 months and getting zip by way of cooperation from the players' association that they'll come up with some recommendations for improvement," said World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound. "If not, it's a complete waste of time." But he said he's not sure baseball would follow any recommendations. "My guess is that the management side probably would, but the players' association will dig in and continue its steel-town union approach to life," he said. Agents have said they expect the report to be highly critical of players and the union for largely refusing to cooperate with Mitchell. Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, sent an e-mail to owners and team presidents in advance of the report with instructions how to respond to media inquiries. "We look forward to carefully reading the results of Sen. Mitchell's investigation," the recommended response said. "Protecting the integrity of our game is vital, and we intend to study his findings and recommendations, and will not comment until we have done so." Baseball did not have an agreement to ban steroids until September 2002, did not have testing with penalties until 2004 and did not ban HGH until 2005, when it also instituted a suspension for a first positive test. Mitchell was hired by Selig in March 2006 after the publication of "Game of Shadows," a book by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters about Bonds' alleged steroid use. The rise in power in the 1990s, which drew national attention when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chased Roger Maris' single-season record in the Great Home Run Race of 1998, was accompanied by a rise in suspicion. Maris' record of 61 homers had stood since 1961, but McGwire hit 70 that year and Sosa had 66. During the chase, the AP reported McGwire had used androstenedione, a supplement then available over the counter that produced testosterone. A bulked-up Bonds then shattered McGwire's record by hitting 73 homers in 2001.

Titans ready for 21-5A opener By Cody Pastorella The Port Arthur News Coming off an 89-68 loss to Yates on Saturday, the Memorial Titans have a 5-5 record going into District 21-5A play. By no means is Port Arthur's .500 record a disappointing one, however. Memorial opens league play when Humble comes to town on Friday night. That game is set to start at 7:30 in the Titans Gym. Humble is 6-6 so far this season and is led by seniors Vincent Cavalier and Dewayne Rogers. Cavalier is averaging 20.2 points per game. while Rogers is scoring 16.2 points per game. Memorial head coach Turrel Henderson said Humble has great veteran leadership; but with the schedule the Titans have played so far this season, Henderson also said there isn't anything his team hasn't seen. Memorial has played just one team in its 10 games that wasn't a strong opponent (beating Houston Heights 128-35). The Titans have played a number of top-ranked 4A and 5A opponents, including Ozen twice, FB Hightower, Houston Yates, Houston Bellaire and Smiley. Among those games, only Yates handed Memorial a lop-sided loss. In that Yates game, J'Covan Brown scored 36 of the team's 69 points. He was joined by Darius Harris, who dropped in eight points and grabbed six rebounds. Brown, Harris, JaKore Tyler and Jacovin Buckner, who tallied a season-high 20 points in a 72-67 overtime loss to Ozen on Dec. 4, round out the team's starting lineup. Big man Jordan Reno, Tevin Turner, Harry Brown and Shaquille White also see considerable minutes for the Titans. "I think we're ready," Henderson said. "We kind of got back to the basics this week. The coaching staff wanted to get everyone in sync before district and I think the staff did a good job. We got to scout Humble Monday night and I think we are well prepared. "With the schedule we have played, we are definitely battle-tested. We've played a very tough schedule for the purpose of getting better and getting prepared for district.

Broncos brace for pass-happy Cavaliers By Dave Rogers Published December 13, 2007 His father is the only man alive – or dead — to be a member of five straight Super Bowl teams and the winning quarterback for Cal in the game that ended in “The Play†when the kick returners lateraled their way through the Stanford band. The guy he replaced quarterbacked Kansas to the No. 1 national ranking this year, if only for a while, and his understudy is the son of former University of Texas quarterback Robert Brewer. But what concerns Dayton coach Jerry Stewart and his Bronco players is the right arm of Lake Travis junior Garrett Gilbert. “He can chunk it now,†Stewart said this week as his Broncos prepared to face Lake Travis in a Class 4A Division II state semifinal game Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field. “He’s got a whip, and I’d do the same thing if I had him,†the coach said of the Cavaliers’ pass-happy offense. “I’d see if he could get 40 touchdowns, too.†Gilbert, a 6-foot-4, 190-pounder who seems destined to follow 2005 Lake Travis grad Todd Reesing and his dad, Gale Gilbert, to a major college scholarship, has passed for 3,985 yards and 45 touchdowns for the 13-1 Cavaliers, a team riding a 12-game win streak to College Station. The Cavaliers have averaged 37 points per game for the season and 46 points per game in the playoffs, including last week’s 57-43 shootout win over Beeville Jones. Gilbert threw seven touchdown passes in that one, just missing the state record of eight set by Barbers Hill’s Jabo Leonard in 1971 and matched by Lee’s Drew Tate in a 62-7 win over Sterling in 2001. The favorite target for Gilbert, whose biggest early recruiting suitors are Texas Tech and Nebraska, is 5-10, 165-pound senior Jason Bird. The son of offensive coordinator Jerry Bird has 125 catches for 1,521 yards and 17 scores. “It’s like a video game,†is how the younger Bird described a Lake Travis offense that averages 408 yards per game. The Cavaliers average 121 yards per game rushing, with Chris Aydam leading the way with 866 yards and 12 TDs on the ground. Coach Jeff Dicus has rolled up a 42-15 record in five seasons at the well-to-do neighborhood in northwest Austin, taking over after the school was 1-19 the previous two years. The Cavaliers went 11-1 when Reesing was a senior two falls ago. Gale Gilbert, the quarterback’s dad, has a Wikipedia page that sounds a little like something out of Forrest Gump. He was on a California team that lost the Little League World Series championship game to Taiwan in 1974, and after his college days at Berkeley had an 11-year NFL career as a backup QB. He had just four career starts, but was a member of four straight Super Bowl teams for Buffalo and appeared in mopup duty for the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX, the game in which San Francisco QB Steve Young “got the monkey off his back.†None of this will make one whit of difference in Friday’s football game, of course. All Stewart and his players can work toward is trying to see a lot of the son of another famous dad. Ryan Erxleben, the Lake Travis punter, is the son of former UT and New Orleans Saints kicker Russell Erxleben. “We won’t change anything we do,†Stewart said when asked his plans to defend against Garrett Gilbert. “We’ll line up and see what he’s got. “What we can’t do is let him think it’s a 7-on-7 deal.â€

Good question.

They play at Leggett that night.

Cardinals Unable to Snap BYU Home Win Streak Hot shooting Cougars pull away from Lamar in the second half. Dec. 12, 2007 PROVO, Utah (AP) -- Lee Cummard scored a career-high 27 points and No. 25 Brigham Young won for the 36th straight time at home, beating Lamar 88-66 on Wednesday night. Trent Plaisted added 22 points and Jonathan Tavernari scored 11 for the Cougars (8-2), who held a double-digit lead through most of the game. BYU also avenged an overtime loss to the Cardinals (3-6) last December. The Cougars made 11 of 28 3-pointers and took advantage as Lamar struggled to hit shots. The Cardinals finished 24-for-63 and were 5-for-18 from beyond-the-arc as they tried to make a dent in BYU's lead. Lamar Sanders scored 11 to lead Lamar. Darren Hopkins converted a three-point play to pull the Cardinals to 65-53 with 7:25 left in the game, but Cummard answered with back-to-back 3-pointers to start an 18-5 run for the Cougars. Cummard and Plaisted combined on a couple of plays that thrilled the small crowd of 8,130. Plaisted had the ball at the baseline and bounced a backward pass to Cummard for an easy layup. Later in the half, Cummard returned the favor by banking a pass off the backboard to Plaisted for an emphatic dunk. Cummard had never scored more than 21 points in a game.

:'(

88-66 BYU wins.

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71-56 BYU late 2nd half.

60-45 BYU 9 Min left.

Come on Cards! >

He'll come on. I've listened to a few LC-M games this year and the players you named have done very good.

49-36 BYU in the 2nd Half.

It was never reported and i've been looking around.

Me either man. I really thought the Defense was going to be good this year.

42-30 BYU half.

26-15 BYU in the first

Sweet!!