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Drayton McLane hasn't been happy about the fact that the Yankees and Red Sox have never played a regular-season game at Minute Maid Park. It appears the Yankees will be on the home schedule in 2008. That's based on an early draft of the schedule. I've heard the Rocket got it all set up. He wanted another home game.

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HS Kicker - 330 bench 500 squat...6'2" 220 By Doug Robinson Deseret Morning News Published: Sept. 12, 2007 12:37 a.m. MDT There must be some mistake. I arranged to meet with Bingham High School's phenomenal place kicker, Justin Sorensen, but instead they brought out the fullback. No way this kid is a kicker. I was expecting Martin Gramatica; I got Mike Alstott instead. This kid is 6-foot-2, 220 pounds. He wears a size 13 1/2 shoe. His legs are twin fire hydrants. "Yep, I'm the kicker," he assures me, pointing to his T-shirt, which bears a picture of a place kicker. By now you've heard the stories about the Bingham kicker. The Internet blogs are replete with chatter of his prowess. TV stations have shown up at Bingham practices. Radio talk-show geeks are abuzz about his prodigious kicks. BYU fans are delirious at the prospect of him kicking for their team next season. The Deseret Morning News named Sorensen its Athlete of the Month for August. All of this fuss over a kicker? "He's stronger than any kicker in the nation at any level," says Dave Peck, Bingham's head coach. Don't be too quick to dismiss this as hyperbole. How many NFL kickers can drill a 62-yard field goal off grass with no wind aid? That's what Sorensen did last Friday night to break a 37-year-old state prep record. Story continues below Such kicks are becoming routine for the Bingham senior. In a three-point win over Alta in the season-opener, he kicked field goals of 59 and 51 yards. He kicked a 62-yard field goal in the team's annual preseason Blue-White intrasquad game. He kicked a wind-aided 75-yard field goal for TV cameras during practice a couple of weeks ago. The NFL record is 63 yards. "He makes such a difference in this team," says Peck. Think about it: All the Miners have to do is reach their opponents' 45-yard line, and they're in scoring territory. So far this season, Sorensen has made 6-of-8 field-goal attempts. His two misses were 56- and 57-yard attempts into the wind, and one of those was doomed by a bad snap. He has 19 career field goals, three shy of the state record. Sorensen's kickoffs, meanwhile, have become a sideshow at Bingham games. They are booming shots that routinely land 10 to 20 yards behind the end zone. Last season, 81 of his 96 kickoffs were touchbacks. To give Bingham's kick returners a chance to practice returning kicks, coaches moved Sorensen back to the 25-yard line during the Blue-White game. He split the uprights, which means, in order to clear the crossbar the ball traveled 90-95 yards in the air. "He's basically kicking 100 yards," says Peck. Sorensen's only complaint: He wishes the high school kickoff was from the 30-yard line, not the 40, "so I can get ready for college." Here's the kicker about all this, so to speak: "A lot of people don't realize that Justin is kicking off grass," says Peck. Unlike collegians and professionals, high school kickers are allowed to kick field goals and PATs off plastic tees, raising the ball well above the level of the grass. It gives kickers the same advantage that a golfer enjoys with a tee. Sorensen has elected to kick field goals and PATs without a tee this season to get ready for next year's collegiate season, even though rules allow it and it provides a distinct advantage (last season, he used a two-inch tee for kickoffs and a one-inch tee for field goals). "Now he's gotten comfortable without it and prefers to kick that way," says Peck. Says Sorensen: "If I put it on a tee, I can kick farther, but I'd be worried if I changed things now." There's rarely, if ever, been a kicker like Sorensen, with his odd combination of size, strength and kicking ability. He bench-presses 330 pounds, squats 500 pounds and power cleans 330 pounds, the latter being close to a national high school record. During last spring's power-lifting season, he set the state record for the power clean. Sorensen developed his kicking skills as a youth soccer player and began playing football in eighth grade, as a linebacker, fullback and kicker. "My son was on that team, and I remember seeing Justin kick off," says Peck. "Even then you could tell he was a strong kicker." He also was a hard-hitting position player. Given Sorensen's size, strength and taste for contact, Peck was tempted to play him at another position last season but considered him too valuable as a kicker to risk injury. He considered using him as a fullback again this season but abandoned the idea when Sorensen sustained a shoulder injury while rock climbing. "The one thing I miss as a kicker is the hitting," says Sorensen, who nonetheless has made several teeth-rattling tackles on the rare occasions when his kicks have been short enough to field. Sorensen's size and physicality make him a bruising force on defense for the Bingham soccer team in the spring. "I try not to use my size that way," he says, but it's not easy when playing against players who are usually on the small size. Predictably, Sorensen has attracted much attention from college football recruiters. Coaches from Oregon, Stanford, Colorado, Illinois and Washington were recruiting him before BYU convinced him to commit ("I still talk to Washington," he says). The other schools never really had a chance. Sorensen grew up in a household immersed in the blue and white of both Bingham and BYU. He is the eighth of nine children, all of them with "J" names — Jeff, Jody, Julie, Jared, Jenny, Jake, Jesse, Justin and Josh (mom is Jill but, alas, dad is Kent — "so we call him Jose," says Justin). They all made their mark at Bingham. Among the Sorensen children, there has been a student body president, a football team captain, a homecoming king, a valedictorian, two cheerleaders, several student body officers, and football and soccer players. They cheered for Bingham on Friday night and BYU on Saturday. They have been BYU season-ticket holders for 25 years, sitting "in the worst seats in the house — on the top row left of the Jumbotron," says Sorensen. "We can't see the replays, and we have to bring binoculars to see the field." The Sorensens had to take those seats because there was nowhere else they could find the 50 or so tickets they needed to accommodate cousins, aunts and uncles. Next year they will have two of their own to cheer for at BYU — Justin and his cousin Danny Sorensen, a safety from California — provided Justin can arrive there in one piece. For Peck, it's worrisome enough that Sorensen is an avid unicyclist who rides contraptions that range in height from a few feet to 10 feet, but he also rides down mountainsides and jumps off rocks. He likes to take the unicycle up the Snowbird tram, for instance, and ride to the bottom of the canyon, cutting his own trail and jumping off anything he can find. He has jumped off heights as high as 18 feet. After watching his kicker jump off a five-foot stage onto the floor during a school assembly just before the state playoffs last fall, Peck scolded Sorensen and ordered him to stay off the unicycle for the rest of the football season. "I chewed him out," says Peck. "I laid it on him." Sorensen gave the coach a scare a couple of weeks later when he showed up at his office on crutches with his foot in a boot. Peck shot out of his chair and approached Sorensen. "This better be a prank," Peck said, unsmiling. "Coach, I was riding my unicycle and tore my Achilles tendon, and ... " At this point, Sorensen, seeing his coach's face, abandoned the prank, threw down the crutches and started running, with Peck in hot pursuit. "I was like, 'Oh, this is too scary!"' he recalls of Peck's reaction. "He got me," says Peck. "I can laugh about it now." Much to his coach's relief, Sorensen showed up this season fit and ready for kicking duties. He practiced kicking four days a week throughout the summer, usually alone. His routine consisted of kicking each of the eight footballs he brought to the field, then retrieving them and starting again until he had kicked as many as 120 times in a single session. "I definitely want to see how good I can be at this," he says. A lot of other people want to do the same thing.

HF vs. EC is a go for Friday Night!!!!

HF has power back.

BISD no school Friday. Football will be played though.

Thanks.

PNG, WOS, Sabine Pass no classes Friday. Football games will be played though.

Stay tuned for updates.

Yes there're playing...

No. 1 pick Oden expected to miss entire season Damaged cartilage in right knee will have 7-footer on crutches for up to eight weeks PORTLAND, Ore. — Greg Oden, the top pick in this year's NBA draft, likely will miss his first season with the Portland Trail Blazers after surgery on his right knee Thursday. Doctors found cartilage damage during an exploratory procedure, and team physician Dr. Don Roberts performed microfracture surgery to repair the damage. "There are things about this that are positive for Greg. First of all, he is young. The area where the damage was is small and the rest of his knee looked normal," Roberts said in a statement. "All those are good signs for a complete recovery from microfracture surgery." The 7-foot center is expected to be on crutches for up to eight weeks. Full recovery likely will take six to 12 months, the team said. Oden was the No. 1 pick in the June draft out of Ohio State, where he averaged 15.7 points and 9.6 rebounds. The Blazers scheduled a news conference Thursday to discuss Oden's situation. "Certainly this is a setback, but our future is still incredibly bright," Trail Blazers general manager Kevin Pritchard said. "Is it disappointing? Yes. However, this is a great core of talent and players of strong character and will continue to be." It was Oden's second health problem since the Trail Blazers drafted him. He had a tonsillectomy in July after struggling in two Las Vegas summer league games. Oden recovered and had been working out in the Portland area. The MRI was taken Thursday, and Oden refrained from working out over the weekend. Despite being hampered by a wrist injury at Ohio State, Oden led the Buckeyes to the national championship game as a freshman. He had 25 points and 12 rebounds in the loss to Florida. Oden talked about the injury earlier this week in his blog. He said he had a sharp pain about a month ago when he was on vacation. "I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want to seem like I was complaining or making excuses for anything. Plus I wasn't doing anything at the time I realized it hurt, so I figured it couldn't be anything big," he said. The Blazers open training camp Oct. 2. The regular season opener is at San Antonio on Oct. 30.

You go just north of the Triangle and very little happened. It was a small Hurricane size wise.

Everything still on for Friday except for LCM/Kashmere which will be saturday at 1PM.

Bridge City at Lumberton Friday Night as well!

Bump.

Waller at Nederland and PNG at Silsbee still on for Friday!!! 8)

Saturday 6 PM at LCM.

Kashmere at LCM has been moved to Saturday at 1PM.

Friday morning i'm sure. They'll wait and see if power is restored to places that don't have it.

Another Texas Player Arrested By April Castro (AP Writer) September 13, 2007 - 12:55PM AUSTIN (AP) - Texas senior safety Tyrell Gatewood remained in jail Thursday after his arrest on drug charges, the fifth arrest of a Longhorns player since June. Freshman defensive back Ben Wells, 18, who was riding with Gatewood when he was pulled over late Wednesday, was given a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia and released. Gatewood, 22, was charged with two counts of possession of a dangerous drug. It was his second drug-related arrest in a year, although misdemeanor possession charges were dropped after his arrest last September. He was suspended for a game. Texas athletic officials planned to release a statement later Thursday. Gatewood and Wells were pulled over by a Travis County sheriff's deputy for failing to signal a turn. Smelling marijuana, the deputy searched the vehicle and found pot, Xanax and a baby bottle full of codeine cough syrup, said Travis County sheriff's spokesman Roger Wade. Bond was set for Gatewood at $2,500 for each count. Gatewood also was being held on an arrest warrant from Dallas County on a reckless driving charge from March. Bond for that charge was set at $500. Linebacker Sergio Kindle and defensive end Henry Melton, both arrested on drunken driving charges during the summer, are serving three-game suspensions that will end after Saturday's game at Central Florida. Freshman linebacker Dre Jones was suspended indefinitely last month after being charged with aggravated robbery. Former safety Robert Joseph was charged in the same incident. Joseph had already left the team after being arrested in a separate incident earlier in the summer. Gatewood, from Tyler, switched from receiver to safety before the 2006 season, and has played mostly on special teams. Wells graduated early from Beaumont Ozen High School and enrolled at Texas so he could participate in spring drills. He was named to the Associated Press Sports Editors Class 4A all-state team last season. (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Very close.

Latest word from Entergy is they hope to have evryone back by 5PM Friday.