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SETXsports has learned that DC Pat Fischer of PN-G has resigned. No other info was avaiable at this time.

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We all knew what she was going to say!! trying to blame everything on Steroids!

Re: Madison Tourney Saturday Pool A (At Marshall HS) Woodlands Cy Fair Klein Forest Marshall (Other 3 Pools at Butler) Pool B Beaumont Westbrook Chavez Klein St. Pius Pool C Madison Kashmere Bellaire Hastings Pool D Lamar Davis Langham Creek Alief Elsik

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Riddick announced as new OF volleyball coach Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader ORANGEFIELD — To bring the volleyball program up to the level of the basketball program is the No. 1 priority for new Orangefield volleyball coach Linda Riddick. Orangefield Athletics Director Blake Morrison recently announced the hiring of Riddick to replace Becky Sanders. Riddick has been with the district for five years and is also the head golf coach and assistant girls basketball coach. “I am real excited about this opportunity,†Riddick said. “When the vacancy came up I thought about it and decided this was the time to become a head coach.†The outlook for the Lady Bobcats is a bright one with returning players Kaylin “KK†Little, Laura Riddick, Aimee Scales and Allie Beach. Newcomers to the team will include Jessica Maass, Jessica Wheldon, Jessica Worthing and Olivia Wagner. “We have so many kids that play both volleyball and basketball,†Riddick said. “Our girl’s program has so many athletes that it is easy to share them.†The girls basketball program at Orangefield has been one of the best around for several years and Riddick know wants those same athletes to take volleyball just as serious. Making the playoffs in District 21-3A is a tough road in volleyball though since the number of talented teams are at a premium. “It is a very tough district for volleyball,†Riddick added. “Hamshire-Fannett is always tough and Silsbee and Bridge City are always so fundamentally sound. I think we will surprise some teams this year because we are not looked at as a volleyball school. That is something we hope to change.†Morrison has been a busy man this offseason also having to find replacements at the head girls basketball and softball positions. Amy Duhon is the new softball coach and Chris Jost is the new girls basketball coach after the resignation of Sondra Ancelot. “She (Riddick) is a hard working coach,†Morrison said. “Linda is a great fit for Orangefield and I think she will do a great job. She does a great job with discipline and gets the kids focused. I think she will take the same approach that our basketball team does and she really took charge after Becky left by helping with all the summer leagues.†With the three hires made this summer for the girls’ programs Morrison said the teams are ready to make some noise soon. “Coach Jost is going to keep the basketball going with the same intensity,†Morrison said. “Linda and Coach Duhon, I think both of those two are going to be great situations. We are looking for Coach Riddick to start our year off in a great way. We want volleyball and softball to be on the level of our basketball. She is going to do a great job and once she gets that first W under her belt, she will be fine.†Riddick likes the near future for the Lady Bobcats program and is ready for the first practice on Aug. 6. “The future is bright,†Riddick said. “With the kind of kids we have, you can’t help but be competitive. They are all great kids with great work ethics.†Riddick added she will still serve as the Lady Bobcats head golf coach and assistant basketball coach.

HJ, Silsbee, Kelly and Lumberton will play at 5 PM Thursday in Silsbee.

Dang Bigdaddy..Who did you make mad..

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Yeley edges Johnson to win first career pole Associated Press BROOKLYN, Mich. -- J.J. Yeley won his first career pole Friday at Michigan International Speedway, making him like the two-mile oval even more. "This is one of my favorite race tracks," he said. "It's a lot of fun because it's four and five grooves wide. It's big, fast and a lot of fun. "It gives me a lot of comfort when I'm driving and when you have that comfort, you drive harder," he said. Yeley posted a lap of 38.399 seconds -- at a speed of 187.505 mph -- to edge Jimmie Johnson by a thousandth of a second. "I don't win many poles, so I hate to see opportunities fly by," said Johnson, the defending Nextel Cup champion whose last pole was more than a year ago. "Qualifying is not my specialty, so I have to really commend my team. "I'm better at racing than running by myself," he said. Kyle Busch was third at 186.829, showing he was not too distracted after Hendrick Motorsports chose to replace him earlier in the week with Dale Earnhardt Jr. on next year's team. "You have to put it all in perspective and look at the items you can control," Busch said. Earnhardt will start Sunday's race 23rd in the 43-car field. Ryan Newman, Joe Nemechek and Jeff Gordon rounded out the top six qualifiers. Michael Waltrip will race for just the third time in 15 races. ................................................................................ ......... 4 and 5 grooves wide, huh? Does that mean more wrecks when you get that many cars side-by-side? And Jr. --- I'll be glad when you start pulling off the "Top 6-10" qualifying runs.

Should be fun!

Thursday games will be WB, Central and Memorial at PTA 4:30 PM. OF, BC and Maybe LC-M at WOS 4:30

kogt Fifty years ago June 27, Hurricane Audrey swept through Orange County and Southwest Louisiana. The storm surge killed an estimated 500 people, mostly in Cameron, Louisiana. The storm came in the days before satellites and modern forecasting gave advanced warnings for evacuation. KOGT’s Richard Corder recalls the storm was far away in the Bay of Campeche when it suddenly turned north and started traveling at 15 mph, straight for the Texas-Louisiana border. Corder went to the KOGT studio the night of June 26 to begin warning people of the storm. He found people who spoke French to give warnings to the Cajuns in Louisiana. The Golden Triangle in those days had only two television stations, and they stopped broadcasting after the 10 p.m. news. The 10 p.m. forecast from the National Weather Service estimated the storm would reach land by the next afternoon. Some people in Orange left in the night for shelters at schools or churches as the winds began to blow. The nation was in the Cold War at the time and neighborhoods had Civil Defense volunteers. The volunteers went door-to-door in the middle of the night telling people to leave. Corder stayed on the air as the wind blew and people lost power. At one point, authorities asked him to tell people to hunker down in their houses and not travel through the storm. The east side of Orange, including the large Riverside housing addition flooded, as did the Cove area. A lineman for Gulf States Utilities Company was electrocuted in flooded waters on Second Street near Gilmer Homes. Corder recalled one special plea for help from a lady in Riverside. She was nine months pregnant and was having contractions. The National Guard was running trucks through the flooded streets to get people out as the water kept rising. Corder got word to the National Guard to go to the lady’s house. She delivered her baby soon after the truck got her to the hospital. Susan Quigley was 14 years old at the time. Her parents, Jimmy and Anne Quigley, owned the Orange Leader. Susan recalls the damage along Green Avenue businesses and the large trees blown down at First Presbyterian Church. The eye of the hurricane blew across Orange County and Corder warned people during the lull that the storm was not over. Finally it passed. The National Weather Service reports a maximum wind gust of 100 mph was recorded by the Sabine River Authority in Orange during Audrey. As Orange residents began to clean up and deal with the power outages, word began to come from Louisiana about the hundreds of deaths. Volunteers from Orange went to the marshes near Cameron to rescue the living and recover the dead from the snake-infested marshes. Quigley said her father was gone for four days covering the story in Louisiana. Newspaper reporters from across the country camped out in the old Orange Leader office, which at the time was in the 500 block of Front Street. Her father was awarded a national Associated Press prize for his coverage of the storm. Corder also worked for days, staying at the station to broadcast the news from Louisiana. KOGT became a source for names of the dead and he would answer questions from people calling to ask about their relatives. The hardest part of his job, he said, was telling people that a relative was dead. Volunteers from Orange told him of finding bodies hanging from barbed wire fences and tree limbs. He also heard the stories of people fighting off poisonous water moccasins. Many victims had been bitten. One of his friends found a family that had escaped into their attic. The father reported looking toward the Gulf of Mexico and seeing a “wall of water†coming. The tidal wave knocked the house off its foundation, but the family made it to the roof. “He was beating snakes off that roof with a boat paddle,†Corder said. Lance Wingate, 88, of Orange was bitten by a water moccasin, though it didn’t seriously hurt him. Thirty-eight head of cattle were washed away from Grand Chenier in Cameron Parish to Orange. The owner told Wingate he could keep the cattle, so he and family and friends went by horseback to round up the cattle. The horses were swimming across Cow Bayou when Wingate dropped his whip. He went to pick it up and there was a water moccasin. The moccasin struck Wingate and bit him on his cowboy boot. One fang sunk through a split in the boot. He knocked the snake off, but the fang stuck. It was hours before he got to the hospital. The bite was not serious, perhaps because Wingate had been bitten before by a copperhead. (He had another copperhead bite later, making him a three-time snakebite victim.) Hurricane Rita in 2005 was a stronger storm than Audrey and produced a larger storm surge in Cameron. Once again, the Louisiana towns along the Gulf, Holly Beach and Cameron, were wiped out. But the people living there evacuated before Rita, thanks to the advanced warnings. Orange sustained a large amount of damage during Rita, much more than during Audrey. But people will never forget Hurricane Audrey and the deaths. Audrey is still ranked as the seventh deadliest storm in recorded U.S. history. Until Hurricane Katrina, he was the last hurricane with deaths rising into the hundreds. A memorial service for the victims of Hurricane Audrey was set for 10 a.m. Wednesday in Cameron, a town that is still rebuilding after Hurricane Rita.

Sept. 14th

Indeed!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep us updated on the draft King.

Official Rockets draft party set for Thursday night Fans invited to watch it all unfold at Dave and Buster's The Rockets will host an official NBA draft party Thursday night at Dave and Buster's, located at Richmond and Fountainview. Fans are invited out to see the entire draft unfold, with particular attention paid to how the Rockets spend their top pick, the 26th overall selection. Attendees at the free event will watch an exclusive, live interview with Rockets general manager Daryl Morey immediately following the team's pick. The interview will take place at Toyota Center and be sent via direct feed to the restaurant. Fans in attendance will have the chance to win Rockets prizes and autographed items, and the Rockets Power Dancers are slated to make an appearance. Draft coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.rockets.com.

NBA's TV extensions include rights for ESPN digital media content NEW YORK -- The NBA announced extensions of its television contracts with ESPN/ABC and TNT on Wednesday, deals that will include rights for digital media content. The eight-year extensions will go through the 2015-16 season. The current six-year contracts expire at the end of next season. Financial details were not immediately disclosed. The digital rights include the ability for the networks to broadcast live games and other content on digital media, including the Web and mobile TV. The deal also covers any new outlets ESPN develops between now and 2016. ESPN's digital rights also include: • Ability to include ESPN and ABC games and studio programming in any ESPN offering, on a live, delayed and on-demand basis and in an interactive format. • Use of NBA-licensed content in multi-sport programming. • Ability to simulcast full NBA games live on ESPN360.com and ESPN Mobile TV. • Continued development of GameCast, fantasy games and interactive applications, as well as ESPN content and programming integration into EA Sports video games. • Use of NBA-licensed content in user-personalized features on ESPN platforms. "This agreement sets a new standard -- it is the most expansive package of rights we've acquired from a major professional league in our 27-year history," ESPN president George Bodeheimer said. "We're thrilled to take a major step forward in our relationship with David Stern and the NBA with this broad, global agreement. The scope of this deal and the new rights we obtained offer us tremendous opportunities to serve NBA fans like never before -- in the U.S., around the world, and through any device." ABC will continue to air 15 regular-season games and the entire NBA Finals and will televise an increased number of games earlier in the playoffs. The maximum number of times a certain team can appear on the network during the regular season has been increased. ESPN and ESPN2 will continue to show up to 75 regular-season games as well as one of the conference finals. ESPN will increase the number of early-round playoff games it airs. In addition, ESPN will televise exclusive coverage of the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, the NBA draft and draft lottery each season, and feature coverage of the yearly NBA pre-draft camp on ESPNU. The contract also includes new rights for ESPN International to televise games worldwide. TNT will continue to air 52 regular-season games, the All-Star Game and one of the conference finals. The previous deal paid the NBA an average of $765 million a year.

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And i'm sure everyone knows Tuesday's result.