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Jennings will miss start to have elbow examined Jason Jennings, the Astros' big offseason trade acquisition, has been sent back to Houston and scratched from his scheduled start. He will have his right elbow flexor tendon examined by team doctors Saturday Woody Williams, pitching on normal rest, will start in Jennings' place Saturday against the Philadelphia Phillies. Wandy Rodriguez will start Sunday's game. According to local forecasts, Sunday's game is in jeopardy of being rained out. ''We're not in a bad situation,'' Garner said. ''I just hope (Jennings is) okay." The Astros will wait to announce who will start Monday's game against Florida. Rodriguez originally was scheduled to start that game. The Astros traded starting center Willy Taveras and righthanders Jason Hirsh and Taylor Buchholz to the Colorado Rockies for Jennings, who can become a free agent after the season.

UIL considering radical football realignment plan The complicated system used to provide competitive balance in Texas high school football could get a radical overhaul under a plan being considered by the University Interscholastic League. The UIL redraws competitive districts every two years. The plan to be formally presented in June would carve all UIL football classifications into two divisions for football. The split-division system would need approval from superintendents and coaches. It could be in place in time for the 2008-09 school year. Charles Breithaupt, UIL athletic director, said the proposal would increase competitive balance by grouping more schools of similar size together. "I think this plan has a lot of merit," Breithaupt told the San Antonio Express-News in a story published Friday. "There might be problems we haven't seen or thought of. But it looks pretty solid at this point. It just makes more sense to put teams into the same division at the beginning of the year instead of the end." The UIL split the Class 5A postseason teams into two divisions in 1991 and that system grew to cover playoff teams in all classes. Of the three teams in each district that qualify for the playoffs, the largest school is placed in one division, while the other two are placed in a second. The 5A playoff field was expanded last year to include four teams per district, with the largest two schools entering Division I and the smaller two in Division II. The format was designed to prevent smaller schools from competing in the playoffs against opponents with significantly larger enrollments. Results have been mixed. Last season, for example, the "small-school" 5A champion, Cedar Hill, had a larger enrollment than "big-school" winner Southlake Carroll. Under the new proposal, each class will be split into two, 16-district divisions before the start of the season. "No matter how you divide the schools, you're always going to have teams in the bottom range who are not going to be happy," Breithaupt said. "But if you look at it globally, we think it's pretty good." The model was taken from a system used last year at the six-player level. Teams initially bombarded the UIL with complaints, but they eventually embraced the change. "I thought it worked out great, and so does everyone I've talked to," said Calvert coach Coylin Grimes. "Any time you have something new, people are going to reject it. But they told us it was going to be great for the smaller schools, and they were right."

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Convicted sports agent faces decades in prison KEY WEST, Fla. -- A sports agent was convicted Thursday of smuggling potential major league-caliber baseball players out of Cuba and harboring them in the United States for profit. Gustavo "Gus" Dominguez, a co-founder of California-based Total Sports International Inc., was charged in October in what was thought to be the first indictment accusing a prominent sports agent of smuggling big-league baseball prospects out of Cuba. The Cuban-born Dominguez, who has represented dozens of Cuban defectors and other major league players, denied any wrongdoing during his seven-day trial. But a federal jury found him guilty of conspiracy to smuggle five ballplayers from Cuba to the Florida Keys. According to trial evidence, Dominguez then had the illegal immigrants transported to California, where they were harbored pending an expected windfall from lucrative future sports contracts. Dominguez, 48, faces up to five years in prison for his conviction on the smuggling conspiracy charge plus up to 10 years each for 20 separate smuggling convictions. He was free on bond pending sentencing on July 9. Jurors acquitted co-defendant Roberto Yosvany Hernandez of six counts of conspiracy and alien smuggling. Two other original co-defendants of Dominguez reached plea agreements before the trial. Dominguez's attorney, J. Stephen Salter, said they would appeal the convictions. Evidence against Dominguez included $225,000 in payments to purported drug trafficker and Cuban smuggler Ysbel Medina. Medina, a witness for the prosecution, said the payments were to finance the smuggling operation. Dominguez's business partner, Steve Schneider, said afterward, "I am shocked because I believe the facts will not support that verdict." Operations that illegally transport Cubans from their communist-ruled island to Florida are commonplace, and shipping people on the 90-mile trip across the Florida Straits can be highly profitable. But the Dominguez case was believed to be the first directly linking smuggling with the business of baseball, which is Cuba's national sport as well as America's national pastime. Dominguez helped organize two smuggling trips across the Florida Straits in 2004, federal prosecutors said. The first one failed; the second succeeded with the ballplayers reaching Big Pine Key. Among the group that came in 2004 were Osbek Castillo, a pitcher with the Arizona Diamondbacks' Double-A team in Alabama, and Francisely Bueno, a pitcher with the Atlanta Braves' Double-A affiliate in Mississippi.

I don't understand why games are being postponed when there's only light scattered showers??

Be sure to post makeup dates..

Vidor/Dayton 2 PM Saturday

Chances of playing on Saturday are slim to none!!!! Rain expected later tonight..I haven't seen much rain on radar today. Very light stuff to our west.

20 Weeks to go!! 139 Days

Dr. Charles Brediupt (spelling).

kogt On Thursday in East Chambers the Deweyville Track team had eleven athletes qualify for the regional meet in Palestine. They are Blake Peveto (shot put), Tim Swinney (long jump,4x200,4x400), Sean Brinson (300 hurdles,4x200), Stephen Gibson (4x200,4x400), Ethan Williams (4x200,4x400), Jimmy Folsom (4x400), Joe Dooley (800,mile), and TJ Knight (mile). Girls Tera Gibson (long jump), Christina Caswell (400), Marissa Powell (200). Joe Dooley was the district champion in the mile and the 800 meter run.

Good analysis.

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Hopefully it will hold off until after the games. Saturday's 3A games may not happen though.

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I AGREE!!

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Buck Robley!!

I've been looking around, i'll keep looking.

Good luck to our local players tonight!!!

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May. Then the regional State Tournments are in June.

Statum pitched a great game from what i heard.

Interesting last 2 weeks coming up.

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