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Thanks D.

A good one!!

Hardin Jefferson wins in District Opener..

WOS 68 HF 62 in District play...

Thanks for the score!

Battle of # 1 and # 3...

WOS Girls win.

67-31 Jasper

Thanks for posting it!!

Sr. Babe Ruth will be holding a baseball clinic Saturday January 14, 2006 at the Nederland Babe Ruth Field. Ages 6-10 9-11:30 AM; Ages 11 & up 1-3:30 pm. Current Major League players Brian Sanches, Jesse Floyd and Brad Sullivan are expected to be in attendance. All are alumni of Sr Babe Ruth. Registration forms can be found at [Hidden Content] If you have any questions please call Jimmy Collins at 409-722-8516.

Signups for the BCOFGSA will be held Jan 14 at the BC Wal-Mart and at the OF Junior High Gym from 9am till 3pm. For more information go to www.bcofgsa.com or call Dan Harris at 6705981. All girls ages 5-18 can join. It's an ASA sanctioned league and they play their home games off of 9th avenue in PT ARTHUR.

www.kogt.com The Orange Youth Baseball/Softball (OYBS) at Memorial Field WILL have a Baseball/Softball season in 2006 !! The dates are up in the air right now due to the condition of the fields. We are waiting for the city to finalize the bids and get the light poles straightened. Once this is done and it is safe to go out and work on the fields, we will be asking for lots of volunteers to help clean up the area so we can move forward with our season. Well over 1,000 kids play ball on these fields and we will not let them down. Mike Coffey, VP OYBS, 882-9567. Sign-Up Dates at Memorial Field are as follows: Saturday- January 21 & 28, 9a-3p; Saturday-February 4, 9a-1p.

My 3A realignment weekly update is up on the web page and under the Realignment Forum..

LOL I held a club 1 time in my life!! :oops: :oops:

:mrgreen: We'll see if we can get it on for you...

My 3A Realignment story will be up later tonight on the main web page and under the Realignment Forum..Look for it!!

Schedule Buy Hard to Get Tickets Nextel Cup | Busch | Truck | Champ Car | F1 | IRL 2006 Nextel Cup Schedule | NASCAR on FOX 2006 broadcast schedule This Week's Schedule Date Race Track / Location Time (ET) Raceday Weather TV Previous Winner 2/11 Budweiser Shootout Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, FL 8:00 p.m. Jimmie Johnson 2/16 Gatorade 150 Race 1 Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, FL TBA Michael Waltrip 2/16 Gatorade 150 Race 2 Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, FL TBA Tony Stewart 2/19 Daytona 500 Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, FL 2:00 p.m. Jeff Gordon 2/26 Auto Club 500 on FOX California Speedway Fontana, CA TBA Greg Biffle 3/12 NASCAR Racing from Las Vegas on FOX Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, NV 3:05 p.m. Jimmie Johnson 3/19 Golden Corral 500 on FOX Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, GA TBA Carl Edwards 3/26 NASCAR Racing from Bristol on FOX Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol, TN 1:15 p.m. Kevin Harvick 4/2 NASCAR Racing from Martinsville on FOX Martinsville Speedway Martinsville, VA TBA Jeff Gordon 4/9 Samsung/Radio Shack 500 on FOX Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, TX TBA Greg Biffle 4/22 Subway Fresh 500 on FOX Phoenix International Raceway Avondale, AZ TBA Kurt Busch 4/30 Aaron's 499 on FOX Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, AL TBA Jeff Gordon 5/6 Chevy American Revolution 400 on FX Richmond International Raceway Richmond, VA TBA Kasey Kahne 5/13 Dodge Charger 500 on FOX Darlington Raceway Darlington, SC TBA Greg Biffle 5/20 NASCAR Nextel Open on FX Lowe's Motor Speedway Concord, NC 7:40 p.m. Brian Vickers 5/20 NASCAR Nextel All-Star Challenge on FX Lowe's Motor Speedway Concord, NC 9:00 p.m. Mark Martin 5/28 Coca-Cola 600 on FOX Lowe's Motor Speedway Concord, NC 5:40 p.m. Jimmie Johnson 6/4 NASCAR Racing from Dover on FX Dover International Speedway Dover, DE 2:10 p.m. Greg Biffle 6/11 Nextel Cup Racing from Pocono on FOX Pocono Raceway Long Pond, PA TBA Carl Edwards 6/18 NASCAR Racing from Michigan on FOX Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, MI TBA Greg Biffle 6/25 NASCAR Racing from Sonoma on FOX Infineon Raceway Sonoma, CA TBA Tony Stewart 7/1 Pepsi 400 on FOX Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, FL TBA Tony Stewart 7/9 USG Sheetrock 400 Chicagoland Speedway Joliet, IL TBA Dale Earnhardt Jr. 7/16 New England 300 New Hampshire International Speedway Loudon, NH TBA Tony Stewart 7/23 Pennsylvania 500 Pocono Raceway Long Pond, PA 1:40 p.m. Kurt Busch 8/6 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis, IN TBA Tony Stewart 8/13 Sirius Satellite Radio at The Glen Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, NY TBA Tony Stewart 8/20 GFS Marketplace 400 Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, MI TBA Jeremy Mayfield 8/26 Sharpie 500 Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol, TN TBA Matt Kenseth 9/3 Sony HD 500 California Speedway Fontana, CA TBA Kyle Busch 9/9 Chevy Rock & Roll 400 Richmond International Raceway Richmond, VA TBA Kurt Busch 9/17 Sylvania 300 New Hampshire International Speedway Loudon, NH TBA Ryan Newman 9/24 MBNA RacePoints 400 Dover International Speedway Dover, DE TBA Jimmie Johnson 10/1 Banquet 400 Kansas Speedway Kansas City, KS TBA Mark Martin 10/8 UAW-Ford 500 Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, AL TBA Dale Jarrett 10/14 UAW-GM Quality 500 Lowe's Motor Speedway Concord, NC TBA Jimmie Johnson 10/22 Subway 500 Martinsville Speedway Martinsville, VA TBA Jeff Gordon 10/29 Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, GA TBA Carl Edwards 11/5 Dickies 500 Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, TX TBA Carl Edwards 11/12 Checker Auto Parts 500 Phoenix International Raceway Avondale, AZ TBA Kyle Busch 11/19 Ford 400 Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead, FL TBA Greg Biffle Nextel Cup Schedule

WOS, Bridge City, Jasper, HJ, BH.. in 3A. I may have missed a couple, i'm working on a million things right now...

All Sports? That's a tough one.

:shock: :shock: I didn't see that!

Former Memorial baseball coach sues PAISD for discrimination ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two of the people he had issue with are no longer at Memorial High School, but former Memorial baseball coach Triny Rivera is going ahead with his lawsuit against the Port Arthur school district. Rivera, who is Hispanic, says in legal papers filed on his behalf this past November "an atmosphere of hostility and discrimination against Hispanics currently exists at the PAISD." A 2005 report by the PAISD provided to The News by a school board member shows only 7 percent of the PAISD's 1,277 employees are Hispanic. Eight percent of the PAISD employees at Memorial High (12 of 155) are Hispanic and only four of those are teachers of counselors. According to the Texas Education Agency's Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) report for 2004-2005, 62 percent of Memorial High's students were black, 23 percent Hispanic, 8 percent Asian and 6 percent white. Court documents on Rivera's suit were made available to The News by attorney David Bernsen. He is a former state senator and former Lamar University baseball teammate of Rivera, who is representing the coach. They show Rivera's alleged mistreatment by principal Marilyn Baptiste caused Rivera to file a charge of discrimination against the district with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Civil Rights Division of the Texas Workforce Commission more than a year ago. Since then, the state certified math teacher says he has been fired as baseball coach by former athletic director Dean Colbert and demoted by Baptiste to be a hall monitor, all in an attempt to convince him to quit. As a result, Rivera has filed a retaliation charge with the EEOC and, this past November, a lawsuit against the district. Bernsen filed another retaliation lawsuit against the PAISD last week, this one on behalf of longtime Port Arthur teacher Paula Mathews. It alleges the district is in breach of contract after settling an EEOC discrimination charge last spring that was brought by Mathews, a certified social studies teacher and coach. The settlement included an undisclosed cash payment from the district to Mathews and a promise to consider her for jobs in the district. The suit charges that since last spring, PAISD superintendent Mackey has "intentionally and willfully" refused to consider hiring the teacher and has "instructed, or made known to" the principals of PAISD schools not to hire Mathews. Asked to comment on Rivera's charges, Baptiste said, “There's been no discrimination against Hispanics or whites.†Regarding Rivera's job changes at Memorial, she said, “He has changed assignments like other people in the district have also changed assignments, but it was never to demote him. He's still a teacher on the Memorial campus - he's not a hall monitor - and he's receiving the same (teaching) salary. “As far as him losing his job as coach, I don't have anything to do with that.†Late Wednesday afternoon, Mackey responded to a Monday request for comment on the Rivera lawsuit with a faxed note instructing the questioner to speak with PAISD attorney James Black. Mackey's secretary, Georgia Antoine, who sent the fax, said Mackey would be out of his office until next Tuesday. The News only learned of Mathews' lawsuit Tuesday. Black did not return a phone message left Wednesday afternoon. Colbert said he was unaware of the Rivera lawsuit when asked about it in late December. Richard Morris, the Houston attorney who filed PAISD's response to Rivera's lawsuit, did not return a request for comment left by The News Monday. PAISD, in its Dec. 7 response, issued a general denial to "each and every allegation contained in (Rivera's) original petition." Colbert resigned at Memorial last week and was hired Tuesday by the Humble school district. Mackey recently reassigned Baptiste to the position of director of elementary education. However, she will remain in charge at Memorial until a replacement as principal can be hired, Mackey said. Rivera earned $60,332 in the 2003-04 school year but is now being paid an annual salary of $52,303, according to figures provided by the PAISD in answer to a Public Information Act request by The News. He is suing for actual damages "consisting of lost wages and benefits" in the past and future; mental anguish in the past and future, physical illness in the past; and attorney's fees and court costs, as well as punitive damages, the lawsuit says. The suit charges the PAISD "through and at the intentional direction of Mackey, Baptiste and Colbert and other unnamed persons, engaged in retaliation against (Rivera) by demoting, suspending, constructively firing and firing (Rivera)" as a result of Rivera filing a discrimination grievance. Bernsen said, "He started complaining about problems with baseball and Hispanics on the campus. Then he ran into problems with the principal and superintendent, then, as a consequence of that, with Colbert. "They started taking issue with his coaching, trying to force him out. They thought if they could force him out of coaching, they could force him out of the school district. "They just keep heaping the retaliation and the humiliation on him, which is absolutely ridiculous. I think our case will show he's the only certified bilingual math teacher at the high school. I don't think there are too many of those floating around. "Plus, he's a good baseball coach, too." In an interview with The News last summer, Colbert denied reports that he fired Rivera, saying the coach resigned. Rivera, before referring further questions to his lawyer, asserted to The News in December that Colbert, indeed, had fired him as baseball coach. "I filed a grievance one week and got fired the next," he said. "When Colbert said I resigned, that's very confusing to me. I never resigned. "I wanted this class (of baseball players) coming up to have a better chance than the others. I had some kids play two years for me." The case was filed in the 58th District Court of Jefferson County. It has not been placed on the docket yet, but a clerk said if it were to go to trial, the earliest possible court date would be about a year from now. Rivera is a native of Wharton who was an assistant baseball coach at Thomas Jefferson in 1974-75 and head coach at McNeese State from 1981 to 1986. He returned to Memorial in the summer of 2003 and coached the Titan baseball team in the 2004 and 2005 spring seasons. He faced discontent on the job from the start. He turned in his resignation in the fall of 2003, just months after he started work at Memorial, but tore up that letter after a meeting with Mackey. Rivera had been upset that his initial teaching assignment was at Woodrow Wilson Middle School, which prevented him from working with his players in the off-season during the high school athletic period. He was also upset that he lacked sufficient office space or a telephone. The district found Rivera a teaching job at Memorial High. The following spring, a group of baseball parents was prepared to protest at a school board meeting that the district still wasn't giving Rivera the necessary support. He still didn't have a school phone, there were equipment shortages, his coaching staff was shy two men and Baptiste was having him teach six math classes a day, which left him little time to prepare for practices or games. But Mackey got off a pre-emptive strike. The morning before a parent was set to detail these shortcomings to the school board, he invited the parent to a meeting, at which Baptiste, Colbert, Rivera and athletic coordinator Lauri Hampshire were also present. As a result of the meeting, Rivera finally got a phone installed in his office, one basketball coach and one football coach were assigned to help him the final month of the season, and the coach won a promise to cut his teaching schedule to four math classes a day. In his September 2004 discrimination charge to the EEOC, Rivera alleged that since becoming Memorial's principal in November 2003, Baptiste "has harassed and attempted to intimidate the Hispanic and White staff and treating (sic) the Black staff more favorably." He charged that Baptiste tried to humiliate him at a staff function in May 2004. Rivera also said in August of that same year Baptiste removed him from teaching math to supervise in-school supervision. He said his replacement was a black coach who was not certified to teach math. The November 2005 lawsuit says that Rivera "would show unto the court that although there is an increasing number of Hispanic students within PAISD, there is a continuing and intentional culture to refuse to seek, hire and retain Hispanic teachers and administrators within PAISD."

Glad to have another Coach..Don't forget we have a Coaches only Forum as well...

I hope so.

That's a good schedule. WOS has Dayton LCM Bay City Jasper Hempstead? Maybe

Updated: Jan. 4, 2006, 2:01 PM ET Elliott to enter first Daytona 500 since '03Associated Press MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Two-time Daytona 500 champion Bill Elliott will enter the race this year in a car fielded by MB2 Motorsports. Elliott The 1988 NASCAR Cup champion has run a limited schedule the past two seasons. His last Daytona 500 appearance was in 2003, when he finished 34th. He won the event in 1985 and 1987. "Daytona is a special place and the 500 is a special race," Elliott said Wednesday. "I haven't reached the point where I am content to watch this race on television. I would rather be part of the action -- it's the big show." Elliott will drive a third entry for MB2, which fields full-time cars for Sterling Marlin and Joe Nemechek and a part-time ride for Boris Said. Elliott is replacing Said at Daytona in the No. 36 Chevrolet for the race Feb. 19. Elliott also will drive the car in the Budweiser Shootout on Feb. 11th at Daytona. Frank Stoddard will be his crew chief for both events.