OldSkool97

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Central @ [b]PA Memorial[/b]
Ozen @ [b]Westbrook[/b]
Gregory Portland @ [b]Port Neches Groves[/b]
[b]Jasper[/b] @ Lumberton
[b]Silsbee [/b] @ Houston Waltrip
Vidor @ [b]Texas High[/b]
[b]West Orange Stark[/b] @ Nederland
[b]Dayton[/b] @ Fort Bend Elkins
[b]Santa Fe[/b] @ Barbers Hill
Hamshire Fannett @ [b]Splendora[/b]
[b]Hardin Jefferson[/b] @ Huffman
[b]Kirbyville [/b] @ Coldspring
Liberty @ [b]Hardin[/b]
Orangefield @ [b]East Chambers[/b]
Shepherd @ [b]Bridge City[/b]
Houston Kinkaid @ [b]Anahuac[/b]
Kountze @ [b]Hull Daisetta[/b]
Sabine Pass @ [b]Deweyville[/b]
[b]Warren[/b] @ West Hardin
Woodville @ [b]Corrigan Camden[/b]
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Yeah he is going to be a third year sophmore. I looked him up on the roster and it stated that he took part in all non contact drills during the spring, but not sure if he will be ready or not for the opener. If Johnson is transferring wont he have to sit out this season?

I would prefer the shoot-out at the end of the 90 minutes instead of overtime just to eliminate the possibility of players picking up either a red or yellow card.

BERLIN -- FIFA president Sepp Blatter says soccer's governing body will consider eliminating ties in all World Cup games.

Blatter said Saturday on Germany's Focus weekly that the dramatic change would make the tournament more interesting. He says the change could involve going to a shootout after 90 minutes of regulation or adding sudden-death overtime.

Sudden-death overtime was used in the knockout rounds of the 1998 and 2002 World Cups. FIFA then reverted to its previous rule of having teams play a full 30 minutes of overtime if tied at the end of regulation in the knockout rounds.

First-round games always have ended in draws if tied at the end of regulation.

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Alot of great players came out of Groveton.
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They currently have a former player Lane Johnson playing TE for Oklahoma. He was their QB in high school.

This is a pretty stacked district! Would be alot of fun to watch!

Great post WOSgrad. I am suprised to see so many teams with 30+ ties on their records!

Trevor Ariza was sent to the New Orleans Hornets and Darren Collison to the Indiana Pacers in a four-team, five-player trade Wednesday.

In the trade, the Houston Rockets sent Ariza to the Hornets, who in turn sent Collison and James Posey to the Pacers.

The Pacers sent Troy Murphy to the New Jersey Nets. And the Nets sent Courtney Lee to the Rockets.

"We said at the beginning of the summer that we were going to be patient and don't make drastic moves just to make a move," Pacers president Larry Bird said. "We have a plan here. It's a three-year plan, and I expect to get the job done in three years."

The Hornets didn't stop there. NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com's Marc Stein that in a separate deal, the team agreed to send swingman Julian Wright to Toronto for Raptors guard Marco Belinelli. That deal was expected to be completed Wednesday.

The four-team deal could fill some long-term needs for the Hornets, Pacers and Nets, as well as provide needed salary relief for the Rockets.

For the Hornets, while moving Collison leaves them without a credible backup for Chris Paul, the addition of Ariza gives them a young, athletic wing entering his prime.

The Hornets are hoping that the addition of Ariza addresses Paul's concerns about the team's commitment to winning by showing that they're willing to spend money to get better. Ariza signed a five-year, $34 million deal with the Rockets last summer.

For the Pacers, landing Collison gives them the young starting point guard they've been looking for and adds another piece to a young core of players including Danny Granger, Roy Hibbert and promising rookies Paul George and Lance Stephenson.

"I think it helps out tremendously," Bird said. "I think this was the piece that we needed. The vision I have for this franchise is to get the core group up and ready to go as quick as we can, and this piece here will accelerate everything."

The Pacers did take on the last two years and $13 million of Posey's contract, but the deal also sliced another $4 million off the team's overall payroll.

In Murphy, the Nets get the veteran big man that new coach Avery Johnson has been coveting. Murphy is also on the last year of his contract, which could make him an important trading chip for the Nets at the 2011 trade deadline.

"We are very pleased to add Troy to our roster," Nets general manager Billy King said. "He is a quality power forward who has the ability to stretch the floor, and we feel that he will be a very positive addition to our frontcourt rotation."

For the Rockets, the move is basically a large salary dump. This summer the Rockets spent a lot of cash signing Luis Scola, Kyle Lowry and Brad Miller to free-agent contracts and their payroll ballooned. Before the trade, the team was bracing for an $8 million-plus luxury tax hit. This deal saves the Rockets $28 million on the life of the contract and roughly $10 million (when you factor in luxury tax payments) this season.

Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said their involvement in the trade was mostly about the opportunity to get Lee, a 6-5 guard whom they've coveted since the 2008 draft.

"We really target players who we think will fit in well here over time," Morey said. "When we got our first chance to acquire him, we were fairly aggressive to get that done. He's very versatile."

The Rockets envisioned the 6-8 Ariza developing into a dependable scoring threat on the wing. He averaged a career-high 14.9 points in 72 games last season but shot 39.4 percent from the field and 33.4 percent from 3-point range.

"To get something you like, you've got to give up something," Morey said. "It wasn't a situation where we were down on Trevor. It was really about that we think Courtney has a big future."

Lee, acquired from the Orlando Magic on draft night in 2009 in the Vince Carter deal, averaged 12.5 points in 71 games for the Nets last season, including 66 starts. He shot 43.6 percent from the field last season and will likely back up shooting guard Kevin Martin with the Rockets.

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a 7-5 team is #2????   ::)

and abilene at #3?  lol   should be #1.
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Yeah i would say it sounds a bit BUSTED!

I read a little about Montgomery in the Houston Chronicle I believe yesterday, and I was impressed. The QB and RB are pretty solid and should be tough to stop.

DETROIT -- Tracy McGrady has agreed to a one-year, $1.35 million contract with the Detroit Pistons, a source told ESPN.com.

McGrady played in just 30 games last season for the Houston Rockets and New York Knicks. He had major surgery on his right knee in the middle of the 2008-09 season.



McGrady

The seven-time All-Star and two-time scoring champion drew some interest from the Chicago Bulls this summer.

Bulls vice president of basketball operations John Paxson told "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000 that McGrady had "a very good workout" for the team, but didn't fit with the Bulls' plans.

"He's a good guy. But we just felt that given where we're at, and the way we want to play, we do want to be more of an up-tempo team on the offensive end. We want to run and push the ball," Paxson said.

"It was more based on the youth of our team and where we're at. He'll do well. Tracy looked like he was just going to turn the corner physically," he said.

The 6-foot-8 wing averaged 8.2 points last season, his lowest-scoring season since 1997-98, when he was a rookie with the Toronto Raptors after skipping college. Just two years ago, though, he averaged 21-plus points for the eighth time in his career.

If McGrady accepts his role, likely as a reserve, he could prove to be a bargain playing for the veteran's minimum even if he doesn't approach his career scoring average of 21.5 points.

"I've made a lot of money over my career and I could retire right now and I could be fine financially," McGrady said in February after he was traded by the Rockets to the Knicks while making $23 million in the last year of his contract. "My kids can be fine when they get older. Money is not an issue for me."

McGrady, who is from Bartow, Fla., was drafted No. 9 overall in the 1997 draft by Toronto. He went to Orlando in a sign-and-trade deal in 2000 and was dealt four years later to Houston.

His last healthy season was five years ago. He missed 34 games during the 2005-06 season with back problems; elbow and knee injuries led to him missing 16 games two years later; and microfracture surgery put his career in jeopardy about 1½ years ago.

If he's relatively healthy, happy and effective for the Pistons, McGrady will provide a boost for a team that missed the playoffs this year for the first time since 2001 with its worst record since 1995.

Yeah thats him!

My pick is Texas High. On a side note Longview just finished putting in new turf and its not a bad place to watch a game.

Jim Dickey Jr?

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Coming off back-to-back state titles in Florida, the Tampa (Fla.) Plant Panthers have dealt with expectation.

Starting the season as the No. 1 team in the RivalsHigh 100 is something else altogether.

Head coach Robert Weiner says neither will affect the team.

The rankings, and therefore expectations, are certainly there for a team that has won the Florida Class 4A state title in 2008 and the Class 5A state title in 2009.

It also doesn't hurt that the Panthers are bringing back one of the best players in the country, James Wilder Jr., and a two-time state championship quarterback, Phillip Ely.

Wilder, the son of the former NFL great by the same name, is ranked as the No. 3 overall prospect in the Rivals 100 for the Class of 2011. Where he'll play next season will be known soon.

Weiner confirmed on Monday to FlaVarsity.com that Wilder will announce his college decision on Aug. 18, likely around 5 p.m.

He also recognizes the talent he has on the field and admits to being in awe of the ability of Wilder.

"James is a maniac and I am not sure he knows it," Weiner said. "It is like going for a run with your dog. Your dog doesn't know how far you are going so he just takes off. That is just like James. He goes as hard as he can until the whistle. Then he does it again. I have never seen a player with that kind of intensity from start to finish."

But it doesn't end there with Wilder.

"What people don't know about James is what makes him truly special," Weiner said. "I have seen good players who just rely on their natural ability, but James' effort actually exceeds his ability. He works his butt off to get better. He has amazing effort and he plays with an incredible passion. He is also a sponge. Anything we try to teach him he absorbs, he loves to learn and loves to be coached."

Ely follows in those accolades from Wiener.

"When Phillip first came up with us, he was to follow Aaron Murray, and heck he may have been 5-foot-9 then," Weiner recalled. "And he couldn't bench press two 45-pound plates. Now, he is 6-foot-1 and a real football player."

Weiner wouldn't comment on his bench, but it's safe to assume that it has improved too.

The main part of Ely's game, though, is one that is often overlooked.

He's a winner.

Ely is now 19-0 as a starter and has won two state titles.

"He doesn't have a 'wow factor,'" Weiner said. "But when you measure a quarterback you can look for yards or arm strength, but what is most important is - does he know how to win? Does the team buy into him as a leader? And the kids know with Phillip they have a chance to win."

All of the accolades aside, the team still will need to get it done on the field.

After an up-and-down spring and summer, one that included a spring game loss to nearby Tampa (Fla.) Jefferson - who is ranked No. 61 in the RivalsHigh 100, but a team Plant beat 46-13 last season - the games can not start soon enough for Plant.

"We will know pretty much everything we will need to know after our first six games of the season," Weiner said.

Those games include a jamboree game against No. 49-ranked Bradenton (Fla.) Manatee; a season opener at Tampa (Fla.) Tampa Bay Tech, who handed Plant its only loss last year; rival Tampa (Fla.) Hillsborough; a nationally-televised game against the RivalsHigh100 No. 3 team in Abilene (Texas) High; and finally a home contest against No. 26 Seffner (Fla.) Armwood.

"If you want to play the kind of football we want to play, that is the kind of schedule you want to have," Weiner said. "Week in and week out, we are taking on the best we can."

It all starts in less than three weeks.

1 Plant Tampa FL
Plant has won back-to-back state titles in Florida and returns all-world athlete James Wilder Jr and quarterback Phillip Ely.
2 Poly Long Beach CA
Poly ended 2009 with a 7-5 record. The team brings back nine starters on both offense and defense. 
3 Abilene Abilene TX
Texas 5A Division II winners bring back Herschel and Ronnie Sims to lead the charge.
4 Glenville Academic Campus Cleveland OH
The most talented team in Ohio thinks this is the year it takes home the state title. 
5 South Panola Batesville MS
The famed 89-game win streak had to start somewhere. The Tigers enter 2010 with 13 consecutive wins.
6 Trinity Euless TX
A summer off doesn't figure to slow one of the best teams in Texas.
7 West Monroe West Monroe LA
West Monroe has won two national titles and brings back a defense good enough to take home a third.
8 Hoover Hoover AL
Hoover wants to win games after it wins off the field. 
9 Hamilton Chandler AZ
Hamilton's offensive line anchors its high hopes for a state title.
10 Dorman Roebuck SC
The Cavaliers enter the 2010 season as the best in South Carolina. A place it feels it should be more frequently. 
11 Miami Central Miami FL
12 DeMatha Hyattsville MD
13 Crenshaw Los Angeles CA
14 Dwyer West Palm Beach FL
15 Bingham South Jordan UT
16 Junipero Serra Gardena CA
17 Good Counsel Olney MD
18 Phoebus Hampton VA
19 St. Peter's Prep Jersey City NJ
20 Centennial Corona CA
21 Camden County Kingsland GA
22 Shiloh Christian Springdale AR
23 Butler Matthews NC
24 Bishop McDevitt Harrisburg PA
25 Byrnes Duncan SC
26 Armwood Seffner FL
27 De La Salle Concord CA
28 Cinco Ranch Katy TX
29 North Gwinnett Suwanee GA
30 Steele Cibolo TX
31 Mater Dei Santa Ana CA
32 Har-Ber Springdale AR
33 Mullen Denver CO
34 The Woodlands The Woodlands Tx
35 Colquitt County Moultrie GA
36 St. Thomas Aquinas Ft Lauderdale FL
37 Pensacola Pensacola FL
38 Stony Point Round Rock TX
39 Lake Travis Austin TX
40 Westlake Westlake Village CA
41 Grant Sacramento CA
42 Cedar Hill Cedar Hill TX
43 North Penn Senior Lansdale PA
44 Franklinton Franklinton LA
45 St. Xavier Cincinnati OH
46 Acadiana Lafayette LA
47 Warren Central Indianapolis IN
48 Jesuit Portland OR
49 Manatee Bradenton FL
50 Colerain Cincinnati OH
51 Bishop Gorman Las Vegas NV
52 Wheaton South Wheaton IL
53 Katy Katy TX
54 Oaks Christian Westlake Village CA
55 John Curtis River Ridge LA
56 Allen Allen TX
57 Madison Central Madison MS
58 Lowndes Valdosta GA
59 Servite Anaheim CA
60 Gilman School Baltimore MD
61 Jefferson Tampa FL
62 Union Tulsa OK
63 Dr. Phillips Orlando FL
64 Don Bosco Prep Ramsey NJ
65 Jenks Jenks OK
66 DeSoto Desoto TX
67 Jack Britt Fayetteville NC
68 Muskegon Muskegon MI
69 Moeller Cincinnati OH
70 West Jones Laurel MS
71 Stone Bridge Ashburn VA
72 Chaparral Scottsdale AZ
73 Northwestern Miami FL
74 Northwestern Rock Hill SC
75 Hermitage Richmond VA
76 La Salle  Wyndmoor PA
77 St. Xavier Louisville KY
78 Oscar Smith Chesapeake VA
79 Cocoa Cocoa FL
80 Lake Braddock Burke VA
81 Westlake Austin TX
82 Folsom Folsom CA
83 East Grand Rapids Grand Rapids MI
84 Glades Central Belle Glade FL
85 Richmond County Rockingham NC
86 Coffman Dublin OH
87 Eden Prairie Eden Prairie MN
88 Rockhurst Kansas City MO
89 Alcoa Alcoa TN
90 Bergen Catholic Oradell NJ
91 Millard South Omaha NE
92 Hutchinson Hutchinson KS
93 Southmoore Moore OK
94 Maine South Park Ridge IL
95 Center Grove Greenwood IN
96 Glenbard West Glen Ellyn IL
97 Chandler Chandler AZ
98 Palo Verde Las Vegas NV
99 Gateway Monroeville Pa
100 La Cueva Albuquerque NM

Baseball25 would you like to see a rematch or see him fight someone else? If someone else, who?

Newton wont have it as easy as they think.

I think he will get it as well but like you, Aaron is still going to be #1 to me.

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I think its a combination of Bagwell and the young hitters getting more and more experience and adjusting to major league pitching.
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This is exactly what i was thinking.

Whats your opinion on why is HR total is as low as it is right now? Also do you think he will pick it up a bit now after getting number 600?

Shaq signed with them today. Maybe when they go out to eat as a team they can all get senior citizen specials. Or just to top it all off they should try and sign Jordan.  ::)

Free-agent center Shaquille O'Neal will likely sign with the Boston Celtics, as soon as Tuesday night or Wednesday, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard.

O'Neal had said earlier Tuesday that he hopes to make a decision about his future soon, and both NBA.com and Comcast SportsNet New England indicated that the Celtics were "close" to signing the four-time NBA champion. Later Tuesday, The Associated Press cited a person with knowledge of the negotiations as saying the Celtics were making progress on a deal for O'Neal.

The Atlanta Hawks had been the front-runner to land O'Neal last month and are not completely out of the picture, sources told Broussard, but they have fallen behind the Celtics.

O'Neal was not willing to reveal which team he was leaning toward.

"For me, it's been a real thinking process," O'Neal told The Associated Press on Tuesday from Orlando, Fla., where he was promoting his television series, "Shaq Vs.," with teen pop star Justin Bieber. "I came into the league very graciously and want to go out very graciously. My main thought was I would like to play for a winning franchise, somebody that's used to winning, somebody that keeps winning. Hopefully, I'll make my decision here in the next one or two days."

The Celtics can offer only the veteran minimum salary ($1.35 million for a veteran of 10-plus NBA seasons), but Cleveland could facilitate a sign-and-trade with Boston if the 38-year-old center requires more money. O'Neal has made nearly $291 million in basketball contracts alone, including $20 million with the Cavaliers last season.

O'Neal has found a quiet market for his services this offseason, which led some to speculate he might find a better payday overseas. But O'Neal indicated Tuesday that he plans to stay on this side of the Atlantic.

"I know I will play in the NBA next season," said O'Neal. "International? No. The good thing about me and my career is I came in, did it my way, did more than expected. For every athlete or every great person, there's a time when it has to end. When and if it ever ends it will be very graciously.

"We're going to have a big party. We're going to have a ceremony and the next thing I'll be waiting for is the entrance into the place where your name will never be forgotten."

The Celtics will start the season without center Kendrick Perkins, who underwent knee surgery last month and is expected to be sidelined into February. Boston utilized the mid-level exception to sign free agent Jermaine O'Neal last month, but Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge often noted the team remained in the market for another impact big man.

No player on the free-agent market probably offers more potential impact than Shaq, who has averaged 24.1 points and 11 rebounds per game over 18 NBA seasons.

O'Neal appeared on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Monday and said he'd like to play two more seasons in the NBA and that the Celtics would potentially be a good fit for him.

O'Neal stressed to Kimmel that he's on a "730-day program," suggesting he wants to play two more years until he reaches 40. When Kimmel suggested he couldn't picture O'Neal in a Boston uniform, O'Neal responded, "The Celtics would be a good program."

Pressed if he would feel weird putting on a Celtics jersey after spending time with the Lakers, O'Neal simply shook his head and said, "No."

The Celtics have aimed to sign free agents to short-term deals with an eye toward a massive roster turnover following the 2011-12 season. Even by signing O'Neal to a two-year deal, the team would not be jeopardizing its future plan.

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not to bad for the first day. the coaching staff is watching them very close becouse of the heat. [u][i][b]i was in shock with some of the size at west orange this year [/b] [/i] [/u] and dang you can tell thay have been working out with the iron. even after all was over with some of the kids still ran the stands,but this only the first day cant relly tell much yet.this was a little funny ,some of the coaches were sweeting more than the kids,THE MUSTANG MILE OMG  but all the kids gutted it out and were proud of themself after running it
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Skipper you say this every year. How many[b] Colorado Kool-Aids [/b] did you have before attending Mustang practice.
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:D

How will LeBron James be received when he goes back to Cleveland as a member of the Miami Heat?

A national television audience will find out when the Heat make the first of two visits to the Cavaliers on Dec. 2, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported. The game will be on TNT.

James and new teammates Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade will make their regular-season debut Oct. 26 against the Boston Celtics, the NBA announced on Tuesday.

The Los Angeles Lakers will host the Houston Rockets in the other opening-night game on TNT. The Rockets hope to have Yao Ming back in the lineup after he missed last season with a foot injury.

The Heat will open at home Oct. 29 against the Orlando Magic and visit the defending champion Lakers on Christmas Day.

When James returns to Cleveland, the city where he played seven seasons before leaving as a free agent last month, the reaction could be ugly. Many Cleveland fans were enraged when James announced on July 8, on national television, that he was leaving for Miami. Owner Dan Gilbert fired off a scathing letter promising the Cavs will win a title before James does, and the oversized banner of James near Quicken Loans Arena was pulled down shortly thereafter.

The Cavs will also host the Heat on March 29, according to The Plain Dealer. Cleveland will visit Miami on Dec. 15 and Jan. 31, according to multiple media reports.

Miami's season opener in Boston will also be nationally televised by TNT.

The Heat will enter their regular-season opener with a substantially overhauled roster, while the Celtics also made changes and re-signed stars Paul Pierce and Ray Allen.

The league officially released its opening week, Christmas Day and Martin Luther King Day schedules Tuesday night on NBA TV.

The Christmas schedule will again feature five games, highlighted by the return of the Heat-Lakers matchup that was regularly played Dec. 25 after Los Angeles traded Shaquille O'Neal to Miami in 2004.

Boston will visit Orlando on Christmas for a rematch of the East finals. The remainder of that day's schedule includes Chicago at New York, Denver at Oklahoma City and Portland at Golden State.

Orlando gets two high-profile games in the first four days of the season. The Magic host No. 1 overall pick John Wall and Washington on Oct. 28 to open their new Amway Center, then travel to Miami the next night for the first of four meetings with their state and Southeast Division rival Heat.

The Magic and Celtics will meet again on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Lakers will host the rising Thunder, who took them to six tough games last season in the first round, later that night.

The full NBA schedule will be released Aug. 10.