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dude why r u raggin on the man hes try 2 break through and get a head coaching job??? is there something wrong with that? and besides he already told u that if u want 2 talk 2 him or about him 2 stop by his office anytime!

Wow...by all the talk by the WH fans, I figured it would be the other way.

BOBCAT@3D, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS THIS WITH ME, COME UP TO THE FIELD HOUSE AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT. THE DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN.

Great lists.....If they played in the League, no way should they be left off.....Glad to see someone mention Tezino (WO-S 88)......may be the best ever out of the triangle.....I know that is saying a lot but, Pup was an all-pro and Tezino was better than anyone on that Defense.......His blown knee cost him his chance.....I thought he played safety though, not LB......Also, Kendall Cleveland should at least be honorable mention......Talk about some throw back names......Reggie Davis, Tony Allen......Ran against Allen when I was a sophomore in the prelims of the 400 at the district meet......race was over before we got out of the first turn.....unbelievable speed......300 split was like 30.0.....

June 19, 2007 By Wes Skipwith, Texas Tech Athletic Media Relations Former Texas Tech track star Jonathan Johnson is quickly becoming America's next hope for a medal in the 800m at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Johnson ran track for the Red Raiders from 2002-2005. During his time in Lubbock, the Abilene native established himself as the greatest male track athlete Tech has ever known. He was named All-American nine times and received 16 all-conference awards including four Big 12 Championships. In 2004, Johnson became Tech's only male national champion and, after finishing first in the 800m at the Olympic Trials with a personal and school record of 1:44.77, he became Tech's only male Olympian. His time at the trials earned him a number one ranking in the United States by Track and Field News and was the fastest time by an American that year. He ended up finishing eighth in the semifinals at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. "The experience (at the Olympics) made me grow up real quickly," Johnson said. "You have the whole world looking at you. It's hard to express the actual feeling because it means so much because you are representing the whole U.S. and you're representing everything you ever worked for and ever stood for. For me, I represented my family, friends, school, my fans, and all of the people who always have been by my side. There are not any words that can explain the feeling of competing in the Olympics; you just have to experience it to understand." In 2005, he helped lead the Red Raiders to the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, the first track and field team title for Texas Tech. Johnson said all of his individual accomplishments he earned while at Texas Tech were very special to him but what he remembers the most was what his teammates and he accomplished. "If I had to pick the moment at Tech that meant the most to me, it would be winning the Big 12 championship as a team," he said. "To be a part of the first team Big 12 Championship it was just that more special to me because it was a team effort and that is what we always worked towards. When I first went to Tech, no body ever gave us a chance. But coaches, faculty and everyone around Tech loved and supported us. Now Texas Tech is on the national scene. For me to take part in that and be apart of Tech's history, it has meant a lot to me" In 2006, Johnson began his professional track career after signing with Team Reebok. In his first professional track season last year, he finished with a No. 5 ranking in the United States in the 800m by T&FN. Johnson is still with Team Reebok and currently resides near Orlando where he is training for the upcoming U.S. Outdoor Track and Field Championships in June. If he makes the national team there then he will go on to the World Championships in August. Johnson, who is currently ranked 46th in the world in the 800m, also hopes to crack the top 10 before the year is over. "I believe I can make the finals at the World Championships and I believe I can be in contention to win a medal. In order to move up in ranking, I have to get in the right races and face the right competition. That is my main goal this year." If Johnson can accomplish all of these goals then he will be in a good position when the 2008 Summer Olympics come around. He said his ultimate goal for his career would be to win a medal at the Olympics and everything he does is geared towards that. "That is something that hasn't been done in a while for an American in the 800m. For me to do that would be something special and I'm really going to work hard to do that. I'm definitely on the right track. I'm as focused as I have ever been. There are only three medalists at the Olympic Games, so that's three out of the whole world. I know that I have to take care of business and I have to do everything that I can right now and put the work in to be right where I want to be." Johnson is currently single and spends all most all of his free time in training. He said he still keeps in touch with his former Tech track coach Wes Kittley. "Me and Coach Kittley have a great relationship," Johnson said. "If there is anything that he can do for me he'll do it, if there is anything that I can do for him then I will do it. I talk to coach a lot and some time he'll give me advice on some things." Johnson said he wants to continue running professionally for as long as he can. He said if he keeps devoting all of his time to training and running, he sees himself only getting better from here on out. "As long as I'm happy doing this sport, as long as I'm injury free and as long as things are working in my favor, I see myself competing for a very long time," Johnson said. "I feel like I have another eight to 10 years. In my event, the older you get the stronger you get. I haven't really even reached my peak y

not true!! what happened that day was unfortunate but he was not taken out because he was getting ripped.............and you are talking about a scrimmage..........if we are going to talk about scrimmage's (and who cares) I think West Brook had their pay back on the bears in 07'

Slightly But a good list..don't know the defensive guys but the others are more than solid. DPG not getting much talk, but he will be the work horse for the Stangs this year. He is a very explosive runner who has a real talent for finding the holes and breaking the long one.

Eaglefan, eaglefan.. come on brother, put away the hater aid.. Down here in panther land we are looking for postive things. Like winning some games, seeing that the program is turning around in the right direction.. No one here is expecting us to make the play-offs much less beating Newton in the 1st round.. If you read my earlier post it stated.. If we make the play-offs, I would drive the bus to newton just to get blowed out.. hahaha Hopefully in a couple of years I can talk some smack with you eaglefan and the team back it up!! Who knows, it does make for some good talk anyways..

For your info the CCA took the side of the commercial fisheren by supporting a drop in thier size limit to 13" and giving them a 365 day season to continue to rape the Gulf by supporting the IFQs. They used to be only able to fish the first 10 days of each month but now they can fish till they reach the quota set by the NMFS, all done voluntary>>what a joke. They also (CCA) put all the blame on the shrimpers, but what the fail to see is shrimping is at a all time low. I feel like PNGproud it pisses me off to even talk about it. JOIN RFA

That's not very many. I take it they have the fewest returners of any team in the district? Talk about a rebuilding year!

Baltimore Orioles manager Sam Perlozzo was fired today. What other managers do you think are on the hot seat? I know that here in Dallas, on talk radio, there are people calling for Washington's head everyday, but I think that since he has been the manager for less than half a season, its a bit early for that.

Putting Dale Jr. in No. 8 car could drop No. 25 or No. 5 from HMS BROOKLYN, Mich. -- Team owner Rick Hendrick will attempt to keep Dale Earnhardt Jr. in a car with the No. 8 next season at Hendrick Motorsports. The number, owned by Dale Earnhardt Inc., has been Earnhardt's since he entered the Nextel Cup series in 1999. He lost the right to that number after this season when he announced on Wednesday a five-year deal with HMS. Max Siegel, the president of global marketing at DEI, said owner Teresa Earnhardt is willing to consider a formal offer. "Since they opened the door, we're going to talk to them about it, so I'll follow up on it," Hendrick said before the start of Sunday's Nextel Cup race at Michigan International Speedway. Siegel declined to put a monetary value on the 8. "I don't even know if you can quantify it," he said. "I don't know if there's a number or figure for what it's worth. Before I can give any recommendation to my owner I have to evaluate what the proposal is. "One of the reasons why I'm not trying to speculate or give hypotheticals is because it's part of the Earnhardt legacy, whether it's Dale Jr. or the Dale Earnhardt Inc." Geoff Smith, the president of Roush Fenway Racing, doesn't think it matters what number Earnhardt drives from a marketing standpoint. "The world will see that Junior could use mandarin Chinese numbers on the car and they would sell just as much souvenirs as the No. 8," he said. "I personally think that the brand equity is with Junior. "It's like the Nike swoosh. There was a Nike before the swoosh, but everybody got to know the swoosh because there was marketing around it. Whatever number he has will take his character." If Hendrick gets the 8 he will have to decide whether to eliminate one of two significant numbers -- the 5 or 25 -- at HMS. The 25 was the car owned by his late son, Ricky, and the 5 was the first car at HMS. Hendrick also will have a difficult decision if he can lure Earnhardt's longtime sponsor, Budweiser, which has one more year left on its deal with DEI. He has four primary sponsors for the 5 and 25 next season and he plans to honor them. Budweiser officials said they want to remain with Earnhardt, with whom they have a personal services contract through next season. Siegel is willing to listen to a proposal for the sponsor, but he also would like to continue a relationship with the beer company. He would like to have those issues, as well as a replacement for Earnhardt, settled within the next 30 days if not sooner. One possibility is Kyle Busch, the driver Earnhardt will replace at HMS. Siegel said DEI has reached out to Busch, adding the 22-year-old is at the top of their list. That could open a possible trade of sponsors and numbers between HMS and DEI. "All of us are trying to adjust business issues," Siegel said. "There are not a lot of moving parts." Siegel laughed about the possibility of putting Busch in a Budweiser car to compete directly with his brother, Kurt, in the No. 2 Miller Lite car. He added that there is no way to totally replace Earnhardt. "He's in a class by his own," Siegel said. "Arguably, nobody has replaced Dale Sr. It's very unfair to compare anybody to him. You have to start with someone who is excellent at the core product, which is competition."

Lumberton just get use to being the underdog..Vidor is in the same boat..we like it like that though..some towns or schools will not give you credit for anything even after you beat them.just show up and play with heart and you will win soem games..good things will happen! some schools have to talk bad about other schools to make themselves feel better.

I know this..you have to bring your "A "game every friday night.alot of people talk about Lumberton and Vidor but ask Central and Nederland about Vidor.Central scored with 12 seconds left to win..Nederland got beat by Vidor and lumberton was in alot of there games.So you people who think these two teams will be a cake walk when yall play us keep thinking that.

Shhh...if you talk about us people will notice...;D

Lumberton Fans shouldn't even get on here. They should just play and play hard and whatever happens happens. Playoffs don't even talk about playoffs talk about maybe having a winning season for once. Lumberton fans need to just sit back and not talk for a change and maybe something good will happen for them. Hussey is ok but he isn't the dominating player that lumberton needs to go to the playoffs so stop saying he's a hoss a hoss is Dugat or mosley from nederland last year thats a hoss. Lumberton doesn't have any break out guys so stop saying yall do becasue yall don't, you need to win as a team, thats the only way yall will make the playoffs becasue yall don't have the athletes anymore to just try and make it a one man show. There's not anymore Buchholzs, talberts, hares, eckerts,roberts, anymore so stop talking and just play the damn game.

Since we are getting off topic maybe we should move this over to track talk.

Spurs better than the Dynasties of the 70's, 80's? CLEVELAND – The seventh championship ring will go with the rest of them inside Robert Horry's house, unceremoniously dropped into a bathroom drawer. "That way, they can all stay together," he said Wednesday. Horry is an authority on all things NBA championships, and Big Shot Bob had a message about his San Antonio Spurs for the great Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics teams of the 1980s. "We would beat them," he boasted. Horry punctuated his proclamation with a laugh, understanding there was no harm stirring it up with San Antonio on the brink of sweeping the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA finals. Horry has had his moments in this series, including five blocked shots in Game 2. He isn't sure if he'll be back for a 16th season, but if he does, he'll return to a Spurs team that'll be the favorite to be the first to repeat champion since Horry's Shaq-Kobe Lakers won three straight titles. "No disrespect to the guys back in the 80's and the 70's, but the guys now are so much better than those guys," Horry said. "I don't care what they say. If you look at old films, guys only went right. They turned and kept it in their right hand. Look at the things LeBron (James) can do, Tim (Duncan) can do, Tony (Parker) can do, Manu (Ginobili) can do. Little (Daniel) Gibson over there. There's no way you can compare those guys. We watched what they did and expanded on that." Horry is right about watching the games in the 60's and early 70's, when the players favored one hand and dribbled with heads down. But the 80's? When Magic played the point? Dennis Johnson? Come on, Rob. And Daniel Gibson is doing something that no one else did in the 80's? What, make a few jumpers over two weeks of his life? Sorry, but the 80's had far more complete players. They're bigger, faster and more athletic now, but not always better. Before expansion and salary caps, the talent wasn't so spread out. You could have three and four great players on a team for years, and that's hard to do now. Horry's old teammate with the Lakers, Derek Fisher, was in Cleveland to talk about an NBA Players Association initiative to feed one million people in Africa this summer. Yet, he had to sigh and make a concession about who truly had dominated the decade. San Antonio's four titles in nine years, the staying power of three in the past five, has sold Fisher on the Spurs. "I hate to say it, but they're surpassing us," said Fisher, whose Jazz lost to San Antonio in the Western Conference finals. "They have become the class of the league." Most agree that these Spurs are the best of San Antonio's four championship teams, and yet Horry doesn't believe they measure with the Lakers' 2001 title winner. "If I had to pick one team, it would be (2001) when we swept everyone except for Philly," Horry said. "That team was pretty awesome. It was like a locomotive coming through with no brakes." Eventually, L.A. crashed. San Antonio has a selfless star in Tim Duncan who, at 31, has a chance to be the cornerstone of more championships. Parker and Ginobili understand they are complementary parts and embrace Duncan's greatness. And Horry said he never sees his Spurs teammates wearing rings. They never talk about titles, about where they fit into history. And most of all, there's never even a suggestion jealousy over the salary or stature of the superstar. "Money hurt that (Lakers) team," Horry said. "It came down to this guy wanted this much money, that guy wanted this much money. Those two guys (Shaq and Kobe) wanted to be the top dog and forgot about the other guys. It all boiled down to money. Money is the root of all evil sometimes. "Sometimes you can't see the forest through the trees. They didn't win that championship against Detroit (in 2004), and they said, 'OK, (Karl) Malone you're injured, bye. (Gary) Payton, you're too old, bye. Shaq, you want too much money, bye.' " Adrian Wojnarowski is the national NBA columnist for Yahoo! Sports. Send Adrian a question or comment for potential use in a future column or webcast.

alright heres the deal. we dont talk crap on here. we just think that the tennis season is a lot closer than people think. desai, minick, and deaver are all good players were not dissing better players trust me... but you have one thing wrong... wehner is a better player than word and carnley. he just made champ 18s and is playing amazing. he even beats boone and bug sometimes. but they play everyday so it changes a bunch on who wins and who loses.

FURY will take the lower division this year no doubt. We better do it this season because it will be off to the upper in the fall. And we play Thursday nights if anyone on here wants to talk a little trash.

well said gasilla!!!! thanks for the comments. if a lot of the parents and some of the coaches in this league would realize this we would be better off. all they want to do is whine and go behind your back and talk trash about you when you are teaching these kids the game of baseball and as a result...WINNING!!! But if they were on that coaches team and their kids were learning and winning...then they would have no problem with anything.

There you go minick thats what im talking about. By the way Minick, this weekend we are going to get together and play (even though you will probably kill me again haha). Why the heck do the TENNIS ELITE ACADEMY GUYS always come on here and talk crap about everyone. They think they are so much better than everyone. Well im pretty sure i haven't seen any of them do anything this year. I have nothing against them, because they are good tennis players, but don't get on here and talk crap to BETTER PLAYERS! Lets look at the records shall we? I know for a fact Deavers never lost to anyone from the Elite tennis academy. I dont know the statisitics on Desai, but im pretty sure maybe one loss, but maybe not. Minick only played one of them, and Minick beat him. And those three in my opinion were the best three in the area. I would put it like this 1)Deaver 2)Desai 3)Minick 4)Bug 5)Boone 6)Carnley 7)Word (older one) 8)Wehner 9)Word (younger one) 10)Kid from LCM. Sorry if you don't agree the TENNIS ELITE ACADEMY, but thats my opinion.

Wow im pretty sure i never said i was in the top 3 either. But I do know that i compete with both of them. Im pretty sure i never got beat bad all year. The worst i lost was to Deaver in the finals of district 6-3 6-3. I am probably the least conceded person you will ever meet, these people get on here and brag about themselves and such like that. I don't care about that crap, come out and play for fun. Geez, All i know is that i played 4 years of really competitive tennis. I made it to regionals 4 years in a row and two fourth place finishes. And i think thats pretty good in my book. I dont want to be remembered as a good tennis player who was in the top three, i would like to be remembered as a nice guy who had fun. Don't talk crap on me, because im pretty sure you dont really know me. Go ahead and brag about yourself, whoever you are, and make yourself look kool. Even though im pretty sure you sit at home every weekend hopeing that you will have someone call you to hang out! As for everyone else, Go out and enjoy your high school tennis carreer. Because it won't last long. AND HAVE FUN.

Earnhardt Jr. to unveil plans at Wednesday press conference By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. has decided where he will drive next season, and all signs point to Hendrick Motorsports. NASCAR's most popular driver called a Wednesday news conference at his race shop, JR Motorsports, and spokesman Mike Davis said it was to announce his plans for 2008 and beyond. It's the same site where Junior announced May 10 he would leave DEI and enter the free-agent market. That move ignited a whirlwind of recruiting rarely scene in NASCAR, and there's been nonstop talk regarding where Earnhardt would end up. He's made shop visits and met with various car owners while he trying to make a decision. His sister, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, is handling his negotiations and has maintained their first choice was to keep Earnhardt in a Chevrolet. She has said the majority of her conversations have been with NASCAR's top Chevy teams. Hendrick is the best in NASCAR right now, with 10 wins through the first 15 points races this season. Speculation grew Monday night that Earnhardt was close to a deal with Hendrick, but officials declined comment Tuesday. Elledge did not respond to messages from The Associated Press. Rick Hendrick currently has four drivers under contract, and told the AP last month "there was no room at the inn" for Earnhardt. NASCAR rules permit a car owner to field four Nextel Cup teams. But multiple sources - speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because Earnhardt's plans have not been announced - said Hendrick officials have been working for nearly three weeks to figure out how to bring the star driver into the fold. One scenario could put Earnhardt into the No. 5 car that Kyle Busch currently drives. Busch is under contract through 2008, and Hendrick has said he wanted to sign the 22-year-old driver to an extension. But there are rumblings Busch has asked to be released from his contract. Asked if that was true, Hendrick spokesman Jesse Essex said, "We don't comment on contractual issues." Busch was testing in Milwaukee on Tuesday and not available to comment. It's still possible Earnhardt could end up at Richard Childress Racing, where his father won six of his seven championships, or Joe Gibbs Racing. But Childress is out of the country, and the assistant to Gibbs president J.D. Gibbs said Gibbs is away all week. © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy. Purchase this AP story for reprint.

Don't ask. The less we talk about him, the longer he will stay away!!!