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Commited at UT's junior day today to play football for the horns!!! Jason Suchomel Orangebloods.com Editor Talk about it in Inside the 40 Acres The Longhorns have been needing defensive tackle prospects over the last two years, and after signing three guys at the position in the 2007 class, it looks like Texas will try to load up at the position again in 2008. UT Photo Mack Brown and Texas picked up their 15th commitment on Monday. Texas recently extended an offer to Jarvis Humphrey and the Cedar Hill product will likely make a decision sometime in March, and the Horns gained a commitment on Monday from a player that is only recently beginning to draw the spotlight his way. Beaumont Kelly defensive tackle Kheeston Randall took an unofficial visit to the Forty Acres on Monday afternoon, and he committed before he left campus. The 6-foot-5, 267-pounder was also considering Miami, UCLA, Oregon and Texas A&M, but he said he felt extremely comfortable with the Texas coaches and players. "It was just the place for me," Randall said. "It's a nice winning tradition and the coaching staff was great," he said. On the visit, Randall got to check out the Texas facilities – which he gave high marks – and he also spent some time picking the brains of his future teammates. After meeting with Mack Brown, the offer came his way and Randall said it was a pretty easy decision. "They said I have good character and my grades are really good. They said I'd be a good add to the Longhorn football team," he said. "It feels good. I'm just happy." Randall, who had also taken an unofficial visit to Texas A&M recently, was first discovered by the Texas coaches when he was at Beaumont Ozen, playing with current Longhorn Ben Wells. The UT coaches saw the big fella on the hardcourt and were impressed with his athleticism, and after evaluating him on the gridiron he became a legitimate target for an offer. According to Randall, who also excels on the offensive line, his strength right now is chewing up blockers along the line of scrimmage and he wants to continue to add size and strength. "I can hold up the line of scrimmage and help my linebackers help make plays," he said. "Now, I just need to stay in the weight room and get stronger." When asked if he had any final comments that he'd like to pass along, Randall summed up his feelings with only three words. "Hook 'em Horns," he said.

And I am one of those players, thanx "Old Tymer"(what I used to call McKeller).....Port Arthur is not big on baseball like it used to be, the city is trying its best to get back to standard. Dont down talk Port Arthur help them.....

HJ_hawk.....please do not talk about WH, it's players or coaches in a favorable way because there is a poster named ltown that gets all bent out of shape at the mere thought of our school going to state or it's players or coaches being honored in any way. Just trying to keep the peace my brother. ;D

OK OK OK FIRST OF ALL WE WOULD HAVE WON THE TOURNAMENT IF IT WAS FOR TAKS TEST. YOU KNOW I'M REALLY TIRED OF PEOPLE DOWNING MEMORIAL BASEBALL WE WORK HARD JUST LIKE THE OTHER TEAMS WE PLAY THE DIFFERENCE IS, IS THAT THEY GOT AT LEAST 4 TO 5 COACHES HELPING THEM OUT AND WE HAVE TWO. ALSO COACH MCKELLER WOULD GO AND TAKE ANYBODY ELSE COASCHING POSITION AT THESE OTHER SCHOOLS IF HE WANTED. OH YEAH, I DIDN'T HERE YALL TALKING WHEN WE BEAT OZEN AND CENTRAL... OH NO YALL DON'T WANT TO SHAME THEM YALL RATHER TALK ABOUT US BUT THATS OK. ON 2/27/07 WE PLAY WARREN IN A DOUBLE HEADER SO COME CHECK IT OUT FOR ALL OUR DOUBTERS PLEASE. ANOTHER THING WE UNDEAFEATED SO KEEP TALKING ALL THAT NOISE CAUSE ALL IT IS, IS MOTIVATION FOR THE MEMORIAL TITANS... P.S. THAT OTHER COACH NAME IS SHAWN NARCISSE AND HE'S DOING A GOOD JOB KEEPING OUR TEAM HEADS TOGETHER. FROM: JOSHUA LANDRY #15 AKA THE ROCKET SEE YOU HATERS TUESDAY

hey man we dont need that..dont get on here and talk trash please..for the sake of the rest of us..jasper will be tough

Talk about a showdown!

Well shark i am not saying I am the best coach. . . "i just said i would like to have that team" thats all and yea i think i could win with a team like that but who wouldn't- I think any coach would love to have that team - I am far from be being the best coach. I really dont like you talking about me either. I am 25 and you don't know anything about me. If your really going to comment about me make sure you do not talk down on me or my team (not saying that you did). I don't know you and I dont go talking about you on here. If you think your a good player/coach maybe you can come play me in a one on one game on a small sided field. If you beat me then you can talk about me. i had the talent pool. . But have you ever seen Ft worth Nolan play? I know I have a lot to learn!!! I am very young and humble coach. Coach Bledsoe gave me his number so i can ask him question and thoughts on the game. I have been lucky to be blessed with friends like that to give me advise. Also with coach smith. They have been a very big help in guiding me in the direction to take my team as a high school Coach. I am a select coach thats where i started not high school - its a very different game between the two. I very lucky to know guys like that to watch and learn from. Thats the kind of people that truely need to be honored because they are trying to strengthen a game that is on the B-List in America.

What "talk" are you talking about. Again, all I see are several post congratulating the team on a good start. No one is saying Vidor is running away with the trophy this year.

In high school sports the team with the most returning standouts "should" be the favorite. At this point Vidor would be one of the teams with the most returning. Therefore there is only one way for them to surprise some poeple and that is to NOT go to the playoffs. We heard the exact same talk form Vidor last year and I don't even think they ended up in the race. People just get tired of hearing about what someone is going to do over and over. Walk the walk, and quit talking the talk. Kinda like what kf89 said.

i played against hicks in all-star games and he was awsome back then but havent seen him play in a couple of years so i dont know how good he is but from all the talk i hear he is really good

there were four kelly players... theres eleven players on the field. i dont know if you dont like the kelly team or if you dont like joe but it is evident that you have a a strong dislike for one of those. it seems when you talk about kelly your always being negative except for maybe once or twice. keep your personal vendetta to yourself. nobody wants to hear it and if your talking trash on our team or our coach just to get a rise out of someone youve done it, i am pretty angry not just that you talk badly about kelly but that you even post on these soccer forums because most of what you say is idiotic nonsense. i have a ten year old brother who knows more about the game than you. please think before you type.

Is this still just "talk" or does Lamar actually have a timetable of bringing back the state's (and America's) top sport?

same here also talk to the people at UIL

And as we know...this is all talk!!! [move]GO MUSTANGS ~ SLOCUM RULES ~ GO MUSTANGS[/move]

Oh yeah I agree it could have been alot worse if our top players would have played the last 4 or 5 minutes.... but we have a nice coach.....I would have let them run it up after all the trash talk they were doing..... but like i said we have a great coach... not to mention great players also....

theres talk of a big 3A tourny

Shouldnt softball talk be under softball, not basketball ?

Lady Bobcats, Mustangs ready for regional tests Gabe Pruett The Orange Leader For the second consecutive year, the West Orange-Stark Lady Mustangs and the No. 12 Orangefield Lady Bobcats will make their home in Huntsville for a weekend. Both squads are looking to avenge last season’s early exit in the Class 3A Region III final’s tournament. The Lady Bobcats will start things off at 6:15 p.m. at Johnson Coliseum at Sam Houston State University when they face the No. 7 Diboll Lady Lumberjacks (25-5). WO-S (23-8) will face No. 17 Crockett (28-6) at 8 p.m. at the Johnson Coliseum. Both teams are fighting to reach the Regional Final which will be played at 1 p.m. Saturday. The semifinals pits two District 20-3A teams vs. two District 21-3A squads. LADY BOBCATS Orangefield brings a high energy game into their semi-final contest with more than just a few players peaking at the right time. The Lady Bobcats strength in the playoffs has been their depth and defense. From top to bottom, Coach Sondra Ancelot’s team is full of players ready to step up and give an extra boost even if it is for a few minutes of game time. The Lady Bobcats will have to deal with the Lady Lumberjacks and their 6’4 post Nikki Greene. Diboll was a 51-44 winner over the Madisonville Lady Mustangs in the regional quarterfinals. The Lady Jacks got 15 points from both Vanessa Jones and Mone Deason. Greene put in nine points in the victory. Greene also had 12 rebounds and five blocks. Matching up against a tall post presence does not worry Ancelot who has seen her team face WO-S’ Janea Hendreson and Lumberton’s Courtney Wilson already this season. “The key for us going is to continue to play our normal game and press and run,†Ancelot said. “I am real proud of what these girls have accomplished but it is time to concentrate on Diboll. It is time to refocus. Diboll played Madisonville in Huntsville so they have a little experience being there but we were there last year so we have ours.†Ancelot was up late Wednesday night watching film on Diboll and woke up early Thursday to start the process all over again. “I have a good feel of what to expect,†Ancelot said. “They are very similar to what we have been seeing in the playoffs. They are athletic and very fast.†Orangefield started its playoff push with a 80-48 whipping of Coldspring and then defeated previously 30-0 West Columbia 62-37. The Lady Bobcats took down the Cleveland Lady Indians 66-51 on Wednesday to reach the regional tournament. Diboll, the champions of District 20-3A with a 13-1 mark, had a bye in the bi-district round and beat Lorena 58-41 in the area round. One advantage Ancelot has seen growing by the dozens over the last few weeks is the size and volume of the Orangefield crowds. “Our crowd has simply been amazing,†Ancelot said. “Last night (Wednesday) in Vidor was electrifying. It was the greatest atmosphere I have seen in a long time. It definitely helps our girls and gives us a big advantage. “We want to see those people in Huntsville. All the kids talk about is getting there and making up for last year. We lost by 1 point to the state champion. We can’t get that feeling out of our guts. Now the chance to get rid of it has presented itself and we hope to take advantage.†LADY MUSTANGS It is back to work for WO-S in their game of “proving people wrong.†The Lady Mustangs entered the playoffs with a chip on their shoulder when they were unranked and being the third place team out of District 21-3A. So first WO-S took their anger out on Liberty by a tune of 57-22 in the bi-district round. Up next was a 46-41 victory over No. 5 Navasota in the area round and then there was Wednesday’s 79-74 win over No. 9 Silsbee. To say the least, WO-S is so far getting their revenge. “The girls are very excited,†WO-S coach Callie Orebo said. “We are tying to do something we have never done.†Orebo stayed to her strategy of not knowing anything about her opponent. It was a first coming into this year’s playoffs but it is hard to argue with the results so far. “I think it is best to leave it alone with how well it has worked so far,†Orebo explained. “It has been great so far with not being ranked. I am loving it.†Lady Mustang senior guard Brittney Scott is the main reason for WO-S’ attack with a scoring average of 35 points a game in the playoffs, 49 coming against Silsbee. While Scott has been the focal point, the rest of the Lady Mustangs are stepping up their game at the right time. Seniors Dominique Riggs and Rebecca McMillion are grabbing important rebounds while sophomore Kia Hartfield continues her streak of burying big shots. Senior post Janea Hendreson, who did not require stitches after suffering an eye injury Wednesday, is being her usual self by putting in tough points and averaging double-digit rebounds in the playoffs. “We just can’t go into the gym and have playoff syndrome,†Orebo said. “We have to go out there with open minds and realize it is just a game. We will do fine. If we go to Huntsville and get two wins, they will have to put me in a crazy house.†The Lady Bulldogs come in fresh off a 53-48 victory over Fairfield in the regional quarterfinals. They desposed of China Spring, last year’s state champion, in the area round 54-53 and took care of Groesbeck 66-37 In other WO-S news, a bus will leave Kroger parking lot at 4:30 p.m. to head to Huntsville. The cost is $13 a person. Contact Martha Morrow at 886-0651 or at 330-1655.

Write for AOL Slams the NBA (good article) Mayhem Main Event at NBA All-Star Weekend 'Police Were Simply Overwhelmed' in Sin City By JASON WHITLOCK AOL LAS VEGAS -- NBA All-Star Weekend in Vegas was an unmitigated failure, and any thoughts of taking the extravaganza to New Orleans in 2008 are total lunacy. NBA's Big Weekend An event planned to showcase what is right about professional basketball has been turned into a 72-hour display of why commissioner David Stern can't sleep at night and spends his days thinking of rules to mask what the NBA has come to represent. Good luck fixing All-Star Weekend. The game is a sloppy, boring, half-hearted mess. The dunk contest is contrived and pointless. The celebrity contest is unintended comedy. And, worst of all, All-Star Weekend revelers have transformed the league's midseason exhibition into the new millennium Freaknik, an out-of-control street party that features gunplay, violence, non-stop weed smoke and general mayhem. Word of all the criminal activity that transpired during All-Star Weekend has been slowly leaking out on Las Vegas radio shows and TV newscasts and on Internet blogs the past 24 hours. "It was filled with an element of violence," Teresa Frey, general manager for Coco's restaurant, told klastv.com. "They don't want to pay their bills. They don't want to respect us or each other." Things got so bad that she closed the 24-hour restaurant from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. "I have been spit on. I have had food thrown at me," she said. "I have lost two servers out of fear. I have locked my door out of the fear of violence." All weekend, people, especially cab drivers, gossiped about brawls and shootings. You didn't know what to believe because the local newspaper was filled with stories about what a raging success All-Star Weekend was. The city is desperately trying to attract an NBA franchise, and, I guess, there was no reason to let a few bloody bodies get in the way of a cozy relationship with Stern. The New York Times says it's "hard to beat." Deadspin calls it "freakishly good." What is AOL's Fanhouse? Everything you want and need as a fan from the best bloggers on the Web. Plus, the NBA's business partner ESPN didn't have time to dirty its hands and report on the carnage. I'm sure ESPN's reporters were embedded in the rear ends of the troops -- Shaq, Kobe, King James, D-Wade, AI and Melo. But there were multiple brawls, at least two shootings, more than 350 arrests and a lot of terror in Vegas over the weekend. And the police might want to talk to NFL player Pacman Jones about a nasty shooting spree at a Vegas strip club. Jones and the rapper Nelly were allegedly at Minxx Gentlemen's Club Monday morning shortly before (or during) the shooting. Two victims, male employees of the club, were listed in critical condition at the hospital; a third, a female patron, sustained non-life threatening injuries after being grazed by a bullet. There were so many fights and so many gangbangers and one parking-lot shootout at the MGM Grand that people literally fled the hotel in fear for their safety. I talked with a woman who moved from the MGM to the Luxor because "I couldn't take it. I'll never come back to another All-Star Game." There are reports of a brawl between rappers and police at the Wynn Hotel. Vegas police were simply overwhelmed along The Strip. They were there solely for decoration and to discourage major crimes. Beyond that, they minded their own business. I was there. Walking The Strip this weekend must be what it feels like to walk the yard at a maximum security prison. You couldn't relax. You avoided eye contact. The heavy police presence only reminded you of the danger. Without a full-scale military occupation, New Orleans will not survive All-Star Weekend 2008. David Stern seriously needs to consider moving the event out of the country for the next couple of years in hopes that young, hip-hop hoodlums would find another event to terrorize. Taking the game to Canada won't do it. The game needs to be moved overseas, someplace where the Bloods and Crips and hookers and hoes can't get to it without a passport and plane ticket. I'm serious. Stern has spent the past three years trying to move his league and players past the thug image Ron Artest's fan brawl stamped on the NBA. After this weekend, I'm convinced he's losing the battle. All-Star Weekend Vegas screamed that the NBA is aligned too closely with thugs. Stern is going to have to take drastic measures to break that perception/reality. All-Star Weekend can no longer remain the Woodstock for parolees, wannabe rap artists and baby's mamas on tax-refund vacations. This was not a byproduct of the game being held in Vegas. All-Star Weekend has been on this path for the past five or six years. Every year the event becomes more and more a destination for troublemakers. If something isn't done, next year's All-Star Weekend will surpass the deceased Freaknik, a weekend-long party in Atlanta, in terms of lawlessness. Wide-spread looting and a rape killed the Freaknik in 1999. The NBA's image cannot survive bedlam in the French Quarter. And I'm not sure it can survive the embarrassment of a New Orleans standoff between its fans and the National Guard, either. If Stern wants to continue to strengthen the international appeal of his game, he has the perfect excuse to move the All-Star Game to Germany, China, England or anywhere Suge Knight's posse can't find it. from AOL.com

Warrior players and fans: Don't listen to that trash talk! Warren is one of the classiest schools around. Your fans are some of the BEST in the area, really passionate but never rude. Your guys on the court/football field are likewise. Plays with great heart everytime. Next year Warriors oughta be awesome in all sports. Lots to proud of in Warren! .........Let them go on and gloat, they only make themselves look bad!

Defensive side of the ball... Joseph Viator from LCM...he was an absolute beast, and he was either doing the tackling or in on the tackle on everyother play. Darius Bob also returns for the Bears, along with many more on the defensive side of the ball. Since I am a defensive football kind of guy, I'll let someone else talk about the offense... ;D

I respect dayton very much i take all that cheap talk back that was wrong.central is a very talented team when central strap their pads on all this talk will stop.central will always be number one in the Setx triangle

I was at the game and we just didn't take care of business like we should have. Talk about classless, though. The Splendora fans were throwing candy and things down at our cheerleaders the whole game. I asked them to stop several times, before the police officer had to get involved. You must not be used to the play-off scenario, much. CLASSLESS, TRULY CLASSLESS!!

The stinch from the ignorrance about running up the score in a scrimmage has crossed the Gulf and invaded my home. It is a scrimmage, both coaches are looking to see what exactly they have, good or bad. They both know each other well since I went to school and played ball with Shane. The score is meaningless, seeing who can hit, throw, catch, run the bases is what it is about. Even if it was a game, how the score got that way would be the main issue. Did they bunt runners over with a 9 run lead. Were they still stealing with that lead. You dont tell a kid to stand there and not swing or if they get on base to let them tag you. That is disrespectfull. As a competitor you want the other guys best, by not doing that you are saying they are inferior. Dont talk about his class or integrity when you really dont know what your talking about at all.

so lets get the talk going, what is diboll and crockett bringin to the table.