In Honor Of The Orange Bowl Closing . . .

. . . I bring you this melee from last year.

But the funniest bit is how the sports blog Deadspin isolated "Ned" - a player who entered the fray on crutches - and made him a folk hero.

Trouble In . . .

Ok, I'll admit I did that for shock value. It's not our dear little Paradise, Texas. But the first sentence is a doozy:

The head cheer mother of the Paradise Junior Bobcats Cheerleading team was arrested Thursday afternoon on suspicion of molesting a 14-year-old Midget Bobcats football player.

Jump Start

The courthouse is closed, and it's a slow news day (it seems.) But Verne Lundquist did a little dance this weekend. I love Verne.

State Meet Cross Country Results

Boys:

Girls:

I Don't Know What's Real Any More

(Thanks to Tony for the email.)

A Game I Didn't Go To But Wish I Did

Link.

A list of the multitude of records set is here. (63 points in one quarter is one of them.)

Edit: Get that scoreboard fixed, too.

November Football When It's 80 Degrees

As I wait for Oklahoma to hang half a hundred on Baylor tonight, I'll check in on The Pirates vs. The Evil Empire.

The Dark Angel Returns

Just saw that Decatur will face Abilene Wylie in the first round of the State Playoffs. Recent history:

2006: Lost 36-35 (Playoffs)
2005: Lost 43-33 (Regular Season)
2004: Lost 14-13 (Playoffs)

Welcome To Beverly Hills Southwest

Channel 8 News ran a story about the Barnett Shale's impact on Bridgeport - describing it as a "modern day boomtown" with virtually "no unemployment." Also, there are now "many million dollar houses."

Video here. (Although I difficulty getting it to play smoothly.)

Edit: I forgot to thank the emailer for pointing this out to me. I had missed it.

"Watch and learn, Bubba Jr."

Man robs bank inside grocery store while holding two year old.

This Picture . . .

. . . from a Bank Of America ad that has been appearing in the Dallas Morning News creeps me out.

Yep, That's Big

A while back I posted about those huge wing looking things that you would occasionally see being hauled through Decatur, northbound on 287. The general consensus were that they were for those wind farm turbines that generate energy.

A faithful reader sends a pic of one of them on the ground.

May I Dance With Your Date

I really haven't cared much about the Dog The Bounty Hunter story where he was recorded using the "n word" in a conversation with his son. (A recording made by his son and later sold which makes the son a sorry individual.)

Dog was on Larry King Live the other night asking for forgiveness. Here he is leaving the studio.

I. Can't. Stop. Staring.

Bush Quote Of The Day

I don't even know what that means.

More Coverage . . .

. . . (with some good background information) on the crash this week from the Dallas Morning News. Here.

Edit: The Star-Telegram has a similar article.

Scalpers

Fox 4 had a story tonight on the high cost of Hannah Montana tickets (which I wrote about weeks ago.) With advice on how to find tickets from a scalper, an "expert" was interviewed who said, "If you will wait until the last minute, scalping prices will drop."

I hear that crap all the time. And I can't tell you how untrue it is.

Back in the "old days", a buddy and I/me (?) went out to Texas Stadium on a Monday Night to buy tickets from a scalper for a Cowboys/Giants game. We saw a few sellers but only one guy was willing to stick around with an asking price of $80 a ticket (a fortune back then - circa 1988. We weren't gonna pay it.) So we had this theory: Wait until the game starts and he will unload them. So...the first quarter starts. He won't budge. The first quarter ends. He won't budge. The second quarter starts. He tries one more time to sell them for $80 and there are no takers. He then walks off to his car, eating the tickets.

I saw the same thing happen at Reunion Arena for an old Southwest Conference Basketball tournament.

I don't understand it, but the prices don't drop.

Screenshots . . .

. . . from Fox 4 News' story tonight on the wreck that killed a couple from Chico.

Emailed To Me

Don't know the story behind it.