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Lew Perkins: “Embarrassed and very hurt”
HEY LEW, YOU SHOULD BE…FOR A LONG TIME!
This oh-so-sorrowful admission is “bull(spit)” that rivals some of the best NCAA insincerity ever mumbled by coaches in search of a conscience and the thug-athletes that might be aimlessly following him around. Perhaps I would have some sympathy for the Jaythugs, had it [...]

“Your best entertainment value in town”

That’s a line I’ve used for years in closing the pre-game announcements and prior to kickoff of Lake Dallas High School’s “Falcon Football Friday Night”
Five times a year, I have a bit of fun doing the PA for home football games. None of my extended  family have heard “the voice of the Falcons” (keep in mind [...]

Passions, Preserving, Places to Play

Oh how I love these kind of discussions. Late last week, OFSIL, OFNi, and I exchanged commentary on sports venue histories, traditions, and personal perspectives. Realize that OFNi is still relatively young amongst the professional ranks but she has an obvious passion and definite opinion towards this subject(s). Now getting it out of her can be another [...]

The Super Bowl cometh

It’s coming on Sunday. Many watch the event more for the commercials than the football played – remember the Bud-Weis- er frogs?  This year, a 30-second ad will cost $3 million. Even though the economy is on the skids and regular advertisers like a certain overnight delivery courier has elected not to participate this year, good [...]

The humility (and irony) continues

A follow up on my previous blog: Oh the humility (and irony) of it all :
So the Christian-based The Covenant School apologizes and says it was wrong to stomp, kick, beat, maim, crew them up & spit ‘em out Dallas Academy girls basketball team 100-0…
So the coach, Micah Grimes, says The Covenant School’s apologetic postion is [...]

Oh the humility (and irony) of it all

So yesterday I read about this girl’s basketball game in the Dallas Morning News…and today it’s home page news on Yahoo.com:
School seeks to forfeit 100-0 win (Associated Press)
DALLAS — A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse.
The game was last week between two [...]