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Did they decide to preemptively punish themselves to keep from having a bigger sentence? Basically taking a plea deal instead of facing the judge and jury.

They may not have lost a playoff game, but loosing the chance to play in the playoffs is even worse.

This was great

A model of maturity, you.

Please stop trolling. Add substance or don't comment.

We have come a long way from Christine Jorgensen. Thought they were few and far between. Now they’re everywhere. Should have enough for singles sports. Not sure about team sports.

They should create a transgender league.

I can believe it, it’s a free for all in Dallas when it comes to recruiting. However I don’t think the UIL will do anything about it, it’s been going on for years. I believe the only reason the UIL started investigating them in the first place is because DV went around them to essentially get ruling on Anthony Black overturned.

The best part of the whole thing is how this is actually a result of fiscal policy in the pandemic era. The tech firms that were the primary depositors in SVB got PPP loans... that swelled the balance sheets at SVB and they needed to park that money somewhere. They bought securities at low interest rates, then inflation happened across the economy as a whole... the solution was for the Fed to raise interest rates, then suddenly SVB was paying more in interest on funds on deposit than they were making on the securities that were purchased. Long story short... the government dumped tons of cash into the economy which ended up in banks like SVB, then inflation happened, then the solution to inflation was to raise interest rates, and now the banks are failing because of that chain of events. We literally dumped Trillions into the economy re: Covid and now we're about to drop billions more to fix the problems caused by the initial dumping. This scenario last happened in the early 80s when inflation and interest rates went wild. The bad news is guys who were around at that point are all dead or retired in 2023.

Bumping this up since there's Duncanville talk in the BU vs LH thread.

How many more state titles do they get to roll on to before anything changes. Maybe 9 or 10? I guess we should congratulate Argyle for being the last real 4A state champions.

That’s good thinking. I did well under Trump with my 401K. I was in high risk. Glad I pulled it all out before Biden robbed it all.

After 51 straight years of attending the boys basketball state tournament, my streak will end this season as I will not be attending this year. My goal since I started going was to attend as many as my dad did who started taking me when I was 8 years old in 1972. My dad ended up attending 50 straight, his last time going in 2007. I made 51 straight last season. My priorities have changed over the years and my interest has waned some the last couple of years. Got grand sons to run around with now (T-ball, soccer, etc.) along with hanging out at the beach. With the wife and I retired now, just got other things I want to do. Actually I'll be hitting the new Horseshoe casino next week. I enjoyed each and every trip to the state tourney. Great memories with my dad and got to see some great basketball. I have been truly blessed. I may attend another state tourney (particularly if Silsbee goes) but the streak had to end sometime. Will miss hanging out with coaches, officials, media and fans that attended on a regular basis. Good luck To Beaumont United next week. Bring home that 3rd state championship.

Lawd help him 😂

@Coach_Izzy I don't think talking down on the kids is the correct argument for this arena.

Lets take the heat level down a notch on this discussion please.

Great Godly man. I have been friends with David since we played Little League and Little Dribbler basketball together. His family is such good people. Graduated with his sister Cinthia. United couldn't have a better coach and mentor.

Applicants for Vidor HC/AD: Robert Deshazo-Lumberton Milton Dwayne Dubois- retired former Vidor, BC, HJ Ricklan Holmes-Tyler Bruce Munden-Eureka Kansas Robie Robbins-Rockport-Fulton DC Jake Smith-HC Hardin Michael Trahan-Vidor OC

I don't think so. DuBois and Mike Trahan (who is on the current coaching staff) were the two I knew of. There were two more that had applied I believe.

The IRS sends their auditor to audit a synagogue. The auditor is doing all the checks, and then turns to the Rabbi and says, “I noticed that you buy a lot of candles.” “Yes,” answered the Rabbi. “Well, Rabbi, what do you do with the candle drippings?” he asked. “A good question,” noted the Rabbi. “We actually save them up. When we have enough, we send them back to the candle maker and every now and then, they send us a free box of candles.” “Oh,” replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his question actually had a practical answer. So, he thought he’d try another question, in his obnoxious way. “Rabbi, what about all these matzo purchases? What do you do with the crumbs from the matzo? “Ah, yes,” replied the Rabbi calmly, “we actually collect up the crumbs, we send them in a box back to the manufacturer and every now and then, they send a box of matzo balls.” “Oh,” replied the auditor, thinking hard how to fluster the Rabbi. “Well, Rabbi,” he went on, “what do you do with all the foreskins from the circumcisions?” “Yes, here too, we do not waste,” answered the Rabbi. “What we do is save up all the foreskins, and when we have enough, we actually send them to the IRS.” “To the IRS ?” questioned the auditor in disbelief. “Ah, yes,” replied the Rabbi, “directly to The IRS …And, about once a year, they send us a little prick like you.”

$800 billion was PPP loans. It was "free" money. I took 200+ PPP loan application and submitted them to the SBA - Anyone actually read exactly what the funds could be used for? Example - If you were a 1099 employee and made over $100,000, you could get $20,400 even if you were still working, which I'd say 95% of the loans I did, they were all still employed. They "paid" themselves and it was forgiven. All they had to do was write a check to themselves and add PAYROLL to the memo and when submitted to SBA, it was forgiven. I've read several places that only 33% of the PPP loans went to actual employees. Stimulas checks - that was another $814 billion. Inflation was caused by too much money being injected into the economy, there was not enough supply for the demad. Not sure where the $550 billion you're speaking of came from.