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not a good omen for the stros.

I know most of ya'll are stros fans, but i've been a ranger fan since i was a little kid. they shelled last year's AL Cy Young winner Cliff Lee today beat the Indians 9-1! 1-0, baby!!!

i never put much stock in it... lots of players who make it are very deserving, but every year it gets as many wrong as it does right

??? ??? ??? ditto

He finished the tourney tied for 33rd at -3. poor fella only got a meager $29K paycheck this week.

congrats!

i honestly do. look at the shape he keeps himself in. he's good enough to win on a torn ACL, and also in his 2nd tourney back from ACL surgery. he's good enough to win with his "C" game. i find it hard to believe he won't still winning (at least occasionally) late into his 40's, if he chooses to play that long.

FHS is rolling through the competition... a ton of impressive results, especially this deep in the playoffs.

actually, that's my uncle cletus. he lives in fannett, and his three sons are the next big thing to hit the HF basketball program.

very nice... i guess buying a house three minutes from the course really paid off

so Floyd said NO! not to interrupt your guys' hijacked thread.

they played a great 1st half, but kind of collapsed in the 2nd. still, a great end to the year for the bears.

but tiger might "squeeze out" 30 or 35, and on a whole, the entire tour is more competitive.

money may not be able to buy a championship this year, but it'll buy one heck of a stadium!

now THAT could work

riiiight

you make valid points as well. as for replacing one of those two in the midfield, i really like what kliestjan has done when he's played.

they got a kind of lucky goal at the end to save your and my streak. i'm at 2 now. you?

Keeper blew a save and jozy got his hat trick. a very solid performance for the US tonight. this game could be 5-0 tonight.

Jozy with both goals tonight. USA leads 2-0 with 10 minutes left.

Ching has had a fairly good game, i'll give him that, but i'd much rather have someone up top with Jozy who can create a little more, either with speed (landycakes), or footskill (dempsey). ching has always reminded me of a much less talented mcbride. i don't care for Mastroeni's style of play, and i'd rather not see hejduk in the starting lineup. i'd also rather have beasley in a wing role where he can create more, although i understand why he's playing left back for this game.

I don't like the starting lineup for the US. Can we PLEASE stop playing Ching? He's terrible!

The playoff bracket said the Lumberton girls soccer team was playing Waco Midway, but in a way Tuesday night, it faced history too. The Raiders had hoped to become the first Southeast Texas high school girls soccer team to win a fourth straight University Interscholastic League game. Instead, Lumberton fell to a faster and more versatile team from Waco Midway in a 5-0 loss at Conroe ISD's Woodforest National Bank Stadium. "It's tough," Lumberton head coach Jason Hopson said. In the end, the Lumberton (18-3-4) girls walked off the field to end a season in which they won the District 37-4A title and won three playoff games. No Southeast Texas girls soccer team had won three straight UIL playoff games since Nederland in 2000. Lumberton's bid for a fourth straight playoff win fell short against a team that got in a groove by substituting several midfielders and forward through the second half. Hopson, whose team went into halftime with a 1-0 deficit, struggled to adjust. "I really think there's no way to describe how to defend against that," Hopson about defending Midway's multiple substitutions. "We are going to go back and look at film from this game, because when you play teams like this, that's how you learn." Lumberton goalie Kaitlyn Peavey stopped four shots in the first half but faced more than she and the rest of the Lumberton defense could handle in the second. Midway (21-3) took a 3-0 lead when senior midfielder Taylor Fletcher scored two goals 15 seconds apart about 5 minutes into the second half. "I think that we started the game playing good defense and we went into the half in really good spirits," Lumberton senior defender Randi Paine said. "But in that second half, once they scored those two goals, we got down on ourselves." Midway added two more goals and will play a regional semifinal against Brenham, which beat Port Neches-Groves earlier in the playoffs. Midway has outscored is three playoff opponents 16-0. Although his team won easily, Midway coach Bill Sharpe left the field impressed by Lumberton's speed. "They have good team speed," Sharp said. "I knew they had good team speed, but it's another thing to see it up close. It's just with what we do, we wear teams down and that's why we were hoping it'd be 85 degrees at game time." Carroll said it was the fourth time his team played on Field Turf, an artificial surface that leads to faster play than on grass. Hopson said this was Lumberton's first game on the surface. Hopson said the fast playing surface did not hinder Lumberton's offense. He added that it was a good learning experience for a team that will lose 11 players and return 10 next season. "The girls, they enjoyed playing on turf," he said. "And we really don't get many opportunities to play on it so for the younger girls, I hope they take this and realize that if we continue to improve and make more deep playoff runs, we can play on fields like this again."

From "The Bayou": Bolivar is decimated. You don't need us to tell you, just go out and look around (or check out these high-tech aerial shots). We did, this past weekend. What we saw was utterly depressing. Houses tumbling onto themselves, trash hung up in brush, entire fields where cattle used to roam now strewn with sand. But there were signs of hope. There were Earth movers clearing debris, bars open with patrons inside, Stingaree was up and running and builders were out framing homes. A friend also took a trip out to Bolivar, only he took his motorcycle. A decision he later regretted. He didn't realize it at the time, but after he returned he began dealing with some respiratory issues from all of the waste fumes he'd inhaled. It took a few days for him to feel "normal" again. Despite the damage, we still saw dozens of folks fishing out on Rollover Pass. But if the Texas Legislature has its way -- that sight might be a distant memory. Today, the House will hold public hearings on HB 3986 (there is a sister bill, SB 2043, in the Senate). The bill mandates the "closure of any manmade pass between the Gulf of Mexico and an inland bay if the commissioner determines that the manmade pass causes or contributes to significant erosion to the adjacent beach shoreline." Ike -- DUH! -- caused much of the erosion. The sand dunes that once separated Texas 87 from the Gulf are now gone. As you drive along, you can see miles of uninterrupted beachfront that appears to almost come right up to the roadway. Essentially, this bill allows for the closure of Rollover Pass as early as September 1st -- something the commissioner of the General Land office has been advocating since before Ike. Galveston County commissioners already voted to fill the pass in February. This bill would make it a mandate. The closure would be accomplished by pumping in sand and completing shore protection on the Gulf of Mexico side of the project for an estimated cost of $6 million. The annual cost savings for the state of Texas would be approximately $150K/year in maintenance. A Bayou reader and Gilchrist resident had this to say about the Pass: "How, in the wake of a catastrophic hurricane, can a governmental agency justify the taking away of this economic engine for our community?" Good question. There is much to consider, and a September 1st deadline seems like an awfully short window to cover it all.