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Don't Forget Track!!! although jr. high basketball is about to end just don't forget about track. Who will have some good Jr. High Track teams?

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Anthony snubbed when All-Star reserves announced NEW YORK -- One bad night may have overshadowed all the good Carmelo Anthony has done this season. The NBA's leading scorer was not among the seven reserves announced Thursday night for the Western Conference team that will play in the NBA All-Star Game. Denver teammate Allen Iverson was chosen, extending his streak of All-Star appearances to eight. He started the last seven games while playing for Philadelphia. Anthony, who is averaging 31.3 points but missed 15 games while suspended for his role in the brawl at Madison Square Garden, was the most obvious omission. Earlier Thursday, Anthony said he hoped his suspension wouldn't prevent him from earning his first All-Star spot. "I hope no one holds that over my head over anything," he said. "Things happen. One incident like that is held over one person's head, life ain't fair. "I did my punishment. I could've easily kept my name out there by appealing it and doing other stuff about it, but I just did my 15 games suspension and hopefully put that behind us." Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire and Shawn Marion were all chosen from the Phoenix Suns, but Dirk Nowitzki was the only player picked from the Dallas Mavericks, who have the league's best record. The Mavericks had been hoping Josh Howard would be selected as well. Detroit and New Jersey had multiple reserves picked for the Feb. 18 game. Chauncey Billups and Richard Hamilton, who both made their first appearances last season, are going back, and Jason Kidd and Vince Carter will represent the Nets in the game at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center. Indiana's Jermaine O'Neal and first-timers Dwight Howard of Orlando and Caron Butler of Washington round out the East reserves. The seven reserves were voted on by the head coaches in their respective conferences. Coaches couldn't vote for their own players, and had to select two forwards, two guards, a center and two players regardless of their position. The remainder of the West reserves were San Antonio guard Tony Parker and Utah forward Carlos Boozer. The starters were announced last Thursday. LeBron James, Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and Gilbert Arenas were picked in the East. Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and Kobe Bryant were voted in by fans to start for the est. Anthony still has a chance to play in Las Vegas. NBA commissioner David Stern will choose a replacement for Yao, who is recovering from a broken bone under his knee, and Boozer also is unavailable because of injury. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

Astros take a look at veteran pair of local relievers Timeline: Review Astros in '06 Righthander Ben Weber and lefthander Kelly Wunsch, a pair of local major league relievers who are trying to rejuvenate their careers, worked out before Astros brass this afternoon at Minute Maid Park. Astros general manager Tim Purpura said he could decide by Friday whether to offer a minor league contracts either or both pitchers, neither of whom played in the majors last year. Weber and Wunsch threw off the mound before Purpura, manager Phil Garner, Nolan Ryan and several other scouts from within the organization. The tryout came at the end of the fourth day of the Nolan Ryan Elite Pitching and Jeff Bagwell Elite Hitting Camps. "You've got to be sure they're going to get innings and get a chance to pitch, whether that be in major league camp or minor league camp," Purpura said. "Kelly is coming off a surgery and has a little ways to go. Ben is looking to regain his career. We'll look at all that and try to make a determination soon so they will know where they stand with us." Wunsch, 34, a former first round draft pick from Texas A&M who played at Bellaire High School, missed all of last season with a shoulder injury. He's 11-6 with a 3.76 ERA in 258 career games, mostly for the Chicago White Sox. "It was real nice to come in here and throw on a decent mound," Wunsch said. "I've been trying to work out in Austin, but with all the ice storms all the local fields are in horrible shape. This was a real nice chance to work out on a good mound and hopefully in front of my future bosses." Weber, 37, who played at the University of Houston, has gone 19-8 with seven saves and a 3.77 ERA in six seasons as a reliever, most with the Anaheim Angels. He went 7-2 with seven saves and helped the Angels win the 2002 World Series. "I want to play for the Astros," said Weber, who was released by the Toronto Blue Jays last year "I've made that known for a long time. This has been my team for 33 years, and I would love to be here, but I understand their situation. They've got a whole bunch of nice, young kids in here, and hopefully I can teach them something, too, just being around." Purpura said Weber could perhaps fill the role as a multiple-inning reliever and Wunsch could be a second lefthander out of the bullpen.

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Florida hunter bags a hermaphrodite deer TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A DeBary man who was out hunting deer last fall got a big surprise when he took one of his deer into the check station. Joe Stokes was deer hunting on public land in Sumter County on Nov. 12 and shot two deer, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported. When FWC senior wildlife technician Tim Farley logged in the deer, he discovered that one deer was a hermaphrodite, possessing both male and female reproductive organs. Farley also he logged in another hermaphrodite deer the day before. "I've been doing this for 27 years, and I've only come across three deer that were 'true' hermaphrodites, those having all of the male and female sex organs," Farley said in a statement. Robert Vanderhoof, the deer management coordinator for the FWC, said deer that are true hermaphrodites are extremely rare.

2 Milwaukee schools punished after brawl MILWAUKEE - Parents or guardians of players will be the only fans allowed to watch two high school teams play after a melee led to six injuries and 10 arrests. Bradley Tech's boys team defeated Bay View High School 82-81 in an emotionally charged overtime upset Tuesday night. Tech students rushed their court in celebration, but it soon turned rowdy, with several fights breaking out on the gym's floor and one woman jumping on the back of a police officer. Four police officers and a 15-year-old student were injured as was an 18-year-old student who apparently suffered a seizure and could not be reached by officers trying to assist her, police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said. Officers were forced Tuesday night to send out a rare citywide call for support, drawing dozens of squads to Bradley Tech. Even after police cleared the school, fans continued to yell at each other in the street. None of the injuries was considered life threatening, but two officers suffered broken bones. The arrests were mostly for disorderly conduct, except for one count of battery to a police officer. Milwaukee Public Schools spokeswoman Roseann St. Aubin said that the situation was a "mess" and that students involved in the fight face suspension or expulsion. Administrators from both high schools declined to comment. The ticket limit announced Wednesday applies just to Bradley Tech and Bay View junior varsity and varsity boys and girls teams, meaning that their opponents may have as many fans as current school safety procedures allow. But Bradley Tech and Bay View students and fans will not be allowed to attend. That's unfortunate, St. Aubin said. "Any time you ban attendance at games, you worry about an outfalling from that," St. Aubin said. "To those people who are prohibited from coming in, you cut them off from a wonderful, for the most part very safe and enjoyable, activity that's happening on a weeknight." St. Aubin didn't say how long the ticket limit will last, but Mayor Tom Barrett said he hopes it's at least for the rest of the season. "We simply will not tolerate any level of violence at our sporting events," Barrett said. "We're not going to put students in harm's way. We're not going to put police officers in harm's way." The incident was the first at a Milwaukee Public Schools sporting event this season, but an early January brawl involving about two dozen people at Bradley Tech prompted officials to ban cell phones from Milwaukee Public Schools. Female students had used cell phones to summon relatives and others to the fight. The school district adopted rules this season to address increasing problems of violence at school sporting events — including limiting the number of tickets sold to 75 percent of the gym's capacity. About 1,100 tickets were sold to Tuesday night's game, which was only about 50 percent capacity, St. Aubin said.

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Roids in schools? Someone got busted. Wednesday , January 31, 2007 Posted: 05:59 PM Donna Coach Arrested WESLACO - Police arrested a Donna P.E. teacher for having cocaine in his truck. Scott Kenneth Fischer was formally charged with possession of a controlled substance. Officers arrested the 49-year-old during a traffic stop. Police say they also found steroids and 52 syringes inside his vehicle. The Brownsville native has worked for Donna ISD for nine years. For the last two years, he's worked at Veterans' Middle School. The district tells us Fischer submitted a letter notifying them about his arrest. It's part of district policy to do so. The district has requested a copy of the police report. They'll then determine what disciplinary action is needed.

Texas A&M men clobber Iowa State COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Joseph Jones scored 21 points and No. 10 Texas A&M's defense did the rest in the Aggies' 73-49 win over Iowa State on Wednesday night. The win is Texas A&M's 20th straight at home and Iowa State's fifth consecutive loss. The Cyclones (11-10, 2-5) were forced to play catch up all night after the Aggies jumped to a 11-0 lead and never slowed down. Acie Law got Texas A&M (18-3, 6-1 Big 12) to 70 points with a layup with 5:51 remaining and coach Billy Gillispie sent in a cast of backups to finish the game. Jones scored all but two of his points in the first half and sat for extended periods after the break. Law and Antanas Kavaliauskas scored 13 apiece for Texas A&M. Texas A&M's defense harassed, hurried and frustrated Iowa State from the start, forcing the Cyclones into 21 turnovers, and often leaving them looking confused. Among the miscues for the Cyclones was a five-second call on an inbound pass, a handful of traveling calls and a couple of instances where players looked to have passed directly to a defender. The Aggies entered the game leading the nation in defensive field goal percentage and allowing the second fewest points a game. The Cyclones shot just 31 percent and were held to their fewest points of the season. It's nothing new to the Aggies, who have held 32 straight opponents to less than 50 percent shooting, the nation's longest streak. Texas A&M led 39-23 at halftime, after Jones set the pace early, scoring six of the game's first eight points. Wesley Johnson led the Cyclones with 17 points, including three 3-pointers and Mike Taylor added 13 points.

T-Mac leads Rockets to win over Sonics Tracy McGrady, wearing his best photo-op smile, stared at Mickael Gelabale until he caught the eye of the rookie he had just beaten and held that stare and smile as if it had been as easy as saying cheese. McGrady took over down the stretch, scoring or setting up all six Rockets scores after he had returned to the game. His last 3 finally clinched a 112-102 defeat of the Seattle SuperSonics at Toyota Center on Wednesday. But despite the pose, the 36 points McGrady scored and the nine assists he spread around, things never got easy until the final seconds. After consecutive games in which McGrady could grin his way through the fourth quarter while relaxing on the Rockets bench, the Sonics scored too easily for too long for the Rockets to leave them behind until McGrady's fourth 3-pointer found the net in the last minute. The Sonics scored just as easily through much of the night, with Ray Allen matching McGrady's 36 points and the Sonics making 45 of their 87 attempts (51.7 percent) against a defense that had fallen far from the form of its three-game winning streak. After both teams scored so easily for much of the night, with the Rockets leading 93-88, they hit a sudden lull. Luther Head missed four consecutive shots. The Sonics missed five shots with two shot-clock violations. But when McGrady returned to the floor and passed to Head for a 3-pointer, the Rockets had their first points in three minutes, their first field goal in five, and their largest lead in the game's first 42 minutes, 96-88. With that, the Rockets suddenly began an offensive surge. McGrady set up Chuck Hayes inside for a layup then sent another pass outside to Head for his second consecutive 3. When McGrady jab-stepped Gelabale three feet off him, he easily nailed a 16-footer to send the game to its final three minutes with the Rockets holding an 11-point lead. The Rockets had spent the night as if replaying the loss to the Nuggets, with the same shaky defense and the same superstar treatment that Allen had put them through offered by Allen Iverson. They'd led by eight with 2:50 left that night. On Wednesday, when they led by 11 at the same juncture, Allen nailed consecutive jumpers to reduce the Rockets' lead to 103-96. But this time, McGrady passed to Hayes inside and, after a Chris Wilcox jumper, McGrady nailed a 3-pointer with 51.1 seconds left for a 108-98 lead that finally put the Rockets out of reach. As much as they had rolled through much of the first half, McGrady and Allen began to put on a show in the third quarter, with little of that annoying defense to get in their way. After a 21-point first half, McGrady had 10 in the third quarter. Allen had 13 points in the first half, matching that in the third quarter until, in the last two minutes of the quarter, the Rockets sent Hayes to double team the ball out of Allen's hands. That, however, took a body away from Nick Collison and he tipped in a miss to bring the Sonics to within 85-82 heading into the fourth quarter. That would have seemed a good position for the Rockets to be in. The Sonics were playing the second half of a back-to-back and were 0-13 on the road when trailing heading into the fourth quarter. The Rockets were 15-2 at home this season when beginning the fourth quarter with a lead, 28-5 when leading after three overall. The Rockets, however, had helped the Seattle offense get off to a flying start and once Allen started cooking, there was no slowing them down. Seattle made 18 of its first 24 shots, taking a 43-39 lead midway through the second quarter. But the Sonics made one of their next eight shots, Allen took a seat for three minutes, and when Head, Battier and McGrady drained consecutive 3s, the Rockets surged to a lead. McGrady added another 3-pointer at the buzzer, banking in a heave he launched after he thought he had been fouled, to give the Rockets their largest lead of the half, 59-51.

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[Hidden Content] West Hardin, Big Sandy set to vie for title The West Hardin boys basketball team must take care of Big Sandy at home if it wants any chance at winning the District 24-A title. "It's going to be our biggest game of the year," said West Hardin coach Kent Fuller. "Coach (Kevin) Foster does a good job with his team and its going to be a tough game." West Hardin, which is ranked No. 13 in the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Class A poll, is scheduled to play No. 11 Big Sandy at 7:30 p.m. Friday in their second district game of the season. Big Sandy beat West Hardin 61-45 in the teams' first meeting at the Wildcats' gym. "We won 17 games before we lost to Big Sandy," Fuller said. "It was a tough loss, but we hope to pull out a win at home." Big Sandy (21-6) holds sole possession of first place in district at 9-0. West Hardin is in second place at 8-1. If West Hardin wins, the Oilers and Big Sandy will be tied for first place in district. If both teams win their remaining district games, the two will play a district playoff game for the top two playoff seeds. "I think in order to beat Big Sandy we have to do all the little things right," Fuller said. "We have to take care of the ball and make our free throws. Big Sandy is a well coached team so we have to come out ready to play." Despite winning the game by 16 points the first time, some thought Big Sandy won in part because West Hardin's best player didn't play at a 100 percent. Brandon Letsinger suffered from an injured wrist at the time and didn't enter the game until late in the first quarter. The senior guard averages 22 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists this season for the Oilers. "Right now everybody is healthy," Fuller said. "That is a plus for us because this is our last shot at a district title." Tyler Copeland, Zach Simmons and Jared Tomlinson round out the returning starters from last season's team. "We have really good guard play on this team," Fuller said. "The guards lead this team. I think we need to be a little more consistent with our post play. When we play well at both positions we win our games." West Hardin, which didn't make the playoffs last year, went 20-11 overall and 3-7 in District 24-2A play. The Oilers hope the move to Class A will help their chances at a state title this year. "Our goal is to go to Austin," Fuller said. "We set our goals high and we believe we can achieve them."