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ACC admits to 'timing error' in final seconds GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The Atlantic Coast Conference admitted Friday that a timing error was made in the closing seconds of No. 10 Duke's 68-66 win over Clemson (No. 17 ESPN/USA Today, No. 19 AP). Coordinator of basketball officials John Clougherty said the ACC reviewed the game video and discussed the clock controversy with the officials, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and Clemson coach Oliver Purnell. "The league acknowledges that a timing error was made in not starting the game clock at the correct time," said Clougherty, adding the situation was resolved internally but did not elaborate. The confusion started shortly after Clemson's Vernon Hamilton made a layup to pull the Tigers to 66-63 with 5 seconds left. Josh McRoberts' inbounds pass for Greg Paulus went right to Hamilton just outside the 3-point arc. Hamilton hit a 3 to tie it with 1.8 seconds left, which seemed to have the game headed for overtime. But officials stopped play to review the time remaining and restored the clock to 4.4 seconds. The clock, which stopped on Hamilton's layup, did not restart on the steal until the ball was almost in the basket -- a pause of more than a second. McRoberts then inbounded the ball to Jon Scheyer. He pushed the ball near midcourt and passed to David McClure, who made a layup as time expired to give the Blue Devils the win. "I am satisfied with their review in this matter," Purnell said Friday. "We now need to put 100 percent of our focus on our game with Virginia on Sunday, and that is what we will do, starting with today's practice." A Duke spokesman did not immediately return a telephone message Friday seeking comment from Krzyzewski. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

Bridge City Tournament March 8-10 Thursday, March 8 11:00 WO-S vs. Central 1:30 Ozen vs. Kirbyville 4:15 BC vs. Central 6:45 BC vs. Lumberton Friday, March 9 12:00 Kirbyville vs. Lumberton 2:30 WO-S vs. Ozen 5:00 Kirbyville vs. Central Saturday, March 10 10:00 WO-S vs. Lumberton 12:00 BC vs. Ozen 2007 High Island Baseball Tournament Thursday March 8, 2007 Game #1 12:00pm Deweyville vs Woodville JV Game #2 3:00pm High Island vs West Hardin Friday March 9, 2007 Game # 3 10:00pm Woodville JV vs High Island Game # 4 3:00pm Woodville JV vs West Hardin Saturday March 10, 2007 Game # 5 11:00am Deweyville vs West Hardin Game # 6 3:00pm Deweyville vs High Island 2007 Jasper Field of Dreams Tournament thursday: 12:00 vidor vs. hemphill 3:00 huntsville vs. LCM 6:00 Jasper vs. LCM Friday: 10:00 LCM vs. Hemphill 1:00 Huntsville vs. Vidor 4:00 Jasper vs. Hemphill 7:00 Jasper vs. Vidor saturday: 12:00 LCM vs. Huntsville 3:00 Hemphill vs. Vidor 6:00 Jasper vs. Huntsville

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Bridge City stopped taking applications for their AD/football coach position on Friday and approximately 55 have applied for the job. Interviews will begin the first week of February. No list avaiable.

Hall of Fame pitcher Ryan hospitalized, doing well ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was hospitalized Friday, but his son Reid said it was not an emergency and he is good condition. Nolan Ryan, 59, checked into Round Rock Medical Center for treatment of recurring symptoms of an existing medical condition, Reid Ryan said. Reid Ryan declined to specify the condition but said it was discovered when his father had double-bypass heart surgery in 2000. "He takes medication for it," Reid Ryan said. "From time to time, he has episodes that require him to get checked out when he has pain or something. He's feeling good. This is more about taking precautions." A spokesman for the Round Rock Express, one of the minor league teams Nolan Ryan owns, said he was to be transferred to Houston for further evaluation. In a statement released by the team, Nolan Ryan said he expects to participate in next week's Nolan Ryan Elite Pitching Camp, which starts Monday in Houston. Ryan had 5,714 career strikeouts and seven no-hitters in 27 years with the New York Mets, the California Angels, the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers. He retired in 1993 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1999. Ryan is a majority owner of the Round Rock Express and Corpus Christi Hooks, Triple-A and Double-A affiliates of the Astros Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

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Thursday score....Cathedral 70 Katy Faith West 53

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[Hidden Content] Silsbee holds its own fate in 21-3A At a time when many high school basketball teams are in chaos over their numerous playoff scenarios, the Silsbee boys basketball team knows exactly what it has to do. The Silsbee boys must win their next two games for any chance at a District 21-3A championship. The Tigers play Class 3A's No. 8 West Orange-Stark and No. 4 Hardin-Jefferson in their next two district games. "We would love to stay in first place," said Silsbee coach Travis Williams. "When we step out on the court our goal is to win every game that we play and that goes for the next two games." Silsbee and Hardin-Jefferson are tied for first place in 21-3A at 7-1. Before Tuesday's tip off, Silsbee, Hardin-Jefferson and WO-S were all in a three-way tie for the top spot. But the standings quickly changed when Hardin-Jefferson beat WO-S. The Hawks defeated WO-S 82-66 to hand the Mustangs their second district loss of the season. WO-S (16-9) dropped to third place in district at 6-2. The Tigers (18-6) will have their work cut out for them today when WO-S travels to Silsbee for a 7:30 p.m. game. "It's going to be a tough ball game because they beat us the first time," Williams said. "Hopefully, being at home will help. But regardless of where the game is played, you have to be ready anytime you play West Orange-Stark and Hardin-Jefferson." It will be the second meeting between the schools. The last time the schools met, WO-S came away with a 70-51 victory over Silsbee at the Mustangs' gym on Dec. 21. "The first time we played them (WO-S) we got out rebounded by 20," Williams said. "They also went on a 12-0 run at the beginning of the third quarter, so obviously we've got to do a better job rebounding the ball and shooting it." Silsbee is coming off of an 86-50 victory over Hamshire-Fannett on Tuesday. The Tigers, who opened the game on a 26-9 run in the first quarter, had four players in double figures. Matt Walters led the way for the Tigers with 16 points. "I thought we did a good job against Hamshire-Fannett," Williams said. "We came out strong in the first quarter and got a big lead very quickly. Hopefully, we have the same success shooting the ball against West Orange." A win for Silsbee would keep the Tigers in the first-place spot. But if the Tigers lose, they will move into second place with the Mustangs. If Silsbee and Hardin-Jefferson win today, the teams will play for first place on Tuesday night in Sour Lake. Silsbee handed Hardin-Jefferson its only district loss of the season. Silsbee beat the Hawks 77-58 at home. "We are very happy that we are in first place and would love to stay there," Williams said. "We just have to go out and leave everything on the floor if we want to beat those two teams."

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State official wants Texas high school athletes tested for steroids JIM VERTUNO= Associated Press Writer January 25, 2007 - 10:01PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas is a hotbed of high school football, where the Friday night lights burn brighter and many of the athletes are among the biggest, fastest and strongest in the country. A key state leader is pushing to make Texas kids the cleanest athletes as well. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, a Republican, is proposing a sweeping mandatory random testing program in public schools for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. And it would go far beyond football. Athletes in baseball, basketball, track and other sports likely would be tested, too. If approved, it would be the nation's largest program of its kind at the high school level, with tens of thousands of students tested every year. "It will save lives. That's the whole purpose," Dewhurst said. "I'm convinced steroid use in high schools is greater than people want to admit." The question is whether local school districts, a powerful lobby at the state Capitol, will want to go along. They have resisted in the past. "Many schools would say they have a bigger problem with alcohol and other drugs," said Charles Breithaupt, athletic director for the University Interscholastic League, the governing body for Texas public school sports. "A lot of them think this is a local issue and way below the radar." Dewhurst's proposal wouldn't be the first of its kind _ New Jersey started a testing program last fall _ but it would be the biggest. Texas had 733,026 students participate in public school sports during the 2005-06 school year, more than any other state. The New Jersey program only tests athletes who qualify for state championships. Dewhurst envisions a much broader, season-long program in Texas, although he has yet to reveal details. That's when the questions over local control, student privacy, punishments for failed tests and other issues must be answered. Some Texas schools already are testing, and their numbers are growing. Of about 1,300 member schools, a UIL survey in 2005 found that 53 schools tested athletes for steroids. By 2006, that number rose to 127. The 2005 survey also asked the schools that didn't test: "Why not?" More than half said it was either too expensive or because they did not think steroids are a problem on their campus. Only 39 schools said they considered steroids a problem on their teams. Of the schools with testing programs in place, only one of 4,100 tests performed in 2005 came back positive for steroids. And when asked who should decide whether to test, more than 800 schools said it should be handled locally. School districts worried about cost _ the tests can run up to $200 each _ scuttled a playoffs-only testing proposal in 2005. With the low rate of positive results at the schools that do test, they wonder if it is worth the money, Breithaupt said. A state study of substance abuse among 141,000 Texas students in grades 7-12 conducted by Texas A&M University found that steroid use fell from 2 percent in 2004 to 1.5 percent in 2006. Among 12th graders, it went down from 2.4 percent to 1.8 percent. Tremain Smith, a lanky 17-year-old senior long jumper at Dallas Wylie High School, said he's never taken performance-enhancing drugs or competed against anybody he suspected of taking them. But he thinks testing is a good idea and would be a deterrent. "It wouldn't be fair. You have to catch the ones trying to get an unfair advantage," Smith said. His father, Julian, a junior ROTC instructor at the school, agreed. "I think they should test," Julian Smith said. "These kids these days are trying to buff up their bodies and get bigger and faster." Dewhurst said schools should be willing to go along if the state pays the bill. Texas lawmakers began the current legislative session with a $14.3 billion budget surplus for the next two years. A random sampling of 30,000 students, about 4 percent of athletes statewide, at $200 each would cost about $6 million. "You can't put a price tag on a young person's life," Dewhurst said. But there's more than money at stake. Schools also worry about privacy _ how to collect a urine sample from a 14-year-old female freshman runner, for example _ penalties and the litigation that might ensue. Routine disqualifications over eligibility often end up in court. A look at the New Jersey program might satisfy some of those concerns. New Jersey contracts with the National Center for Drug Free Sport in Kansas City, Mo., to collect samples and send them to a lab at UCLA. Students and a parent must sign a consent form before the season. The form includes a list of banned substances. New Jersey randomly selects athletes who qualify for team or individual state championships. The state will test about 500 students this school year. "It forced parents to take a look at the substances that were banned and maybe take a look at what their children were ingesting," said Bob Baly, assistant director of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. To protect student privacy, samples are collected by a monitor of the same sex as the athlete. The athlete must take off most of his or her exterior clothing but is allowed to step into a closed stall to urinate. At the college and professional levels, the monitor watches the athlete produce the urine sample. "We have not violated their rights," Baly said. Athletes caught with banned substances must sit out competition for a year and attend counseling. Although students and their families are notified, overall results aren't made public until the end of the school year. Rather than catch a lot of cheaters, Baly said, New Jersey officials hope the program's real impact will be keeping kids from taking steroids or other drugs in the first place. "They are worried about being caught and being labeled as the cheater," Baly said. "Adolescents, if you tell them speeding is dangerous, they're still going to speed. If you tell them about the cop around the corner with the radar gun, hopefully they slow down. It's the fear of being caught." Dewhurst's plan has drawn support from Don Hooton, who became an activist for steroid testing after his son Taylor committed suicide at the age of 17. Doctors said they believe Taylor Hooton became depressed after he stopped using steroids. "I hope his plan to curb steroid use in Texas will become a model for this nation," Hooton said at a Dewhurst campaign stop. D.W. Rutledge, president of the 18,500-member Texas High School Coaches Association, said he believes coaches do a good job steering athletes away from steroids. Rutledge hasn't surveyed his organization's members, but said coaches would likely have the same worries as school administrators about how such a program would work. He also said testing would probably be a good thing for the students. "It gives them a chance to escape the peer pressure, to say `I can't get involved with that,"' Rutledge said. "It gives them an out."

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Local swimmers headed to Sugarland Gabriel Pruett The Orange Leader NEDERLAND — Dakota Dickerson and Brittney Dorman were busy in the pool recently and relaxing was far from their minds. The duo, part of the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bears swim team, put in high marks at the District 22-4A meet in Nederland with Dickerson placing first in the Girls 200-yard individual medley. Dickerson posted a time of 2:58.25 while Dorman placed second in the Girls 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:19.04. Nederland’s Kaitlin Borden placed first in the event with a time of 2:18.61. The Orange County connections at the meet did not stop with these two as Vidor’s Ashley Mann was fourth in the girls’ 100-yard freestyle with a time of 1:17.94 and Brandon Hamm from Vidor took third in the boys’ 100-yard freestyle with a final time of 1:04.53. Sarah Irving of LC-M took fourth in the girls’ 50-yard freestyle with a time of 37.31 while Dorman was second in the girls’ 500-yard freestyle with a time of 6:07.75. Mann then took fourth in the girls’ 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:28.99 and Dickerson placed first in the 100-yard breaststroke with a finishing time of 1:33.26. Irving was fourth in the event with a time of 1:40.96. Hamm took home second in the boys’ 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:21.90. The top six finishers at the district meet will head to the regional meet being held Feb. 2-3. The regional meet will be held in Sugarland at the Dan Cook Natitorium with the preliminaries being held on Feb. 2. Qualifiers will be invited back for the finals on Feb. 3.

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Coach Green called me tonight and ask me to check out the new indoor practice building Vidor now has.

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Manu could soon set league record for most technicals ever NBA might penalize players for flopping Scott Soshnick Bloomberg News Jan. 25, 2007 01:07 PM National Basketball Association players who fake fouls might soon be penalized themselves, a league official said. The NBA is studying how often feigned fouls, known as "flops," occur and whether officials can consistently tell the difference between actual fouls and embellishments, said Stu Jackson, the executive vice president for basketball operations. "They're really difficult to determine in real time. They're meant to fool an official," Jackson told reporters today. "Are we going to be wrong more times than not? It's tough, but we're looking at it." advertisement FIBA, the governing body for international basketball, allows referees to impose a technical foul for flopping, a penalty that Jackson said the NBA is considering. Other sports, including soccer and hockey, also allow officials to penalize players who embellish fouls. "We have so many more plays than you do in a football or soccer game and in a more intimate environment," said Jackson, who didn't offer a timetable for a decision. Jackson met with reporters in New York to discuss the league's officiating program. I don't think it should be a technical. Just rather a defensive foul for blocking. I would rather them change the rule on a tactic Wade has made popular. How can it be a defensive foul when you just straight up, and the offensive players jumps into the guy in the air? I'm not sure but in college it's an offensive foul.

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