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Just glad he's staying in Texas.

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Looking good!

12/19 - Jasper 52, Center 37

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One of these days, i'll get to eat there.

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Hospital to remove Clemens' name HOUSTON -- The Roger Clemens Institute for Sports Medicine, which opened in January 2007, will no longer carry the embattled pitching great's name. The Memorial Hermann Hospital Health Care System announced Saturday that Clemens' name will be removed, effective Thursday, as the fallout from the Mitchell report continues to haunt the winner of 354 major league games and seven Cy Young awards. The facility will be renamed the Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Institute. In its statement, the hospital said the decision to take off Clemens' name was made "to better reflect its commitment to all sports and athletes" and that "the move reflects the desire to promote the broad range of sports medicine services and programs offered by Memorial Hermann." In November, the New York Daily News reported that Clemens has been asked to end his involvement with a charity golf tournament in Houston that he has hosted for four years. Although Clemens helped raise millions of dollars for the charities associated with the event, the Giff Nielsen Day of Golf for Kids was held Nov. 11 at Houston's Shadow Hawk Golf Club without him. Despite its move to disassociate itself with the pitcher, Memorial Hermann Hospital said "Roger Clemens remains committed to working with us to champion youth sports and develop aspiring baseball players." Clemens donated $3 million to Memorial Hermann for a pediatric wing at Memorial Hermann's Children's Hospital. Clemens has denied using performance-enhancing drugs since he was identified in former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell's report on drug use in baseball. He filed a defamation lawsuit last January against his former trainer, Brian McNamee, who claims he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone. Federal prosecutors also are looking into whether Clemens committed perjury when he testified under oath in front of a congressional committee that he never used PEDs. Clemens is eligible for Hall of Fame election in 2013, but McNamee's allegations may have irreparably damaged Clemens' chances of induction. Clemens has since filed a defamation lawsuit against McNamee.

In the Barbers Hill girls bracket Monday, LC-M will face Huffman at noon. In other games it will be Baytown Sterling vsd. Friendswood (9 a.m.); Lumberton vs. Hastings (10:30 a.m.); Beaumont Ozen vs. â€umble (10:30 a.m.); Nederland vs. Terrell (10:30 a.m.); PN-G vs. Mayde Creek (noon); Beaumont West Brook vs. Crosby (noon); and Barbers Hill vs. South Houston (6 p.m.).

Cardinals hosting 11-team tournament Van Wade The Orange Leader BRIDGE CITY — After everyone gets full of turkey and dressing and the Chrismas holiday, then Bridge City High School will be the place to be Monday through Wednesday as 11 teams will participate in the Cardinal Tournament. Teams in the field will include the host Cardinals, West Orange-Stark, Vidor, Beaumont Central, Huffman, Santa Fe, Milburn Academy, Jasper, Port Neches-Groves, Legacy Christian Academy, Liberty and Jefferson Davis. All games will be round robin, there is no bracket format. Two gyms will be used, the new Cardinal Gym and the old Cardinal Gym at the old high school. Games slated for Monday include Bridge City vs. Central and WO-S vs. PN-G (9:30 a.m.); Huffman vs. Santa Fe and Vidor vs. Legacy Christian (11 a.m.); Milburn Academy vs. Jasper and Liberty vs. Bridge City (12:30 p.m.); Central vs. Santa Fe and PN-G vs. Legacy Christian (2 p.m.); and Huffman vs. Milburn and Vidor vs. Liberty (3:30 p.m.). Tuesday’s schedule will pit Bridge City vs. Huffman and WO-S vs. Vidor (9:30 a.m.); Central vs. Jasper and PN-G vs. Santa Fe (11 a.m.); Bridge City vs. Milburn and WO-S vs. Liberty (12:30 p.m.); Central vs. Huffman and PN-G vs. Vidor (2 p.m.); and Santa Fe vs. Jasper and Legacy Christian vs. Milburn (3:30 p.m.). On Wednesday it will be Santa Fe vs. Milburn and Legacy Christian vs. Liberty (9:30 a.m.); Huffman vs. Jasper and Vidor vs. Central (11 a.m.); Bridge City vs. Santa Fe and WO-S vs. Legacy Christian (12:30 p.m.); Central vs. Milburn and PN-G vs. Liberty (2 p.m.); and Bridge City vs. Jasper and WO-S vs. Huffman (3:30 p.m.). In other tournament action this week both the LC-M boys and girls will participate in the Barbers Hill Gulf Coast Classic Tournament. In the boys bracket Monday, LC-M will face Spring-DeKaneyy at noon. The winner of that game faces host Barbers Hill at 7:30 p.m. In other games it will be Clear Creek vs. C.E. King (9 a.m.), Montgomery vs. Nederland (9 a.m.), Goose Creek Memorial vs. Coldspring (9 a.m.) ; Cleveland vs. Sterling (10:30 a.m.) and Dayton vs. Silsbee (1:30 p.m.) In the Barbers Hill girls bracket Monday, LC-M will face Huffman at noon. In other games it will be Baytown Sterling vsd. Friendswood (9 a.m.); Lumberton vs. Hastings (10:30 a.m.); Beaumont Ozen vs. â€umble (10:30 a.m.); Nederland vs. Terrell (10:30 a.m.); PN-G vs. Mayde Creek (noon); Beaumont West Brook vs. Crosby (noon); and Barbers Hill vs. South Houston (6 p.m.). The Orangefield boys will go to the East Chambers Tournament while the Lady Bobcats will head to the Livingston Tournament. The Deweyville boys will compete in the Spurger Tournament while the Bridge City girls will go to the Woodville Tournament.

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Alot of good Coaches applying for that one!

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PAISD’s football job won’t require master’s degree Bob West column for Sunday, Dec 21 The Port Arthur News For those who may be wondering, the Port Arthur Independent School District, unlike the Port Neches-Groves ISD, is not requiring its new football coach to come armed with a master’s degree. The PA approach seems to make a lot of sense, if your purpose is to interview rather than eliminate quality coaches interested in the job. It was noted in this space last week that Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips would not be able to apply at PN-G because of the master’s requirement. Further research this week added the names of Jimmy Johnson, with his national championship and two Super Bowl rings, and Todd Dodge, with four Texas high school state championship rings, as highly successful coaches who wouldn’t be academically qualified to get in the door of the PNGISD administration building . . . Johnson, by the way, said in a radio interview with Dan Patrick, that he thinks Phillips’ job in Dallas is secure, even if the Cowboys don’t make the playoffs. JJ, in a burst of simple common sense that seems to evade the quick-draw Metroplex media, and some of the clueless talking heads at ESPN, pointed out that the strength of the Cowboys has become their defense. It was his opinion that Jerry Jones wouldn’t want to lose the edge of having a strong, in-sync defense, by changing coaches. Hopefully, he’s not giving Jethro too much credit for being able to make a logical evaluation when it comes to coaching.

2010 may be the year as these kids will be all SR's.

2010 will be the team! This group will be SR's that year!

It has become quite popular across the State during the Spring and early Summer. There will be several local teams in the Qualifying Tourney's this year.

Not sure. it was one of their best JV's ever though.

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Olin names his favorite games over the years By Dave Rogers Published December 26, 2008 He coached 178 games at Robert E. Lee. Give him time and Dick Olin can recall details from each and every one. Don’t ask him to rank them, though. “There’s been so many great ones,†he said earlier this week. “We’ve had such good times.†As Olin prepared for Christmas in Baytown and a New Year’s move to take over the football program at Lewisville High, north of Dallas, he quickly rejected the notion of putting together his own personal top 10 list of Gander triumphs. “I remember so much,†he said. “All the kids, all the plays. I just had a great time.†The second-winningest football coach in Baytown history at 106-78, Olin did manage to mention a few games for consideration. And maybe, just maybe, he favored one. “Probably the most important win was our first one,†he said. So, as a parting gift to the coach who led Lee to 11 playoff berths and six outright or shared district titles, consider this list of 10 memorable Olin-coached Gander games, in chronological order. 1. Lee 15, Texas City 10, 1993 – “Ganders win! Ganders win!†the headlines in The Baytown Sun said after Lee won its 1993 season opener, ending a 15-game losing streak that included Olin’s 0-10 first season in town. Vaughn Innis rushed 20 times for 126 yards and Jermaine Alfred threw a six-yard touchdown pass to Isaac Hart for the winning points as the Ganders rebounded from a 10-0 third-quarter deficit. “We had to beat Texas City,†Olin said, “and we had to drive down the field at the end to do it.†2. Lee 42, West Brook 19, 1993 – The Ganders were 0-for-5 in games against West Brook, including a 61-19 loss in Olin’s first season at Lee. “Everybody said we’d never be able to beat West Brook,†Olin recalled. “James Brown (who later led Texas to a Big 12 title) was their quarterback and they beat us 61-19. The next year we were ahead of them 35-0 at halftime.†Innis rushed for 167 yards and four scores and Alfred threw for 221 yards with touchdown passes to Jason Riley and Hart. 3. Lee 29, Eisenhower 22, 1994 – It was Lee’s first playoff game under Olin. Alfred passed for 303 yards and three touchdowns and ran for the fourth. “That was a huge game,†Olin said. “That was tremendous.†4. Lee 41, Texas City 18, 1997 – Texas City won the 1997 Class 4A Division I state title with a 14-1 record. Olin’s crew gave the Stingarees their lone loss in the season opener. Robert Thomas and Michael Barron scored on fumble returns for Lee as Texas City coughed up seven turnovers in all. Lee quarterback Ell Roberson III ran for one TD and threw for another. 5. Lee 27, Aldine 21, 1997 – Lee’s defense stopped Aldine’s fourth-down try with 10 seconds and 27 yards to go to win the bidistrict game. Roberson ran for two TDs and threw for another and the Ganders qualified for their first playoff in the Astrodome under Olin. A Lee assistant coach earned the ire of school district officials for printing up a T-shirt that read “Ganders in the Dome, Rangers stay home.†“That made Sterling people real mad,†Olin recalled. 6. Lee 56, Brazoswood 24, 1997 – “Ell Roberson just took over the game like I haven’t seen anybody do,†Olin recalled of Lee’s second-round win in the Astrodome. “He ran over people on the option and we did things we never did. Our kids thought they were in the NFL because they had been in an NFL locker room. “I thought that ’97 group could’ve played for the state championship. We just made some mistakes (in losing to Hastings, 30-20, the next week). My son (Lake Tate) was a senior on that team. Those guys remain close today.†7. Lee 34, North Shore 31, 2000 – It is remembered as North Shore’s last regular season loss, but it was a must-win for a 4-5 Ganders team that needed it to reach the playoffs. Sophomore Drew Tate passed for 234 yards and three touchdowns and Robert Carr added two long touchdown runs. Anthony Pagan’s late interception stopped North Shore’s comeback bid. “That was tremendous,†Olin said. “Nobody gave us a snowball’s chance in heck.†8. Lee 62, Sterling 7, 2001 – It was the most points ever scored by an Olin team at Lee and the most surrendered by Sterling it its 42-year history. Tate, Olin’s youngest son and future all-time Texas passing leader (now No. 3), tied a state record by passing for seven first-half scores and he added an eighth TD aerial in the second half. 9. Lee 37, Kingwood 31, 2002 – The Ganders needed help to make the playoffs on the final week of this regular season and got it -- a Port Arthur win over West Brook. They also needed extra help from Tate, who, after rallying Lee to a lead with 37 seconds left, made a rare defensive appearance and picked off a Kingwood pass to preserve the victory. “If you ask Drew what was the most fun he had, he’ll tell you it was intercepting that ball against Kingwood to put us in the playoffs,†Olin said. 10. North Shore 34, Lee 33, 2006 – The Ganders lost this bidistrict game on a missed extra point in the second overtime, but Olin treasures this one for the way his overmatched team battled. Quarterback Jeremy Moses had missed nine games with a broken leg, but hobbled onto the field to pass for 365 yards and three touchdowns. “If you’ve ever seen kids play with heart and fight their fannies off, that was the game.â€

No, their still playing.