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especially if this team of scrubs we're fielding for the Gold Cup next month can produce a good result... i noticed that....y are they using basically 2nd stringers for it? they think they all are tired from the confederation cup or something?

yah i know what ya mean...we beat USSR in the semis then too as well...however we had gotten creamed by the USSR a month or so before the games and we didnt play spain last month, however we got creamed by brazil last week, so its not exactly in the same order but if we were to play brazil in the finals it'd be almost exactly like it just in different order...lol they are playing much better now than the first 2 games, hwoever that could be some because we arent playing a man down the whole game...losing bradley is gonna hurt for the finals... USA just needs to take care of buisness the rest of the year til next summer...we may have just bought us an inside shot to a seed come world cup time...

you should! this is pretty close for US soccer to what the US hockey team did to Russia back in the day... DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES? if we were to play brazil in the final and beat them then i'd couple that to the miracle on ice being that brazil beat us 3-0 the other day....however, spain is the best team in the world, but today we were better...wow, just wow!

back when my sister and i was in high school we lived in baytown but my mom worked in liberty school district...we had went to school and lived in liberty growing up but both of us had moved to baytown schools...when she entered high school she transfered back and went back to liberty school while living in baytown, the UIL allowed her to play varsity tennis as a freshman in liberty with no problems...i dont know if she had to get a waiver or not but she actually transfered back to baytown for one semester (mom had health problems) and played varsity for them before we actually moved back to liberty and she finished out there....the UIL may have allowed it because my sister actually went to liberty schools for most of her school life except for 7th and 8th grade and she transfered back as soon as my mom got hired into the district, but it never was a problem for us... the rules read (if the ones posted on here are correct) where the UIL is allowed to grant a lot of lead way, and it also gives them the opportunity to interpret them more strictly for certain sports and not as much for others...that is probably the wrong way to do it but if u have a kid transfer to a school that plays tennis like my sister it doesnt make a big splash, if you have a football player transfering then its likely to draw some attention....

that could be because your average joe in the usa has some experience with basketball and played a little when younger while the same guy probably never played or thought about playing soccer...if you go give a bunch of brazilian kids a basketball they are gonna drop it on the ground and kick it around....the brazilian average joe would prolly be much better off kicking it around than shooting hoops...just a thought...some of the differences is culture driven...soccer is definitely a difficult sport to master, but i'd argue that the basics of it are just as basic as football or basketball, but if you live in a culture that only plays football and basketball you are a lot better with your hands than your feet while if you live in a country that plays soccer your a lot better with your feet than your hands...you have to develop that coordination either way, it doesnt jsut happen...

i would hope if Lee drops to 4a they would not stop the Sterling/Lee game...that would be a real shame....i thought baytown would never let Lee drop to 4a, but i kinda wonder if Olin leaving wasnt a signal the adminstration in baytown decided they were going to let the drop happen, from what i heard/read Olin was pretty big into keeping them 5a....regardless, most other towns would keep that rivalry alive...i hope baytown decides to continue the game...i would think just from a revenue standpoint it would be worth keeping... a super school in baytown would be an awesome football team as it would in most towns with more than one 5a high school...however i dont think that'd be best for baytown and its obvious they arent going that direction with the building of the new highschool....when iw as in school there were serious rumors about combining sterling/lee and having one campus be 9th/10th and the other 11th/12th but that idea died and they decided to build the 3rd highschool...you dont have to be a super 5a to be good though, if they can get some good coaches in the baytown schools they would be good (just look at what Olin did at Lee)

i dont have any idea what the Rangers will have...maybe the writing Lee off is cause of the new coach and learning a new system and all....im just happy the Sterling/Lee game is back to being a good game...of course for that to happen sterling had to get better and Lee had to get worse, hopefully they can both improve now and keep the game good but also do something come playoff time...i cant deal with anothe 23 year drought....

cant wait for the Sterling/Lee game this year Panama....according to Dave Campbell it will be important, but its too bad we dont play it at the end of the season anymore...

baytown people will love the Sterling/Lee game being the key game...wish they still played it the last game of the year....

i been to all of them...my girlfriend got free tickets this year for buying coffee at a mcdonald's in baytown...pretty cool

Anthony Chambers from Liberty was pretty fast....dont know what the guy's times were but he set all kind of punt return records at Purdue

kid has pretty much no where to go but down now after that article....wonder if the SI jinx works on a high schooler

ESPN shows every game of the college world series every year??? They also show several regional games and most if not all of the super regional games... College baseball hasnt picked up because it is a Southern and West Coast dominated sport....the yankees in the northeast dont care or try at it and they pretty much control what is on tv...it'd pick up a better following if you could watch it but you really cant except for the occasional game on foxsports and one of the fox college sports channels that you have to pay extra to get...

if SE Texas counts south of lufkin and east of 59 then I'd say Drew Tate of Baytown Lee would have to be in the argument for best SETexas highschool quarterback...he pretty much set every passing record in the Texas High School books at the time he was there 1999-2003....he also started for 2 years at Iowa I believe, maybe 3...

i cant imagine it could be for more money...how could this make texas high school football more profitable? that seems impossible...since this is across all sports you can ask the same question and put sports in the question instead of football...maybe im just blinded by something but it doesnt seem like a way to make more money.... on getting private schools to no recruit...this would be an impossiblity based on the simple fact that private schools have to recruit to survive...every student that is at their school is the result of some form of recruiting whether they are an athlete or not....

hopefully the bears can win 2 more to turn a disappointing season into a positive...sic'em!

Thats gonna stink, why not 3 teams again i think its too many, but that is my opinion...i know some 3rd place teams have done well in the playoffs but since they are making less teams in each classification now i think 2 teams from each district is kinda equal to 3 before...

i like it for 5a...the other classifications im not too sold on but if they make it to where only 2 teams from each district make the playoffs then im a fan....

3 seed vs. Georgetown in Waco at 8 PM wednesday night...ESPN2 if anyone is interested, could be one of the better NIT games....

no...we were 5-11 in conference and there are like 14 or 15 teams fighting for the last 6 at-large bids...we rnt even in the conversation w/ most of the experts...a 5-11 big 12 does not get in w/o winning the tournament...

one more and the baptist will be dancing!

the baylor seniors have a lot of heart...they were the first recruiting class after the scandel and i guess they have decided they dont want to end their season yet...they are definitely in the NIT, but i think they are shooting for NCAA, what a story that would be...gotta get through the Horns first though, it'll be tuff...sic'em!

that gamewas tuff to watch as a baylor fan....when u cant rebound u cant win, esp. on the defensive side...simple as that...hopefully the game in waco goes better for us...

it was just my opinion, i said the 3 team system is "ok" for me...and im definitely not the type your talking about...i went to baytown sterling and we made it as the 3rd team this year for the first time since 1985...and u like the playoffs for the reasons i said having 4 teams in would bea good reason...its just u have a difference from the old school people who were used to the playoffs being a reward for a good year, now if you have a pulse you can pretty much go and in some districts you dont even need that...only one team making it would be a bit drastic, probably 2 would be the best system to ME, mainly because there are districts w/ a lot of schools in it....3 is a little too much but managable, 4 just seems ridiculous to me, esp. when u have some 6 team districts....

PAM will never be North Shore. The reason why NS has so many athletes is because they have 4200 students. That's twice as many as PAM has to choose from. PAM can and should be a regular playoff team and have an occassional deep playoff run with the right coach no doubt, but the numbers will hurt them from being a yearly top 10. I agree with SFA on this one. Suggs! Galena Park ISD has 2 schools....one of which is not good at football and is a 4a school Galena Park, and another which is 5a and is normally a State Contender North Shore...you do the math, but im guessing their pool is even bigger than 4200.... i have no dog in this coachign discussion (other than i went to Sterling so i dont really want yall beating us again lol)...but PAM has the talent to consistantly go a couple rounds in the playoffs every year and make a State Title run maybe every 5-10 years...