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Brazosport has to get by Lamarque in the playoffs in reg IV.

Perception is reality.

Dress it anyway you want to but the first thing people think when the hear 'smoke town' is weed, or some type of drug activity. It may mean more than that, but I doubt it. That is a smoke screen. I am not living in silsbee..now, but I grew up there. The younger generation is not that unique in how they think. They are influenced by the whole hip hop thing, and drugs has always been a low key to prominent part of that ethos. That's where words like lean, and syrup, phrases like what u got in your cup, come from. Listen to the music: you got Big Mo, rip, talking about purple stuff, Pimp C, same thing, Plies 'ran off on the plug twice', etc, and on and on. I'm not judging though. Nothing is new under the sun. We were, some of us, puffing and dabbling back in the day too. Everybody got a past. Playing hide n seek with the po po. SPD gonna win their fair share of those battles. I know several guys who can't leave Sllsbee cause they got a record from drug busts. I was fortunate to leave when I did and go to the military. I only dabbled a little small time to fit in with peers. It always seemed stupid to me. Why walk around in a haze when you're already behind? My .02 on that.

Someone came up with the name to promote the idea that a lot of weed is consumed and or distributed in Silsbee. It is probably more fantasy than reality. I'm sure that type of activity happens there, but no more or no less than anywhere else.

I went to a home going celebration for my uncle this passed Friday. On one side of the church was a large section of purple and white, that's the color everyone was wearing. This was Wheatley class of '48, my uncle's classmates. A tall, prominent person in that section was legendary coach Jackie Carr. I talked with him briefly after service and took his picture. The pic was of poor quality. It didn't catch the contrast of the purple suit and white shirt and tie Coach was wearing. He was a nice guy. Very witty and charming. I saw him a little later pulling out the parking lot in a nice late model cadillac. I am glad to see that the coach is still doing well.

What happened?

QB for Clemson has a rifle arm.

D Lincoln pops Paris by 10 and then moved into their # 2 spot.

Re: Paris, that's a tough region, region II, especially those top teams in district 11.

That is a very competitive region and district.

These days I watch 2 or 3 Silsbee b-ball games a year. I may get 1 or 2 rockets games a season. Those are the only two teams I really care about. I may catch a Sam Houston HS game before the season is over. Other than that I'm good.

It is only basketball. I like it but it is not that deep.

Man, I miss my uncle that lived in Beaumont. Uncle Mad Dogg, aka Herman Hester, RIP.

I am at work, and distracted.

Cousins is fundamentally sound with a nice jumper. He needs a shrink more than anything else. Aldridge is good, Durant, also. Players like D Howard, Dandre Jordan, Corey Brewer, etc, the list is endless..Those players needed fundamental training. Too late now.

Sam Houston HS Houston 103 Houston Chavez 53.

I haven't watched a lot of HJ b ball. I've heard it said that the hawks are always fundamentally sound. My question is what are they doing in that community to teach fundamental basketball skills? Maybe it should be copied.

So a female was involved. That changes things slightly but not enough to matter. The guy is still dead. I am not a lawyer though. As someone mentioned there was a similar case in Houston, I think it was in the North. The girl's age is a factor. If she is a minor and Swift is an adult it doesn't look good to the law. I doubt it will go to court.

It is a possibility that a girl was involved. I haven't heard that one was. I don't think charges have been filed against the home owner. The family of the deceased would have to hire an expensive criminal lawyer to get anything going on this case. I'm thinking they don't have the resources or the will to do so. I am not passing judgement. We all make choices, good ones and bad. It is what it is. As the old saying goes: "open and shut case Watson."

I thought about all that. When you're in someone's house either way, bad things can happen/did happen.

I don't celebrate Kwanzaa; I don't mind those who do. Now that I think about it I don't know anyone who is really into the holiday. I do find it amusing though that certain people, like Ann Coulter, and others take time out to bash Kwanzaa. It is the irony that gets me. Kwanzaa, christmas, easter, sunday worship they are all in the same boat. Dare i say it? Yes: they are all fake. Before I get into a little detail let me say that I get a good vibe at x xmas time, also at easter, even a little on sunday, although I go to church on the 7th day, the day most people call saturday. No where in the bible does the Lord tell his people to celebrate christmas. Nor does He say to worship easter. Nowhere does it say that december 25th is his birthday. It also does not say that sunday is the sabbath, nor is it a day of worship. Christmas was being celebrated by pagans before Jesus was born. Same with Easter. Same with sunday. The people who were responsible for bringing these pagan holidays into the christian church were much more thuggish than Ron Koranga ever was. History bears this out. They spilled lots of innocent blood, to the tune of 50 million or so people slaughtered, and that is a very conservative estimate. I roll with the holidays, i don't bash what others believe. I just find it odd that they pick on kwanzaa when their beliefs are in the same category, namely fake. Peace.

You're right BLUEDOVE3. I thought about that when I posted. That's interesting. I think his full name was Kenny Steward, or Kenny Stewart. Tbh I only saw him play one time, one game. It was his high school, Houston Ross Sterling, vs Houston Wheatley in the playoffs in 1973, I think that was the year. Wheatley was a state and national juggernaut in high school basketball. You had to live in that era to really understand the Wheatley basketball mystique. Kenny almost led Sterling to an upset. He had help from Lee Canaleto (sic?) a big Italian post player for Sterling. Lee was about 6'5" 260, all state lineman, all state shot putter. He went on to gain some fame of his on. Canaleto had about 20 rebounds in that game. But Kenny Steward, man he put on a show going up against Wheatley. The Wheatley Wildcats were a bit too over-confident. They didn't take it seriously. While Kenny and Sterling were out to bring them down. It didn't happen, but Sterling got close, about as close as a team could get to the Wildcats that year. Wheatley went on to win another state championship. I read somewhere that Coach Jackie Carr called that team his best ever. I followed Kenny Steward from then on. I hated that the only game I saw him was his last high school game. Keeping up with him was not easy back then. The information age hadn't started yet. They didn't have PCs, Facebook, message boards, the internet, cells phones, twitter and all that back in the day. i was shocked when I heard what happened to Kenny. i still don't understand it. The same with Melvin Swift. Only God knows for sure what is going on in peoples minds, in their hearts and in their lives. RIP to both of them.

This indeed was a national showcase tournament when it first started. i was following K Perkins and Ozen when they played NY Rice. Lebron James and his high school was supposed to play, but something happened and they did not make it. Oak Hill Academy played, there star was Carmelo Anthony. I remember not being all that impressed with Carmelo and his game. The very next season, his freshman year at Syracuse, Anthony led them to an NCAA championship. Shows you what I know.

They probably would whip Silsbee, based on how the have done against Bush and Hightower. For the record though all that Silsbee vs Beaumont drama..I'm not in it.