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This is where you are directed to park per the UNT Athletics web site: SUPER PIT PARKING Free Parking for North Texas Basketball Games Where were these citations being issued?

Give him time. We all thought he was a wasted scholarship after his first couple of games here and he proved everybody wrong. He's an incredibly skilled player and he's going to do very well at Kansas State.

I don't see a reason to be anxious about this. Chris chose North Texas over Washington State back when WSU had a winning program and was a full member of the PAC12. All that has changed now. WSU has lost to every PAC12 school on their schedule except future MWC mate Oregon State. They'll be playing all future games far away in really remote locations without airports where his friends and family will never be able to see him and the Mountain West games are rarely on television in Texas. That, and he has stated that "the Lord has a plan for him at North Texas". I can see a player turning his back on a school, but on his friends, family, and his God? I would hope not.

It's been a long wait, but yeah, a World Series Championship is incredible. Here's my kids at a 2012 game. We attended the pregame practice and the players came over, said hello and tossed them each a baseball. The kids were hooked as Rangers fans for life. Please share some of your Rangers game memory photos if you've got any.

I'm glad that we can agree that the black uniforms have been an absolute marketing disaster akin to the New Coke disaster and Bud Light partnering with Dylan Mulvaney. Nobody should ever alienate their customer base like that. Are there people that don't care? Yes, and those are the people that need to be weeded from our program. We need people that actually care about our school making the decisions that affect it.

It was nice that a bunch of the players from that 2003 Sun Belt Champions team reunited for the North Texas-Tulane game this past week in New Orleans.

It's cute, but it's generic clip-art, and certainly was never at any time "our logo". Though most commonly used for the Philadelphia Eagles, that same logo was sold to every college, high school, junior high, and elementary that had a bird for a mascot.

All joking aside, it was addition through subtraction for us; a great deal. We have added a very marketable team to our schedule, and the SMU game will still be available for our non-conference schedule if both schools still want it. Personally, I'd rather have La Tech or even possibly UTEP as non-conference foes, the away games are further but both those schools bring fans that enhance a gameday atmosphere.

Son, your mother and I are concerned for you. Lacrosse is a gateway sport.

No, they purchased black and white jerseys and put black and green numbers on them. They look like garbage up close and even worse in the stadium or on television.

It's sad when, Wyoming, the ugliest uniforms in college football due to their brown and yellow colors, consistently look better than our school because we allow feckless dolts to select what we wear each week. This would never happen at a real athletics department.

As an Astros fan, I went through several.

sold out

fify

Sad, but Temple is thinking the same thing.

I'll wait until Festivus.

He's pretty fast. They should move him to receiver or defensive back.

I apologize. I have probably been far too quiet about the deficiencies with our equipment staff.

(Caution: self-destructs faster than a 3-3-5 defense)

didn't go too well.

Jimmy Buffett, legendary 'Margaritaville' singer, dies at 76 The singer, who dubbed his brand of music “drunken Caribbean rock ‘n’ roll,” was also an astute businessman with a sprawling restaurant, resort and radio empire. With his crinkled smile, breezy tunes and barefoot stage presence, Jimmy Buffett encompassed the persona of a beach bum. But a 50-plus year recording career that spawned unparalleled devotion from fans as well as branded restaurants, books, beer, resorts, a Broadway show and cruise line established Buffett as a bona fide mogul. The “Margaritaville” icon died Sept. 1, according to a statement on his official website and social media pages. He was 76. The statement reads the singer died "peacefully ... surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs. "He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many." Buffett struggled with an undisclosed health issue starting in 2022, when he was hospitalized and forced to cancel several shows. In May and June 2023, he canceled more concerts after revealing he was “back in the hospital to address some issues that needed immediate attention.” It was a striking admission from the road warrior, whose summer tours attracted swarms of devotees, known as Parrotheads. His fan base is legendary, with hundreds of Parrothead Club chapters around the country whose members trekked to multiple concerts adorned in Hawaiian shirts and hats bearing the tropical motif of Buffett’s songs. Along with his 1977 breakthrough “Margaritaville,” the languid ode to relaxation with a buzzy bent that was submitted to the National Recording Registry in 2023, Buffett penned a bonanza of pop culture staples in the 1970s and 1980s. “Come Monday,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes,” “A Pirate Looks at Forty” and “Pencil Thin Mustache” were alternately contemplative and silly. But all bore Buffett’s signature sound that became known as “trop rock,” or, as Buffett called it, “Gulf and Western,” with acoustic guitar, steel drums and pedal steel guitar injected into their backbone. Born on Christmas Day 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Buffett grew up in nearby Mobile, Alabama, where he developed a love of sailing from his grandfather. He started playing guitar while at Auburn University and subsequently moved to Nashville to release his first country album, “Down to Earth,” in 1970. But it was a 1971 trip to Key West with fellow country music singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker (“Mr. Bojangles”) that altered Buffett’s musical direction from outlaw country to Calypso folk-pop. While Buffett bred a persona of lackadaisical living through his lighthearted songs that offered fans a musical escape hatch from real life, he was also asserting his business acumen. He opened his first Margaritaville store in Key West in 1985 and followed it two years later with a nearby Margaritaville Café. Since that initial endeavor, Buffett built an empire encompassing apparel, resorts, restaurants (including 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar & Grill and LandShark Bar & Grill), beer (LandShark Lager), casinos, a radio station (Radio Margaritaville on SiriusXM) and retirement communities dubbed Latitude Margaritaville. In 2017, Forbes estimated that the Margaritaville global lifestyle brand had more than $4.8 billion in the development pipeline and garnered $1.5 billion in annual sales. As of June 2023, Forbes listed Buffett’s worth at $1 billion. “If you’re an artist, if you want to have control of your life . . . then you gotta be a businessman, like it or not,” Buffett told Forbes in 1994. “So the businessman evolved out of being an artist.” Buffett told USA TODAY in 2022 that being “a sponge of ideas” helped him determine his numerous business ventures. “It’s that unexpected phone call that comes along and you say, ‘That sounds interesting.’ It’s got to be the right time, the right feeling and there has to be a lot of luck in it, too.” But Buffett’s business building didn’t quash his creative endeavors. In addition to his 30 albums, he launched Margaritaville Records in the early ‘90s, wrote several fiction books (including the bestsellers “Tales From Margaritaville” and “Where is Joe Merchant?”) and dabbled in film and TV via musical contributions (“Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Urban Cowboy”) and cameos (“Jurassic World,” “NCIS: New Orleans”). In 2018, “Escape to Margaritaville” debuted on Broadway to mixed reviews and closed after five months; the musical continued as a touring production. With the 2020 release of his final album,”Life on the Flipside,” Buffett spoke about the song “Live Like It’s Your Last Day,” which he said was inspired by his 1994 plane crash and a stage fall in 2011. "I've had a couple close calls and I'm still here,” he told USA TODAY. “So I think I've been living like it could be my last day for a long time."

Mayor Hudspeth told me there is interest in the City of Denton further partnering with the university. No set plans, but there is potential interest.

He's taking pictures with fans and cheering for the team. Life may take him elsewhere but he'll always love this school.

NIT was like a Picnic. Wisconsin brought the Cheese, and UAB brought the Whine.

In these days of NIL we must look at transferring for the final season the same way as we view foregoing the final year of eligibility to turn pro. Of course we want them to stay but players must do what's best for them and their families. We lost Ryan Woolridge to Gonzaga and replaced him with Javion Hamlet, lost Hamlet to pro ball, and replaced him with Tylor Perry. Perry is now in the Transfer Portal. Due to outsting recruiting by our coaching staff we've been replacing star players with star players. Let's see who's next. That next superstar point guard may already be on the roster. So, anyway, if their body of work while they played at North Texas is Hall of Fame worthy, they belong in our Hall of Fame.