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Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Brasky decides he's going to hunt down all four of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machette. They all begged for their lives...except Fleagle.

SUMG, I thought you graduated across town at North Texas.

The $1000 a year donation level not only gets you all the priveleges and gifts associated with the Mean Green Club, but it also gets you into North Texas' President's Council. The President's Council is pretty cool because it includes additional benefits that include Homecoming activities, concerts and performances, a Holiday formal, and other dinners throughout the year (including an athletics dinner). The more "athletically minded" people that we have join the President's Council, the better.

I still remeber that BEAUTIFUL photo of Bo Harrison diving through the air to catch the winning touchdown at Jones Stadium in Lubbock. You could clearly see the Green Brigade members in the background starting to raise their hands anticipating the score. If anyone has that picture, please post it.

Watch your mouth kid, or you'll find yourself floating home. On a more serious note, Bishop was the leading receiver for his high school team San Angelo. When they weren't handing him the ball, they were throwing it to him.

"If we could go 9-3 this year with the three losses to K-State, LSU and the MUTS with Middle Tennessee going undefeated in conference and taking the NO Bowl bid would you take that? We'd have wins over Tulsa and La Tech and a 9 win season. Would you sign off on this today in the hopes that maybe we get a bid in another bowl game?" Absolutely I'd take it. And it would be even better if MTSU were to lose one conference game, so North Texas could still claim to be SBC Champions and have rings made. Hopefully the Independance Bowl or the Fort Worth Bowl would have an opening and Rick V would be very aggressive in pursuing landing North Texas in one of them.

At $14.88 each, I bought a couple extra for when we bring guests with us to the games.

The shirts look very similar to the Nike shirts the coaching staff wore last season, except they are a lighter, brighter green and a slightly different cut.

I think many people had stars in their eyes when we were potentially going to get matched against Southern Miss in the New Orleans Bowl. North Texas should have been campaigning hard for the Independance and Fort Worth Bowls, and let the Sun Belt place Troy in New Orleans.

We need to make our program worthy of moving to a more prominent conference. We are getting there on an accelerated pace, but we're not there yet. Until then, we're an unwanted commodity, and these conference comparison polls are useless as nothing other than bad publicity when linked to other boards.

SAM'S CLUB has two styles of North Texas polos at the Lewisville store. Both are manufactured by PRO PLAYER, the sportswear apparel company that has the naming rights to the Miami Dolphins stadium and has an exclusive merchandising agreement with the Dolphins similar to what the Cowboys had negotiated with Nike. The Two styles offered are all green with checkered white on the coller and sleeve ends, OR all green with a large white band that starts on the underside of the sleeves and runs down the sides. Both styles are made of COOLPLUS material which is constructed for warm weather use. Unfortunately, the UNT logo is the the slanted UNT, not the latest logo design. Well, at least I can pick up some great polo shirts in our new color. Too bad our new branding department dropped the ball on releasing the new logos to the right people in time for the 2005 season.

Yes, he's going to play for 2AA public school Prosper. And in a related note, on October 31st, the Great Pumkin is going to rise out of the pumkin patch and deliver toys and candy to all the good little boys and girls of the world.

El Guapo's for Mexican and Texas Roadhouse for Steaks. Both restaurants provide great meals and cold beer at a reasonable price, and they both are proud to flaunt their association with the Mean Green.

Robstown Cottonpickers, .....now there's a politically correct sounding name.

I also saw this on their board: Starting DT Desmond Jones will not play this season because of violations of team rules. Apparently he violated university regulations when he was caught down in the marketplace taking ob-la-di-bla-da.

Unfortunately, I see the main focus of the university and it's components not being to get the product in public view, as much as each trying to get their cut.

The 17th Annual Denton Great American Shoot-Out will tip-off on Friday, July 8th at 26 gyms in the Denton area with close to 250 teams in the field. Games will begin at all courts at 2:00 PM Friday. Saturday, Sunday and Monday games begin at 9:00 AM. All teams will play one or two pool games on Friday and one or two pool games on Saturday. Single elimination bracket play will begin Sunday morning with the championship in all divisions taking place on Monday afternoon. The entire POOL schedule will be available on Monday, July 4th.

It is a program for the 1960 (1959 season) game, that 1996 is only a misprint. I will not be bidding because I purchased the only other one that has become available on eBay (back in 2000), and I would have a hard time justifying to my bride why I needed a second copy. JB is right, "One of us needs to buy it to insure it stays in the Mean Green family."

1960 SUN BOWL program on eBay There aren't a whole lot of these still around, and they're seldom seen for sale. Includes photos of the 1959 squad including the great Abner Haynes.

$400 That's the same make & model jersey being sold in Dallas. Mean Joe will probably be around at the tailgate parties again this year, and he would likely be happy to sign your jersey.

For those of you interested in acquiring one of these Joe Greene Collegiate throwback jerseys, there is a store in Dallas that is selling them at liquidation prices. They are $30, whereas they were originally $160 each retail. The store is on Harry Hines just north of Loop 12 on the east side. The store's sign is blue with a yellow "$2 and up" on it, and I think the whole building is painted blue. (the place is actually owned by an old Lamda Chi from NT named Steve Levine). For lurkers from other boards, they also have collegiate throwback jerseys for Carl Malone, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Dumars, and a couple of UTEP players. The jerseys are all exact replicas of the ones worn by the player when each was playing college ball, and all have stitched numbers and lettering.

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Rough start Roughnecks hold off Outlaws in franchise's home opener 08:47 AM CDT on Friday, June 10, 2005 By Brett Vito / Staff Writer The Denton Outlaws started their inaugural campaign in the Texas Collegiate League with a dramatic ninth-inning rally earlier in the week. A second comeback in their home opener on Thursday turned out to be just a little too much to ask. DRC/Gary Payne The Graham Roughnecks had Denton backed into a corner before the Outlaws gradually cut into a five-run deficit. Denton pulled to within a run in the seventh inning, but was unable to complete the rally in a 10-8 loss in front of a crowd of 380 at The Ballpark on Bonnie Brae. Denton (1-2) charged back with a two-out rally for a win over Mineral Wells in its first game of the season on Tuesday. The Outlaws have lost both of their games since that initial win. “We are starting to get put it together,” Outlaws coach Derek Matlock said. “We are still missing a third baseman who should be in tomorrow, a centerfielder who can really play and three key pitchers who will help us. We are still getting to know the kids and need to be patient.” Matlock is hoping a few players will join the team after their college teams are eliminated from the NCAA tournament to help improve in what will be a historic season in Denton baseball history. The Outlaws home opener marked the return of college baseball to Denton after an extended absence. North Texas fielded a team in the mid-1980s before the program was disbanded. Officials with the TCL and the Outlaws said they were happy with the way the team’s first home game unfolded in terms of fan support. The Outlaws originally hoped to break the TCL single-game attendance record. “We didn’t have any expectations coming in,” part owner Todd Van Poppel said. “We would have liked to have seen more people, but people enjoyed it and that was the bottom line. Gunning for the attendance record was a last-second deal. We didn’t make it a priority.” The fans who did turn out saw the Outlaws load the bases in each of the first two innings and jump out to a 3-0 lead. Second baseman Brian McBryde highlighted with a one-out double in the second inning. Graham (2-1) quickly came back in the third when the Roughnecks scored four runs off Daniel Edwards. First baseman Dustin Martin sparked the rally with a two-run triple. Denton came back to tie the game at 4 on an RBI double to center field by center fielder Kris Jenkins. The run only slowed a surge by Graham, which regained the lead on first baseman Dustin Martin’s two-run home run off losing pitcher Brandon Alford to take a 6-4 edge. Third baseman Brandon Lance hit Graham’s second home run of the game to spark a three-run rally in the sixth that allowed the Roughnecks to extend their lead to 9-4. Denton cut its deficit to 9-8 with four unanswered runs in the sixth and seventh innings. Designated hitter Damian Gomez walked and scored the second run in the rally in the sixth before adding an RBI groundout in the seventh. “The last two games we have fought back from a deficit,” Outlaws second baseman Brian McBryde said. “We got some hits late in the game tonight. We just didn’t get the big hit we needed.” Graham picked up a key insurance run in the top of the ninth when Roy Merritt singled and scored on a sacrifice fly by right fielder Steve Ptak. Graham’s two-run lead was too much for Denton to overcome. After a second straight loss, Matlock is just hoping his team does not slide into too big a hole in the standings to fight back from after the team adds several key players to its roster in the next few days. “I hate playing this first week,” Matlock said. “We don’t know the kids and are throwing every pitcher we have. I am excited to fast forward about five days to get the team we signed in. What we have to do is hang tough and not give up too many games.” Denton Outlaws pitcher Chase Bayuk throws against the Graham Roughnecks on Thursday at The Ballpark on Bonnie Brae. Briefly … North Texas athletic director Rick Villarreal, Outlaws part owner Todd Van Poppel and TCL chairman and chief executive officer Gerald W. Haddock all threw out ceremonial first pitches before the game. BRETT VITO can be reached at 940-566-6870. His e-mail address is bvito@dentonrc.com. Denton Record-Chronicle