Smitty

The voting for the All-Century team has closed. More than 11,000 votes were cast, and we will now begin the final count. The results will be announced at the spring game. Some folks are still casting ballots online, but any votes cast after the 13th will not be counted. The votes have a time and date stamp, so any further voting will not affect the final outcome. Just thought you'd like to know. Thanks to everyone who participated.

North Texas came out attacking from the start and went up 3-0, but Middle Tenessee rallied to cut it to 3-2 before halftime. The Mean Green defense buckled down in the second half, although MTSU got a really good scoring chance late but missed. North Texas rang the ball off the posts twice late. This puts North Texas in first place, but they need to beat Western Kentucky this weekend to clinch the regular-season title. If they lose to WKU (which I hear has a good team and is in third place) then MTSU can retake first place if they win their last game next week (also against WKU). North Texas is 8-0-1, MTSU is 8-1-0. Very good crowd tonight, including members of the football and basketball teams.

No, the map and the accompanying story concern which lots will be closed to normal school traffic Tuesday afternoon.

That is correct. Lots 80 and 81 are the two lots shaded red and blue.

Meangreengear.com is now shop.meangreensports.com. Just changed a few weeks ago.

A photo album of coach Payton at Champions Night is now up: Sean Payton photos

Photos from Saturday's scrimmage at Apogee are on MeanGreenSports.com. Here's a link to the story and the photo album. Steven Bartolotta wrote the story. At the top of the story is a link to the photo album with 31 photographs. Saturday scrimmage story and photos

I've added new wallpapers for desktop and laptop computers and mobile devices, including high-resolution smartphones and tablet PCs, to Mean Green World. As always, everything on Mean Green World is free. Many of the new offerings, naturally, are of Apogee Stadium. The desktop/laptop wallpapers are with and without the 2011 football schedule. I also added a new wallpaper of the Administration Building. I planned to do a few new wallpapers for cellphones this year and went researching new sizes, only to discover that ninety percent of my previous mobile-device wallpaper sizes were obsolete. Had to chuck 'em all and create wallpapers in fifteen new sizes (bringing the total to seventeen sizes). And I triple-dog dare you to find another university that has so many different sizes of wallpapers on the Internet. When you view some of these mobile-device wallpapers, they are going to look much larger than your device's screen. That's because your smartphone or iPad has higher resolution than the Internet on your computer monitor. Save them to your device and they should fit just fine. I've also updated the Flash banner on the top of each page with more recent images (though I kept one rumored to be a favorite of many viewers). Hope you enjoy.

Some photos from today's game. I hope everyone liked this year's t-shirt design. Pre-game activities. Coin flip. White team. Green team. Kram's pre-game speech. Game action. Beating three defenders to pull in the deep ball. Good bye to Fouts.

That's the Underwoods my family went to all the time. After it closed, the next closest was in Waco, and I made the drive there a few times. Now the only one left is in Brownwood.

One of the young people in the department I supervise at work commented recently, when a vintage Rush-era 1980s tune was playing on the office radio, that she really liked that song. Me too, I agreed. Yeah, she continued, I went through an 80s phase. So did I. In the 80s.

Complete agreement. Chili is one of the ultimate home-made comfort foods.

Although (not to start a new thread) the best fried chicken is at Babe's.

Great fried chicken. Loved the Underwoods in Denton many years ago.

Sammy's in Dallas has very good smoked sausage and a great side dish, baked-potato casserole. Underwood's has outstanding BBQ sauce and amazingly tender BBQ beefsteak. Also some of the greatest rolls I've ever had. Unfortunately, there is only one Underwood's remaining, in Brownwood. Made the drive down on a Saturday last summer for lunch and a load of take-out (which made the journey back to Dallas in my Mean Green soft-side cooler.)

Channel 185 on Time Warner

Must see football.

Auburn, I doubt ye no longer. I don't know if they will beat South Carolina for the SEC title, but if they do there is absolutely no doubt they belong in the national championship game. Down 24-0 on the road against Alabama and rally to win? Wow.

Perhaps you don't need a motion in limine, but I have seen dozens of motions in limine which specifically request the court prevent any witness or attorney from mentioning the fact that mediation even took place, never mind mentioning anything that was said in mediation. Parties, especially the defense, don't want the fact that mediation took place mentioned because a jury may mistakenly assume that a party is willing to settle. I was responding to your statement: Perhaps the school is willing to settle, but the mere fact that a case went to mediation does not indicate that any of the parties are willing to settle. Your assumption is exactly why the mention of a mediation is put into a motion in limine.

In many lawsuits, mediation is ordered by the judge. I don't know if this case was ordered to mediation but most cases are, and if the parties cannot agree on a mediator then the court will appoint one. Even if one side swears up and down they will not settle, they may have no choice but to go to mediation. It says nothing about either side's willingness to settle. In fact, before trial, one side or the other will file a motion in limine asking the court to prohibit anyone mentioning a list of things during trial, including the failed mediation because a jury may interpret a party going to mediation as a willingness to settle and an admission of some degree of liability.

Looking forward to it!

bump By the way, the UNT athletic department has desktop wallpapers as well now. Their choice of sizes is a little perplexing (1024 X 1280, 819 X 1024, and 640 X 800), but it's good they have them: UNT downloads

Repaired.

Here are new Mean Green wallpapers, and this year I've added a new size for the iPad. Click on either image to go to the wallpapers page on meangreenworld.com. As always, they're free. One, featuring Lance Dunbar, for the upcoming football season: and one all-purpose, year-round Mean Green wallpaper. Of all the wallpapers I've made, this one is my favorite. I've also done this design as an avatar. Hope you enjoy.

My hat's off to everyone who played, and I hope you're not too sore today. And especially big thanks to Kram for putting this together. Well done, sir!