SilverEagle

20K wearing Kelly Green is very optomistic. There might be 20K NT students/alums show up there, but all of them wearing Kelly Green?

I doubt that OSU will want to play in the Cotton Bowl, and we have traditionally had lously turn-outs there. I would go along with Jerry World, until our stadium gets built.....then it's Eagle/Pohl/Fry...(whatever) stadium for all our future home games.

..."Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out They leave the West behind And Moscow girls make me sing and shout That Georgia's always on my mind."* * Back in the U.S.S.R., Lennon/McCartney, Beatles (Great) White Album, 1968...........

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Don't tell this unless it's really true. There are countless numbers of NT graduates who would love to have the same opportunity to say exactly the same thing to a SMU graduate. The SMU graduate that I work with is too realistic about his alma mater. When he talks about better times (football wise) at SMU he always starts his sentences with "well, back in the days when we had the best team that money could buy".....it's very frustrating.

I said that Jerry Jones was "tolerable", but only during the Super Bowl era. I didn't say I liked him.....and still don't. He might wear a suit, but he's still an Arkansas huckster. Mark Cuban doesn't pretend to have "class" (whatever that is....especially as it relates to sports and entertainment) , he's just the same guy he was before he became rich. Besides, to the rest of the world the image of Texas is just what yyz28 said... YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

I totally agree with this. Even Jerry Jones was tolerable when they won Super Bowls. Professional sports is entertainment, and I have to say that, given my indifference toward basketball, if I did ever go to a Maverick game, I would spend most of my time watching Mark Cuban....or people like him. I would rather see an owner who is enjoying the game as much as the fans....and amongst the fans. Rather than some stodgy suit wearing business man, standing around in his suite looking down at all the unwashed masses and mentally counting all the money he's making off them.

You have to admire anyone, but especially a North Texas grad/student, who is a perpetual seeker of knowledge.

Four wins in the third year is not acceptable. Our previous HS coach got fired after his second four win season in a row. The coach before that (Corky Nelson) got fired after posting records of 8-4 (with wins over Tech and Rice), 5-6, and 6-5 (including a win over SMU), in his last three seasons.....with a 1-AA budget.

So you're suggesting some sort of social regulation for sports team owners? Careful, you might get kicked out of the free enterprise club.

Well KRAM, in the spirit of free enterprise (which you don't seem to think there is enough of these days)......(regarding all the aforementioned owners, but especially Cuban) he bought it, it's his toy, and he can play with it any way he wants! Within the boundries of the legal system of course......

I don't pretend to understand all (or any for that matter) of the complexities of the Insurance industry. But I do know that the vast majority of people who don't have insurance coverage are children. And I'm sick to death of hearing children being lumped into the broad (and convenient) catagory of the "lazy" and "irresponsible".

Well, since the director of this new Star Trek movie (J.J. Abrams) is the executive producer of my favorite new TV show (Fringe), it's a "must see" for me. Also, I've read that Leonard Nimoy is so impressed with Mr. Abrams that he always takes his calls....impressive. I've always liked the off-beat, weird and sci-fi genre. Since I've read that Leonard Nimoy is making a cameo appearance in this movie, here's a trivia question about Leonary Nimoy. What classic sci-fi movie did Leonard Nimoy make an uncredited appearance in. It was uncredited, but he did have a speaking part.

I never thought I'd ever see the day when I'd miss guys like Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon. But thanks to all the religious right crazies who seem to have a hard-on for Armageddon, and have taken over the Republican party...I do miss the 60's Republicans.

Well it's nice to see that at least one of the History channels is not fixated on either Hitler, or the end of the world. I've started calling the regular History channel the "hystionics channel".

Even Northwest HS seems to have nicer facilities. http://www.nisdtx.org/12082023111831543/si...amp;NodeID=1644 geezz, I remember when they used to play in what basically looked like an old rodeo arena, covered in "costal bermuda"......with a few sand traps.

Ok, here's an article listing several names of conservative commentators who are fanning the hate/paranoid flames. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/1176621.html Here is an excerpt. Take the conjured link between the virus and Mexican immigrants. This one proved too easy a lure for the usual suspects with a penchant for blaming every social ill on immigrants. Commentators Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Neal Boortz leapt at the non-opportunity. They took the news of the flu cases in Mexico and blended it with their own twisted takes on whom to blame for what may prove to be a virus that incubated in many portions of the world. At first, the takes were innocuous enough, more like bad comedy. There were jokes to rename the already inaccurately labeled swine flu the “fajita flu.” But then the possibility of a pandemic was called “the latest border crisis.” Calls were made to close the U.S./Mexican border. And fear-stoking diatribes soon followed that illegal immigrants would be the “perfect mules” to bring a bioterrorist attack into the U.S. All the blather negated the work of epidemiologists who were tracking the germs, noting that the evidence has been that U.S. residents returning from Mexico seem to be the carriers, not immigrants heading north. By Friday, the virus had spread to New Zealand, Israel, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. None of these countries is considered a destination for poor Mexicans seeking work. Don’t expect breathless commentary about dangerous sunburned tourists fresh from their southern vacations spreading deadly germs. Lou Dobbs once even tried to blame leprosy on immigrants. When countered by health experts, he simply blew harder that he was right. In recent months, advocacy groups have tried to stick a pin in the anti-immigrant pronouncements of Dobbs and his like-minded cohorts on cable television and radio. Such efforts won’t get too far. The entertainment factor drives too much of their ratings. The base problem is that far too many people agree with a message and disregard whether it’s accurate. The two don’t always coincide.

News? That's very kind of you to call it that. I would call it drivel...and that too would be kind.

I totally agree with this guy. http://www.star-telegram.com/news/columnis...nedy/index.html

Life's too short to live in Dallas.........

First of all, we could use some jackasses in the stands. At least they make noise! Rick acts like a real fan! Not like the "tennis-applause-everyone-sit-down-and-be-quiet-between-plays" fans that have shown up in sections E and D for decades. Years ago, when we first started sitting in the "alumni" section, my wife wondered out loud if most of the people that showed up in section "E" got lost on their way to a funeral. I guess they were just hold overs from the good ol' days of Dr's Bruce and Matthews. As far as I'm concerned if you aren't a loud and obnoxious fan at a football game, you aren't doing it right.

Actually, Rick promotes spirit, and the other thing is my job. Yes, the Japanese committed some very inhuman acts on Americans....and anyone else that they came into contact with whilst making war. They were brought to trial and hanged.....as they should have been. Even though they thought that the aforementioned inhuman acts were justified to PROTECT THEIR COUNTRY AND WAY OF LIFE. Amongst most liberals (and many centrists) Richard Nixon is one of the most disliked Presidents of our modern era. Yet this conservative President saw the value of diplomacy, and as a result, he opened diplomatic relations with(gasp) communist China. This was during a time when we were at our full potential at arms making, and troop strength. We were clearly technologically superior to China in Arms making and could have wiped them off the earth if that was our decision. Yet, our CONSERVATIVE (and sadly, very paranoid) President made diplomatic overtures to China, and basically made nice with them. Are all you right-wing chest-thumping conservatives calling Richard Nixon weak?

Excellent points. I would only disagree about the implication that the administration "took a flyer" on all our coaches. The administration got it right when it hired Hayden Fry. But the person that was mainly responsible for hiring him, C.C. "Jitter" Nolan, got run-off not long after Fry left for Iowa. The administration got it right with Corky Nelson, but his talents as a coach were squandered by a stingy and small thinking administration. Overall, we are victims of our history and culture. After all his hard work to get the "fee" approved by the students, UNTFlyer is getting a hard lesson on the old culture at North Texas. Sadly, a good bit of what his hard work has generated is a lot of public wailing and gnashing of teeth, mostly in the NT Daily, from the "spiritual" sons and grandsons of all these previous small thinking administrations. Hopefully all this negative noise is just the last gasp of our old culture (regarding sports) here at North Texas.

Dodge keeps talking about his ex-players' future....when will he start worrying about his own? ... or the future of the school that gave him a great opportunity.

Vanquished foes or not, this is part of American History...and an important one at that. Regardless of what "causes" you believe in, America went to war with itself because it was very polarized. Young people shooting and/or getting shot over a 140 year old symbol tells me that, as a society, we are still pretty polarized about it.