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I like the second one with the thick black outlines, but the other one would look cool as well. Let me know where to send the money.

Probably making more money at LIberty Christian.

UT is going from sure final four team to a team that is going to be lucky to finish in the top half of the Big 12. _________________________________________________________________ Tucker reportedly hires agent, won’t return to Longhorns Texas forward P.J. Tucker reportedly has signed with an agent, making him ineligible to return to the Longhorns. ESPN.com quoted Tucker as saying, “”I’m leaving. It’s a done deal. If you don’t hire an agent, it’s too costly to do it without breaking any of the rules. Either you should do it or don’t.” Tucker last month put his name into the NBA draft pool. Until he signed with an agent — reportedly agent Leon Rose — he could change his mind, withdraw his name from the draft and return to Texas for his senior year. That door apparently now is closed.

But baseball is a Spring Sport, where NT has needs exposure. It would also be a crowd favorite and there is enough Div. 1 talent in the Metroplex and Texas where the recruiting would not be a problem.

No. 43 is Keon Jackson, a safety.

I like B I'll take 3 Let me know were to mail the check!

He plays for the god almighty Texas Longhorns, so he thinks he's above the law like all of the kids that play for Mack Brown.

This thread has been Hijacked by political conversation. If I wanted to read about our moron president and his crooked cronies and the idiot democrats I woul go to a political message board. The reason I look at this board is for info on Mean Green Athletics.

Here are my picks. Big 10 - Indiana -- Only team in the Big 10 NT could hope to beat. Big XII - Iowa State -- They're pretty good but I think we'd have a chance, Nah. But I think we could get them in a home and home series. Big East - Rutgers -- I'm pretty sure we would be competitve with these Jersey boys. ACC - Maryland -- I just like saying Terps. SEC - Florida -- I'd like to see Taylor Casey's Brother. PAC 10 - USC -- Goes without saying. WAC - Hawai‘i -- What a road trip!! CUSA - SMU -- I hate them. MWC - TCU -- See SMU. MAC - Buffalo or Kent State -- A win, YES an out of conference victory, no matter where we play. Indy - Temple -- Another out of conference victory and I think they'd draw a decent crowd.

Mean Green Softball Wins Opening Tourney Game Miami, Fla. (5/11/06) – Sophomore Kristina Fowler picked up her 18th win of the season and knocked in the game-winning run in the North Texas softball team’s 4-2 win against Western Kentucky in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament at University Park. Click here for more

Have to have a subscription to the insider.

We need a point guard, heck anyone, that can make his free throws. That is the achilles heel of this team. It should be mandatory for a player to make 75 of 100 free throws before he is allowed to practice and not run all the time. It should also be mandatory to make 70 of 100 free throws during a practice to maintain playing time.

I did, last week. You might call Gabe and ask if they still have tickets!

Your correct. They don't do anything, so it's out in the public for the whole world to see.

Coach offers affirmative outlook By JEFF WICK, jwick@sastandardtimes.com or 659-8259 April 29, 2006 J.T. Smith ended up being an NFL pro-bowl wide receiver, but the Big Spring High School graduate actually quit the sport after one game. ''I got introduced to football in elementary, but didn't like flag football,'' said Smith. ''I played one game and quit. There wasn't any tackling, and I wanted to tackle somebody.'' It's no wonder, then, that these are the words of wisdom he passes on to anyone who will listen: ''If I'm going to tell anybody anything,'' Smith said. ''It would be: Be patient.'' Smith admits to having his own patience tested in his new job as head coach of the San Angelo Stampede Express indoor football team, which opens it's season at 7:05 p.m. today in San Angelo Coliseum. Even the headaches a bunch of semi-pro players can inflict upon their leader, which include not turning in uniforms, not knowing how to get to San Angelo from California and having to be reminded about public appearances, aren't enough to tune down Smith's enthusiasm. ''I'm having fun,'' said Smith, who even though he's in his 50s and 16 years removed from his last pro season, still gets out and runs pass patterns with the team. The fact that he's enjoying his latest adventure comes as no surprise to one of his old high school coaches from Big Spring, San Angelo school district athletic director Rex Scofield. ''I knew he was going to do well in college,'' said Scofield. ''I don't know if I saw that (him becoming a Pro Bowler) coming. ''He always had a great love for the game and was a hard worker.'' Smith's love of football pales in comparison to the two big reasons he agreed to come to San Angelo to be the Stampede's third head coach in as many years. Smith's elderly mother Gertrude still lives in Big Spring, and being in San Angelo allows him to see her often. ''I'm going to ask her (to come to tonight's game),'' Smith said. ''Depends how she feels. ''The older parents never came to games. She might have come to one of my college games, maybe two of my pro games, unless I bribed her. She doesn't like to travel. She watched on TV. She didn't care about the NFL. She said, 'That game just made you crazy'. She's proud, even though she doesn't say it. I know.'' His other reason for accepting the job has to do with people a little younger - his players. ''There are a lot of guys that didn't get a break,'' Smith said. ''If they are willing to work as hard as I worked, then I think they should get a chance.'' Smith knows all too well about how important getting a chance can be. After a stellar college career at the University of North Texas, Smith went undrafted. ''Washington called me right after the draft. By that time I was all hot and mad,'' Smith said. ''But I still had a chance. I had some good people in my corner. That's the way it is now, you have to have some people in your corner to get to the next level.'' Smith wants to be that person for his players. ''He's the greatest thing since sliced bread,'' said Stampede co-owner Darlene Jones. ''He cares about his players so much.'' Smith is a prime example of what can happen when you get a chance. After playing in the secondary all of his college career, that's where he began in 1978 in the Redskins training camp. ''I went up there early and was catching balls with the receivers,'' Smith said. ''Joe Thiesmann said, 'We're going to move you to offense.' I said, 'Nah, I'm on defense.' ''About the middle of training camp, they called me in and I said, 'Oh God, I'm cut'. They took me in the equipment room and said, 'Get a number - on offense.' Joe said, 'I told you'. I told him, 'Don't matter to me. I'm still here.' '' He stayed around the league for 13 years, making the Pro Bowl in 1980 and 1988. He retired after the 1990 season, though he said he could have played five more years. ''Mentally I was tired and physically I was tired,'' Smith said. ''I felt it was time.'' After a short break from the game he started coaching and for the past eight years he's been involved in coaching at all levels on indoor football. He's also got five kids, three grandkids and one more on the way. ''Grandkids are great. You can give them a lot of candy, get them geeked up,'' Smith said. ''Then send them back home.'' He's happily married to his wife Monica, who he met during a period when he wasn't patient. ''I went in to get a haircut and I guess the owner of the shop messed up my hair,'' Smith said. ''I told him if he messed up my hair, I was going to come back. I came back the next day and she fixed it for me.'' He hasn't had much to complain about since. One regret he does have is about the lack of team success at the pro level. He never played in a playoff game. When he left Kansas City after the 1984 season, he had an opportunity to sign with the Chicago Bears, who went on to win the Super Bowl the next year. He chose to sign with the St. Louis Cardinals instead. ''I would have had a Super Bowl ring,'' Smith said. Now his goal is to get back to the NFL as a coach and win a championship that way. He thinks leading the Stampede to a successful season or two could be a springboard to that, but he's remembering to be patient. ''You're always trying to move up, that's part of the game,'' Smith said. ''Everybody has a path. I'm just trying to stay on mine.''

Bo Hurley signs with Dartmouth College I'm with GrayEagle, I don't think grades are a problem, but the kid looks like Baby Huey.

Bo Hurley is from Schertz Clemens, Scott Hall's alma-mater, down by San Antonio. Not Clements.

I am a proud supporter of the Mean Green. I just get tired of lemmings believing everything people say. Especially people who stretch the truth about something they are are going to do for the program or team and then don't follow through. My posts are not negative, they are factual. If you can't handle that then you probably should apply for the play-by-play job on the MGRN and you can support the program blindly as the announcers on the broadcast currently do. You can support something, without being blind to the way to make things better.

Judging by GGII's track record on following through on things he says he's going to do. I don't think we have anything to worry about. I'm still waiting on the toothpick model stadium that he promised us more than a year ago.

That would great, but it would actually take an active Talon to give a crap about the athletic program. It would cut into their party time.

Typical NT Athletics

Wonder when (if) our SID is going to release our 2006 Football Spring Prospectus?

No PETA is PATHETIC!

It is. Congrats to Jason!! Kats make change at kicker Courtesy: Nashville Kats Release: 03/29/2006 NASHVILLE (Mar. 29, 2006) – For the second time in four weeks the Nashville Kats have made a change in their placekicking duties, head coach Pat Sperduto announced on Wednesday. Nashville released Jason Witczak, who had served as the team’s kicker the last three games, and signed Jason Ball, who had kicked in two games for the Colorado Crush earlier this season. Ball (5-9, 185) comes to the Kats after having filled in for Colorado kicker Clay Rush for a pair of games earlier this month when Rush was injured. Ball, who kicked collegiately at North Texas, made 14-of-16 extra point attempts and connected on one of his two field goal tries in his two outings this season. He spent the last two years in af2, where he was a combined 108-for-134 on PAT attampts and 16-for-41 on field goal tries. Ball was named second-team All-af2 in 2004 as a member of the Bossier-Shreveport Battlewings. Ball replaces Witczak who was released after making 15 of his 18 extra points and going 0-fo-4 on field goal attempts. The move comes less than four weeks after Nashville cut kicker Tony Dodson, who had played for the Kats in the first six games of the 2006 season and the final six contests of 2005. Dodson was waived on March 6 after he had missed nine extra point attempts in six games, including three in a 51-49 loss at Arizona on March 4. The move marks the second consecutive season in which the Kats have used three kickers. In 2005, Nashville cut Gary Kral after nine games, then signed Matt Hutto who was waived after one contest. Dodson was signed and kicked in the last six games of the 2005 season. The Kats (6-3) play at Colorado in a battle for first place in the AFL’s Central Division on Saturday night at 8 p.m. CT. The game will air live on the Kats Radio Network and flagship station 104.5 The Zone, and will be televised on a tape-delay at 10 p.m. CT on FSN South. Jason Ball's Bio

Good to have another fan of the OLDTIME San Antonio Spurs.