Archive for 'Texas Football'
Texas celebrity sighting
Saw Bum Phillips this afternoon at a restaurant in Goliad, on the way down to Port A. Except for the two in-ear hearing aids in his ears the former coach of the former Houston Oilers looked younger than his 80-something years.
No, he was not wearing his trademark cowboy hat. But one was painted on the [...]
Posted: August 9th, 2010 under Mr. Boy, Mrs. Charm, Obamalot, Texana, Texas Football.
Tags: Bum Phillips, Goliad, horse ranch, Houston Oilers, President Obama
Comments: none
Big 12 unraveling
I guess Texas wants to play SoCal regularly, as well as have an easier shot at the Rose Bowl. Otherwise why leave the Big 12 (now just 10 teams with the loss of Nebraska and Colorado, and expected to be just six after Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State leave for the Pac 10) [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2010 under Scribbles, Texana, Texas Football.
Tags: Big 12, Pac 10, SEC, Texas Longhorns
Comments: 2
Horns to NFL
Congrats to Earl Thomas (Seattle), Sergio Kindle (Baltimore), Lamarr Houston (Oakland), Jordan Shipley (Cincinnati), Roddrick Muckelroy (also Cincinnati), and Colt McCoy (Cleveland).
The daily is sputtering over McCoy, the winningest, etc. being a late, second round pick (long after Bradford and Tebow), but I’m not surprised. I still say he’s injury prone and I think we’ll [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2010 under Scribbles, Texana, Texas Football.
Tags: Colt McCoy, Earl Thomas, Jordan Shipley, Lamarr Houston, Longhorns football, Roddrick Muckelroy, Sergio Kindle, Texas Longhorns
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Westlake’s Drew Brees
Of course, he’s New Orleans’ Drew Brees now. But there was a time, when he was the star QB of the Westlake High School Chaparrals on the western edge of Austin. And few here have forgotten.
Posted: February 8th, 2010 under Texana, Texas Football.
Tags: Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints, Westlake High School
Comments: 4
That last Tide touchdown
The daily’s sportswriter Kirk Bohls has it right. That last Alabama touchdown, with 1:48 left to play in the BCS championship game last week, was a classic example of running-up-the-score. They were already ahead by 10 points.
It was a classless gotcha statement by the Tide’s humorless, arrogant coach Nick Saban: unnecessary, mean-spirited and disrespectful to [...]
Posted: January 12th, 2010 under Texana, Texas Football.
Tags: Alabama's last touchdown, Crimson Tide, Texas Longhorns
Comments: 2
Miles Austin’s girlfriend
It’s funny. This is one of those Roberta Vasquez moments. I hardly know who Miles Austin is. Okay, he plays for the Dallas Cowboys. But his girlfriend? Beats me. Yet, today alone, “Miles Austin girlfriend” has brought me 45 visitors.
I’m sure they leave disappointed. There is no picture of his girlfriend here. There is a [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Scribbles, Site building, Texana, Texas Football.
Tags: Aaron Ross, Dallas Cowboys, Miles Austin, Miles Austin girlfriend, Sanya Richards
Comments: 4
Horns’ loss vs Tide’s win
Funny thing about that game. Just about everywhere, except maybe in Bama itself, it’s liable to become known as the game Texas lost because its QB was lost, rather than the game that Alabama won because it’s an SEC powerhouse or whatever.
Or, as the local sportswriters call it: The Game That Might Have Been. It’s [...]
Posted: January 8th, 2010 under Scribbles, Texana, Texas Football.
Tags: 2009 BCS Championship, Alabama Crimson Tide football, Texas Longhorns football, The Game That Might Have Been
Comments: 3
Garrett Gilbert’s promise
Not many people had ever heard of nineteen-year-old Garrett Gilbert when he was rushed onto the field last night at the Rose Bowl to substitute for the injured Colt McCoy. Garrett is better known here where he led his Lake Travis team to two state championships.
His father Gale played QB in the NFL, for Seattle, [...]
Posted: January 8th, 2010 under Sailing, Texana, Texas Football.
Tags: Gale Gilbert, Garrett Gilbert, Lake Travis
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Colt McCoy: injury prone
Colt’s injury last night, which probably cost Texas the BCS championship, was hardly the first time.
Not even the first time for the shoulder he said after the game had no feeling. He’d hurt it before, in 2006, followed a few weeks later by a severe pinched nerve in his neck. Then, in 2007, he suffered [...]
Posted: January 8th, 2010 under Texana, Texas Football.
Tags: 2009 BCS Championship, Colt McCoy, Texas Longhorns football, Tuscola Kid
Comments: none
Texas-Alabama
Have to laugh to see that Rasmussen has a poll out showing 55 percent of “fans” expect Bama to win tonight at the Rose Bowl. I laugh because that was almost exactly the prediction level in 2006 when Texas played USC for the national championship and won. Then, people would say, Texas would be nothing [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2010 under Texana, Texas Football.
Tags: Colt McCoy, Rose Bowl, Texas Football, Texas Longhorns, Tuscola Kid, Vince Young
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