Here are a few things over which you can muddle and see if you think I’m in the mud — which is possible.
‘Call a T-O, Baby!’
Those TV timeouts in football and basketball truly change the game. Coaches don’t need to use their timeouts when television is going to award freebees, so they have 3-5 left for the end of the game.
Another complaint I have with those TO’s.
HAMILTON — This might be the name of a very successful Broadway show, but the high school didn’t offer Llano’s boys’ team any rave reviews in the Ted Jones Memorial Tournament, December
8-10.
The Jackets — winless this autumn — came close twice but lost contests with Dublin, Brownwood, and Brady. Michael Lockhart put in 25 points against Dublin, but the Lions recorded NBA numbers and whipped Llano, 99-60.
In Game ...
I like to read The Dallas Morning News especially after a Cowboys’, Mavericks’, Stars’, or Rangers’
loss. Boy, those guys mean business — the sports columnists,
I mean. Man, if they wrote like that here, we’d better be ready to pay overtime to lawmen to guard the newspaper office doors. You’d think those big-city writers would have their hands full with “The glass is two-thirds empty” Mavericks.
But not on Monday morn ...
Katie McDonough battles to shoot at Salado. That eagle shouldn’t be in such a nasty mood, as Salado — the Eagles, of course — won, 53-35, in the district opener.
We have arrived at the semifinals of the State High School Football Playoffs. They, of course, can’t all win, but they are all plenty good with a lot in the bank about which to be awfully proud.
Mason (11-3) can be proud, too, but it lost to Refugio, which is harder to beat than to correctly pronounce its name.
My son-in-law, John Crabb, was the first to alert me to this: if you don’t win your conference you don’t make the Final Four in college football. Ohio State is in. It didn’t even win its division.
Big 12 officials should be getting a big laugh at all this. It has been criticized for not having a championship game — which is about to return — but the Big 10 has one, and NEITHER team makes it to the national semifinals.
Does Ohio State belong in the Final F ...
Struggling is a word that fits both Llano High varsity basketball teams. Neither won a game in tournaments, December 1-3. The boys are chronicled nearby.
The Lady Jackets were in Brady and absorbed losses to Goldthwaite, Mason, Irion County, the host-school Bulldogs, and Christoval.
Irion County was the worst contest, a 74-26 defeat.
“Didn’t even compete well,” said a frustrated head coach, Jerry McSherry, who added he was
LITTLE RIVER — It’s been a raging river of tough assignments and disappointing and frustrating losses. Translation: an 0-8 start for the Llano basketball boys.
“The kids are handling it fine,” Aaron Nuckles said. He’s probably having the hardest time after leading Lometa to five winning seasons before coming here. Nuckles adds, “The boys are not down.”
Understandable if they were. They went 0-5 in a December 1-3 ...
Mason’s not the only familiar name in high school football’s Region Finals (state quarters).
De Leon (11-2), led by former Llano head coach, David Yeager, is in the same Class 2A, Division I, as the Punchers, and will take on Crawford (12-1) at Glen Rose, December 2. The Bearcats’ quarterback is sophomore Kevin Yeager, who did okay for his dad in a 30-14 win over Windthorst.
Navarro (13-0), champion of district 13-4A which includes Llano, walloped Wharton, 55-14, and n ...
Tom Herman becomes the third head coach in this brief century to go from that job at Houston to another Texas school: Art Briles went from the U of H to Baylor, and Kevin Sumlin turned in Cougar colors for Texas A&M. Briles’ marvelous career in Waco imploded, and Sumlin has had his ups and downs in the SEC.
Herman bares one of the greatest names in sports history — that of the immortal Babe: George Herman “Babe” Ruth.
I’m picking Oklahoma quarter ...
