Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Ever since I was able to gurgle the word baseball as a toddler, it has been my first love. My father was a very good baseball player in high school, but when he was ready to move up to the next level, the Depression hit and he had to find a job to help out his family. But that didn't stop my father's love for the game. He played baseball on weekends for whoever needed a pitcher, including the Sons of Italy, who merely stuck an "I" at the end of his last name and gave him a...
A crowd of around 150 invited guests were on hand Saturday afternoon at West Orange-Stark High School for the dedication of the school's brand-new Strength and Conditioning Center. The modern complex, which would make most college athletic directors and head coaches green with envy, was named in honor of retired head coach Cornel Thompson, who not only coached football at the school for nearly 50 years, but also attended the school when it was known as the West Orange High...
Sunday's 23-20 Super Bowl victory by the Los Angeles Rams was a complete reversal of how every playoff game ended for the Cincinnati Bengals. For the last six weeks it was the Bengals that came from behind in the game's closing minutes to win, usually on a clutch field goal by their rookie kicker Evan McPherson at the end of the game or in an overtime period. But on Sunday, it was the Rams who came up with what will be identified as "The Drive" --replacing John Elway's drive i...
If you were a diehard Cincinnati Bengals fan and slipped a ten-dollar bill to one of the Las Vegas sports books back in August to make a preseason bet on your team to win the AFC Conference Championship, today you would be $750 richer. Vegas had the line set at 75-1 on the Bengals winning the right to play in Super Bowl 56. And if you were a real Bengals fan and bet another $10 that your team would win Sunday's Super Bowl, the payout would swell to $1,500 if your team beats...
If a person got to watch only the first halves of Sunday's two NFL Conference Championship games, he would swear the Kansas City Chiefs would be playing the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVI on Feb.13 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. However, both the Chiefs and the 49ers stumbled and lost their respective halftime leads and will now be at home watching the upstart Cincinnati Bengals meet the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl. The Bengals stunned the Chiefs 27-24...
If the nation's cardiologists knew ahead of time how the four National Football League Divisional Playoff games would be played, they would have instructed all of their patients to watch the Disney Channel or something much less exciting than any of those four games. Three of the four games were decided by field goals as time expired, and the other went into overtime on a Kansas City field goal after Buffalo went ahead 36-33 with a mere 13 seconds left in regulation time....
NFL Conference Championship Games This Weekend AFC KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (14-5) over CINCINNATI BENGALS (12-7) 2:05 P.M. Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. (CBS)-The Chiefs pulled out a 42-36 overtime victory over the Never Say Die Buffalo Bills Sunday night and face the Cinderella Cincinnati Bengals for the right to go to Super Bowl LV. The Chiefs are an early touchdown favorite and should win by at least that. MY PROJECTED SCORE-Kansas City 38-Cincinnati 24. NFC...
NFL Division Playoff Games This Weekend AFC CINCINNATI BENGALS (11-7) over TENNESSEE TITANS (12-5) 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tn. (CBS)—MY PROJECTED SCORE—Cincinnati 26-Tennessee 24 (Upset Special). KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (13-5) over BUFFALO BILLS (12-6) 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. (CBS)—MY PROJECTED SCORE—Kansas City 34-Buffalo 30. NFC GREEN BAY PACKERS (13-4) over SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS (11-7) 7:15 p.m. Saturday at Lambeau...
On Friday I peered at the six "Wild Card" playoff games that were set for last weekend and tried to figure out which home team would be upset. After some research and calculations my answer kept coming up the Dallas Cowboys and perhaps the Los Angeles Rams, too. After all, it was apparent that the Buffalo Bills shouldn't have much trouble subduing the Cinderella New England Patriots, defending world champion Tampa Bay should waltz past the Philadelphia Eagles and their worst...
The 2021 National Football League officially ended Sunday, but not without some major surprises and upsets. Normally, many teams that already made the playoffs will sit down a few of their star players (usually the quarterback) to avoid them from an injury. Some teams already eliminated from the playoffs will do that to see how some of their marginal players compete in a real game. However, on Saturday and Sunday, the Cincinnati Bengals left star quarterback Joe Burrow at...
6 NFL "Wild Card" Playoff Games This Weekend AFC Conference BUFFALO (11-6) over NEW ENGLAND (10-7) 12:00 p.m. Sat. at Buffalo (CBS) KANSAS CITY (12-5) over PITTSBURGH (9-7-1) 7:15 p.m. Sun. at Kansas City (NBC). CINCINNATI (10-7) over LAS VEGAS (10-7) 3:30 p.m. Sat. at Cincinnati (NBC). NFC Conference LOS ANGELES RAMS (12-5) over ARIZONA (11-6) 7:15 p.m. Mon. at Los Angeles ESPN/ABC. TAMPA BAY (11-5) over PHILADELPHIA (9-8) Noon Sun. at Tampa Bay. DALLAS (12-5) over SAN...
Normally, last weekend's National Football League schedule would be over and the playoff schedule for the opening Wild Card Round would be set for this weekend. But, due to the greedy NFL hierarchy, the normal 16-game schedule was extended to 17 games in the spring meeting, with the league arguing that it wanted an 18-game schedule while the NFL Players Association wanted to keep it at 16. So, there was a compromise for 17 games. The National Football Conference got its...
Pinstripe Bowl—1:15 p.m. Today at New York City (ESPN)—Maryland over Virginia Tech. Cheese-It Bowl—4:45 p.m. Today at Orlando, FL. (ESPN)—Clemson over Iowa State. Alamo Bowl—8:15 p.m. Today at San Antonio, TX. (ESPN)—Oklahoma over Oregon. Duke’s Mayo Bowl—10:30 a.m. Thursday at Charlotte, N.C. (ESPN)—North Carolina over South Carolina. Music City Bowl—2 p.m. Thursday at Nashville, TN. (ESPN)---Tennessee over Purdue. Peach Bowl—6 p.m. Thursday at Atlanta, GA. (ESPN)—Michigan S...
With only two more weeks remaining in the 2021 regular National Football League season, there are still a smattering of teams that don't know where they will be two weeks from now-in the postseason playoffs with a bye week, having the home field in the wild-card week, making the playoffs and waiting for an opponent, or already eliminated from the playoffs. Our Houston Texans fall into that latter category-in fact, they were the first of the 32 NFL teams to officially be...
Saturday was one of the biggest days of our granddaughter Jennifer Whitehead's life-she was the only female graduating from Lamar University with a degree in chemical engineering. And she received it with magna cum laude honors, after making nearly all straight A's during the four years in college and all straight A's during her four years at Barbers Hill High School. The whole clan was at the Montagne Center in Beaumont for that 10 a.m. ceremony and then went to Bruno's...
Bowl Games This Week Armed Forces Bowl—7 p.m. Today at Fort Worth, TX. (ESPN)—Army over Missouri. Frisco Football Classic—2:30 p.m. Thursday at Frisco, TX. (ESPN)—North Texas over Miami, O. Gasparilla Bowl—6 p.m. Thursday at Tampa, Fla. (ESPN)—Florida over Central Florida. Hawaii Bowl—7 p.m. Friday at Honolulu, HI. (ESPN)—Memphis over Hawaii. Camellia Bowl—1:30 p.m. Saturday at Montgomery, Ala. (ESPN)—Georgia State over Ball State. Quick Lane Bowl—10 a.m. Monday at Detroit, MI...
Area Playoff Games of Interest to Southeast Texas—Class 6A Div. I—Galena Park North Shore (14-1) over Duncanville (13-1); Div. II—Austin Westlake (15-0) over Denton Guyer (14-1). Class 5A Div. I—Paetow (14-1) over College Station (15-0); Div. II—Dallas South Oak Cliff (14-1) over Liberty Hill (13-2). Class 4A Div. I—Stephenville (15-0) over Austin Johnson (15-0); Div. II—China Spring (25-0) over Gilmer (14-1). Class 3A Div. I—Lorena (13-2) over Brock (15-0); Div. II—Frankli...
The "Big Game" that everyone was waiting for with baited breath is happening Sunday at Jacksonville when the Jaguars are hosting the Houston Texans in the battle for the 2022 No. 1 draft pick, which would go to the team finishing the season with the funkiest record. One of the biggest reasons both of these teams are playing in the Super Bowl for Losers is that both first-year coaches Urban Meyer of the Jags and David Culley don't have a clue what it takes to win football...
Major League Baseball is on the verge of its first work stoppage since 1994--when the World Series was canceled for the first time--and will likely put a halt to all offseason activities such as signing free agents, extending existing contracts, modifying the 40-man rosters, players not being able to work out at team facilities and players having to rehab at a non-team facility. The lockout officially began at 12:01 a.m. last Thursday, but management negotiators left the MLB...
State Semifinal High School Playoff Games This Week CLASS 6A Div. I—Southlake Carroll (14-0) over Duncanville (12-1), Austin Lake Travis (12-2) over Galena Park North Shore (13-1); Div. II—Denton Guyer (13-1) over Tomball (11-3), Katy (14-0) over Austin Westlake (14-0). CLASS 5A Div. I—College Station (14-0) over Mansfield Summit (11-3), Paetow (13-1) over Flour Bluff (12-2); Div. II—Dallas South Oak Cliff (12-1) over Lubbock Cooper (13-1), Crosby (12-2) over Liberty Hill (1...
WEST ORANGE-STARK (11-1) over CHINA SPRING (13-0) 7 p.m. Friday at Tomball ISD Stadium in Tomball-The Mustangs were defeated by the Cougars 35-22 at this time last year, but the Mustangs had several starting players sidelined after testing positive for COVID-19. This time the Mustangs are at full strength and in a revengeful mood and will pull of the big upset Friday night in Tomball. LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE (11-2) over TYLER CHAPEL HILL (10-3) 7:30p.m. Friday at Cy-Fair F...
I've been banging on a typewriter or computer for over half-a-century and can't remember a time when the city of Orange sent two football teams to the regional finals in the state tournament. Some of you gray-bearded old-timers running around town may remember something before I arrived on the scene in 1966, but I surely don't recall a phenomenon like this. What I'm trying to point out is that both the West Orange-Stark Mustangs and the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Battlin'...
WEST ORANGE-STARK (10-1) over BELLVILLE (12-0) 6 p.m. Friday at Randall Reed Stadium in New Caney-This very well could have been a battle of the unbeatens if inclement weather hadn't interrupted the Mustangs' season opener in the third quarter at Nederland with WO-S behind 13-7. If the 'Stangs can upset this foe Friday night, their reward will be facing another undefeated team-either China Spring (12-0) or Carthage (11-0) in the regional finals. EL CAMPO (11-1) over LITTLE...
Houston area fans who follow the city’s pro football, basketball and even baseball franchises haven’t had much to cheer about this fall. Baseball fans enjoyed a great regular season and most of the playoffs until Atlanta defeated the Houston Astros in six World Series games when they had only two healthy starting pitchers they could depend on. The need for both starting and relief pitchers was the top priority before spring training begins in February. The Houston Texans fan...
High School Playoff Games This Weekend WEST ORANGE-STARK (9-1) over JASPER (6-4) 7:30 p.m. Friday at Beaumont ISD Memorial Stadium (The Butch) in Beaumont-The Mustangs outclassed La Marque so much (49-0) that the second half was played with a running clock. Jasper is not the same powerful team of the past and had to scramble to get past Waco Connally (23-20) just to get to play the 'Stangs. This game could be close, but don't bet on it. LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE (9-2) over...
