Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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PATRIOTS VALIDATE THEIR DYNASTY THEORY For The Record - Joe Kazmar Super Bowl LI very well could have been what the National Football League was in desperate need of—a super-exciting game that set many Super Bowl records. After wallowing through a tough season marred by non-competitive games, declining ratings, terrible officiating and awkward national anthem protests, Sunday night’s game may have righted an NFL ship that was appeared to be slowly sinking. Once again the combi...
For The Record -For The Record- By Capt Dickie Colburn Afternoon after afternoon and weekend after weekend, Michael Vaughan and his seven year old daughter Karsyn climbed into their deer stand and waited for a shot at a special deer.From Day 1 until the final day of youth season and regardless of weather conditions, they repeated that scenario. It was not that she had not had several other opportunities that she patiently passed on nor was it the mounting pressure of having...
For The Record -Capt. Chuck Uzzle As far as I am concerned February and the weeks leading up to March have to be some of the best times on the calendar for a wide variety of reasons. Spring is closing in and everything starts to heat up, especially the fishing. Anglers all over the state look forward to this month with great anticipation every year because in just about any body of water you fish, fresh or salt; you stand an excellent chance of doing battle with a career fish. Freshwater anglers have long known the magic...
For The Record -For The Record- By Capt Dickie Colburn How can you be absolutely sure it’s the first day of the High School baseball season?You climb out of your truck wearing shorts and a wind breaker only to notice that every other parent or grandparent huddled behind the backstop is wearing an insulated jacket or wrapped in a blanket.Only the women were practical enough to bundle up in sleeping bags! I mention this only because I, too, initially had on shorts Saturday morning, but fortunately also had warmer clothes in t...
SB 51 FEATURES HIGHEST SCORING TEAM VS. STINGIEST TEAM For The Record- Joe Kazmar I’m hoping that Sunday’s Super Bowl is not as disappointing as the 2017 National Football League playoffs have been so far. Only two games were exciting until the final play and coincidentally they were the only ones of the entire three playoff rounds that were categorized as bona fide upsets. In all of the other games, the team that was favored won and covered the point spreads. Our Dallas Cowboys were favored by four points to beat the Gre...
There is a model of PFD that will suit everyone and absolutely no reason not to wear one. For The Record- Capt Chuck Uzzle As the mercury creeps up into a more comfortable range outside as well as on the water, don’t let that fool you into feeling too secure at this time of the year. February on the Texas gulf coast can be down right brutal with all the rank weather we receive at this time of the year. Bone chilling winds coupled with humid overcast days can make even the t...
For The News At least 10 members of West Orange-Stark’s state champions are set to accept football scholarships Wednesday. The Mustangs will hold a signing day ceremony Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 8:30 a.m. at the Library lecture room at the high school. Little Cypress-Mauriceville will hold a signing ceremony for two players at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Neither Bridge City nor Orangefield were expecting any Wednesday football signings, according to their coaches. Quarterback Jack Dallas, O...
Cutline: Orangefield graduate D.D. Stephenson stretches before an afternoon run at the new $1.2 million track complex at Orangefield High School. Alternate cutline: An Orangefield pole vaulter prepares for her recent practice attempt at the newly refurbished Orangefield High School track. The district spent $1.2 million for the synthetic rubber track plus all-new field event facilities, like the new pole vault runway and landing mats. For The Record Bring back the Bobcat...
For The Record- By Capt Dickie Colburn Even before we reached East Pass it was obvious that Mother Nature would unfortunately make our initial decision of the day as to where to start an easy one.The trout bite had been improving daily when Elvin Nelson scheduled his three day vacation, but we had already lost two of them to the wind. We salvaged the first day dinking around in Black’s and Cow bayou for redfish that the low water had forced out of the bordering marshes.That didn’t scratch Elvin’s itch, but he admitted that...
DID TEXAS TEAMS INFLUENCE SUPER BOWL PARTICIPANTS? For The Record – Joe Kazmar Sunday’s two lop-sided conference championship games produced the participants for Super Bowl LI that will be played Feb. 5 at NRG Stadium in Houston, the home of the Houston Texans. Unfortunately neither of the two Lone Star State’s franchises made it to this year’s extravaganza—although they got to the Final Eight--as the two top-seeded, heavily-favored teams--the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots—will be lighting up the huge scoreb...
For The Record- Capt Chuck Uzzle For all those hunters who have spent the last couple of months waking early, fighting the weather, and staring at the skies in search of ducks it's almost over. In what feels like the blink of an eye the Texas duck season that started back in September with early Teal will end on Sunday leaving waterfowlers wishing for more. The light geese conservation season will allow hunters a chance to keep chasing birds but for the majority of duck...
BOTH TEXAS TEAMS BOUNCED FROM NFL PLAYOFFS For The Record - Joe Kazmar There were a couple of surprising upsets in last weekend’s Divisional Round of the National Football League Playoffs involving one of the two Lone Star State teams that were among the eight teams competing for this Sunday’s Conference Championships and the right to play in Super Bowl LI at NRG Stadium in Houston. Not too many fans were shocked that the New England Patriots subdued the Houston Texans 34-16, covering the huge 16-point line of the Las Veg...
NFL Conference Championship Playoff Games This Week NFC GREEN BAY (12-6) over ATLANTA (12-5)—2:05 P.M. Sunday at Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Ga. (Fox)—Although the Falcons are favored by four points in the early line, the Packers are on an eight-game winning streak. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers promised to run the table and he is seeing to it personally that it gets done. This should be a high-scoring game with Green Bay winning 45-42. AFC NEW ENGLAND (15-2) over PITTSBURGH (13-5) 5:40 p.m. Sunday at Gillette Field in Fox...
Hunters willing to put in some extra time scouting have been able to locate late season birds. For The Record- Capt Chuck Uzzle Just like the old saying “all good things must come to an end” the 2016-17 waterfowl season is almost over. This weekend will be the final chance for hunters in Louisiana while Texas duck and goose hunters will have one more week to finish as their season ends on Jan 29th. For plenty of local hunters it feels like the season already ended as this cra...
For The Record- By Capt Dickie Colburn As you would probably suspect, I receive a number of texts concerning fishing every week that usually include a picture and a word or two, but seldom if ever the name of the sender. Therefore, if I don’t recognize the person in the picture I am left with little more than a phone number and another fish that I certainly don’t recognize. As a rule, if I don’t recognize the phone number (I can barely remember my own) I briefly admire the fish before deleting the text.A text this past week,...
ALL 4 HOME TEAMS WIN BIG IN NFL WILD CARD ROUND For The Record- Joe Kazmar The home field proved to be a big advantage in last weekend’s opening round of the National Football League’s 2016 playoffs. All four home teams—Houston, Seattle, Pittsburgh and Green Bay—posted double-digit victories in their respective games last Saturday and Sunday. And their reward for being victorious is to go into this weekend’s divisional round of the playoffs as underdog visiting teams, assuming the roles of their last week’s victims. Ho...
For The Record- Joe Kazmar NFL Divisional Round Playoff Games This Weekend NFC GREEN BAY (11-6) over DALLAS (13-3), 3:40 p.m. Sunday (FOX)—The Cowboys have already proven they can’t beat the New York Giants in two tries while the Packers made mince-meat (38-13) out of them Sunday to advance to the divisional round. I’m a huge fan of Aaron Rodgers, and when he predicted two months ago that Green Bay will run the table, I believed him. Rodgers seems to do whatever is necessary to win and delivers every time (so far). The Cowboy...
For The Record- Capt Dickie Colburn I canceled or postponed a ton of trips in 2016 due to the flooding and some pretty tough winds, but I never lost a day due to cold weather.That all changed this past weekend.It was C-O-L-D! There isn’t a fish in Sabine Lake that I want to hunt down when it is 27 degrees at daylight and still in the mid 30’s at lunch.As of today, we are back to having to deal with a howling wind that dictates which shoreline you will fish on any given day, but we can at least feel our fingers now. I wou...
For the Record - Dave Rogers Tuesday was West Orange-Stark Mustang Varsity Football Team Day in the cities of Orange and Pinehurst. City councils of both communities issued nearly identical proclamations honoring the 2016 back-to-back state champions at their regular meetings. The city is set to host a parade for the players, coaches and staff Saturday, Jan. 28 in downtown Orange. Tuesday’s proclamations made it official. They read: Whereas, the West Orange-Stark Mustang Varsity Football Team led by Head Coach Cornel Thompson...
KUBIAK’S PARTING GIFT SHOULD HELP TEXANS SATURDAY For The Record- Joe Kazmar When the Denver Broncos defeated the Oakland Raiders 24-6 in Sunday’s final game of the 2016 National Football League season, two teams ended up doing cartwheels. The Kansas City Chiefs, who finished the season with the same identical 12-4 record as the Raiders, were declared the winners of the AFC West Division by virtue of winning both regular-season meetings with Oakland. The Houston Texans were relieved to play the quarterback-less Raiders rat...
Brock Carter, Bryce Carey, Chance Lemoine, Hunter Uzzle, Jonah Lemoine and Joli enjoy some fantastic goose hunts in Oklahoma. For The Record- Capt Chuck Uzzle Wide open spaces with minimal water does not lead one to think of ducks, geese, or the potential for any waterfowl opportunities at first glance. For those that think that way nothing could be farther from the truth. Oklahoma, specifically western Oklahoma, was the destination of choice for my group of hunters who now...
For The Record- Capt Dickie Colburn The wind was blowing a little harder than we would have liked and the rain that was forecast to have already passed was still hanging around when I shut the big engine down.We had already made a pretty big round checking out the effects of all of the runoff and, much to our surprise, the water was dirtier on the west side of the lake than the east. Austin Lejeune pointed in the direction of a small group of terns pecking at the surface and,...
For The Record To say that Brooklyn Goldsmith has lofty goals is putting it mildly. But what else would you expect from a pole vaulter? Goldsmith, a senior at Orangefield High, set a school girls pole vault record of 10 feet, 9 inches a year ago when she finished eighth at the state meet. She is looking to jump up in results in 2017. “My goal this season is for 12-9,” she said. And that’s not all. “She told me last year that she went to state, and she got to witness that an...
For The Record Talk about some pressure. Jack Dallas faced it by the ton and, like Taylor Swift, he shook it off. That’s why the West Orange-Stark quarterback, leader of back-to-back state championship squads and winner of back-to-back title game Offensive Player of the Game awards, is the Most Valuable Player for The Record’s 2016 All-Orange County football team. That’s back-to-back he’s been the Record’s all-county MVP. Natch. As a mere sophomore, Dallas quarterbacked a West...
For The Record - Capt. Dickie Colburn With few days remaining in what has been a challenging year for area trout fishermen, Alton Nelson and I slowly cruised down the fog shrouded Intracoastal fully aware that leaving early had no benefit.Because the wind had howled the previous two days, we decided to use up the morning hours by checking water clarity throughout the lake. We cruised at a slow enough speed that I could safely run with my eyes glued on the GPS while he scanned...
