Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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If you happen to be one of those people who live their life according to the weatherman you have had a great month so far, especially for February. All things considered the temperatures have been reasonably mild except for a few frosty mornings and we have been noticeably dry for weeks now. Anyone who has spent even a little time on Sabine knows that rain and run off from Toledo Bend are the arch nemesis to the local fishing community. Most of the time the water clarity in Fe...
Every two years the University Interscholastic League conducts a reclassification and realignment event for school districts across the state of Texas, and Thursday's event unveiled what districts our local schools will be designated in for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years. In football, the Orangefield Bobcats return to Class 3A, Division I after spending the previous two years in Class 4, Division II. The remaining Orange County schools will continue to be in Class...
For as long as I can remember the first few weeks of every New Year have been an exciting transitional period for a myriad of reasons. The most obvious is the hope and high expectations that come from turning the calendar page and staring a brand new season in the face and liking what you see. For those of us enamored with the outdoors January and February are a fantastic buffet with endless options from one end of the spectrum to the other. Many of us have just put away our...
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 you're not cheating you're not trying" is a popular line used by many to describe the overwhelming desire to win at all costs which basically sums up a large portion of the population. Cheating permeates just about every facet of our lives in one way or another. Millions of people right now are trying to figure out how to "legally cheat" on their income taxes so they can balance out their debt with the government. Athletes in all the major sports and beyond are looking...
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...
Now for most people the thought of chasing fish in the months of January and February seems a little on the foreign side, even crazy at times. The cold water and dreary days don't really motivate the casual angler like bright skies and springtime conditions when everybody wants get on the water. Well the calendar has now become our friend and the good days are outnumbering the bad. If you are thinking about tackling trout or redfish any time soon you need to be properly armed...
The home stretch for local waterfowl hunters is dead ahead as the end of January is staring right back at us. Fortunately, for many of those still chasing ducks and geese, the weatherman has decided to be somewhat friendly and finally give us some prolonged colder weather. This season has been ridiculously warm, in fact we had one of the warmest Decembers on record along with one of the driest. The conditions for shooting ducks and geese were about as bad as anybody could...
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...
ATHENS – It didn't take long for the first pair of Legacy Class largemouth bass of the 2022 Toyota ShareLunker season to find their way into angler's boats. It was more than fitting that Tyler Anderson from Austin and Wendell Ramsey, Sr. of San Angelo, landed 14.48 and 14.92 – pounders respectively during week one of the season at O.H. Ivie. Last year, the fishery produced 12 of the 23 Legacy Lunkers during a remarkable 2021 season. Anderson hooked his personal record Legacy L...
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...
Instant gratification, speed is what we need, only 20.00 extra to get it there tomorrow. All these examples of a world in a hurry and don't think for a minute the sport of fishing is immune. Motors are getting bigger, boats are getting faster, and the whole process seems to be on the fast track to who knows where. A perfect example of the speed sensation are the new reels that boast 8 to 1 or better gear ratios, talk about burn a bait across the grass. Well in this quest for...
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...
GALVESTON – What started off as a run-of-the-mill investigation into a series of boat title discrepancies, concluded this past summer with multiple felony charges against three individuals suspected of running an interstate theft ring and the recovery of over $275,000 worth of stolen watercraft and other vehicles. Sergeant Game Warden Jonathan Griffin of the Marine Theft Investigation Unit facilitated an impressive two-year investigation into the organized crime ring leading to a nomination for Investigator of the Year A...
Here in Texas there are a few things that are common from Sabine to Baffin at this time of the year and everyone who calls the coast or saltwater home has an idea what those things are. Probably the biggest and most common factor is the wind, you just can't escape those big gusts that seem to come around every weekend. The wind is a constant factor and most anglers eventually figure out how to deal with the uncomfortable conditions, some seek shelter in protected waters while...
ATHENS – The month of January begins a new year and with it the beginning of the 36th season of the Toyota ShareLunker program when anglers across the state, and for that matter the nation, cast their lines and fish for Largemouth Bass in Texas' world class fisheries. The Toyota ShareLunker program has played an integral part in making Texas a destination for hundreds of thousands of anglers in search of this prized sport fish. The 2021 season 35 was one for the record b...
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...
National Championship Bowl Game Monday Alabama 27, Georgia 23 PRO PICKS-Tampa Bay over Carolina, Chicago over Minnesota, Cleveland over Cincinnati, Philadelphia over Dallas, Green Bay over Detroit, Indianapolis over Jacksonville, Buffalo over NY Jets, New England over Miami, New Orleans over Atlanta, Baltimore over Pittsburgh, Houston over Tennessee, Washington over NY Giants, Kansas City over Denver, La Chargers over Las Vegas, LA Rams over San Francisco, Arizona over...
For some strange and unknown reason it seems like the older I get the faster things tend to repeat themselves. At times I would swear the pages on the calendar flip by two months at time instead of just one. Recently I began the process of renewing my Coast Guard license for the 5th or 6th time and I started thinking about how much time that represented, especially knowing that its five years between each renewal. As I stood next to the island in my kitchen and opened up my...
AUSTIN– Since 2012, the Game Warden Peace Officer's Association has been working to relocate the memorial from the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens to the grounds of the Texas State Capitol. The life-size bronze figure of a Texas Game Warden stands to honor the wardens that lost their lives in the line of duty and serves as a reminder of the enduring legacy of the Texas Game Wardens. "The Association saw this as a necessary move since other memorials-specifically p...
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...
