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  1. Christian Jones had key mistakes - chop block, couldn't pick up the stunt. Checked his bio after the game, very inexperienced, began playing football his junior year of high school. No other option ? With the benefit of hindsight, an ankle injury last spring seems to be the only thing that kept Christian Jones from parlaying the buzz he created in practices leading up to the Sugar Bowl at the end of 2018 into a featured role up front. If the former soccer player who didn't take up football until his junior year of high school is going to make his move, he can do it in 2020 with the right tackle job open and Jones possessing all of the tools to man the spot. https://247sports.com/college/texas/LongFormArticle/Texas-Longhorns-Football-10-former-recruiting-sleepers-help-Texas-win-in-2020-Tom-Herman-Sam-Cosmi-Chris-Brown-147515541/#147515541_5
  2. No knowledge, but the Pappas brothers had conflicts with the Board of Directors. May have been some effect on the operation/success of the company. Thus, they may not agree with the decision to liquidate. Story from Aug '19. Luby's on Tuesday announced a new chairman and two new directors to its board, eight months after winning a contentious proxy fight brought on by one of its investors who pushed for leadership changes amid lagging sales. Gerald Bodzy was named chairman of the Houston-based restaurant chain, succeeding Gasper Mir, who will remain on the board as an independent director. John Morlock and Randolph Read were tapped as independent directors, replacing Judith Craven, who is retiring, and longtime leader Harris Pappas, who resigned from the board earlier this year. Harris Pappas' brother, Chris Pappas, remains chief executive. The changes come eight months after Luby's prevailed in a proxy fight brought on by activist investor Bandera Partners. The New York-based hedge fund, which had been a Luby's shareholder for more than a decade, lobbied unsuccessfully to replace the Pappas brothers, Mir and board member Frank Markantonis with its own slate of candidates, including former Sen. Phil Gramm, the father of Jeff Gramm, a Bandera co-founder. https://www.chron.com/business/retail/article/Months-after-proxy-fight-Luby-s-names-new-14366583.php
  3. So You're Saying There is a Chance/gif HOUSTON, Texas -- When Luby's announced a plan of "liquidation and dissolution," the cafeteria chain's long-term prospects for survival seemed pretty dim, but a faint flicker of hope remains. In a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company revealed it has entered into a confidential agreement with Luby's CEO Chris Pappas that could lead to his acquiring the company. The document explicitly states that Pappas has only been granted access to financial information for the purpose of potentially making an offer for some portion of the company's assets. Pappas has not made an offer, and, even when he does, the company is not obligated to accept it. (The Houston Chronicle was first to report on the details of the SEC filing.) Still, Pappas is one of the company's major shareholders, holding 18.43% of the company's shares. His brother, Harris Pappas, owns an additional 17.86% of the company's shares, per the filing. Their holdings include approximately one million shares owned by Pappas Restaurant, the Houston-based restaurant juggernaut they own together. Whatever the future holds, 80 Luby's and Fuddruckers locations remain open. Diners who want these establishments to remain in business might want to consider patronizing them to demonstrate to Pappas and his brother than they're worth acquiring. https://abc13.com/is-luby's-closed-future-of-popular-texas-diner-luann-platter-fuddruckers-out-business/6488551/
  4. Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest coach in NFL history. Or a homeless man who looks exactly like Belichick and wandered in off the street. Take your pick. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/bill-belichick-looks-like-he-hasn-t-slept-showered-or-changed-clothes-since-the-seahawks-loss/ar-BB19lRFp?ocid=msedgdhp
  5. Wish the best for your daughter and family. Congrats on the game winning hit. So you think you can hang with the other teams that the coaches knew the players during the draft ?
  6. Excerpt from email. On our phone lines, the currently most-asked question is regarding seating for the Oct. 10 Texas-OU AT&T Red River Showdown. Our team is working diligently with health and medical officials and The University of Texas, University of Oklahoma and State Fair of Texas leadership to allocate seating for the annual event. We hope to have an announcement on policies and procedures next week followed by digital tickets distribution during the first week of October. Stay safe, be healthy and hook ’em! Amy Folan Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director
  7. torre

    2020 MLB thread

    "Ft Worth is Exploding" thread in Food & Travel needs an update. I follow your recs when I'm in town. 🙂
  8. The Legend continues. Nice story on Kai. Trained with Jaxon Shipley. (excerpts) For Money, that marathon started years ago at Saint Joseph. He threw 91 career touchdowns and was a four-time 1,000-yard rusher for the Bloodhounds. But aside from some FCS and Division II schools, the undersized private-school standout failed to gain much recruiting interest. At one point, it looked like he would accept an offer from Houston’s track and field program and then try to walk on with the Cougars’ football team. But Money went into Villarreal’s office one day to announce that he was going to Texas. That was his dream school, and he had been saying since he was young that he’d be a Texas football player. He would just take his chances with a walk-on tryout. In order to make it, he had to switch from quarterback to receiver, a position he had never played before. His private quarterbacks coach connected him with Jaxon Shipley, the former Longhorns star who now trains receivers himself. Money trained with Shipley when he got to Austin, even borrowing a friend’s car to get to some workouts. “I started to realize after a month that man, he’s starting to get this thing down,” said Shipley, whose 218 career receptions still rank third in UT history. https://www.hookem.com/story/20200915/money-moment-texas-walk-kai-money-cashed-chance-play-utep/
  9. https://txstatebobcats.com/sports/football/coaches https://goutsa.com/coaches.aspx?path=football Traylor assembled a good staff SEC experience (OC/DC) Matt Mattox, OL coach, Rod Wright, DL. Spavital, not so much. Not much P5 experience. Tevin Mims, OLB coach
  10. Welcome to the club ! You should be fine and hopefully will be impressed by the results. Diet and exercise still very important. And an annual blood test (CMP) to insure no adverse effects. Most have none.
  11. https://www.lubys.com/locations Just checked for my area. Per website, only Anderson Ln, Mopac, and Slaughter Ln are open.
  12. Great photo and stretch for the high throw. Like the apprehensive look on the player in the background. Do you have another son who is a catcher, or same ?
  13. https://txstatebobcats.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/tevin-mims/1289 Tevin Mims is Outside LB coach for Texas St. Please refresh my memory on his brief career at Texas, Doing well, got his Masters. Mims went to South Florida after helping lead Navarro to a Southwest Junior College Championship in 2011. He went to Navarro after playing four games as a freshman at Texas.
  14. It's a cruel game... Payton was optioned to the Reds' alternate training site Tuesday. Payton appeared in eight of 12 games during his time on the 28-man roster and hit .167 (3/18) with a double and five strikeouts. He'll return to alternate camp to make room for newly acquired Brian Goodwin on the major-league roster. https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/reds-mark-payton-optioned-to-alternate-training-site/
  15. Thoughts and prayers for a great family, South Austin ! Just a thought for those over 50 or with a family history of renal/bladder cancer, good to have an annual urinalysis. Blood is not always visible.
  16. Not my wheelhouse. SnakeDiggity has a good projection in post 189 (above). I will say the expanded roster due to the virus may be a challenge to manage. May be difficult to get everyone reps/innings and keep morale/chemistry high. So important. (Dr Beeper is a sharp guy, gives me advice on royalty interests)
  17. Have you verified the above or just accepted his word ? Strange that the gov't would not continue to accept a payment plan or perhaps he was delinquent or stopped payments. May want to verify thru a third party, if possible. Also, consider if this became public how it would affect your business.
  18. Mark Payton went 0-2 in his first MLB start (LF). Ground out, well hit ball to the warning track. Replaced with a pinch hitter and the OF rotated with another player going to CF, CF to LF. Streamed the game. As can be expected, he seemed tight, but more relaxed when he hit the ball to the track. Caught it well. Worked the count to 3-1, 3-2 in both ABs. Reds are struggling, lost 3/4 to the Cards in battle for 2nd place in NL Central. Hang tough, Mark !
  19. From AAS. Austin Police said Thursday 31 year old Wayne Ayres has been arrested in connection with vandalism of a store in North Austin. https://www.statesman.com/news/20200813/police-arrest-man-accused-of-breaking-grocery-storersquos-windows-after-being-asked-to-wear-mask
  20. How about your hometown guy Hoby - looked good, hope he does well.
  21. Lengthy article on Gideon, but worth the read. Pitched the first game at the Disch, he and Richard Wortham were aces that led Texas to the first national championship under Gus. Admittedly, he was nervous, oddly enough. Jim Gideon had pitched many times before as a freshman and sophomore at Texas and was the new ace of one of the Longhorns’ most talented staffs ever. But those games were at rustic Clark Field, where they might shoehorn in 1,500 fans at the site just across the street from what is now Royal-Memorial Stadium. On that February day in 1975, Gideon was warming up in the bullpen, preparing to throw the first pitch ever before about 5,000 fans packed into Texas’ brand new Disch-Falk Field that was so gaudy it’d embarrass some major-league ballparks. Before the introductions, Gideon slipped into the locker room to change shirts and ran into former UT All-American Burt Hooton. “He was like my idol,” Gideon recalled Thursday. “Here, I’m 20 years old, and he just got out of the World Series (where Hooton’s Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the A’s). And I asked how do you do it. How do you come back and keep winning? Burt’s so unflappable. He just looked at me and said, ‘Because you’re better than they are.’“ Gideon quit stressing after that. Despite going 19-2 the year before, the antsy Gideon overcame that anxiousness and ushered in a new stadium with a 4-0 win over St. Mary’s. The tall, silky-smooth right-hander would win 16 more games that spring in a perfect season that ended in Omaha with Texas’ third College World Series title and the first of coach Cliff Gustafson’s two national championships. As Hooton reinforced, Gideon was better than the other guys. Almost always. He won 36 games his last two seasons, threw eight shutouts and paced Texas to a 59-6 record and its first title of the modern era. And that’s exactly why this gifted pitcher with tremendous command and a dominant mound presence has been selected into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame along with other greats like versatile Minnesota shortstop Paul Molitor and Georgia Tech barrel-chested catcher Jason Varitek. “It’s a great honor, and I’m very happy,” Gideon said. “It was a real golden era of UT baseball in the early ’70s.” As for his place in the pantheon of Longhorns luminaries, the 66-year-old Taylor native who still lives in Austin after a career in health insurance knows the pecking order. “At UT, you have Hooton because he is the king,” Gideon said. “We’re all measured from there. He was the greatest college pitcher of all time. Obviously, Greg Swindell is right there. Kirk Dressendorfer, Richard Wortham and myself probably fall in behind there. It’s a good crowd to be associated with.” Gideon and Wortham, in fact, have to rank as one of the best one-two pitching tandems on the same staff in college baseball history. Between them, they won a staggering 90 games, an NCAA-record 50 by Wortham, a left-hander from Odessa. Gideon won 40, a three-year star out of Houston Bellaire where he once beat Texas Rangers phenom David Clyde of Houston Westchester twice, the lefty’s only two high school defeats. Maybe Arizona State can compare with a pairing of Eddie Bane and Floyd Bannister or UCLA with 2011 draftees Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer, but few others, save probably Texas’ own Calvin Schiraldi and Roger Clemens with Mike Capel as a strong No. 3 on the 1983 staff. Gideon joins 11 other Longhorns players and coaches in the Hall of Fame, including incredibly a record six pitchers in that prestigious company. No other program has more than two, which USC, Miami and Wichita State boast. “I’d say it’s about time,” said former UT third baseman Keith Moreland, a teammate of Wortham and Gideon and a Hall of Famer himself. “It’s a cool thing. My biggest thing was he had really good stuff, but it wasn’t that he threw harder than everybody. He wasn’t overpowering, but he had tremendous command. A great demeanor and calm. That’s why his nickname was Ice.” Few pitchers cooled off opposing bats like Gideon, who finished his three-year college career in 1975 with just six losses, four of them as a freshman and three of those in relief. He had such an economical style, patterning his mechanics after the drop-and-drag style of Tom Seaver, the Mets star Gideon studied on television during the 1969 World Series. Throw strikes and throw low in the strike zone, bending the right knee and dragging the back toe to keep pitches down. It was a style he perfected and one he used to throw a no-hitter against SMU at the dumpy, city-owned Riverchon Park in Dallas where the grass was about “U.S. Open rough-high” and a grounder wouldn’t think of leaving the infield. Gideon would pitch so often at Texas that he’d frequently finish up a seven-inning complete game and, fortified by a Coke and a candy bar in between, win a game in relief in the nightcap. Ten of his 19 wins as a sophomore came in back-to-back victories in doubleheaders, a formula Longhorns assistant Bill Bethea chided him for as a victory vulture. “I can’t think of a time after my freshman year that Coach Gus ever came out and took the ball out of my hands,” Gideon said. “Gus rode his horses.” As Moreland reminded, “There was no pitch count back then.” No pitching coach either. Gideon was groomed by the legendary Ray Knoblauch at Bellaire, where the coaching legend won 598 games and four state titles, one with Gideon. But he also credits summer-league pitching coach Robert “Bus” Campbell of the Boulder Collegians with giving him some key advice after his freshman season. “He turned around my career,” Gideon said of the late Colorado pitching coach who also tutored Goose Gossage, Roy Halladay, Brad Lidge and dozens more. “He just settled me down and got me to slow down. He told me I was over-throwing.” That was all he needed for his college career to take off. He relaxed, trusted his stuff, relied on the fastball down low in the strike zone, counted on “three or four runs from Moreland every game” and pitched himself to glory. Professional baseball wasn’t so kind. Despite being drafted with the 17th pick of the Texas Rangers, he managed just one major-league start in his career before a debilitating neck condition from a teenage car wreck resurfaced, wrecked his shoulder and put a stop to his pitching. He didn’t keep the ball. Figured there’d be plenty more chances. “Yeah, just one game,” Gideon said, laughing. “As Abe Lemons would say, one more than a dead man.” https://www.hookem.com/columns/20200806/bohls-texas-jim-gideon-now-latest-long-line-horns-hall-famers/ Longhorns in the National College Baseball Hall of Fame Cliff Gustafson (inducted in 2006) Brooks Kieschnick (2006) Bibb Falk (2007) Billy Disch (2008) Burt Hooton (2008) Greg Swindell (2008) Kirk Dressendorfer (2009) Keith Moreland (2009) Richard Wortham (2010) Augie Garrido (2016) David Chalk (2019) Jim Gideon (2020)
  22. Well said ! Thoughts and prayers for all. Lance Cpl. Guillermo S. Perez, 20, of New Braunfels, Texas, was pronounced dead at the scene before being taken by helicopter to Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego. He was a rifleman with Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team (BLT) 1/4, according to the release. A sailor and seven Marines are presumed dead: Pfc. Bryan J. Baltierra, 19, of Corona, California Lance Cpl. Marco A. Barranco, 21, of Montebello, California Pfc. Evan A. Bath, 19, of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a rifleman US Navy Hospitalman Christopher Gnem, 22, of Stockton, California Pfc. Jack Ryan Ostrovsky, 21, of Bend, Oregon, a rifleman Cpl. Wesley A. Rodd, 23, of Harris, Texas, a rifleman Lance Cpl. Chase D. Sweetwood, 19, of Portland, Oregon, a rifleman Cpl. Cesar A. Villanueva, 21, of Riverside, California, a rifleman https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/politics/amphibious-assault-vehicle-training-victims-identified/index.html
  23. Very well written GoFundMe page by your daughter. Thoughts and prayers for all !
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