September 17, 2012 It's all over the Internet and sports talk shows today -- should Seattle Seahawks receiver Golden Tate be suspended after the hit he made on Dallas Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee in Sunday's game?
It only took three weeks and we already have our first real shakeup in the national title and Heisman races after #2 USC fell to Stanford for the fourth straight year. Other highlights this week include Alabama, LSU and Florida State all putting on defensive clinics, Notre Dame knocking off a Top Ten opponent for the first time in seven years and Virginia Tech and BYU both finding themselves on the wrong end of road upsets.
Here are all the highlights from Week Three.
September 15, 2012 I’m the first one to agree you can’t be defined by one event, or one circumstance, or one fleeting moment in time.
BUT! Anyone remember that bobbled snap in the 2006 playoff game that kicked us all in the gut? All Cowboy fans anyway.
Tony Romo was the holder for the field goal kicker back then. The Cowboys were about too win the Wild Card game at Seattle, all they needed was a field goal as time expired. It looked promising cuz it was such a short field goal, like 19 yards. A chip shot. Cowboys fans were already packing their bags for the next round of playoffs in Chicago. And then the snap.
September 12, 2012 We enter the third week of the high school football season, and there are plenty of big games to go around in East Texas. Here's a few big stories to look at from our friends at ETSN.fm:
The first week of the 2012 NFL season wrapped up with a Monday Night Football doubleheader. Here's the recap of this week's Monday night games:
Here's a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:
Colin Firth
Age: 52
Occupation: Actor
Known For: Winning an Academy Award for his portrayal of King George VI in 'The King's Speech,' another nomination for his role in 'A Single Man,' and appearing in other films such as 'Pride and Prejudice'
Ryan Phillippe
Age: 38
Occupation: Actor
Known For: Movies such as 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' 'Cruel Intentions,' 'Crash,' and 'Stop-Loss,' and a previous marriage to actress Reese Witherspoon, with whom he has two children
Peyton Manning returned to the field, Robert Griffin showed why the Redskins traded up to get him and everyone had something to say about the replacement refs.
Here are all the highlights from Week One in the NFL.
Here’s a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:
Gloria Gaynor
Age: 63
Occupation: Singer
Known For: Hits such as ‘Never Can Say Goodbye,’ ‘I Am What I Am,’ and the perennial favorite of drag queens the world over, ‘I Will Survive’
Chrissie Hynde
Age: 61
Occupation: Singer, Songwriter, and Musician
Known For: Her trailblazing work as lead vocalist for the rock group The Pretenders, songs such as ‘Brass in Pocket,’ ‘My City Was Gone,’ and ‘Middle of the Road,’ and having children with Ray Davies of the Kinks and Jim Kerr of Simple Minds
Tony Romo passed for 307 yards and three touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys beat the New York Giants, 24-17, in the opening game of the 2012 NFL season Wednesday night at East Rutherford, NJ.
We enter the second week of the high school football season, and there are plenty of big games to go around in East Texas. Here’s a few big stories to look at from our friends at ETSN.fm:
September 4, 2012 If you’ve been one of the thousands of fans in the stands and on the sidelines on a Friday night cheering on the John Tyler Lions, you know the atmosphere is electric.
Livability.com has released their list of the Top 10 High School Football cities in the country, and two East Texas towns made the list. Lufkin is #1. Where did Tyler land?
After an off-season filled with scandal and controversy, seeing college football back on the field was a welcome sight. While early season games for Top 25 teams often feature blowouts of lesser opponents (and we certainly had several of those), this week we were also treated to a pair of matchups between Top 25 teams as well as some outstanding individual efforts. Some questions were answered, other teams now have even more. Here is a recap of all the action in the Top 25 this weekend.
