March Madness – Team Logos Deciphered
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50 Years Later, ESPN to Air Texas Western’s Victory over Kentucky
Wednesday night ESPN will air original footage of what may have been the most important game in the history of college basketball. Although some controversy has arisen about whether ESPN is showing the actual TV footage or re-editing coaches’ film, that pales in comparison to the controversy at the time. The championship game at Maryland’s Cole Field House between Texas Western (now UTEP) and Kentucky featured an all black line-up against the all white Kentucky team coached by virulent racist Adolph Rupp. Rupp refused to recruit black players and gloried in his white supremacist rhetoric. Don Haskins, the TW coach, had no such prejudices. In fact, after hearing Rupp’s comments, Haskins was determined to play an all black line-up the entire game. None of the 5 white players on the TW squad saw any minutes on the court in the championship game – the first time that had happened all season. The game forever exploded the sick myth that black players could not win without the guidance of white players on the floor. Rupp complained for years that the championship was stolen from him.
March Madness – Team Logos Deciphered
Aaargh! Them What Die are the Lucky Ones.
Today in Texas History – March 29
From the Annals of Flood Control – In 1965, the Army Corps of Engineers began the deliberate impoundment at Sam Rayburn Reservoir. Construction on the reservoir had begun in 1956 at which time the project was known as “McGee Bend Dam and Reservoir”, because of its’ location immediately upstream from McGee Bend on the river. In September, 1963, the 88th Congress adopted a special resolution changing the name to “Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir”, in honor of the recently deceased Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Sam Rayburn, a long-time champion of soil and water conservation.
The dam is an 20,000 foot earth embankment with a concrete power-intake structure and flood-control outlet works located near the right end of the dam. SRR can store up to 4,442,400 acre feet of water encompassing a surface area of 153,800 acres. At top of flood control pool, elevation 173 feet above mean sea level, the reservoir can hold 3,997,600 acre feet of water encompassing a surface area of about 142,700 acres.
March Madness – Team Logos Deciphered
Caution – Decapitated Beavers Next 2 Miles!
March Madness – Team Logos Deciphered
In French, It’s Pronounced ECCCKKK.
Birds Gone Wild
The Great Texas Birding Classic celebrates its 20th version this year. The event has changed over the years, but it is a great opportunity for the amateur birder to strut his or her stuff. The Palestine Herald Tribune has the details. The event is open to anyone and you can sign up here. The deadline is April 1, so don’t miss out on the worm.
Next month, hundreds of birders will flock to the coast, forests, prairies and mountains of Texas to compete in the nation’s biggest, longest and wildest bird watching tournament. The registration deadline for the 20th annual Great Texas Birding Classic, which runs from April 15 to May 15, is April 1.
Since the Classic started 20 years ago, a lot has changed. The competition has expanded statewide to record participation, and it’s no longer just for experts since new categories appeal to budding naturalists and avid birders alike.
Competitors can choose from more than 40 tournament categories to test their birding skills, participating for as little as half a day or as long as a week in a statewide tourney. Participants form a team and compete in such categories as the Big Sit!, in which birders must remain within a 17-foot-diameter circle to count their birds. Other categories include a sunrise-to-noon event, youth-only tournaments, a human-powered contest and one tournament held entirely within Texas state parks.
Red Supports Guns at the GOP Convention
An individual or group going by the name of Hyperationalist has launched an on-line petition drive calling for the open carry of guns at the GOP National Convention in Cleveland. The Quicken Loans Arena does not allow guns, and the weapons enthusiasts are up in arms (pun intended) over the GOP choosing such a site for its convention. You can read the petition here and decide for yourself. Red supports the drive to turn the Quicken Loans Arena into the nation’s must be ready to fire zone. After all, what could possibly go wrong when well-armed Trump and Cruz supporters meet on the convention floor.
In fact, Red wants to take this one step further. Red has never been one to bring a knife to a gun fight, so Red is considering a competing petition which would require every last GOP delegate to be openly sporting a loaded weapon that is at least .22 caliber and preferably in the thirties. No gun – no admittance – and no vote.
March Madness – Team Logos Deciphered
Imperial Stormtroopers – Now with Awesome Ponytails!
March Madness – Team Logos Deciphered
Paradise in Hell 