Archive for September, 2008
Pleasant Grove Ranked #4 In State
Sportsdate 9 – 30 – 2008
After a starting the season undefeated in their first five games, the Pleasant Grove Hawks find themselves ranked number 4 in Dave Campbell’s Texas Football latest class 3A poll. I am guessing that is the highest a Pleasant Grove football team has ever been ranked. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under Captain's Blog, The Latest : Comments (1) : Sep 30th, 2008
Sunday’s Decision: What to Watch at Noon
Tomorrow is an unusual Sunday because there isn’t a noon matchup that the committed fan cannot afford to miss. In week 1, the TB/NO game and the Jax/Ten game were must-see TV, but Brett Favre and Matt Ryan making their respective first starts with their new teams made 4 games I had to see… at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under Cowboys / NFL : Comments (0) : Sep 27th, 2008
Friday Night (high)Lights – 9-26-08
It is time for Friday Night Highlights again! The Pleasant Grove Hawks are in Paris taking on North Lamar while the Tigers have traveled to Longview to take on the Lobos. If you want to see some great high school football in the area tonight, Libert-Eylau will be hosting Paris and Arkansas High will be playing Little Rock J.A. Fair on the Arkansas side of town. It should be a tough night of football around the area so keep checking back throughout the night to see how the games are going.
The Pleasant Grove Athletics Booster Club will once again sponsor the broadcast of all the action from the Pleasant Grove via our TXKSportsblog internet broadcast. We’ll also be here all night updating as many scores as we can. If you have a score from a local game, add a comment below. We’ll begin the PG broadcast at 7:15 and you can click here to listen.
Updated Scores:
| Texas High Tigers | 7 |
| Longview Lobos | 41 |
| F | |
| Pleasant Grove | 37 |
| North Lamar | 27 |
| F | |
| Paris | 23 |
| Liberty-Eylau Leopards | 29 |
| F | |
| Little Rock J. A. Fair | 0 |
| Arkansas High Razorbacks | 42 |
| F | |
| Redwater Dragons | 19 |
| Hooks Hornets | 33 |
| F | |
| Queen City Bulldogs | 7 |
| West Rusk | 57 |
| F | |
| New Boston | 27 |
| Linden Kildare | 6 |
| F | |
| Atlanta | 35 |
| Henderson | 14 |
| F | |
Filed under Local High Schools, The Latest : Comments (0) : Sep 26th, 2008
Is Marion Carryin’ the Load
Let’s talk about Marion Barber. Throughout last year, all the fans were screaming for Barber to be the feature back that gets 20-25 carries per game. But of course, we, the intellectual fans, know that whenever you talk about a runner taking on that kind of load, you have to ask yourself a few basic questions. Like this: If he get’s 20-25 carries per game… Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under Cowboys / NFL : Comments (0) : Sep 26th, 2008
Don’t Believe the “Analysts”
I keep hearing the analysts say that the Cowboys’ defense is suspect. I keep hearing that they’re not playing well. But that doesn’t match what I’m seeing when I watch them. Last night against a very good offense, the Cowboys’ defense was dominant. The analysts will point to the 250 yards passing given up by the Cowboys’ defense. What they don’t tell you is that 117 of those yards came on short passes against a prevent defense when the Cowboys already had the game won. The truth is that, with 5:34 left in the game, the Green Bay offense had 233 yards of total offense and nine points. Nine points! No matter how you look at it, that is defensive success against a very good offensive team. (And don’t forget that this very poor defense held the Pack to only four 3rd-down conversions, and sacked Rodgers 5 times.) Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under Cowboys / NFL : Comments (0) : Sep 22nd, 2008
An Excellent Night of Americana
Sportsdate 9 – 22 – 2008
Last evening the nation’s sports fans had a heaping offering of America’s sports past and present. On ESPN the city of New York and the nation was saying goodbye to Yankee Stadium, while over on NBC the nation was once again embracing it’s favorite sport football with a match-up of maybe it’s two favorite teams the Cowboys and Packers. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under Captain's Blog : Comments (0) : Sep 22nd, 2008
Friday Night (high)Lights – 9-19-08
It is time for Friday Night Highlights again! Bryant has come to town to take on Arkansas High School while Liberty-Eylau has traveled across the line to take on the Nashville Scrappers. Texas High has taken the week off after their pounding of the Razorbacks last Friday night and the Pleasant Grove Hawks are in Gladewater trying to go 4-0. It should be a tough night of football around the area so keep checking back throughout the night to see how the games are going.
The Pleasant Grove Athletics Booster Club will once again sponsor the broadcast of all the action from the Pleasant Grove via our TXKSportsblog internet broadcast. We’ll also be here all night updating as many scores as we can. If you have a score from a local game, add a comment below. We’ll begin the PG broadcast at 7:15 and you can click here to listen.
Updated Scores:
| Pleasant Grove | 31 |
| Gladewater | 28 |
| Final | |
| Liberty-Eylau Leopards | 35 |
| Nashville Scrappers | 58 |
| F | |
| Bryant | 17 |
| Arkansas High Razorbacks | 14 |
| F | |
| Ashdown AR | 28 |
| New Boston Lions | 33 |
| F | |
| Queen City Bulldogs | 8 |
| Pittsburg | 47 |
| F | |
| Tatum | 15 |
| Atlanta Rabbits | 9 |
| F | |
| Waskom | 21 |
| Redwater | 35 |
| F | |
| Commerce | 12 |
| Daingerfield | 29 |
| F | |
Filed under Local High Schools, The Latest : Comments (2) : Sep 19th, 2008
Shouldn’t we be ragging on Cutler?
With everyone still talking about Hochuli’s mistake in the Denver game, but no one is talking about Jay Cutler’s mistake. We all know that if Hochuli hadn’t blown the call, Denver would’ve lost. But why would Denver have lost? Because Cutler fumbled with no one around him. He was all alone with the victory in his throwing hand, any dropped it. If Hochuli hadn’t picked it up for him, then Denver would’ve lost because of Cutler, and we’d all be talking about that now, wouldn’t we? Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under Cowboys / NFL : Comments (1) : Sep 19th, 2008