Snyder, Sweetwater and Merkel, the three playoffs clubs from 3-3A last season, will join forces with Abilene Wylie and Clyde to comprise what may be the most formidable district in Class 3A in the entire state of Texas.
Wylie, of course, topped Snyder in the quarterfinal round in November, while Sweetwater and Merkel both went three rounds deep. Not to be forgotten, Clyde beat Wylie last season.
The four teams at the top combined to win nine playoff games last year, and Snyder will no longer be the big school in the district, since Wylie has the highest enrollment in the new 4-3A.
The new alignment also cuts down travel for the Tigers, as Clyde is the farthest school on the map. No more 8 p.m. tip -offs and 7:30 kick-offs in Denver City, which means the teams will get back sooner Friday and be fresher for Saturday practices.
No such luck for Lamesa and Seminole, who were pushed out west together in the new District 3, joining Midland Greenwood, Monahans, Pecos and Fort Stockton, and get to travel to Presidio for the 2004-2005 hoops season.
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This year’s Super Bowl had one of the great finishes of all time, and one of the best fourth quarters ever.
But the tangential events left a lot to be desired, from the commercials to the halftime show.
We didn’t watch the halftime shenanigans, and evidently missed nothing and everything at the same time.
The interest generated by Ms. Jackson’s exhibitionism clouds the robotic, lip-synched and wholly packaged and unoriginal non-event that is the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Only once, when U2 sang ‘Where the Streets Have No Name’ at Super Bowl XXXVI as the names of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks scrolled by on a giant backdrop, has a peripheral event even approached, much less transcended, the game.
Every show before and since has been an exercise in self-indulgence, mostly from bands that no longer have any relevancy.
If we’re lucky (and we know we aren’t), the NFL will nix the halftime show altogether.
The league should keep the same time for intermission as it does for every other game, and should let some local Pee Wee teams play during the break, or give the field to prep marching bands.
Anything to spare us from more has-been and never-was performers who substitute substance for style and originality for vulgarity.
Anybody have a tape?