According to Ronald Blum, AP Sportswriter, you can only make history in New York City, or perhaps only in the Bronx,… his logic is veiled. Well, he never really explains what the hell he means, but I’m sure that Andy Pettite can make history here in Houston.
“Andy Pettitte chose home over history, agreeing Thursday to sign with the Houston Astros and leave the New York Yankees.” [yahoo news/AP]Anyone wanna bet that Ronald Blum is a Yankees fan and/or lives in NYC?
-b
I’ll leave the World AIDS Day comments to the Chron (whom I agree with emphatically):
Nov. 29, 2003, 5:15PM
AIDS REALITY
From city streets to globe’s corners, a true pandemic
Today is World AIDS Day, a designation to which too many people will say, “So what?” — if they have any response at all.
Perhaps buoyed by the progress made in the treatment of the HIV virus or the misimpression that the disease has no effect on them, many people have turned a blind eye.
That’s exactly the wrong response.
“I got drunk,… as a skunk… because it rhymed.” – Drunkard’s Lullaby, The Minus Five
Studing the lingo that is Texas English, aka TXE. I thought it interesting that newcomers were particularly quick in picking it up.
The by-line is dated coincident with the start of the major ass whoopin’ that was put upon the Aggies this year. If it wasn’t for two Texas fumbles, it would have been 46-3. “Poooor Aggies”.
Scholars of Twang Track All the ‘Y’Alls’ in Texas
Fri Nov 28, 2:34 PM ET
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL The New York TimesCOLLEGE STATION, Tex. “Are yew jus’ tryin’ to git me to talk, is that the ah-deah?”
That was the idea. John O. Greer, an architecture teacher at Texas A&M University, sat at his dining table between two interrogators and their tape recorder. They had precisely 258 questions for him. But it waddn what he said that interested them most. It was how he said it.
Krista Marino, KPRC-Channel 2 health reporter makes illegal left turn in front of Metro Rail and gets hit. Somone had to be first. Congratulation Krista, you’re it.
I hadn’t seen Hardy, my mom’s cousin, in several years. I’m not even really sure when I last saw him – a reunion or a funeral. It all seems very weird.
[Edit: NTSB’s finding]
Two die in midair plane crash at Westerly State Airport
Associated Press
November 17, 2003WESTERLY, R.I. — Two Rhode Island men died after the small plane they were riding in collided in midair with another small aircraft at Westerly State Airport, officials said Monday.
The airplanes, a Piper Arrow and a Cessna 182, crashed Sunday about 100 feet above the runway, according to Ted Drozdz, chief aeronautics inspector for Rhode Island Airport Corp. He said the airport does not have an air traffic control tower, and pilots are expected to notify each other when they are taking off and landing.
“Oklahoma may well be the most underrated team in America after the Sooners won their 10th in a row Saturday, treating the Texas Aggies to the death of a thousand cuts 77-0.” – Mickey Herskowitz
Yes, Oklahoma – voted unanimously number one in both the Associated Press and the USA Today polls – is underrated. Because there is likely someone somewhere that thinks there is a team that can beat them this year. They are wrong.
I am, of course, really just upset that OU beat Texas’ record for biggest whipping administered to A&M (48-0, 1898), allowing A&M 54 total yards and never out of their own side of the field in their 77-0 demolition.
Texas may well be the second best team in the Big XII this year, but that’s not going to keep them from sitting at home and watching the Big XII Championship. Likely to be yet another rout by the Sooners.
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