Common Sense

Well, one Bevo is dead. Bevo XIII, the longest tenured Bevo, died Tuesday. He  lived to see Texas win a national championship and two consecutive wins in the Red River Shootout, and for that, we must be grateful.
Sadly, he did not live to see this Saturday’s home game against Baylor, whom Texas has beaten 203-14 […]

(Ed. note: That is without a doubt, the easiest headline I’ve ever written in my three years of blogging.)
A friend just asked me what I thought about the alleged attempted suicide of Terrell Owens. Here’s what I emailed her:
I think that, much like me, he was in a lot of pain. When I haven’t had […]

I’m working on Friday nights now since it is football season, and one of the things I’m going to be doing is inputting the scores for the ticker on our sports page. I know some of you are local football fans and if you have scores, I’d appreciate an email. Even if you just hear […]

This is the lead graphic for the FIBA World Basketball Championships homepage. It leaves little doubt that if they were being held in China, the character would be wearing a sanpan hat and carrying rice. ‘Cuz that wouldn’t be racist at all.

Or something like that.
Speaking about officials from both the international cycling federation and the anti-doping agencies, Landis added, “There are multiple reasons why this could have happened, other than what they’re saying happened. They’re saying that I added testosterone to my body in some way.
“I’m saying there are possibly hundreds of reasons why this test […]

Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has hired Howard Jacobs to defend him should his B sample of urine come back a neon green color. Jacobs is well-known for defending athletes accused of doping.
“He wants to be ready to defend himself, in case the B sample comes back positive,” Jacobs said in a telephone interview. […]

I have a great local girl makes good story. Leah Mullinax, a graduate from MCC, is one of 13 new girls joining the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. A member of the dance team for the past two years, Leah entered a competition with 1,000 other girls and managed to earn a spot on the team.
“I think […]

The New York Times just put a story up on the Web that quotes someone inside the International Cycling Union claiming Floyd Landis’ B sample of urine from Stage 17 of the Tour de France has synthetic testosterone in it.
During a news conference in Madrid on Friday, Landis said: “We will explain to the world […]

Longhorn sophomore tailback Ramonce Taylor has announced he is transferring to another university. You may know of Taylor because of the 15 touchdowns he scored last year for UT during their national championship season. Or, you may know of him for getting busted with five pounds of pot in Bell County in May. Chances are […]

I’ve spent the last 7 hours trying to get rid of a bad headache. So far, no success. I’ll have to mention that while I’m at the doctor tomorrow getting my leg checked out: Frequent and persistant headaches.
I couldn’t get my House fix last night because of the All-Star game. Just one more reason to […]