Make what you will of this, but apparently the University of Texas just acquired ~$1billion in physical gold.
College football season has ended. Well, at least for my beleaguered Texas Longhorns. Our season has ended much, much sooner than we’re used to here in Austin after losing to the aTm Sheep Herders last night, 24-17.
That’s 2.4% of the university’s staff and faculty losing their jobs when the state unemployment average is still about 8.5%. When that many fellow Texans are losing their jobs, there is no way that these tax-funded positions should be exempt from the same economic forces causing the rest of us to cut back.
Feb 282010
Oh, and the fact that the Longhorns won 8-2 to sweep the three game weekend series vs. the trees of Stanford? All the sweeter.
If you want to be a professional student — go do it at another university that doesn’t have a waiting line of students trying to get their shot at attending our state’s most prestigious university. Get your ass to Sam Houston State University or Texas State.
This is the kind of kid that you can really root for, and if anybody personifies the “American dream”, it’s a kid like Reggie Wilson. I can’t wait to see him play for the Burnt Orange
I received a link in an email from my brother, Ending A Recruiting Battle, which is published in the NYSlimes. I highly recommend everyone read the entire story, even if you aren’t a football fan. It is an interesting glimpse into an agonizing, months long recruiting process, which placed an enormous amount of pressure on [...]
Fellow player RB Chris Ogbonnaya said, “It’s not just that Quan is a good person. He’s the guy every other guy wants to be like.”
Nov 012008
It was really cool realizing that many of these kids were casting the first vote in their young lives. It was great to see them all so excited and taking part in the democratic process.
We were extremely fortunate to get very close to the podium…we were on the second row, only about 12 feet from where President Clinton was standing.
Sep 112005
In fact, Young’s 270 yards passing were almost twice as good as OSU’s two-headed QB of Zwick/Smith, who combined for a pathetic 144 yards passing. Yeah. Pathetic.
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