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According to KGAS, Idalou won - 75-64

Taken at 10:00 a.m. just north of Tatum. It snowed at least another 2 hours, though it didn't accumulate a whole lot more than these pictures.

Very nice, T. Keep up the good work!

53-50 Tatum - Final

And the not-so-young'n's! :thumbsup:

Maybe, maybe not. Before the self-check lines, they never had more than 3-4 checkers during the day. I would spend half of my lunch hour just waiting to check out. They still have 3-4 checkers, (plus the one watching the self-checks) but now I can usually zip through with my lunches for the week and get back to the office in time to actually enjoy it. Since the self-check quit weighing everything you put in your bags, it has pretty much become fool-proof. Almost.

From the LNJ: 19 of Tatum's players started as Lil' Eagles By RICK KRETZSCHMAR Saturday, December 16, 2006 TATUM — James Shans doesn't currently have any children attending Tatum High School, but every day at football practice, he feels he is around a nest of his own. That's because he has worked with many of them for nearly a decade. Shans was, and in some respects still is, a papa bird to a nest of Lil' Eagles. That's the name of the team they were on in 1997, and 19 of them are on the 2006 Tatum team that will play Littlefield in the Class 2A Division I state championship game at 6 p.m. today in Aledo. Shans was a coach for the 1997 Lil' Eagles and an assistant for the 2006 Tatum Eagles, watching players grow from the days of oversized shoulder pads and helmets to the core of a team going for its second straight state title, after winning the Class 3A Division II title in 2005. "It is like a bunch of my kids are out here," said Shans, looking over Tatum's Eagle Stadium. "They're my boys. I love them like they were my own." Helping a boy that is his own was one reason the Lil' Eagles came to be. In 1995, Tatum did not have organized little-league football. Shans had a son — Gabriel Walker — who was entering the fifth grade, and he was looking to get teams organized. Shans, who is 39, played high school football at Dallas Skyline before transferring to Longview, where he ran track. Shans got together with other parents of potential football players, such as Lennon Creer Sr., Terry Beall, Claud Franks and Pat Pollard, and organized Tatum Little League Football with two teams. Starting in 1996, they played in the East Texas Little League Football Association in Longview. Shans said it was difficult at first, in part because their Longview opponents had multiple schools in which they could pool their talent. In 1997, however, a group that included current Tatum standouts such as Lennon Creer, Darnius Moore and Jonathan Humphries entered the third grade. "It was like an experiment when they came around," Shans said. "I knew they were something special together. It wasn't speed or how hard they hit. It was chemistry." There was chemistry, because this group was already experienced. Jarvarious Tatum, who is now a junior wide receiver and cornerback, said the group had already been playing games together for years. "We got on the football field and made it happen. We would go play at each other's houses," Tatum said. "We played at Eagle Stadium, but back then it was on dirt and grass." As the Lil' Eagles, they spread their wings and won the East Texas Little League Football Super Bowl in 1997 at old Lobo Stadium. When these eaglets rose up, they apparently brought a dynasty down. "We beat the Mustangs and I think we were the first team to beat them in 10 years," Moore said. "It was a big deal." Why Tatum is an excellent team today could have had their beginning at this point. The Lil' Eagles won the Super Bowl the next year. According to current quarterback Cashas Pollard, they were also undefeated when the current group of seniors were in the fifth and sixth grade as well. "We were more talented than we supposed to be," said Calvin Stoker, a current wide receiver and cornerback. "It was special from the get-go." Pollard said for this group, growing up constant winners was fun, but also came to be expected. This expectation got a test in the seventh grade, when their middle-school team had a 5-3 record. "When we were 5-3, the older kids before us laughed at us," Pollard said. "The next year, we were 8-0." The continued team goals the Lil' Eagles accomplished led Shans to confront a personal goal. After graduating from Longview, Shans had attended Tyler Junior College and the University of Texas at Tyler, but had not graduated. However, in 2002, while he was supporting his family as a substitute teacher and driving school buses for Tatum I.S.D., Shans enrolled at Texas College in Tyler. After 15 months of taking Monday night classes, Shans graduated. Today, Shans coaches tight ends and is an assistant girls basketball coach at Tatum High School. Shans also coaches junior high and football. "The group of football players I coached with the Lil' Eagles, they were inspiration. It tied me close to them," Shans said. "I wanted to be with them all the way through." All the way through has led to possibly the best three-year stretch in Tatum history. Since current head coach Andy Evans was hired, Tatum is 39-4. Moore said what his teammates and himself learned, starting with the Lil' Eagles have more to do with their success than talent, even though players such as Creer and Moore will likely playing at Division I-A colleges. "I never felt that talent is why we won," Moore said. "It was just love of being out there on the football field. It was the running around, the hitting, everything." The flight of the Lil' Eagles will end today. Pollard said it's sad that this group will not play football together anymore, but it's part of life and they are ready for it. Shans said his greatest joy is seeing his Lil' Eagles eventually leave the nest to go to college. He said he is especially happy for players such as lineman Bronderrick Greenwood, who will not play football in college, but is anxious to go. "You knew someday, even back in the third grade, that someday they would have to leave. But, they have to do it to make their lives complete," Shans said. "I want them to be successful. I hope what they learned playing football is that it will take effort to be somebody." http://www.news-journal.com/sports/content...tumfeature.html

All because of the Wright Amendment which makes it illegal to fly or advertise flights from Love Field to points beyond the four states surrounding Texas, plus Alabama, Mississippi, Kansas and Missouri. I know it can be done, but when you have to pay for multiple flights, you lose the savings most of the time.

This is why they don't: http://www.setlovefree.com/ I was trying to find a SW flight from Dallas to northern California. Basically, you can't get there from here. At least not easily! Maybe it will change in the near future.

Whoa... what did I miss??? When did this happen? Sunday nights... Desperate Housewives & Grey's Anatomy. The best shows out there!

I'm getting them as well, but had to go to my spam quarantine folder to find them. (Love my ISP ;)) Looks like the hackers of Smoaky grabbed everyone's e-mail addresses...

It's my name... backwards. Another boring one, huh? :shrug:

Schlotzsky's all the way! But... Where is Schlotzsky's in Longview now? I tried to go to the one on Judson at the side mall entrance... gone. The one on Gilmer Rd in the Albertson's shopping center... gone. If I go to Kilgore and it's nowhere to be found... (sigh).