The Class 4-A and 5-A high school football programs who held spring drills have joined everyone else preparing for the 2009 season.

These 4-A and 5-A programs started conditioning on Monday and will begin workouts in pads on Friday, while the others who started working out on August 3rd, have been in pads since last Friday.

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from an East Texas high school football team, to make a play on OFFENSE to seal or win the game in the final 1-2 minutes, who would you select?

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49ers wide receiver Brandon Jones will miss up to eight weeks with a fracture in his right shoulder.

An earlier diagnosis was a sprain, but it's been updated to a fracture.

Jones was receiving rave reviews throughout the 49ers training camp and appeared to have an edge on the slot wide receiver position.

Jones was an all-state receiver on Liberty-Eylau's 1999 Class 3-A state championship team, and played college football at Oklahoma.

He signed a free agent contract with San Francisco after four years with Tennessee.

Three East Texas dot the ESPNU's Top 150 high school football players in the country.

(44) Ashton Dorsey, DT, John Tyler (Texas)
(73) Chris Jones, WR, Daingerfield (Texas)
(121) Carrington Byndom, DB, Lufkin (Texas)

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Michael McDonald, an East Texas native from Longview has come back to put some excitement into the community by hosting his fifth annual Charity Basketball Event.

The game is scheduled on Saturday, August 8th, from 3:00pm-6:00pm at the Lobo Coliseum at Longview High School.

The game will be highlighted by celebrity appearances and guest performances from local and national artists.

McDonald, a 1981 graduate of Longview High School founded his foundation in 2001, with a vision to help our youth realize that anything is possible through hard work, and dedication. In McDonald's effort along with the help of the communuty this event has continued to grow just as the community as grown.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please go to www.michaelmcdonaldfoundation.org.