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Now the Aggies let him down too! But what a great game they had with Memphis.

Congratulations to Wade! He is such a great kid!

Emmanuel Hayes is Jermie's brother.

Hey - my hubby is in first place right now!!! But that's going to change - Texas let him down big time! (had them all the way to the final four) :sad2:

Why begrudge a kid who has the opportunity to (as they said in "A Knight's Tale") "change his stars"? I think this is a great thing for his future and I wish him the very best!

Okay - found a story explaining it. Will not be the "Big Time" tournament anymore because Sonny Vaccaro is leaving. Now it's the Reebok "Summer Championships." Here's the article: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/200...s/12138392.html Jan. 23, 2007 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Vaccaro giving up role with Big Time Tournament to resume in July with new name STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS The Big Time Tournament, one of basketball's premier summer high school events, is going to continue despite Sonny Vaccaro, the event's founder, stepping down from his position at Reebok. The event, scheduled from July 22 to 26, will have a new name -- the "Reebok Summer Championships." "The tournament will continue as is," said Reebok's Chris Rivers. "We decided it was time to give it a new name because frankly, without Sonny involved, it's not the Big Time." Vaccaro, Reebok's director of grassroots basketball, left Jan. 15. "I'm very proud of what I've been able to accomplish in summer basketball," Vaccaro said from his Los Angeles home. He started the tournament in 1995 with 64 teams, and the event grew to as many as 404 teams in 2003. The Big Time, which fielded 334 teams from 42 states and Canada and Australia last year, attracts some of the nation's top teams and players. The last couple of years saw Ohio State freshman Greg Oden, Duke sophomore Josh McRoberts and future collegiate players O.J. Mayo and Kevin Love participate in Vaccaro's event. Vaccaro said he has released the 12 gyms the tournament rents every July back to the Clark County School District. Rivers said the company will move quickly to secure the facilities. Former Green Valley High School coach Jim Allen will continue to oversee the tournament. "It will be scaled down, how much, I can't say for sure," Rivers said. Vaccaro, who also stepped aside from running his other summer basketball event -- the ABCD Camp in New Jersey-- had two years remaining on his Reebok contract. But he said it was better to sever ties sooner rather than later. "Honestly, it's not that tough to walk away," he said. "I'm tired of being the pinata for summer basketball." Vaccaro, 67, said he plans to write a book about his life.

I was looking at the website for Sonny Vaccaro's Reebok Big Time Tournament (Las Vegas) and he said it "will not" happen this summer. It's under the "Sonny's update" section. Anybody heard any follow-ups to this?

Congratulations Martins Mill! Keep on rolling! :guitar:

Comparing this year's Bullard team to last year's Van team is like comparing apples to oranges. Let's not forget the steep competition of the district last year with the very talented state-ranked Bullard team and also Lindale, who went up to 4A. Losing those teams left a huge whole in the level of this year's 14-3A level of competition - making playoffs a bit easier to attain than last year. Let's not also forget that last year's team from Van was able to do something that no other team in the district has been able to do this year - and that is beat Chapel Hill.

Snowy - Like you said, it's been up and down. We'll just have to see how it all plays out - this year and in the upcoming ones. Good luck to you guys!

I'll have to defer to someone else on the up and coming players. My youngest (a freshman) is track only (district champ in 8th grade with 5'11" high jump), and doesn't play basketball, so haven't seen any of them play. I think our freshman football team went undefeated, so there are some good athletes there, but I don't know how many of them also have the skills to play basketball.

That's a pretty tall order Snowbird, but I wish Bullard well. They have a great coach, and if anyone could get them there, I'm sure it would be him. However, if you're going to be that good, then I hope we don't have different alignments. I'd love for a match-up like a couple of years ago (the Van-Bullard game) where the Bullard gym was standing room only. That was awesome! BTW- I think you're prediction of district for this year is pretty accurate.

Even with competition being down this year (Lindale moved up to 4A and the Brody-era Bullard team lost almost all of its players), I think Chapel Hill will be the only standout and it will be a dogfight for the 2 and 3 positions. My guess is 1. Chapel Hill 2. Van 3. Brownsboro or 2. Brownsboro 3. Van But who knows? Athens should be there in the mix somewhere, too, and then there's Bullard, too - see what I mean?

Because he fired his publicist yesterday - as predicted a couple of months ago.

I can't wait to see how long til he fires his publicist! Well, it took a couple of months longer than I thought, but I saw this one coming. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2725205