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VIDEO | Dude Perfect: Dallas Cowboys and Cowboys Stadium Edition
By Randy Maltz – Founder/Editor Silver and Blue Report & Hook ‘em Report

Guess who is having the best time at Cowboys Stadium? Dude Perfect in Cowboys Stadium Edition! This is a must see!
Dude Perfect brought their trick shot video to Cowboys Stadium and the Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys Stadium Edition.

If you think watching Tony Romo and Dez Bryant is fun to watch, just wait until you see this trick video. It looks like the guys are having a blast and are amazingly accurate. You will see tight spirals from all over the stadium, including incredible skills with footballs.

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Texas Longhorns | Vince Young:  Graduation from University of Texas
By Randy Maltz – Founder/Editor Silver and Blue Report & Hook ‘em Report

Courtesy of Fox Sports – Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

College football players are students first and Vince Young is now a proud graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Young ranks graduating as his No. 1 achievement, even after winning a BCS National Championship and becoming the third overall pick in the 2006 NFL draft.

Young said “This will rank No. 1 because it is what I came to school for. I came here to get an education, and to win a national championship. And now, I get to put that smile on my mom’s face.” It took him seven long years. But this semester, VY finally earned the last of the 30 credit hours that he needed to complete his degree in Youth and Community Studies when he left Texas for the NFL in 2006.

Young came to Texas in 2002 as a 5-star ranked as the No. 1 player in the country by Rivals. During his three seasons as the starter, Young guided the Longhorns to 30-2 record and the 2005 national championship.

VY did not let his dreams of earning a degree die. He put in the hard work and he gets an A+ for his effort.

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Texas Longhorns | Earl Campbell: Honored by Pro Football HOF and Allstate
By Randy Maltz – Founder/Editor Silver and Blue Report & Hook ‘em Report

Former NFL running back and Tyler football legend, Earl Campbell, will be honored as part of a special program, “Hometown Hall of Famers™” presented by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Allstate.  Campbell was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1991

Campbell will be recognized by representatives of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (PFHOF), Allstate Insurance Company and the Tyler community, during a special ceremony at John Tyler High School.  Earl Christian Campbell (born March 29, 1955), nicknamed The Tyler Rose, along with, Paul Hornung, and O. J. Simpson are the only Heisman Trophy winners to have also been first overall National Football League draft picks and members of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame.

Campbell was the first player taken in the 1978 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers, Campbell took the NFL by storm from the start.  In 1978, he was named the NFL’s Most Valuable Player, elected to the All-Pro team and earned  Rookie of the Year honors.  He won the league’s leading rusher title with 1,450 yards and was named to the AFC Pro Bowl squad.  In his eight-season career, which included a final stop with the New Orleans Saints, Campbell rushed 2,187 times for 9,407 yards and 74 touchdowns.  He also gained 806 yards on 121 receptions to bring his career combined yards total to 10,213.

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Texas Longhorns | Changes must be made in Texas Athletics
By Randy Maltz – Founder/Editor Silver and Blue Report & Hook ‘em Report

I’m a former UT student and currently work for the Autism Society of Greater Austin which is a nonprofit that focuses on local autism family support. Nate Boyer, long snapper for UT and former Green Beret, has received wide coverage because of his extensive military background and impressive feats on the football team.

Who doesn’t like a good cause? Come hang out with NATE BOYER, current UT Long Snapper and former Green Beret, as he volunteers with the Autism Society of Greater Austin to raise awareness! We’d love to meet you at our buzz party this weekend. Onsite rider registration, volunteer opps, plenty of food, and tons of prizes! Hope to see you there

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The Pros and Cons of Letting a Child Quit a Sport Midseason
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Guest Writer – Silver and Blue Report & Hook’em Report

Involvement in team sports helps kids learn to work together, encourages physical activity over more sedentary pursuits and can give your child a sense of belonging when he’s accepted by his teammates. A child who is stuck playing a sport he doesn’t enjoy, however, may not reap the same benefits as his more eager teammates.

When your child approaches you with pleas to allow his mid-season resignation from the team, your first instinct may be to deny him. After all, sticking it out through the rest of the season, even if he absolutely despises the sport or his team, is said to boost character and give your child a sense of responsibility. In all actuality, however, there are definite pros and cons to allowing your child to quit in the middle of the season, so the situation isn’t quite so cut-and-dry.

Pros

As a parent, it isn’t always easy to see the benefits of allowing your child to abandon a sport or activity before seeing the season through. There are, however, plenty of reasons why you may actually be making the right choice by allowing your youngster to abandon his post.

• Letting Kids Explore Their Own Interests – Every kid has his own unique goals, tastes and hobbies, and they may be diametrically opposed to your own. By insisting that your child spend a full season on the soccer team that you love, you’re effectively robbing him of the chance to explore his own interests and to find something that works for him. Encouraging participation in another activity, even a solitary one, may be a silver lining to the mid-season abandonment of a sport.
• Preserving Academic Performance – Just as adults can be spread so thinly between their many obligations that everything begins to suffer a bit, so can an over-scheduled kid. Rather than continuing to struggle under the burden of maintaining her grades while keeping a commitment to a sport she doesn’t find enjoyable, your child could have the opportunity to focus more energy on her classes while still having enough time to explore other areas of interest.
• Focusing On Other Activities – If your child is involved with an activity that he truly loves and he wants to focus more of his energy on it than a sport he doesn’t care for, you may actually want to applaud the maturity and budding prioritization skills he’s showing.
• Creating More Room for Family Time – Between school, clubs, sports and the busy schedule of harried parents, finding the time for family dinners, game nights or other collective activities can be a real challenge for every member of your household. Eliminating one thing from the schedule can make a noticeable difference, though. If your child is itching to quit soccer and everyone needs to spend more time together, his reluctance to continue could create the opportunity for everyone to spend more time together.
• Ending a Relationship With a Bad Coach – Bullies don’t just come in the form of your child’s peers. Whether it’s an insatiable need to bring home a win at all times or the result of pressure from other parents, some coaches can become so obsessed with performance that they treat their players badly. In such cases, quitting a sport allows your family to completely sever ties with a coach that likes to bully his team.

Cons:

There are some good reasons for allowing a child to quit a sport mid-season, and some positive things that can result from such a switch. However, there’s also more than one drawback to letting your child walk away before the season closes.

• Breaking a Commitment to the Team – If your child is a reasonably skilled player, chances are that the rest of the team has come to rely on her skills to some degree. Allowing her to leave the team in the middle of the season not only leaves them scrambling to fill the position left behind by your child, but also sends the message that she ultimately does not care about their continued success. For competitive middle and high school athletic programs, this can be a serious blow.
• Forfeiture of Financial Investments – When you add up the expenses of registration fees, the purchase of equipment and other team-related expenses, you quickly come to the realization that team sports aren’t cheap. The money you’ve spent will almost certainly be a total loss if your child quits mid-way through the season.
• Giving Kids the Wrong Idea About Quitting – There are times when it’s absolutely okay to quit, and others when a lesson in perseverance can be a valuable one. Giving your child permission to quit a sport halfway through the season on a whim can send her the wrong message about quitting, especially if you don’t use the experience as a talking point.
• Potentially Shifting to a More Sedentary Lifestyle – Team sports promote physical activity and can keep your child fit in a way that vegging out in front of the television simply won’t. If your child quits a sport while everyone else he knows is still playing, the motivation to get outside and engage in active play may be trumped by the desire to devote attention to more sedentary pastimes.
• Loss of Opportunities to Learn About Teamwork – The importance of teamwork and the power of cooperative striving for a single goal is a lesson best taught by participation in team sports. If your child quits midway through his first season and never returns to organized sports, those lessons may be a bit more difficult for him to learn.

In the end, the right decision for your child will depend upon the lifestyle of your family, the lessons you wish to pass on and the parenting style that you ascribe to.
LINK: http://www.summernanny.com/blog/the-pros-and-cons-of-letting-a-child-quit-a-sport-midseason/

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ARTWORK | Texas Longhorns: Al “Stinky Legs” Washington
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Check out this great artwork: “ARTWORK | Texas Longhorns: Al “Stinky Legs” Washington”
During this NFL season, Dallas Cowboys did not live up to their fans expectations. Jason Garrett and Tony Romo failed to bring them back into the playoffs. Jerry Jones is making many changes. For the better?
Title: “ARTWORK | Texas Longhorns: Al “Stinky Legs” Washington”

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Texas Longhorns | Changes must be made in Texas Athletics
By Randy Maltz – Founder/Editor Silver and Blue Report & Hook ‘em Report

Texas has the most valuable NCAA Football program in the country, which is estimated in the range of $800 million.  Mack Brown collects more than 5 million per year.

Mack Brown and his Texas Longhorns Football Team have been in steady decline with only 22 wins and 16 losses, since the Vince Young and Colt McCoy era, which includes only winning 11 out of 27 games in the Big 12 Conference. The University of Texas Athletics Program has top financial resources, top football recruiting classes (average this year),  and some of the best facilities in the NCAA for all sports.

Texas has recruiting advantages over their rivals.  The Longhorns coaching staff often state they “don’t recruit, they select”.  Well, things must change, because going 22-16 in the last 3 years, while “selecting” their recruiting talent is not getting it done, especially with Texas being the grounds for the best recruiting talent in the country.   Yes, football is religion in the state of Texas.   So, it seems that Texas is getting beat by all the players who weren’t good enough to play at the University of Texas

At this point, the University of Texas Football Program is not getting a positive return on their investment with their football and basketball head coach. Mack Brown often positions himself as more of a CEO than a head coach.  Well, the Texas program is starting to look like a bad stock, with investors ready to make some tough decisions.  Questions about changes needs to be discusses immediately.  Are you happy with our Athletic Director, Deloss Dodds?  Football head coach, Mack Brown?  Football recruiting? Basketball head coach, Rick Barnes?  Basketball recruiting?  So many questions to think about.  It is time for Texas to have a leadership changes at many levels, before their program has declined to the point where they are taking leftovers from their closest rivals, like Texas A&M.  For Longhorns fans … that hurts.  Ouch!

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Texas Longhorns | Longhorns Basketball: Frustrating Season with Rick Barnes
By Randy Maltz – Founder/Editor Silver and Blue Report & Hook ‘em Report

This is a truly frustrating season for this young Texas Longhorns Basketball team, the Longhorns coaching staff, and UT basketball fans.

There are plenty of opportunities to win, but in the end just another narrow loss. The Texas Longhorns have gone 1-7, in games within 6 points or less. Myck Kabongo‘s has his 23-game NCAA suspension coming to an end after Saturday. The preseason All-Big 12 selection will play his first game of the season on Wednesday against Iowa State. Sheldon McClellan leads the team in scoring with 14.8 ppg. McClellan has scored in double figures in 20-of-22 games, including four 20-point games. Ioannis “Papi” Papapetrou is averaging 11.1 ppg, 4.9 rpg and 2.0 apg while hitting 27-of-55 (.491) field goals, including 12-of-25 (.480) 3-pointers, and 12-of-16 (.750) free throws over the last seven contests.