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Are you ready for some football?
What a silly question in South Texas. We know you are. Because of your insatiable appetite for football, we bring you "The Pressbox," the Advocate sports department's weekly sportscast.
Our experts will discuss the week's games each Thursday and show...
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Let's hope Gustav goes elsewhere and we can focus on that much more enjoyable season -- football.
Either way, we have two new and improved sections online today to help you. Please check out our hurricane section here and our sports page here.
Our hurricane section features a tracking map...
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As I sit down down to write this there is about eight Calhoun Sandcrab players at our house that are here with my son Ben. They have been out blitzing the town raising money for a fund raiser. My wife and I went early this morning to get copies of the Victoria Advocate and Port Lavaca...
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I officially started my fantasy football season this week when I signed up for the first of my usual run of three of four teams. Nothing fancy, just a free league team on ESPN.com (my FFL host of choice)
I generally play free leagues because I tend to get dirty looks around the house when I drop...
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I wanted to follow up on the Loss of a Cowboys fan post I did previously. The Giants beat the Cowboys and then go on to with the Super Bowl, which I think is a fitting end. It should have been the Boys, but the Giants managed to do the same thing to Brady that they did to Romo, so I...
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You know, I keep hearing this mess about NOT watching the BOYS anymore... This is a bunch of nonsense!! If you are a true, DALLAS COWBOYS fan, you will stick by them through thick AND through thin!! IF they had won and progressed to the SUPER BOWL and won there, everybody...
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This came off a video on the ABC NEWS website. It's worth your time.
Randy Pausch Has Months to Live, but Inspires Others With Lecture on Living Life to the Fullest. When Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old Carnegie Mellon computer science professor, gave his last lecture it got a lot of...
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So the Cowboys and Packers got a head start on me, but there are still another 15 games this weekend and there are some matchups that could help your team make that last playoff push, or help sew up that first-round bye.
Lions at Vikings: Adrian Peterson is probable for this on, but you still...
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Can you say brrr?
A major change is in store for the area as the cold air forecasters have been promising has arrived. Expect a 40-degree change in the temperature in less than 24 hours.
The cold front blew into Victoria early Wednesday evening....
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I'm well aware that this is an arts and crafts blog, but with the biggest game of the year (in my mind, at least) a mere few days away, I decided it was time to support my fellow Aggies.
We've had an...interesting season...to say the least, but I think the boys can pull it off on Friday. Hey -...
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I must admit that I'm underwhelmed by the reponse to the question of "Who owns Victoria?"
Here was just days away from the game and I'm getting nothing from the parties involved. Am I to believe that the Aggies and Longhorns of Victoria skip about hand-in-hand picking daisies and...
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Is Victoria a Longhorn town or an Aggie town?
Most complaints aimed at the Advocate sports page come from Aggies. Does this mean that there are more Aggies, or that the Aggie population is just a bunch of whiny sore losers?
Does the lack of letters from Longhorns mean there aren't...
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We've got some ugly games on the slate for this week. It's hard to get too excited for games like Dolphins-Eagles, Raiders-Vikings, Rams-49ers or Cardinals-Bengals, but that's where fantasy football comes in. Let's take a look at why these otherwise horrible games matter on the fantasy front....
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There I was, reading the Victoria Advocate, lo and behold I noticed where five members of the vicad staff made their picks for 17 bi-district matchups this weekend. How do 4 out 5 vicad staff substantiate their picking of Hitchcock over Edna in their bi-district matchup on Friday night...
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This was a rough weekend for people that listened to me for fantasy advice. The Advocate's intrepid education reporter Bj Lewis asked me if he should go with LaDainian Tomlinson or Adrian Peterson in his single-RB league. I told him that he couldn't go wrong either way, but that I though...
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