ARCHIVE 2003

STATE TRACK AND FIELD QUALIFIERS - The UIL State Track and Field Meet will be in Austin on May 14-15. Here' a complete list of qualifiers from six-man football schools.

WELLMAN-UNION TAKES POWERLIFTING CROWN - The Wellman-Union Wildcats captured the Division II(1A-3A) State Powerlifting Championship this past weekend at The University of Houston. J.R. Tankersley of W-U, Felipe Escobedo of W-U and Clifton Baker from Strawn each won their individual classifcations.

PRIBYLA HEADS ALL-STATE BASKETBALL - Check out the Texas Six-man Coaches All-State and All-Region Basketball Teams.

GRADY WINS DIVISION II BASKETBALL TITLE - The Grady Wildcats defeated Neches, 55-49, Thursday morning in Austin to win the Class A Division II state basketball title. Photos from Thursday's game.

DMN ON MULLIN EX-PLAYER CHARLIE SMITH - The Dallas Morning News had another six-man article from Bryan Woolley. This one was on Mullin former player, Charlie Smith, who is suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). (Link no longer works) Bryan Woolley grew up in Fort Davis and has many excellent books and stories, including several that include six-man. To buy his books, check out Amazon.com and this link.

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME ARTICLES - There were a variety of articles on the championship game, but themany of the links are inactive. NY Times (and Monday's follow-up), Odessa American (Sunday1, Sunday2, Crowd and a from Saturday, including mine)..

FINAL RANKINGS - The Final Public Rankings from the 2003 season.

STRAWN WINS TITLE - The Strawn Greyhounds won the 2003 six-man state title over the Fort Davis Indians, 67-62. Check out the complete stats and play-by-play. It was the highest scoring game in six-man title history, surpassing the 72-48, 1995 Amherst win over Milford.

REGENTS THREE PEATS - The Austin Regents Knights three-peat in TAPPS 2A.

HAPPY HILL ROLLS TO TAPPS 1A TITLE - Happy Hill Academy once again rolled to the TAPPS Division 1A title.

FINAL DISTRICT STANDINGS - I have updated the final district standings for the 2003 season.

FINAL SPECIAL FILES - The final 2003 edition of the YODA, RPI, SOS and OppRat are here!

ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY - Here's a story from the Gatesville Messenger on the recovery of Jonesboro's Matt Massingill.

CORGI WINS PICK 'EM - He may not have scored in the final two rounds, but his skill in picking through the semis won Corgi the title, edging out Sixpack 330-320, while Blum_Bobcat_2 and myself finished third at 315. Complete results.

THE BREAKDOWN - A lot of numbers and somewhat interesting facts about the game this weekend is in The Breakdown of the big game.

RAMBLING MAN - A music-inspired rambling on last weekend's happenings. Expect more later this week.

STRAWN TOPS RICHLAND SPRINGS - Here's the stats and everything else for this amazing game.

GOLD-BURG ADDING TO SIX-MAN MIX - Bowie (think North Texas, not East Texas) Gold-Burg will play six-man football next season.

DEFENDING CHAMP, FINALIST FALL - Calvert and Sanderson both fell in Friday night action, while Strawn topped Zephyr.

A TIME TO BE THANKFUL - This week's ramblings for the quarterfinals.

RAMBLE ON - A short late night ramble from Friday.

THURSDAY NIGHT RAMBLE - Thursday's late night bablings of a crazy man are listed.

HERE COMES THROCKMORTON - Board votes for six-man.

WHEELER IN THE MIX - It was brought to my attention that this story ran in the Amarillo Globe-News Thursday when Wheeler decided to move to six-man.

MORE ON QUINCY - There is a new article in today's FW Star-Telegram on Quincy Jenkins by Troy Phillips, who has long been a supporter of six-man in the metroplex. Here's the older story from the Athens Review about the young man making the jump from Trinidad, Texas to division I football at Baylor.

STATE OF THE UNION - A quick waltz through the districts and some notes from around my brain.

HEY THERE, IT'S THAT TIME OF THE WEEK - Ramblings of a man who needs sleep....

GRIT AND GLORY! - My preview copy arrived, now see what I thought in this week's ramblings... and other stuff.

RESPECT, BOOKS AND OTHER THOUGHTS - Why can't we all just get along? Ramblings for another week.

HOW UPSET AM I?- After the upsets in week one, you would imagine that I am a bit flustered -- fat chance. Ramblings for week two.

SIXMANFOOTBALL.COM RANKINGS ANNOUNCED - After much delay, the preseason sixmanfootball.com rankings have been posted.

SEASONS BEING CANCELLED- First Marathon, then it looks like Morgan will, now Sidney has cancelled their season. Coach Jerry Miller, one of the winningest six-man coaches of all-time, notified sixmanfootball.com that the Eagles only had four players out for football.

WEST GRABS NARROW WIN OVER EAST - In one of the best six-man all-star games in recent memory, the West grabbed a narrow 36-28 win over the East in Lubbock.

HOSKINS LEAVES WHITHARRAL - Head Coach Ken Hoskins has left Whitharral to take over the same position at Garden City, effective immediately. Garden City will play the 2003 season in 11-man, but will move to six-man in the next realignment beginning in 2004.

SIX-MAN NUMBER TO INCREASE - When the next realignment comes out for the 2004-05 seasons, the cutoff number will increase to 99.5 from the current 94.5, the UIL's Legislative Council approved on Monday. To see the complete release, check out the UIL's site.