High School football season

For High Schools that had a Spring practice, today is the first day of football practice for the upcoming year. Going to a high school football game is on my list of things to do this year. Last time I went to a high school football game was when I was in high school back in 1982. Terrell will hold a scrimmage with Sulphur Springs on August 22nd. The box office should be buzzing on August 29th, the night of the first home game against RL Turner. You can find the complete schedule here.

A lot of moving parts

This isn't the best picture in the world but I am posting it because of something I heard someone say. I heard someone ask why there is so much attention paid to high school football. The easy answer is because football is a great sport and prep players in Texas are arguably the best in the country. The long answer, at least for me, is that high school football is not just about the football players and the game. Its about the band, cheerleaders, Tigerettes, body guards and equipment managers. It can also be a source of community pride and school spirit.

This Friday night is Senior night when the Terrell Tigers play host to the Lancaster Tigers. On the line will be a spot in the playoffs. Game time is 7:30. I would guess the pregame honoring the seniors will start around 7.



I ended up 8-5 picking the NFL games for week 8. My season record is 76-40.
My fantasy football team finally won another game, evening my record at 4-4.

Freeze warning

With a freeze warning issued for last night and early morning, this may be the last time the outdoor plants cast a shadow on my house.  It was cold yesterday, but at least the sun was out.

As the college football regular season comes to a close, it looks like LSU and Alabama will hook up again in the BCS Championship game in New Orleans.  Here are the bowl projections from CBS Sports.

Sunday, December 4th is the MetroPCS Dallas White Rock Marathon.  I'm not ready to run a marathon yet, but I will be running a relay leg with Brian and 3 others from work.  My leg of the race is 6.5 miles.

I remember going to Saint Louis Billikens basketball games in the late 70's, early 80's. They never were any good. This year they are off to a 6-0 start after winning the 76 Classic Basketball tournament in Anaheim, CA.  They should be ranked in the top 25 when rankings are released later today.

It looks like the NBA lockout is over.  Now starts the rumors and free agent signings. Will the Mavericks be able to re-sign Tyson Chandler?  Do they Mavs want to re-sign him?

City Bank Stadium in Forney will host at least one more high school football playoff game.  This Friday at 7:30PM Corsicana takes on Kilgore in the Class 4A, Division 2, Region II final.

Forney High School graduate Caleb Hanies first NFL starting for the Bears got off to a shaky start yesterday against Oakland.  He threw 3 interceptions but settled down threw 2 touchdown passes and almost led his team to a win.

Terrell High School graduate Brice McCain saved the game for the Houston Texans against the Jacksonville Jaguars.  With less than 2 minutes to go in the game the Jags were driving for the potential game tying touchdown when McCain broke up a pass to Mike Thomas.

WFAA the local ABC station in Dallas runs a fan feedback segment on their Sunday night sports show. Yesterday the question was who should win the Heisman Award this year.  I submitted my answer and they used it on the air.  I wrote that I wanted Robert Griffin III from Baylor to win, but Andrew Luck should win based just on numbers.  He also will win because Stanford has played on a bigger stage and had more attention this year than Baylor.











I got a jury summons in the mail for US District Court.  Its not one where I have to show up.  I am suppose to call in to see if I am needed the following day.  I dont mind serving on a jury, but the dates are Dec 16th-Dec 30th, over the Christmas holidays.  I submitted to get it postponed.

Today is the first day high school soccer teams can begin practicing.

Have a great Cyber Monday and week.

Terrell, Texas Monday Morning Mashup

The year is zoomin by, its already the last week of July.

No break in the weather, the next 7 days will look like the last 7 days. Sunday was the 23rd day in a row over 100 degrees.

To help beat the heat, the Vagabond players will be performing "Dashing through the Snow" opening later this week in the Iris Theater located at Books and Crannies.

I am running a 10K on August 14th. The race is the Hottest Half & 10K at Norbuck Park.

High School football practice gets started in August. Terrell Tigers football season tickets go on sale August 1st. Click here for more information.

Hopefully, the NFL lockout will be over soon.  I am ready for a new fantasy football season to start.

August 19th (my Birthday) is the Taste of Terrell. This year its moving to the Terrell High School West cafeteria. Tickets are $10 and available at the Chamber of Commerce, American National Bank (Main) and at the door. Last years event was a huge success.

The Scott Kelby World Wide Photowalk was pushed back this year. The final date hasn't been announced by they are looking at the first weekend in October. We are looking for ideas on where to have our walk this year. The past two years, we walked downtown Terrell and the Griffith Homeplace. If you have a suggestion send me an email, jimklenke@terrelldailyphoto.com.

This is just strange.  A car dealership in Rockwall had 140 wheels stolen off of new cars and suvs.  The dealership moved from Terrell up to Rockwall a few years ago.  I bet nothing like that ever happened to them in Terrell.

Terrell, Texas Monday Morning Mashup

This is Theme Day in the City Daily Photo world.  Todays theme is "postcard worthy".  This is a tough one for me.  The only postcards I remember seeing are of Moore Ave. from the 50s.  This is Moore Ave taken on July 31, 2011. Click here to view thumbnails for all Theme Day participants

High School football practice starts today in Texas.  The Tigers have their first practice at 7AM. Volleyball practice also starts today at 8AM.

Tigers season football tickets will go on sale today at the TISD Administration Office, located at 700 N. Catherine.  These tickets MUST be purchased by Thursday, August 11. Admin Office summer hours are Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.; The office is closed Fridays.  All remaining season tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, August 15.

Its the first of the month.  Time for me to beg for you to visit the Tiger iHigh site.

I ate at the new Freebirds in Rockwall over the weekend.  It's very good.  The new In and Out is going up fast in Rockwall. I hope the burger lives up to the hype.  There are some that say Whataburger is just as good or better.

Posted to the Facebook page are pictures from the Firefighter Challenge held in Greenville on Saturday and Trustees softball pictures from last Thursday.

I am looking forward to seeing this movie.


Saturday August 6th is the Melon Dash 5K in McKinney, TX.

Thirty days in a row of high temperatures over 100 degrees.  The 7 day
doesnt look like we are going to get a break anytime soon.
from WFAA

The Dallas Cowboys finished 6-10 last year.  Last week before training camp opened they let go of Roy Williams, Marion Barber and Sam Hurd along with other players.  The Chicago Bears, who finished 11-5 went out and signed all three.  The Bears did re-sign Forney High School graduate QB Caleb Hanie.




Have a great week. 

Terrell Daily Photo is 2 years old

No special photo today, but I do like this one. It was taken after a good rain. I set up the tripod in my driveway and pointed the camera towards Moore Ave. As a car would go down the street, I would take the picture. This is a cars tail lights and the lights being reflected in the water on the side of the road. This is also post #735, next stop post # 1000.



The last year has been fun trying to find a picture to post every day, it has also been a learning experience. Before I look forward to the next year, let me look back over the last year.

One of the things I wanted to do this past year was take more sports photos. I think I did a pretty good job of that.

I went to a couple of Tiger football games, which was a first time I went to a high school football game since I was high school. Not sure how many I will go to this year. They don't make it easy to take pictures there.

I followed and photographed the Tiger baseball teams historic season. I am already looking forward to next year.

I also went to as many basketball and soccer games as I could.

I have been to a few City Council meetings and I am finding out how City government works.

I got used to carrying my camera everyplace I go.

I also found out that you have to get it in writing...no matter what it is. There are a lot of people how want something for nothing, that will take your work and pass it off as their own. Promise you one thing and deliver nothing. Jealous people who would like to see you fail, and of course people you cant please no matter what you do. I guess I had to find to find out the hard way.

Below are my New Years resolutions, I am getting there.

Resolution 1. Get more involved in my community.--I am getting there. I am working on the Terrell Photo Walk that will be on July 18 (sign up by clicking on the Terrell banner on the right.) I will continue to pop in on the City Council meetings.

Resolution 2. Get to the gym more.-- I have been pretty good about going to the gym. I haven't really lost any weight, but I can tell its moved around some.

Resolution 3.Paint the outside of the house (carryover from 2008).-- OK get back to me at the end of the year.

Looking ahead to year 3
I want the Photo Walk to be successful and fun.
I hope the 2010 Terrell Tigers sports teams have banner years.
I want the Mustang Warriors all return home soon and safe.
I look forward to reading the Terrell Tribune every day and keeping in touch with what's going on in town.
I will watch Big Brother 11, yell at my computer and TV knowing I could do better than anyone in the house. CBS, Channel 11 could have at least had a cast call in Dallas or Terrell. They had a great turnout in Terrell for the Survivor casting call.
Finally, I look forward to continue to posting pictures every day..... sometimes two a day and more commentary.

Oh..poison ivy sucks, and I think I have more links than Michael, that's hard to do. Be sure to take a peek at all of the links to the right, we have some good local blogs worth reading.

Terrell Spring Football

High School football is a big deal in Texas. Right now team are having their spring practices and scrimmages. Last night the Terrell Tigers held their spring game. This is a chance to get an idea of what the team will look like in the fall. It gives coaches a chance to try new things and put the year before to rest. It gives the fans a look at who the new star will be. It is more of a controlled scrimmage than a game, but it was fun to watch. Today's picture is the players getting final instructions before the game began.

March 2008 Theme Day: Graffiti or street mural

I am recycling a photo from 2007 for this months theme day, Graffiti or street mural. Terrell has very little graffiti. The building pictured below is an old Coke bottling plant. In 2004 the windows were decorated to support the high school football team in the playoffs. Long after the football team was eliminated the writing stayed. It was still there in 2005, 2006 and 2007. The photo was taken July 3, 2007. I think after 3 years it can be called graffiti. Thankfully the windows have finally been cleaned and the building leased out to a local politician running for office.



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A new era begins in Terrell

The Terrell ISD school board voted on, and approved the hiring of a new Athletic Director and Head Football Coach. For the first time that I can remember, the positions were posted separately.  Coming in as AD is Buster Leaf.  Mr. Leaf comes to Terrell from Sunnyvale ISD where he served as an assistant coach. Hired as the Head Football Coach is Mike Shields.  Coach Shields was the HC at Red Oak High School.

Mr. Buster Leaf, new Terrell AD on the left.  Coach Mike Shields, new Terrell Varsity Football Coach on right. 

Terrell Tigers start the season 1-0

Friday night was the opening of the High School football season in Texas. Terrell played host to the RL Turner Lions from Carrollton. Terrell looked strong on both sides of the ball winning 20-0. The Tigers lost their starting quarterback midway through the first quarter but they were still able to score 3 times. Next week Terrell plays host to North Lamar from Paris, Texas.


Terrell captains walk to midfield for the coin flip.

Terrell scores their first touchdown



Terrell scores their second touchtown on a long run.

My football pictures didnt turn out that great. It's difficult to get good shots from the stands. Sunday I will post a few pictures of the bands.

Lone Star High School Rodeo at Wade Arena

Every Saturday in October Wade Arena in Terrell hosts the Lone Star High School Rodeo Association rodeo. Its good family fun that starts at 10am. I went out there today, good crowd on hand and lots of competitors. The cost is only $5, and they have a full concession stand.

Last night Terrell visited Mabank in a district football game. Sorry outcome, the game was ended early after a fight broke out between both teams. You can read my initial thoughts here.

Week 0 football

Yesterday, Brian and I got to take team pictures for the All Sports program that will be sold at the home football games. It was fun, but hectic. We took pictures of all sports but the football teams. They had pictures taken earlier in the week.

Terrell travels to Kaufman tonight to open the 2010 Tigers football season. Join us, kickoff is set for 7:30.

If you cant make it to Kaufman for the game, listen to it live on KPYK AM 1570. I will also be trying to update the scores on the Terrell Daily Photo Facebook page.

I watched a fun high school game on TV last night. District foe, West Mesquite defeated Rockwall in a close game 32-28.

Theater Set

Between Acts 1 & 2, the set for Barefoot in the Park at Books and Crannies.

School starts today for Terrell ISD. The athletic schedules for the year are posted.

Tomorrow night is Meet the Tigers. The best way to describe it, is it's a community pep assembly for the fall sports. Last year was pretty fun.

As much as I would like to see Terrell get a new football stadium, a high school stadium that costs $59.6 million dollars in Allen, Texas is just a bit over the top. I can't see Terrell voters every approving something that costly.

This looks like a neat idea. North Forney Falcons are having a tail gate party before their first home varsity football game on Sept 3rd.

My little Tiger schedule to the right has the Tigers first game listed as on the 2nd. Its on the 3rd, Ill have to change that tonight.

Become a fan of Terrell Daily Photo on Facebook by following the link to the right and hitting the 'like' button.

Thursday night lights

High School football in Texas.  Mesquite Poteet vs Texas HS.  Poteet won 55-10

Texas High School football on ESPN

Hot Potato

The high school football season got underway last night when the Freshman and JV teams hosted Rusk.  Tonight the varsity travels to Rusk.  The Tigers won the Freshman game 50-22.

Game Day

Texas High School football season is finally here.  The Terrell Tigers will travel to Little Elm tonight for a 7pm kickoff.  If you cannot make the game, listen to it live on KPYK

November

November is the month for high school football. 

hump day news

Just a few thoughts while I am on my lunch break. No Wednesday bonus picture.

Today is national letter of intent day for high school football players. Terrell had one player sign on the dotted line.

I am not sure who got more face time during lost last night, Locke on the show or Nolan Ryan during the commercials.

I went back to the park last night to start running again. I'm still working on the couch to 5k program. Last night I ran for 2 minutes then walked for 1 1/2 minutes 4 times. I ran for 3 minutes on the last cycle. Its not much, but its a start. My knees were pain free during and after the run.

Back to work

Going to work on Monday morning in the rain, what fun.



Fun opening weekend in the NFL. My fantasy team won and the Cowboys won.

Terrell defeated Seagoville 29-0 in high school football Friday night in a game that was called at half time because of the weather. Terrell plays their first home contest this Friday night against Bishop Lynch. If Terrell wins that game they will start district play on the 26th on the road against West Mesquite at 4-0. Terrell will probably have to win this Friday and next Friday before anyone at the big paper to the west starts to notice. The records of the teams Terrell has defeated this year is 0-7. Bishop Lynch is 2-1.

I got hit square upside the head with a big dose of reality this weekend, that's never fun.

I watched the MTV VMAs last night. I liked the tribune to Michael Jackson to start the show, Janet was great (I saw her in concert in 1990 for free). Kanye West is a *****, I have purchased his music before, but never again. Google 'Kanye West VMAs', I am sure the You Tube clip will be pulled soon.

All of this rain has kept me and my camera indoors. We have more rain expected this week.