Category: Plano

  • semitough

    Playoff Bound

    Heading out to Texas Stadium tonight for what could possibly be the last time. The Wildcats will take on the Panthers of Duncanville in a first round bidistrict game. Texas Stadium is a favorite spot for local high school playoff action. I remember my first game at Texas Stadium, a Cowboys-Vikings preseason game in 1974. It was all shiny and…

  • semitough

    Cats Roll

    Hit the road for an away game this week. Wildcat action moved west to the friendly (not so much) confines of Hebron’s Rink E. Dink Memorial Football Stadium (sic), Grill & Car Park Emporium. I guess when your team plays in a 14,000+ seat stadium it’s mostly downhill from there, but when you see visiting fans turned away by the…

  • semitough

    Flashback

    I knew all day what day it was. I put the flag out at sunrise. Had a short conversation with a colleague in Frankfurt who shared his remembrances of that day from his perspective. But for the most part it was just another routine day at the home office. But then on the way home from practice pickup I was…

  • semitough

    Rainy Day Car Pool

    First sighting: Coming out, father-daughter. She’s slightly behind and to his right, holding an umbrella over his head which remains dry while her entire backside is exposed to the cool fall rain. It is good to be King. Second: Coming in. Minivan mom. Waves for the kids to come out. They don’t. She gets out carrying one of those little…