Month: September 2022

Texas Longhorns defensive back Jahdae Barron is playing with purpose.

It’s why he wears the number 23, Barron said this week, per Inside Texas.

From Inside Texas: “One of Barron’s childhood friends, Tardrick ‘Trollie’ Fowler Jr. passed away in June of 2020. On Monday, Barron said Fowler’s death was reportedly the result of playing a game of Russian roulette. In Folwer Jr.’s playing days, he wore No. 23 while at Smithville. Now, Barron wears No. 23 for Fowler Jr., plus a pendant with his late friend’s portrait on it made by Austin’s own Sammy the Jeweler.”

WHAT THE WISE MEN ARE SAYING ABOUT THE LONGHORNS

Austin American-Statesman: Eyes on Texas: Charles Wright’s dream may become reality vs. UTSA

Austin American-Statesman: Could we see Texas football twice more on ESPN College GameDay?

Austin American-Statesman: Golden: Texas should beware, rat poison and UTSA are a dangerous mix

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Critics say the scores too closely correlate with students’ household income and show just a small part of a district’s real value. The Ohio Education Association, one of the largest teachers unions in the state and long a critic of the state report card, said Thursday that the new starred system was more informative and less draconian.

Oakwood City Schools ranked eighth-highest in the state in performance index, a measurement of how well districts do on state tests. Jefferson Twp. schools, Trotwood-Madison and Dayton Public Schools all ranked among the bottom seven districts out of the 607 in Ohio.

Suburban districts

Centerville, Kettering, Bellbrook-Sugarcreek, Beavercreek and Springboro, along with Oakwood, scored high on several report card indicators, including performance index, graduation rates, K-3 literacy and year-over-year growth.

All of those districts have traditionally scored well on report cards.

Springboro schools, who received five-star ratings in achievement, gap closing, progress and

This season, there will be a few new faces associated with Big 12 team leaders.

That includes Texas Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers, of course.

But also JT Daniels, who had his first showing with the West Virginia Mountaineers last night after he transferred in from the Georgia Bulldogs; Dillon Gabriel, who left the UCF Golden Knights for the Oklahoma Sooners; and Adrian Martinez, who departed the Nebraska Cornhuskers‘ program to join the Kansas State Wildcats.

In other words, it’s a new era in the Big 12. It started last night, too.

WHAT THE WISE MEN ARE SAYING ABOUT THE LONGHORNS

Austin American-Statesman: Texas enters the season with as many questions as expectations

Dallas Morning News: Texas prediction: What will a Quinn Ewers-led Longhorns offense look like?

247Sports: The Insider: The Longhorns’ impact newcomers to look for and much more

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A Denver woman died Saturday when she fell about 900 from a position near the summit of Capitol Peak, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.

Another climbing party witnessed the fall and called the Pitkin County Regional Emergency Dispatch Center at 7:56 am Saturday, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. The witness said the woman was hiking solo and fell when a rock handhold she attempted to grab gave way.

Mountain Rescue Aspen mobilized for a body recovery after it was alerted by the sheriff’s office.

“The witness was able to provide MRA with the exact location of the woman’s body,” the news release says. “It was then estimated that the woman had fallen approximately 900 [feet]falling from the route that connects the Knife Edge to the Capitol Peak summit down to Pierre Lakes Basin.”

Parker Lathrop, director of operations for the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office, said