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From the "Talks too much" studio, it's go time.
The most infamous high school football players will meet before the Texas high school football board today.
Michael Moreno and Victor Rojas, the two players who assaulted a referee in a game last month, will attend the disciplinary hearings.
The story is here and the new details give credence to the players claim that they were instructed to attack the referee by their position coach.
Mack Breed is the assistant coach in question, and he reiterated the claim that the referee, Robert Watts, used racial slurs against black players and Hispanic players.
There are no winners in this story. None.
Let's say that every accusation is true.
Let's say Watts used racial slurs. That's awful and punishable from the referee organization for several obvious reasons.
Let's say Breed then ordered the code red. That's awful and almost unthinkable for any of us who have ever spent any time on a sideline on Friday night.
But neither fact, even if they are 100 percent accurate, excuses the actions of Moreno and Rojas, who crossed a wide, all-be-it imaginary line that says you can't touch the official in any sport.
Period.
File-New York Yankee catcher Yogi Berra poses at spring training in Florida, in an undated file photo. Berra, the Yankees Hall of Fame catcher has died. He was 90. (AP Photo/File) ---
Yogi Berra
It's a sad day, as the grand ambassador of baseball, Yogi Berra died. He was 90, and it came 69 years to the day he was called up to the New York Yankees.
His career in some ways was overshadowed by his famous malapropisms, as his name appears almost as often in Bartlett's Book of Quotations as it does in the baseball record book.
He was a three-time AL MVP and is the only player to win 10 World Series titles. Simply amazing.
And yes, there are the famous one-liners. Could you imagine the social media force he would have been; he'd have 10 million Twitter followers, and likely say something like, "Why are they following me, I don't know where I'm going."
Here are some of his best one-liners and sayings, according to the AP:
On his approach to at-bats: "You can't think and hit at the same time."
On selecting a restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
On economics: "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
On how events sometimes seem to repeat themselves: "It's deja vu all over again!"
On a slipping batting average: "Slump? I ain't in no slump. ... I just ain't hitting."
On travel directions: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
On pregame rest: "I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4."
On fan mail: "Never answer an anonymous letter."
On a spring training drill: "Pair off in threes."
On his approach to playing baseball: "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."
On death: "Always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise they won't go to yours."
On learning: "You can observe a lot by watching."
On the fractured syntax attributed to him: "I really didn't say everything I said."
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This and that
- The Cowboys traded for Matt Cassel. It's a move that makes a lot of sense for each team, as Dallas sent a 2017 fifth rounder to Buffalo for Cassel and the Bills' seventh rounder in '17. Cassel will be the back up to Brandon Weeden for the next two months as Tony Romo recovers from a broken collarbone.
- Jeremy Johnson's Heisman campaign lasted three weeks. Auburn coach Gus Malzahn announced Tuesday afternoon that the struggling junior quarterback would be replaced by redshirt freshman Sean White.
- In the strangest sports holdout in recent memory, the 20-year career of Ragnar, the burly Vikings mascot who rides a Harley onto the field, appears to be done. Ragnar was making $1,500 a game to jumbo around and do Viking-type things. Ragnar believed he deserved more - much more - and was holding out for $20,000 a game. Yes, the NFL is an ATM, but 13-times increase? C'mon Ragnar, that's what Russell Wilson got and we all see how that destroyed the Seahawks chemistry.
- Boy, do we miss a good pennant race. According to ESPN, the five teams in the AL with a greater than 88 percent chance of making the playoffs are Toronto (99.9%), New York (99.7%), Kansas City (99.9%), Texas (91.2%) and Houston (88.25). Only the L.A. Angels have a double-digit rating (10.6%) of making it.
In the NL it's worse. The five are so locked in that all of them have a 98.7 percent chance to better to make the playoffs.
FILE - In this May 3, 2014, file photo, Bruce Springsteen performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. The race, date and place are set for American Pharoah's next start: the Haskell Invitational, Aug. 2, at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J. Perhaps the coolest part of Thursday's, July 2, 2015, announcement involves Bruce Springsteen possibly performing at the track just a few furlongs from his hometown of Freehold. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) ---
Today's question
Have you sent your mailbag question? If not, why not?
That said, today is Bruce Springsteen's 66th birthday. He puts on a great show. Excellent in fact.
So we'll go double Boss Rushmore: Rushmore of Springsteen songs (yes, that's a tough one) and Rushmore of the best facelifts you can recall, because the Boss looks pretty 43 for 66, you know?
Whatcha got?