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The ECHO
12
March 2021
meeting
for the
ages
tall glass of Jack Daniels, winks at in the 1950s, I asked my university
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years. I am familiar with much of “Coach Bryant, I never could have You know I had a couple of pretty greatest coach in the history of
his lineage.
What better place to meet than ships if I’d drank like you.”
Life
and
legacies
who personified grace and Alabama winning the national
decency—even while receiving championship—again.
T
Baseball
The MLB family lost two hancing drug use. Schilling for their labor. The Name,
Acta de Eliminacion de Violacion en Prision Ombudsman
Prison Rape Elimination Act Ombudsman
ini
Sports View
Will Hill
up their quarterback situa-
tion worse than the Dallas
'WO GUYS WALK INTO A BAR.
This is not a joke. The
men gained their fame as the two
greatest coaches in the history of
missed the playoffs the pre-
vious year. He promptly took
them to a Super Bowl victory.
Saban and says, “Nick, I’ve been
watching you for a long time up
in heaven. My Direct TV goes out
from time to time so I have to use
Bourbon and non-filter Chester-
fields has aged him beyond his
years. His bass voice sounds like
good rifle arms in the ‘60s—guys
by the name of Joe Namath and
ious topics: what former area
star athletes were doing, the
status of modern-day sports,
etc. While I am no Blackie
Sherrod, here is my version
of scattershooting.
En el 2007, el Acta de Eliminacion de Violacion en Prision (PREA) Ombudsman fue establecido
por la 80a Legislatura (Codigo de Gobiemo de Texas §§501.171-. 178) y fue nombrado por la Junta
de Justicia Criminal de Texas (TBCJ). La oficina PREA Ombudsman fue creada para proporcionar a
los ofensores, familia y amigos de ofensores, y al publico en general con una oficina independiente
para reportar el abuso sexual y el acoso sexual que ocurre en los establecimientos correccionales del
Departamento de Justicia Criminal de Texas (TDCJ). El PREA Ombudsman tambien proporciona una
via confidencial para que los ofensores reporten el abuso sexual y acoso sexual y asegura resolucion
imparcial de las denuncias y consultas relacionadas con las acusaciones de abuso sexual y acoso
sexual. El PREA Ombudsman reporta directamente al presidente de TBCJ y puede ser contactado en
la siguiente direccion:
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older one wears a charcoal
sports coat and a hounds tooth
hat. The other is dressed in a
Brook Brother’s suit and a red
Hermes tie.
The older man is a living legend
The first is that the College
Football Playoff system is
broken and needs fixing for the
good of the sport. The current
format of having a committee
decide who the four best teams
in the country are and pitting
them against each other in a
two-game playoff is a joke—and
it has ceased being funny. I
propose an eight-team playoff
format that values conference
championships over style points
or name recognition. The cham-
pion of each of the Power 5
conferences should receive auto-
matic berths and then the next
three highest ranked champion-
ship-winning teams, regardless
of conference affiliation.
the game.
Bryant takes
Stabler and Namath were ahead of
their time.”
“Yeah they were. And they
were pretty fast and loose around
The 2020 season answered
several questions that fans
and pundits alike were asking
before the season.
push for more.
Football
even though he’s dead. In a life-
time of college coaching, he won
321 games and six national cham-
pionships at Alabama.
The younger guy is no spring
chicken at age 69, but hair col-
oring and Botox have kept him
looking 55.
This is not the case with the
PREA Ombudsman
P.O. Box 99
Huntsville, Texas 77342
El TDCJ tiene una politica de “cero tolerancia" para todas las formas de abuso sexual y acoso
sexual de ofensores. Ofensores con conocimiento acerca de un abuso sexual o acoso sexual de un
ofensor a otro ofensor, o de un empleado a un ofensor que ocurre dentro de un estableci miento
correccional de TDCJ se les recomicnda haccr inmcdiatamente la denuncia a la administracion de la
unidad, PREA Ombudsman o a la Oficina del Inspector General. Los ofensores pueden pennanecer
anonimos al solicitarlo.
Golf
The feel good story of the golf
year was Tiger Woods playing
in a father-son tournament
with his 11-year old son Charlie
in early December. It took a sad
turn when the golfer revealed
that he had to undergo yet
another surgery on his back
soon afterwards. Experts con-
sider the procedure to fuse a
won seven national champion-
Tom Petty’s classic
hit “Free Failin’”
should be the
soundtrack for
the Texans’ 2021
season.
college football. Just makes me
wish I’d taken a little better care
of myself.” ★
president if I could recruit black
players. He reminded me that the
Southeastern Conference had a
Jim Dent, Contributing
Writer—Polunsky Unit
Sportswriter Jim Dent is an
award-winning journalist who
“Nick, I’ve been
watching you for
a long time up in
heaven.”
was the calm, refined slugger Saban and the University of any organization could mess
old guy. A lifetime of Kentucky my binoculars.”
at Kent State in the ‘60s and there
weren’t many black players even
in the Midwest. The game’s come
a long way.”
Bryant rattled his ice, andit wasn’t
out the hard way. The Patriots news broke about a single-ve-
went from being a playoff hide crash involving Woods,
team to a seven-win team in The golf great suffered serious
2020 —while Tom Brady left but non-life threatening inju-
in 2007, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Ombudsman was established by the 80th
Legislature (Texas Government Code §§501.171-. 178) and was appointed by the Texas Board of
Criminal Justice (TBCJ). The PREA Ombudsman office was created to provide offenders, family and
friends of offenders, and the general public with an independent office to report sexual abuse and sexual
harassment occurring in Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) correctional facilities. The
PREA Ombudsman also provides a confidential avenue for offenders to report sexual abuse and sexual
harassment and ensures impartial resolution of complaints and inquiries related to allegations of sexual
abuse and sexual harassment. The PREA Ombudsman reports directly to the TBCJ Chairman and may
be contacted at the following address:
PREA Ombudsman
P.O.Box 99
Huntsville, Texas 77342
TDCJ has a “zero tolerance” for all forms of sexual abuse and sexual harassment of offenders.
Offenders knowledgeable about offender-on-offender or staff-on-offender sexual abuse or sexual
harassment that occurs within a TDCJ correctional facility are encouraged to immediately report
the allegation to the facility administration, PREA Ombudsman or the Office of Inspector General.
Offenders may remain anonymous upon request.
not those of the Texas Department ant’s NCAA record with his ash and then continues. “Nick,
I admit I was completely the Patriots and went to the ries to his lower right leg. Read
wrong about something. 1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who more in the next installment of
honestly did not think that won only seven games and the Sports View. ★
a long pull on a my day. When I was at Kentucky the way you guys threw the ball.
death threats as he broke the
all-time record for career home
runs with 575. I know that
Barry Bonds broke his record,
but for me and countless other
ECHO Staff baseball fans, Aaron will always
The opinions expressed in be the real home run king.
this column are those of Lasorda onthe other hand,
. .. , , 1,.1, the bombastic, larger-than-life
sportswriter and fan Will , ,
, , , former manager remembered
Hill and do not represent of- for his love of the sport-and
ficial viewpoints of the Texas especially his beloved Dodgers.
Department of Criminal Jus- He once said, nly half-joking,
tice or The ECHO. that God would only allow
Dodgers’ fans into heaven. The
'HIS month’s Sports View 2021 MLB season wiH\be the
is a nod to one of my first one in more than 60 years,
favorite sportswriters from I'm realizing neither one will
my youth — Blackie Sherrod be around for opening day. It’s
of the Dallas Morning News. just a little sad.
I always enjoyed his column
because it felt more like For only the fourth time in
enjoying a conversation history, and the first since
between two friends than 2013, the Baseball Writers
reading a newspaper article. Association of America failed
One of the features of his to select anyone into the
column I especially liked hall of fame. This year was
was what he termed “scat- the penultimate year on the
tershooting,” a collection of ballot for three very notable
random thoughts about var- former players: Barry Bonds,
of its most recognizable si mply is not a hall of fameri n Image and Likeness Act that Apparently having a future couple of vertebrae of the spine
members recently—Henry my opinion. Yes, he had great will allow college athletes to hall of fame quarterback to lead together a minor operation, but
“Hammering Hank” Aaron performances on the biggest profit off of the use of their your offense is more important I am of the opinion that the
and Tommy Lasorda. Although of stages and was the best names, images and likeness than having a future hall of only minor surgery is the one
Aaron and Lasorda could pitcher on a couple of chain- by their school, conference fame coach roaming the side- performed on someone else,
not have been more different pionship winning teams, but or private business is a start, line, and Patriots’ fans found As The ECHO went to press,
Cowboys have, but leave it to Even more impressive is that
the Houston Texans to go and there was no hint of scandal
outdo their in-state rivals, associated with this win —at
The Cowboys have yet to sign least not yet. As much as it
Dak Prescott to a long-term pains me to say it, Tom Brady
contract, costing Jerry Jones is the greatest quarterback in
millions with every passing NFL history. I don’t know what
moment that they delay. The it is that he has that others
Texans’ signed DeShaun don’t, but whatever it is, he has
Watson to a multi-million- turned it into a career that will
dollar deal prior to the 2020 likely never be equaled.
season, but somehow the rela- The Cleveland Browns made
tionship between the team s a mistake drafting Baker May-
franchise quarterback and field first overal, instead of
the organization has gotten Josh Allen. All Allen did in his
so toxic that the player now third year in the league was
wants out. Can the relation- to lead the Buffalo Bills to the
ship be salvaged? Will the AFC title game, while Mayfield
player get his way and force a and the Browns managed to
trade to another team? I don’t back into the playoffs. Mayfield
know the answer to either may not be the complete bust
question, but if the Texans that I once predicted he would
cave in to Watson’s trade be in this column, but organi-
demand, Tom Petty’s classic zations and fans usually expect
hit “Free Failin’” should be more from the number one pick
the soundtrack for the Texans’ of a draft.
2021 season.
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of Criminal Justice or The ECHO. seventh national championship I gotta’ tell you that you look long before the waitress brought the
Apparently, Patrick
Mahomes is worth every
dime of the $500 million
contract extension the
Kansas City Chiefs gave him
before the season.
“Coach, those must be some
pretty powerful binoculars.”
“Got ‘em back in the Big War,”
Bryant says as he bumps an
rule against it. When I got to Texas the bars and with the girls. I had
A&M in ’54, they also were firmly to kick them both off the team,
against it. Alabama wouldn’t let Nick, how do you keep your
me do it until Sam “Bam” Cun- players in line?”
ningham ran over us in a game in “Well, Coach, I just scare the
Birmingham in 1969. Then they heck out ofthem. It’s the way I look
let me recruit all the black players at them. You know I learned that
I could find.” from you.”
Saban shook his head. Bryant slapped his knee and
“I know what you were going his rumbling laugh seems to wake
through. I played college football up the entire bar. Pretty soon the
a bar in Tuscaloosa, where both Bryant removes his hat and ol’ Kenny Stabler. They could hum
covered the Dallas Cowboys for its coming from the bottom of a
11 years in Fort Worth and Dallas, deep well, and yet there is some-
including a stint at the Fort Worth thing magical about the way he
Star-Telegram. He has written carries himself. He extends his
six books, including The Junction right hand across the table.
Boys, a New York Times bestseller “Coach Saban, I’m Bear Bryant.
that was the basis for an ESPN Thanks for coming.”
movie and remains a fan favorite. “Coach Bryant, I wouldn’t have
Dent’s comments in The ECHO missed it for the world.”
represent his own opinions and when Nick Saban broke Bry-
back in January, I decided it was pretty good for a man who’s 69. entire bottle to the table.
time for Bryant and Saban to meet. Man, when I got to be your age I “I never thought I’d say this,
I felt qualified for this task since I was already dead.” Nick. But I love the way you play
once wrote a book about Bryant Saban smiles and takes another football in the SEC—all that
and have known Saban for many sip of iced tea before responding, throwin’ the football and stuff.
places it on the table. He lights the smoke.”
another Chesterfield. “I watched those films, Coach
“The game has changed since Bryant and I learned a lot from
Roger Clemens and Curt -..................
Schilling. Bonds and Cie-.
mens are without question The second takeaway is
the best hitter and pitcher of that student-athletes should
their generation respectively, be recognized for what they
but their on-field success has truly are — employees of their
been tainted by accusations of respective university or col-
steroid and performance-en- lege —and they should be paid
temperaments, they were pitcher of his generation.
both amongst the best- loved
ambassadors for the sport College Athletics
of baseball and the Atlanta I took two things away from
Braves and the Los Angeles the 2020 college football
Dodgers, respectively. Aaron season that ended with Nick
Alabama fans are lining up at the
table, carrying pen, pads footballs
and caps.
One of the ‘Bama fans smacks
Bryant on the back.
“You know, Coach, I never
thought I’d ever get your auto-
graph again.”
Bryant smiles and points at
Saban.
“That man right there is the
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