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Illinois's Quinn Recalls Lawmakers as Debt-Rating Cut
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn called lawmakers back for a special session on June 19 less than two hours after Moody's Investors Service cut the state's credit rating, citing an unresolved pension crisis.
Legislators on May 31 adjourned without taking final votes on dueling proposals to reduce an unfunded liability of almost $100 billion in the state retirement system that grows $17 million daily. It was the third time in less than a year that politicians failed to pass measures to deal with the shortfall.
Political paralysis over the deficit led Moody's to drop its grade on general-obligation bonds issued by Illinois one step to A3 today. It's the fourth-lowest investment grade and the weakest among U.S. states. The cut affects $32 billion of debt. A lower rating generally signals higher borrowing costs.
"Time and time again over the past two years, I have proposed, asked and pushed members of the General Assembly to send me a comprehensive pension reform bill," Quinn, a 64-year-old Democrat, said in a statement announcing the special legislative session.
"Failure to act by deadlines has resulted in the bond rating agencies lowering our credit rating, which hurts our economy, wastes taxpayer money and shortchanges the education of our children," Quinn said. Fitch Ratings cut the state's grade a step to A- on June 3, citing the pension crisis.
The new Moody's rank is four steps above junk status, equivalent to the A- rank assigned by Fitch and Standard & Poor's. All three companies have a negative outlook on the state's credit, signaling more cuts may be made.
Below California
Moody's reduction pushes Illinois's rating two steps below the company's grade on California debt, the second-lowest level among states.
"The legislature's political paralysis to date shows not only the magnitude of Illinois' unfunded benefit liabilities, but also the legal and political hurdles to legislation that would make pensions more manageable long term," Moody's said today in a report.
Investors in the $3.7 trillion municipal market already demand 1.43 percentage points of extra yield over benchmark debt to own bonds of Illinois issuers, the most among states tracked by Bloomberg Fair Value indexes. The gap over debt issued by California is just 0.52 percentage point.
Negotiations over a pension fix stalled last week because the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Michael Madigan, and Senate President John Cullerton, both Chicago Democrats, couldn't agree on how to restructure the retirement system. Deliberations were complicated by constitutional protections afforded to pension benefits in Illinois.
S&P won't cut the state's grade after the latest round of inaction because it was "in line with our expectations in January," the New York-based company said in a report today.
Only three states -- California, Louisiana and Massachusetts -- have been rated in the lowest investment-grade tier, starting one step below Illinois's score, in the last 50 years, S&P said.


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Energy and Global Warming News for March 30th: Europe's electricity could be all renewables by 2050; Clean tech investment set to soar 35% this year
AFP: "Many scientists have warned that if global temperatures rise more than 2.0°C (3.6°F) by century's end, Earth's climate system could spin out of control, unleashing human misery on an unprecedented scale."
Kudos to AFP for its bluntness on the harsh reality of climate science today, a sharp contrast to the generally wishy-washy reporting in this country.
Europe's electricity could be all renewables by 2050
Europe could meet all its electricity needs from renewable sources by mid-century, according to a report released Monday by services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers.
A "super-smart" grid powered by solar farms in North Africa, wind farms in northern Europe and the North Sea, hydro-electric from Scandinavia and the Alps and a complement of biomass and marine energy could render carbon-based fuels obsolete for electricity by 2050, said the report.
The goal is achievable even without the use of nuclear energy, the mainstay of electricity in France, it said.
Over all, about 50 percent of Europe's energy demand is met with imported fuels.
Under so-called business-as-usual scenarios, that share could increase to 70 percent in coming decades, according to several projections.
The switch to renewables is more than a matter of energy security, said the report, backed by research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the European Climate Forum, both based in Potsdam, Germany.
"Substantial and fairly rapid decarbonisation… will have to take place if the world is to have any chance of staying within the 2.0 degree Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) goal for limiting the effects of global warming," the report said.
Many scientists have warned that if global temperatures rise more than 2.0 C (3.6 F) by century's end, Earth's climate system could spin out of control, unleashing human misery on an unprecedented scale.
Report: Clean tech investment set to soar 35 per cent this year
Global investment in clean technology will rise 35 per cent this year, despite ongoing uncertainty over climate change policy in the US and EU, according to a report published today by research firm Datamonitor.
The report, entitled Challenges and opportunities for energy utility companies post-Copenhagen, predicts clean tech investment will bounce back strongly this year, led by the wind energy sector, which has received a major boost from government-backed economic stimulus packages.
Alex Desbarres, senior renewables analyst at Datamonitor, said that despite the failure to deliver an international climate change deal and ongoing uncertainty about the future of the carbon markets in the US and Europe, growing numbers of businesses are increasing their investment in clean technologies.
"Copenhagen did not deliver the low-carbon vision, clear policy landscape and regulatory frameworks that the energy clean tech investment community had hoped for," he said. "For all its flaws, however, the Copenhagen Accord gave the clean tech community the sense that private investors will drive the transition to a low-carbon economy."
The report said there was little evidence that an overarching global regulatory framework would be developed within the next few years, but argued that with new national and sub-national legislation and initiatives emerging all the time, investors will continue to flock to the clean tech sector.
"Datamonitor expects that progress on new global and US climate regimes will be slow and unconvincing this year, but that the race to dominate the emerging clean economy will accelerate regardless, fuelled by unprecedented quantities of green and clean stimulus funding," the report states.
The study is the latest in a series of reports to suggest that the clean tech sector is recovering well after venture capital investment levels collapsed following the onset of recession in 2008.
A report earlier this year by the Cleantech Group suggested that while venture capital investment in clean tech firms fell 33 per cent last year to $5.64bn (£3.76bn), the sector fared better than many other industries and has overtaken biotech and IT as the largest venture capital investment categories.
Similarly, a survey of more than 200 clean tech investors undertaken at the start of the year by investment bank Jeffries revealed confidence that investment levels will rise, while a separate report from analyst New Energy Finance predicted global clean tech investment in 2010 would reach $160bn, compared with $125bn in 2009.
Ohio plugs wind power on Lake Erie
Ohio officials outlined plans Monday to put Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, at the forefront of offshore wind power development.
Gov. Ted Strickland and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown joined industry and education leaders to detail tax-cut and regulatory measures to jump-start wind power development on Lake Erie. The lake's comparatively shallow depth is seen as an advantage when erecting towers to produce wind power.
Strickland said his proposal to eliminate the tangible personal property tax on wind and solar generation equipment would make Ohio competitive in developing wind power.
The measure, now before state lawmakers, would cover wind and solar facilities where ground is broken this year and energy is being produced by 2012.
Last week regulators approved the state's first large-scale wind farms, all in western Ohio: two farms in Hardin County and an operation in Champaign County.
Construction is scheduled to begin this summer.
Texas Weighs Efficiency, Solar Mandates
Texas regulators may soon ramp up mandates requiring tougher energy-efficiency standards and development of renewable energy sources other than wind power.
Earlier this year, the state's Public Utility Commission proposed requiringutilities to offset 50 percent of their growth in electricity sales with energy-efficiency measures by 2014. That would be well above the current requirement of 20 percent. (Separately, another state agency last week proposed strengthening Texas's building codes.)
The utility commission has also put forward an early-stage proposal that would require 500 new megawatts of power in Texas to come from renewable energy sources like biomass, geothermal, solar and hydro in 2014. That represents a substantial increase from current amounts, though it is still small compared to the amount of wind power already in the state.
Texas leads the nation in wind development, but under the proposal, 50 megawatts of nonwind renewables in 2014 would have to come from solar projects. Texas currently has less than seven megawatts of solar power, according to Michael Webber, the associate director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Texas.
Awash in Awareness: Knowing a Product's "Water Footprint" May Help Consumers Conserve H2O
If you think your morning cup of joe only has 12 ounces (35 centiliters) of water in it, you're sorely mistaken""it has closer to 40 gallons (150 liters). Conservation scientists say it's time consumers become aware of the quantity and source of waterthat goes into growing, manufacturing and shipping food.
Concerns over greenhouse gas emissions have vaulted the term "carbon footprint" into mainstream vernacular. Now, by promoting the concept of a "water footprint" with the goal of including it on product labels, researchers are hoping to draw similar attention to how drastically we're draining our most precious resource. As the use of a footprint to gauge water use gains popularity, however, researchers are struggling to reach a consensus on how best to measure that footprint so the public understands its full impact.
As currently defined, a product's water footprint is an inventory of the total amount of water that goes into its manufacture. For that cup of coffee, for instance, most of the 40 gallons flow either into watering coffee plants or cooling the roasters during processing.
"Most people have no idea how much fresh water they're consuming," says Brad Ridoutt, a water conservation specialist from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. According to Ridoutt, food and energy production account for nearly 90 percent of the world's fresh water consumption.
Tracking Trash to Turn Waste into Efficiency
"Smart" phones offer the intelligence of a computer, with the convenience of a phone. "Smart" meters let homeowners choose between using cheap and expensive electricity.
The next frontier: "smart" trash?
A 5-year-old group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has spent the last year attaching thousands of tracking devices to pieces of garbage in Seattle and New York City. The devices send out pulses to signal where they are.
The signals go to MIT's SENSEable City Lab for analysis. Last year, they also went to art exhibits in both cities, where live maps revealed the many paths garbage takes.
For example, a plastic soap bottle tossed in a Manhattan recycling bin took several twists and turns around the city before crossing the river to Kearny, N.J.
Carlo Ratti, who directs the City Lab, said each city he's lived in — Turin, Italy; Paris; Cambridge, England; Boston — has suffered from congestion, pollution and inefficiency problems.
He believes new technologies, like iPhones, social networking and wireless communication, can inform city dwellers and make cities "smarter." "The only way we can actually solve some of the big problems, like climate change, is if we really coordinate and act together," Ratti said. "What, for the first time, is really bringing us together is the power of networks in general and the Internet."
One product was the "Copenhagen Wheel," a device that attaches to a bicycle and offers information on how much people are riding and where — in addition to giving a little boost on the uphill. The lab has also designed interactive screens for bus stops that can communicate with an iPhone, tailoring advertisements to riders or serving as a larger screen for hand-held diversions.
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Just to add, Nissan released Leaf EV pricing today for the US ($32k before the US tax credit of $7500 = ~$25k).
This is a big deal, as expectations were for much higher prices. Full line EV prices were not expected to get down this low for a long time. Has about 100 mile range.
12,000 miles @ 30MPG = 400 gallons @ $3 gallon = $1,200 per year for fuel. Add in $100 for oil changes for a total of $1,300.
12,000 miles @ 0.25 kWh/mile = 3,000 kWh @ $0.105 per kWh = $315 for electricity.
That's a difference of $985 per year. $4,925 over five years.
The average lifespan of a US passenger car is 13.3 years, a lifetime savings of $13,100. And it doesn't include the cost of repairs on an ICE engine which should greatly exceed costs incurred with an industrial quality electric motor.
Nice calculations Bob. This vehicle seems poised to be a game changer for a chunk of the market (as will be the Chevy Volt if they get its price close to this).
Carlos Ghosn, the Nissan CEO, had been throwing around production numbers of 500,000 a year within a couple of years of production start – I assumed he was misquoted and meant 50,000, however with this kind of price, he may have meant 500,000 (Toyota has just gotten Prius production levels up to that amount). I doubt he'll get 500,000 for a while, but it definitely means they'll have the capacity to do more than the 50,000 unit marketing campaign most of the manufacturers have been talking about. At 500,000 a year you can start to change the world. Its a great time to be someone who wants to get an EV/EREV.
Monbiot has been writing on the financial disaster that the solar feedin tariff in Germany has been.
$1000 per tonne CO2 avoided for solar PV in Germany, vrs less than $10 per tonne for nuclear. Sure the EU could be all renewables by some date in the future, but at what cost? Nukes don't need the super smart grid, the threat of radiation has been blown out of all proportion, there is enough energy there to power civilization as far ahead into the future as anyone cares to look – we've all bought into a load of BS that has us acting and thinking as if nukes are a bad thing. Its the wastes of fossil fuels that threaten the existence of civilization.
"KnowNukes", I'd like to see a comparison of lifecycle costs for what the article is actually talking about (not just PV in Germany) vs. nuclear. If grid upgrades are going to be done anyway, a portfolio of renewables (including concentrate solar thermal) looks even better.
As for the Leaf, some people might have an issue with the range limitation, but it should be interesting to see how it does. Battery cost has also been a point of concern, so hopefully Nissan will be offering a good warranty to help facilitate demand.
@Bob Wallace: While my area is somewhat inexpensive, I buy electricity at night at a much much cheaper rate than you quote (currently 5.78c/kWh), but I also think .25kWh/mi is a bit optimistic since you're unlikely to achieve that in everyday driving conditions while running heat, A/C, etc. So the two factors probably balance each other out (say .33kWh/mi @ 8c/kWh night-rate yielding the same number you quote). The motor will probably outlive the car, but the batteries are a bigger unknown. The exact spec of these is still a pretty closely guarded industry secret. Simple economics suggest that if they're going to warranty them for 100K miles, they'll easily do significantly more than that on average. Either that, or the batteries have become so cheap that their replacement cost is included in the price (which I find unlikely). Even more unknown is what the replacements would look like and cost in 8 years if they failed at 100K+1 miles, much less 10 years if they last to 120K. I can pretty much guarantee that the battery of 2020 will be different than that of 2010. The fuel cost savings you quote would make up for any residual value of the car with that many miles, anyway, even if you had to sell it for scrap steel once the batteries died. I think it's fair to assume electric rates probably won't go up any faster than gasoline rates.
The reality is, the bar shouldn't be set any higher than for an equivalent ICE car at this point (say a Sentra with an automatic, which is about the same price). The economics work as it is without suggesting it needs to perform to unrealistic expectations (i.e. 160K miles with virtually no maintenance costs). Doing so makes EV's sound like snake oil, something too good to be true. If they do preform beyond 100K miles then it's gravy, if not, it's still a good deal. Buying a new car is always an irrational decision. Even at $5/gallon, it's cheaper to buy and scrap a $2K 25mpg clunker every couple years than to go out and buy any new car. EV advocates often forget this. As an home-conversion EV owner, I know the reality is that it's still a car, subject to all of the ups and downs of owning such a thing! It's better to under-promise and over-deliver.
That said, I'm planning to make a deposit on a Leaf in April.
When batteries "fail" in an EV they aren't really worthless. Common assumption is that batteries will get swapped out when their charge capacity drops to about 80% of new. (Leaf range drops from 100 miles to 80 miles.)
Those "80%" batteries will still be valuable. Utility companies will buy them for grid smoothing/storage. In EVs one needs to maximize the weight/charge ability because that weight has to be hauled around. But if you're going to take those batteries and rack them up in an inexpensive building then that weight/charge ability is not very important.
I have no idea what the resell value might be, but I would guess at least 50% of initial purchase price. If you buy a replacement set of batteries for your EV you shouldn't have to pay more than half the cost after selling your old set.
Gas is almost certainly going to increase in price. Baring some incredible breakthrough in biofuels. World demand for oil is heating up once more and we've basically maxed out in terms of how much oil we can bring to market.
Electricity, especially nighttime/off peak electricity, is likely to drop in price. Wind is the cheapest way that we have to produce electricity aside from fossil fuels. We'll likely build lots and lots of wind farms to feed daytime/peak demand which will mean lots of affordable wind produced electricity at night.
I don't know how the first generation or two of EVs will hold up over time. But I wouldn't be surprised if 200K becomes the "new normal".
Industrial electric motors are very long lasting. Even if they need repair, we're generally talking about a new set of bearings, not a ring job or new short block.
Electric motors have a more gentle life. They are not subjected to the heat and vibration of ICE engines. Electric motors spin, they don't have thousands and thousands of little explosions taking place in them every time you drive to the corner market.
There are many, many fewer parts in an EV. Just look at an exploded drawing of a car's engine sometime. Lots more stuff to wear out and break.
And, if the EV has regenerative braking, brake pads and rotors are going to last much, much longer. The mechanical brake in your EV might not be used in most of your stoppings/slowings.
I wish I could join you in buying a Leaf. But I've got a paid off car with less than 30K on it and don't buy enough gas in a year (~200 gallons) to justify a new purchase.
When gas goes back over $5 I'll rethink my options.
Water World…And we thought that Miami would be the first affected by flooding. Big suprise.
And the US starts to get its share of extreme GW weather. Lets see how well it copes with it year in year out.
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Canada Pension Plans to Invest in Markit IPO
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board plans to invest up to $450 million to take about a 10 percent stake in financial information company Markit Ltd. through its U.S. initial public offering.
Markit is seeking to raise as much as $1.14 billion with the sale of 45.7 million shares for $23 to $25 apiece, according to a regulatory filing on June 3. Markit's equity value would be about $4.5 billion at the high end of the IPO range, based on 178.9 million shares to be outstanding, the London-based company's filings show.
Canada's largest pension fund manager has indicated its interest to invest up to $450 million in the IPO through a private placement and to nominate a director for the company's board, the documents show.
Canada Pension, which manages the retirement savings of 18 million people in every province except Quebec, declined to comment on the Markit IPO, Linda Sims, a spokeswoman for the Toronto-based fund said today.
Lance Uggla, chief executive officer or Markit, was formerly an executive at Toronto-Dominion Bank. Markit competes with Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP in selling information to the financial industry.
Markit derives about half of its revenue from selling financial data such as prices and indexes, with the rest split between processing trades for over-the-counter derivatives, currencies and loans, and the sale of enterprise software platforms, according to the filing.


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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A Tampa cigar maker hopes to set a new Guinness World Record by rolling a stogie 180 feet long.
Longtime cigar maker Wally Reyes started Thursday and will finish the nearly block-long smoke during the city's Cigar Heritage Festival on Nov. 21.
Reyes says he and his wife, Margarita, are building the cigar in 18 sections - each 10 feet long.
An official from Guinness will be on hand at the festival to certify the record.
Reyes held the record before when he and his wife completed a 101-foot cigar, but a roller in Havana, Cuba, outdid them last year with a cigar that was 148 feet long.
Information from: The Tampa Tribune, http://www.tampatrib.com
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Breaking Up With a Well-Connected NYPD Sergeant Is Hard to Do
Love makes even important people commit crazy acts of vandalism.
NYPD Sergeant Damaris Diaz may be the daughter of embattled, anti-gay State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. and the sister of Bronx Borough President Ruben Jr., but if you prick her, does she not bleed? The Diaz daughter was arrested over the weekend after allegedly losing it when her boyfriend, a fellow cop, tried to dump her. "You better come back," she texted him. "If you don't come back, I will kill you." Then she keyed his car, which always works.


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Gruver upset
My favorite memory was watching the underdog Gruver Greyhounds beat highly favored Springlake-Earth in a Class 1A bi-district game November 14, 1997 in a game affectionately known as the Snow Bowl. Despite blowing snow and freezing temperatures the Hounds stopped a team that had made the playoffs for seven straight years and boasted a Division I prospect quarterback.
Cathy Potts
Friday Night Glory
Block, tackle, pass and play!
Those are the favorite words of today.
"We've worked so hard,
we know we are better!"
This is why we wear this black letter
The blood, the sweat, the tears, the joy
The manhood dreams of a little boy
First Hit, First Game, First Win are all of the
memories I will keep within
The Blazes of Glory I felt on the field will
never, in my Black and Red heart, be sealed
So play on young men and fight with fury, for
only the losers, quit so early
I know my time has come to an end
and the only thing I wanted was that last win
So play on young men and give it your all
so you're the man to not take the fall.
Jim Potts
Quarterback 1996-98
Gruver High School
White Deer rally
A thrilling comeback was White Deer's bi-district win over Canadian on a snow-covered field in 1997 at Pampa.
Canadian scored a go-ahead touchdown and converted the two-point conversion for a 14-6 advantage with 2:04 showing. After the kickoff Craig Urbanczyk broke loose for a 72-yard score on the first play from scrimmage, but the two-point try was unsuccessful, leaving White Deer down by two, 14-12.
The onside kick was successful, but suffered an interception. However, the Bucks recovered a Wildcat fumble and Jeremy Crook then hit Nick Knocke on a slant pass that carried to the 1 where he was knocked out of bounds. Donnie Adams burst into the end zone on the next play with 15 seconds showing for a 18-14 advantage.
The pass for two points gave the Bucks a lead of 20-14, and after the ensuing kickoff Canadian fumbled on its first play with the Bucks recovering to preserve their remarkable comeback.
Will Urbanczyk
White Deer
Wild endings
As for an exciting finish, in 1971, John Hill caught a deflected pass in the end zone as time expired to give Phillips High School a 24-21 win over Dalhart in a District 1-2A showdown in Phillips. Phillips went on to represent the district in the playoffs, while highly regarded Dalhart was eliminated. What I remember most is that when Hill caught the pass, while the Phillips side went crazy, the Dalhart fans and student body just stood in disbelief, standing almost motionless...for several minutes, undoubtedly finding it hard to believe they had lost.
In 1972, Phillips trailed Stinnett 17-0 with just over nine minutes left in the game in the District 1-2A title game. However, Phillips quarterback David Lewis threw touchdown passes to lift the Blackhawks to an unbelievable 21-17 come-from-behind victory. The winning touchdown came late in the game on a TD pass from Lewis to Roger Holland. Keith Reed tacked on the PAT to make the score final before a standing room only crowd at H.C. "Chesty Walker" Stadium in Phillips.
The best coach? Chesty Walker, Phillips - his record speaks for itself.
Jerry Gunter
Tasting the playoffs
Even long before conception, a parent dreams of the moment when a son has the distinct opportunity to participate in one moment rich in Texas high school history.....a football play-off game! In anticipation with many other excited parents and dedicated Sandie fans, the day arrived when my only son would proudly wear the black and gold uniform in a postseason game.
With knots the size of Texas tumbleweeds in my throat and butterflies as large as a lonesome dove, we saddled up and drove our decorated caravan of family and friends south for the opportunity to play at Texas Tech's Jones Stadium in Lubbock.
Recollection of all that preceded this type of occasion flooded my head - tiny uniforms of preschool days, hours of intense practices, heartache of losing a starting position, dedication, anticipation, and thrill of gaining it back, afternoons of deep snaps in the front yard, tales at the dinner table of great hits, summers of weight programs and camps, blenders full of protein drinks, late night bedroom pep talks.....all a mountain of preparation leading up to this significant moment in our personal history. Arriving at this moment makes a parent's heart bulge with pride, and one knows that playing well is critical; winning, well, that would just be icing on the cake!
Upon our entrance, the stadium seemed plainly massive for our young men, and I paused to savor this moment. Then out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the focused team heading toward this Goliath field of astroturf. Forget the icing; we came to win this game!
Time after time, snap after snap, down after down our offense moved the football that night like a runaway train! At will, block after block, giant holes mapped the way for score after score. What fun it was, too, to watch the scoreboard reflect great success, for all the season tales of a struggling offense plagued the front page of the Saturday morning write-ups!
Defense. Anyone who knows anything about Sandie football understands this is our bread and butter! Hard hits, a safety, a blocked field goal, goal line stands....another chance to watched that finely tuned defense swarm the Abilene Cooper Cougars like a bunch of angry bees!
Like it was once sung "Oh, What a Night!" With a final score of 36-11, our confidence was as clear as a West Texas sunset! Our pride in our children and their coaches, our school, and our community was indisputable that glorious Friday night!
Snuggled in the van for the ride home, my family and I relived the excitement of the night's festivities. The pang of the loss the week before just simply didn't matter any more. We were the team still playing, and we would continue to represent this District 3-5A with the successful traditions of past Amarillo Sandie teams.
I reflected on what that night meant to me and to my son, and emotion came from out of nowhere. My son was part of something so much bigger than anything I had understood previously. Now I comprehend what "Once a Sandiie, Always a Sandie" truly meant, and I'm genuinely thankful he's had the opportunity to wear that team's uniform and to play for a team rich with tradition! For that night he learned so much more than just a game. He learned that a team is more important and can accomplish more than any individual can. He knew that with hard work and persistence, people often have the opportunity to make dreams become reality....a pretty meaningful lesson for a young man in this game of life!
Khristi Jones
Those were the days
On the afternoon of October 17, 1919, Tom Campbell, my uncle, a junior at Wellington High School, scored the first touchdown for Wellington's "Texans", a newly organized high school football team. Alas, they lost the first game to Erick, Oklahoma, 18-7. The WHS football uniforms had not arrived, so that first game was played with the team wearing baseball uniforms.
In the late 1920s a contest was held to rename the Wellington High School sports teams. The winning suggestion, "Skyrockets" was offered by my father, Dr. J. Frank Johnson.
Up until the 1950's, the Amarillo Globe-News would give All District awards to the fortunate players. Putt Powell would always attend the banquet. He ate a lot of fried chicken. One night at Wellington, he was at the head table. As the meal was being finished, one of the players (from Wellington, but I would not want to say who it was) collected chicken bones from several plates, and placed it in front of Putt Powell - in time for the Amarillo paper's photographer to snap the "glutton's" picture. Putt Powell would always amaze everyone with his memory for names and faces. He must have had total recall.
One of the best players I ever played with at Wellington was I.D. Russell (SMU). I.D. could do it all. Tackle, block, run, kick, could do them all exceptionally well. Coach Al Duncan kept a newspaper photograph on the wall of his classroom (all coaches taught classes in the 1940s). It showed a ball carrier being tackled by I.D. An arrow showed that the ball carrier was about to be planted on his back.
Walter Johnson
Tiger Tales
It started for me in the mid-1970s. My dad, a Groom High School alum in the mid-1960s, and whose father also played for the Tigers in the late-1930s, and I began following the Tigers through what would be dominating years in Class B football in the Panhandle. I cut my teeth watching Groom play powerhouse teams like Wheeler and Happy.
I remember being about 10 watching Groom play Happy at Groom and remembering the incredible size of the Happy players. The Happy players walked off the field in disbelief due to the loss. I could not believe these huge guys were crying. Then there were the Friday night trips to Wheeler. Those were some dogfights.
Those Class B players could hit and hit hard. I had been hit hard during my high school playing days but those guys made me hurt from the sidelines with their collisions. The one game that sticks in my mind the most of any high school game I had ever watched was the Class B state finals game in 1975 between Groom and Big Sandy.
My family had followed Groom every Friday night that season and we ended up in Jacksboro for the state championship game. During the playoffs Groom had played tough teams but Big Sandy had the team to beat. Big Sandy was picked to win. And they did, 28-2.
The reason this game sticks in my mind so is because of the incredible play of a running back for Big Sandy, David Overstreet. He was all over the place. Groom played their hearts out but could never come up with a sustaining drive. Big Sandy would regain possession and David Overstreet would take over. The rest is history. Overstreet ended up at Oklahoma sharing the wishbone backfield with Kenny King of Clarendon and Billy Sims, and later played for the Miami Dolphins.
While Groom did not win the state title they would have competed well against any team in the Panhandle regardless of classification. For a little boy growing up in Amarillo, playing at Caprock High School and eventually having the opportunity to play collegiately at West Texas State, those childhood Friday nights in the mid-1970s watching Groom stand out.
Sean L. Frederickson
Success off the field
Our family was active in high school football in the early 1990s with the Amarillo Sandies. My son, Jason Lynch, played quarterback in 1990, and Barry Lynch was center in 1992, both great years. I could talk about many great games and plays, obviously good players existed at that time. However, my focus is on what has happened to those young men who played at that time, and I have been very pleased with what I see. The following is a list of players, positions and years and where they are now in trying to keep up with them through their parents, or, in fact through meeting them on the street. This list will tell you something.
1. Brandon Slay, Tascosa, 1992, noseguard and offensive guard, is training for the Olympics in Colorado Springs in wrestling. Brandon has graduated from Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
2. Jason Lynch, AHS, 1990, quarterback, is a lawyer in Amarillo at Sanders, Baker & Jesko law firm.
3. Barry Lynch, AHS, 1992, center, MBA from Texas Tech, auditor for National Credit Union Associations.
4. Brian Easley, AHS, 1991, wide receiver, General Manager of Bless Your Heart Restaurants in Amarillo.
5. Mick Byers, AHS, 1990, 1,000-yard running back, front office, Albuquerque Dukes baseball team.
6. Damon Jones, AHS, 1990, linebacker, graduate of North Texas State University, Texas Department of Public Safety.
7. Cayce Powell, AHS, 1990, receiver, attorney, in Amarillo for Burdett, Morgan law firm. (Two children - Wow!)
8. Jeff Gill, AHS, 1990, center, works in accounting division of the administration at Texas Tech. He and his wife have one little boy, Logan, and one on the way.
9. Brad Paris, AHS, 1990, tight end, graduate of Duke University, successful engineer, moving to Chicago with theatrical wife, study for graduate degree.
10. Doug Jesko, AHS, 1990, cornerback, with State Farm Insurance in Lubbock, married to Karis McCowan.
11. Scott Jesko, AHS, 1993, wide receiver, Texas Tech track star, ran against Carl Lewis in a California track meet. Just returned to Amarillo and is employed as a graphic designer.
12. Ryan Brewster, AHS, 1992, offensive lineman, Amarillo Randall County Appraisal District, striving for dental school.
13. Shannon Payne, AHS, 1992, offensive lineman, successful businessman in Amarillo. Owns Kwik Car Lube & Tune and other businesses. Married, with children.
14. Sterling Elza, AHS, 1992, lineman, graduate of Rice University, going to law school in Houston.
15. Shane Ward, AHS, 1992, running back, full tour in the U.S. Marine Corps, home construction contractor in Amarillo, recently married.
16. Bryan Paulk, AHS, 1990, 1,000-yard running back, graduate of Brown University, with CBS in New York in production.
17. Jon Belcher, AHS, 1992, defensive line, is an "RN" in Arlington, Texas.
18. Jason Montgomery, AHS, 1990, defensive lineman, is in dental school.
19. Allen Horn, AHS, 1990, cornerback, graduated medical school in May, 1999 in Houston. Married.
I could go on and on. However, the message delivered by the success and achievement of these young men is obvious. It is my belief that their success is in part attributable to the dedication and determination and courage which they exhibited on the field and the leadership skills taught them by such fine men and coaches as Larry Dippel and his staff and the other coaches in the area.
The above-named individuals unfortunately are heavy weighted to Amarillo High, only because that was our experience, but I am convinced that this phenomena of successful living radiates from all the high schools and probably all of the athletic endeavors.
Michael C. Lynch
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