My son Brice was picked to participate in one of those TV interest spots on a local station last week.
He is interesting because he's not only a pretty good football player, but carries a 100.9 GPA. Obviously, I'm very proud of him!
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
12 June 2013
08 May 2013
Will Makes Local Sports Show
My son Will was featured in the local sports show here Monday night. In this video, you can see him scoring in the win against Plainview (he's #16), then running off the field and showing off his blond hair. The segment he's in starts at about 2:12.
UPDATE (5/13): Looks like they took the video down...bummer. I don't know where to find it.
KFDA - NewsChannel 10 / Amarillo News, Weather, Sports
UPDATE (5/13): Looks like they took the video down...bummer. I don't know where to find it.
KFDA - NewsChannel 10 / Amarillo News, Weather, Sports
11 February 2013
Another Successful Season
Well, little Ryan finished his first season of school basketball tonight, and played a good game to boot. We are very proud of him and his team, which won more games than any of the other Jr. High boys teams.
Good job, Rino!
Good job, Rino!
09 August 2012
Neat Article on Allyson Felix's Father
Most everyone knows that Allyson Felix won the gold medal in the women's 200m in London. Not many know about her dad. He's a professor at John MacArthur's Master's Seminary.
Here's a neat short article about them.
Here's another article with some more details about her life.
Here's a neat short article about them.
Here's another article with some more details about her life.
01 August 2012
You Cheat, You Lose
I'm very amused by some of the reactions to the expulsion from the Olympic Games of 8 badminton players who cheated. (Yes, cheated...purposefully losing a match to improve your draw in the next round is cheating.)
Then, in a classic effort of self-justification, some are blaming the problem on the tournament format. That's like Adam blaming God for giving him the woman. Didn't work then, won't work now.
Here's a summary story.
Then, in a classic effort of self-justification, some are blaming the problem on the tournament format. That's like Adam blaming God for giving him the woman. Didn't work then, won't work now.
Here's a summary story.
04 April 2012
Congrats to the Baylor University Lady Bears!
The Baylor women's basketball team finished 40-0 this season, winning the national championship last night, 80-61 over Notre Dame. Congrats to the Lady Bears!
I got my master's degree at Baylor, and met my wife there. It was a great two years. This was in 1988-89, the last part of their glory years in football under Coach Grant Teaff. After Coach Teaff retired, things went downhill, and they were down and out for a long time, so it's great to see them back winning across the board.
One interesting statistic is, their 'Big 3' teams- football, men's basketball, and women's basketball won a total of 80 games this season. That's the most of any NCAA program in history. That's impressive. Maybe even more impressive than a girl who dunks.
I got my master's degree at Baylor, and met my wife there. It was a great two years. This was in 1988-89, the last part of their glory years in football under Coach Grant Teaff. After Coach Teaff retired, things went downhill, and they were down and out for a long time, so it's great to see them back winning across the board.
One interesting statistic is, their 'Big 3' teams- football, men's basketball, and women's basketball won a total of 80 games this season. That's the most of any NCAA program in history. That's impressive. Maybe even more impressive than a girl who dunks.
05 March 2012
Proud of Those Boys
Proud Dad alert: My 16-year-old twins, along with one of their friends, coached my 12-year-old's city league basketball team this year. On Saturday, they won the championship, beating the Orange Team 36-12.
This was an impressive little team. They could play defense like no other 6th-7th grade non-school team I've ever seen. By chance or by plan, this team was a perfect storm defensively. Quick guards, smart forwards who understand how to play help defense, the boys' ability to play either a zone or man defense, and play both in either a half-court set or a full-court press, and a really tall kid (a 6'2" sixth grader) to play safety were the ingredients. Look at the halftime score in this photo-
They finished with an 8-1 record, with the only loss coming when our leading scorer was absent. My wife and I have coached Ryan's teams for the past few years, but decided this year to turn it over to the big brothers, as all were in favor (Ryan says he has the best coaches EVER this season!) and Jennifer and I thought the older boys needed a 'growth opportunity'. Funny, I've only won a single championship in all my years of coaching basketball, and the boys win one their first try. Good on them. (They've got some work to do to catch me in baseball championships, though!)
Here are the team members:
#1 Kyler Strain, F
#2 Nick Lowry, G
#3 Bobby Williams, G
#4 Greg Garrison, F
#5 Hayden Willeford, G
#11 Michael Truitt, C
#12 Ryan Boren, F
#13 Tommy Williams, F
The coaches are Tyler Stary, and my sons Will Boren and Brice Boren. (Will isn't in the bottom photo because he had to leave for a HS baseball game. He's in the purple jacket in the middle photo. Brice is in the blue shirt and Tyler in the grey shirt.)
Good job, boys!! Very proud!!
This was an impressive little team. They could play defense like no other 6th-7th grade non-school team I've ever seen. By chance or by plan, this team was a perfect storm defensively. Quick guards, smart forwards who understand how to play help defense, the boys' ability to play either a zone or man defense, and play both in either a half-court set or a full-court press, and a really tall kid (a 6'2" sixth grader) to play safety were the ingredients. Look at the halftime score in this photo-
They finished with an 8-1 record, with the only loss coming when our leading scorer was absent. My wife and I have coached Ryan's teams for the past few years, but decided this year to turn it over to the big brothers, as all were in favor (Ryan says he has the best coaches EVER this season!) and Jennifer and I thought the older boys needed a 'growth opportunity'. Funny, I've only won a single championship in all my years of coaching basketball, and the boys win one their first try. Good on them. (They've got some work to do to catch me in baseball championships, though!)
Here are the team members:
#1 Kyler Strain, F
#2 Nick Lowry, G
#3 Bobby Williams, G
#4 Greg Garrison, F
#5 Hayden Willeford, G
#11 Michael Truitt, C
#12 Ryan Boren, F
#13 Tommy Williams, F
The coaches are Tyler Stary, and my sons Will Boren and Brice Boren. (Will isn't in the bottom photo because he had to leave for a HS baseball game. He's in the purple jacket in the middle photo. Brice is in the blue shirt and Tyler in the grey shirt.)
Good job, boys!! Very proud!!
22 February 2012
An Old Crush in Common (and a funny story)
Back when I was in high school, I had a short-term crush on a famous girl. (Ha ha, right?) She was the point guard for Louisiana Tech, and being a basketball player myself, I admired her for both her talents on the court (two national championships) and how cute she was.
Turns out, I wasn't the only one. Seems rock-star country singer Trace Adkins had the same crush. Watch the intro to this song and hear about it. Now she's a rock star as well, with the Lady Bears 28-0 and ranked #1 in the nation.
At least he finally got to meet her!
Here's the whole story.
Turns out, I wasn't the only one. Seems rock-star country singer Trace Adkins had the same crush. Watch the intro to this song and hear about it. Now she's a rock star as well, with the Lady Bears 28-0 and ranked #1 in the nation.
At least he finally got to meet her!
Here's the whole story.
22 January 2012
He Died of a Broken Heart
So much sadness today with the passing of one of the men I respected most over many years, Joe Paterno. There's a lot of anger on my part at how he was so poorly treated that I'd had really better be careful what I write.
I'll try to be more retrospective later; right now, I'm hoping every trustee who voted to fire him is unemployed by the end of the year.
There's a lot of talk already about legacy. I don't think the recent events will tarnish his legacy among anyone who has an ounce of fairness or decency in them. I do hope the one legacy that comes out of this is that John Surma, the trustee who was so happy to go on camera and announce the firing of Paterno, carries that video clip with him for the rest of his life. (Like I said, still a lot of anger.)
We'll miss you, JoPa.
I'll try to be more retrospective later; right now, I'm hoping every trustee who voted to fire him is unemployed by the end of the year.
There's a lot of talk already about legacy. I don't think the recent events will tarnish his legacy among anyone who has an ounce of fairness or decency in them. I do hope the one legacy that comes out of this is that John Surma, the trustee who was so happy to go on camera and announce the firing of Paterno, carries that video clip with him for the rest of his life. (Like I said, still a lot of anger.)
We'll miss you, JoPa.
12 January 2012
11 January 2012
How To Be A Team Player
Here is Lance Berkman accepting the Sports Personality of the Year award from the Missouri Athletic Club.
He explains the how and the why of his success as a team player. This is an outstanding few moments for anyone to watch. I highly recommend it! He tells some stories to make his points, and they are a lot of fun to hear.
I found this on Pete Scribner's Sola Gratia blog (recommended!) and that's where the link takes you. You can also pull it up in YouTube if you prefer. Thanks for posting this, Pete!
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He explains the how and the why of his success as a team player. This is an outstanding few moments for anyone to watch. I highly recommend it! He tells some stories to make his points, and they are a lot of fun to hear.
I found this on Pete Scribner's Sola Gratia blog (recommended!) and that's where the link takes you. You can also pull it up in YouTube if you prefer. Thanks for posting this, Pete!
03 January 2012
If'n God's Name Was 'Jerry'
Living in Texas, one can be overwhelmed by the amount of football in the culture. It's certainly not all bad, and I enjoy a great deal of it, especially the nicer side of 'Friday Night Lights' (the high-school football world) and college football.
The whole high school football culture here (yes, it is a culture: when I was in high school, the coaches said, 'There's only two sports in Texas...football and spring football') is fun. Small towns of a thousand people have stadiums that seat three thousand, they they are full every Friday night. The backroads, sometimes thirty or forty miles between towns, are bumper-to-bumper at 5pm and again at 10pm on Fridays. It's a sight to see. (Yes, there are some bad aspects, but for the most part, sanity reigns and it is a lot of fun.) The Class 4A state championship game was played in front of over 43,000 fans!
College football in Texas can also be fun. Texas is different than many other states, as there are more Division I programs here than most states can boast. Some of the best are less than a hundred miles apart (shoutin' distance in Texas), much like the 'golden triangle' of basketball near Raleigh, NC. The most recent brouhaha with Texas A&M leaving the Big 12 for the SEC has certainly upset some of this, and mostly for the negative for Texans, but that's another story.
Pro football, on the other hand, isn't quite so much fun. The Houston Texans have finally made the playoffs, which is great, but they'll go in without some key players and likely won't last long. In any case, the Texans will always play second fiddle to the team in Dallas.
As Matt Chandler once put it, the largest pagan temple in America sits in Dallas. Every other Sunday, a hundred thousand people show up to worship there. People that would be loathe to put $20 in the plate at their 'other' church will throw down six- or eight-hundred bucks at their worship service at Cowboys' Stadium. Those who would complain about sitting through a 15- minute sermonette will sit for four-plus hours absorbing the sex and violence before them at the pagan temple. If you've ever been to Jerry's house, you know that the scantily-clad Cowboys' cheerleaders on the largest TV screen in the world does indeed qualify as, 'sex'. I'd tell you what my 12-year-old daughter said about it, but this is a family venue, and I'd be embarrassed to print it.
All that's to say, I've gotten a pretty big kick out of the angry rhetoric coming out of Cowboys' fans the past few days. The 'Pokes lost to the Giants and will miss the playoffs. People are angry at Jerry, the god they seem to worship (follow the money!), for not stepping back and letting a GM run the team. Everything he touches seems to turn to gold, albeit with a bit of an amoral slant. His team just gets worse. (They still make him a fortune, though.) If Jerry Jones is really interested in fixing the Cowboys' woes, he needs to treat himself just like he treated Tom Landry back in 1989 (he fired him unceremoniously).
The irony is, these folks will still plunk down their kids' college-money to watch Jerry's team (and line Jerry's pockets) Sunday after Sunday. The level of commitment is staggering. Just imagine if Jerry actually did something good for them. It makes me wonder why we don't see the same level of commitment from those who claim to worship Yahweh, who has indeed done good for us. In fact, many who worship Jerry every Sunday are some of the same folks who claim to worship Yahweh, but if you look at where they attend fellowship on Sundays, and where they spend their money, it's hard to accept the claims.
I've stepped on enough Texas toes for now. We'll see how the off-season goes.
At least with the God I worship, He'll never need to fire himself to make things better.
Will Boren (my son), Canyon HS 2011 WR/FS
The whole high school football culture here (yes, it is a culture: when I was in high school, the coaches said, 'There's only two sports in Texas...football and spring football') is fun. Small towns of a thousand people have stadiums that seat three thousand, they they are full every Friday night. The backroads, sometimes thirty or forty miles between towns, are bumper-to-bumper at 5pm and again at 10pm on Fridays. It's a sight to see. (Yes, there are some bad aspects, but for the most part, sanity reigns and it is a lot of fun.) The Class 4A state championship game was played in front of over 43,000 fans!
Southlake Carroll Dragons- Class 5A State Champs
College football in Texas can also be fun. Texas is different than many other states, as there are more Division I programs here than most states can boast. Some of the best are less than a hundred miles apart (shoutin' distance in Texas), much like the 'golden triangle' of basketball near Raleigh, NC. The most recent brouhaha with Texas A&M leaving the Big 12 for the SEC has certainly upset some of this, and mostly for the negative for Texans, but that's another story.
Pro football, on the other hand, isn't quite so much fun. The Houston Texans have finally made the playoffs, which is great, but they'll go in without some key players and likely won't last long. In any case, the Texans will always play second fiddle to the team in Dallas.
As Matt Chandler once put it, the largest pagan temple in America sits in Dallas. Every other Sunday, a hundred thousand people show up to worship there. People that would be loathe to put $20 in the plate at their 'other' church will throw down six- or eight-hundred bucks at their worship service at Cowboys' Stadium. Those who would complain about sitting through a 15- minute sermonette will sit for four-plus hours absorbing the sex and violence before them at the pagan temple. If you've ever been to Jerry's house, you know that the scantily-clad Cowboys' cheerleaders on the largest TV screen in the world does indeed qualify as, 'sex'. I'd tell you what my 12-year-old daughter said about it, but this is a family venue, and I'd be embarrassed to print it.
All that's to say, I've gotten a pretty big kick out of the angry rhetoric coming out of Cowboys' fans the past few days. The 'Pokes lost to the Giants and will miss the playoffs. People are angry at Jerry, the god they seem to worship (follow the money!), for not stepping back and letting a GM run the team. Everything he touches seems to turn to gold, albeit with a bit of an amoral slant. His team just gets worse. (They still make him a fortune, though.) If Jerry Jones is really interested in fixing the Cowboys' woes, he needs to treat himself just like he treated Tom Landry back in 1989 (he fired him unceremoniously).
The irony is, these folks will still plunk down their kids' college-money to watch Jerry's team (and line Jerry's pockets) Sunday after Sunday. The level of commitment is staggering. Just imagine if Jerry actually did something good for them. It makes me wonder why we don't see the same level of commitment from those who claim to worship Yahweh, who has indeed done good for us. In fact, many who worship Jerry every Sunday are some of the same folks who claim to worship Yahweh, but if you look at where they attend fellowship on Sundays, and where they spend their money, it's hard to accept the claims.
I've stepped on enough Texas toes for now. We'll see how the off-season goes.
At least with the God I worship, He'll never need to fire himself to make things better.
08 December 2011
04 November 2011
Once Upon a Time...
Jonathan Parnell wrote this story over on the Desiring God blog. It was too good not to repost. (Sorry, Rangers fans!)
20 June 2011
LeBron and the Insanity of Professional Sports
There's a lot of gold hidden in this little YouTube rant. Get past the first minute or two, and it's well worth the watch.
01 April 2011
You talkin' to me??? (Go Cards!!)
Great way (sarcastically speaking) to start the day...I got called a punk over on the Pyromaniacs blog.
We'll see who's the punk at the end of the season! Go Cards!!
We'll see who's the punk at the end of the season! Go Cards!!
28 March 2011
Spring Rolls On
Well, March is almost over, and I still don't have much to say. I've been so busy going to my sons' baseball games, I don't have time to think.
A few tidbits-
I just saw that a Southwest Airlines flight from Orlando to Chicago had to make an emergency landing in Louisville. Apparently, there were some smoking wires in the cockpit. They should arrest those wires. I understand it's a federal offense to smoke on a domestic flight. <>
I just found out today that the head football coach is going to move my son, Will up to varsity for Spring football. He's just a freshman. So now I'm both very proud and very nervous. Those other boys are very, very, big. And fast.
I just got a promotion to full professor. I'm pretty excited about that...it's the highest academic rank one can achieve short of retiring and being named Emeritus professor. And as one retired gentleman explained once, 'Emeritus' is from the Latin: E means your out, and meritus means you deserved it!
I just had the honor of co-approving the money for a new state champion wall sign for the high school gym. (I'm one of the VPs for the Canyon Eagle booster club.) The Lady Eagles went 38-0 this year; were the only undefeated team in the state of Texas, boys or girls; and the state championship game was Coach Lombard's 1100th career win. He hasn't lost a hundred yet (98 loses). That's almost unimaginable. He's quite a coach, and a great Christian man who brought glory to God in the process of winning this title. Hats off. This was his 14th state title here at Canyon. Wow. On top of that, the Lady Eagles are now ranked in the top 12 nationally by USA Today magazine.
Our interim pastor preached on hell yesterday. You don't hear that very often anymore. Contrary to what we hear, everyone I talked to at church found it to be a positive, not a negative, sermon. Good job, Dr. Shaw!
We only have two more lessons left in 2 Peter. That means I have to find something to do for the summer. Last summer, I used a six-week video series called, Chosen By God with R. C. Sproul. Maybe I can find something like it for a different tact for early summer. Then, by request, we are going to do some systematic theology, starting with the doctrine of prayer. I'm looking forward to that study, even though it will be a tough prep, as I'll get some magnificent Bible study from it.
Just saw a pair of funny tweets from Fred Thompson- "Reporter at Biden fundraiser locked in closet. Only allowed out during Biden speech. Now that's what I call adding insult to injury."
And, "Hillary: U.S. won’t go into Syria the way it has in Libya. Oh, so Obama's going to go in with a plan?"
Good ones, Fred!
A few tidbits-
I just saw that a Southwest Airlines flight from Orlando to Chicago had to make an emergency landing in Louisville. Apparently, there were some smoking wires in the cockpit. They should arrest those wires. I understand it's a federal offense to smoke on a domestic flight. <
I just found out today that the head football coach is going to move my son, Will up to varsity for Spring football. He's just a freshman. So now I'm both very proud and very nervous. Those other boys are very, very, big. And fast.
I just got a promotion to full professor. I'm pretty excited about that...it's the highest academic rank one can achieve short of retiring and being named Emeritus professor. And as one retired gentleman explained once, 'Emeritus' is from the Latin: E means your out, and meritus means you deserved it!
I just had the honor of co-approving the money for a new state champion wall sign for the high school gym. (I'm one of the VPs for the Canyon Eagle booster club.) The Lady Eagles went 38-0 this year; were the only undefeated team in the state of Texas, boys or girls; and the state championship game was Coach Lombard's 1100th career win. He hasn't lost a hundred yet (98 loses). That's almost unimaginable. He's quite a coach, and a great Christian man who brought glory to God in the process of winning this title. Hats off. This was his 14th state title here at Canyon. Wow. On top of that, the Lady Eagles are now ranked in the top 12 nationally by USA Today magazine.
Our interim pastor preached on hell yesterday. You don't hear that very often anymore. Contrary to what we hear, everyone I talked to at church found it to be a positive, not a negative, sermon. Good job, Dr. Shaw!
We only have two more lessons left in 2 Peter. That means I have to find something to do for the summer. Last summer, I used a six-week video series called, Chosen By God with R. C. Sproul. Maybe I can find something like it for a different tact for early summer. Then, by request, we are going to do some systematic theology, starting with the doctrine of prayer. I'm looking forward to that study, even though it will be a tough prep, as I'll get some magnificent Bible study from it.
Just saw a pair of funny tweets from Fred Thompson- "Reporter at Biden fundraiser locked in closet. Only allowed out during Biden speech. Now that's what I call adding insult to injury."
And, "Hillary: U.S. won’t go into Syria the way it has in Libya. Oh, so Obama's going to go in with a plan?"
Good ones, Fred!
30 November 2010
What Was Stevie Johnson Thinking? (Nothing to do with the dropped pass!)
Erik Raymond had a nice analysis of what Stevie Johnson said on his twitter account after dropping the pass against the Steelers Sunday. Before we jump all over Johnson, we need to read the analysis carefully, because we will see some of ourselves in what Johnson said/did if we are honest.
Here's the link.
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Here's the link.
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31 July 2009
Football in the Air
The beginning of August always signals the start of football season. Its too bad it starts that early...I remember when I was young there was always a few leaves changing and the mornings were cooler when football was cranking up. Still, it is my favorite season of the year, both because of the sport and the change in weather with the accompanying colors in nature.
I know baseball is supposed to be the American sport, and I love baseball. In fact, I've coached youth baseball every year for the past nine years, and I love coaching it. But for some reason, it just doesn't have the 'freshness' of the football season. Maybe it's because I'm a college professor, and the start of the Fall term has always been the most exciting part of the college year. Or maybe it's because I'm a hunter and love the onset of the Fall hunting season. It might even be because I've always been a bit cold natured, and find the heat of Summer less tolerable than the cold of Winter. In any case, this is the season that brings the most excitement to me. The marching bands, the purple and white colors of the local high school all over town, kids going back to school (hey, that may be it!)...it's all exciting to me.
See you at the stadium!
I know baseball is supposed to be the American sport, and I love baseball. In fact, I've coached youth baseball every year for the past nine years, and I love coaching it. But for some reason, it just doesn't have the 'freshness' of the football season. Maybe it's because I'm a college professor, and the start of the Fall term has always been the most exciting part of the college year. Or maybe it's because I'm a hunter and love the onset of the Fall hunting season. It might even be because I've always been a bit cold natured, and find the heat of Summer less tolerable than the cold of Winter. In any case, this is the season that brings the most excitement to me. The marching bands, the purple and white colors of the local high school all over town, kids going back to school (hey, that may be it!)...it's all exciting to me.
See you at the stadium!
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