| Today All Day February 25, 2010 Laredo Sports News & "Gateway" News By Nuno with No Si Con Mas C/S Buenos Dias a todos! Si a todos. I have a tear in my Sports Wire today. There is no TAMIU Basketball story on our daily newspaper. I am now trained for one each day and nada today. I miss you TAMIU basketball story maybe I will see you tomorrow I hope. How things have changed in our daily. Was there not a time when the Your Spurs (mine are the Mavericks) were always on the front page all the time. Well, they are now in the back page of our daily. Is that not a shocker. CHAMPIONS ARE CHAMPIONS. Why have our beloved boxing champions on the back page? They deserve to be in the front page with the tremendous accomplishment they had at the "Golden Gloves Championships". It would have been nice to have that story with the LEC PRO boxing announcement for a championship fight at the LEC. Sorry from a baseball purist. The Jeter story was two almost three days old. Ok, I get it Border Olympics baseball is happening. Where was a bitty bitty comment on the teams playing? Thats Why I had to come up with a section on the games today CLICK HERE TO READ THE NOTES. Again we get the mysterious no name article on the Boys basketball play offs sorry "Gateway Sports". Ge get the pollo out who writes that stuff. Oh year have not said it in a while. But someday we will get our daily to have the comics strips taken out of the Sports Section in our only daily newspaper. They do not belong with the great sports stories. Now for my fight always. Laredo athletes are in their conference indoors championships this weekend. While the two future Olympic athletes from Laredo will be in Laredo this week. It would good if they can get interviewed by the daily newspaper for a change Just to put it in order There are four conferences championships that Laredo athletes will be participating this weekend. I wonder how it will be when the full set of Laredo athletes are participating in Spring Championships. Then you will have close to 189 Laredo Athletes in Conference championships. Wow so many games in Laredo to cover this weekend. Basketball playoffs for the mens high school and all of them out of town. Clara is sure going to put some miles on her SUV. Border Olympics baseball in full swing so many games so many "STADIUM" to see the games. How does one cover so many games? Well one at a time. "See you at the games". |
| Today All Day February 26, 2010 A.D. 5:57 Am Laredo Sports News & Gateway Sports About Laredo. Buenos Dias a todos! Si todos. Because Laredo has athletes all over the country we have to start there today. While the television stations in Laredo carried a bit of the 2010 Border Olympics baseball and softball high school tournaments. They had to also place a few seconds on the out come of the high school basketball playoffs games. Some day they will be allowed to have more air time to cover all the great athletes Laredo, Texas has. Until then we are left with a void else where. IN a Galaxy Far Far Way. Laredo Athletes scored one of the best efforts in some time in university track & field championships. In two different conference In Door Championships Laredo athletes shined with Laredo colors. Brittany Talamantez the former All State Champion in power lifting from Laredo United came in 7th in South Dakota at the Great Western Conference IN Door championships on the weight. Cindy Velasquez the former All Regional UIL Track & Field champion from Laredo United scored a top 15 finish in South Dakota at the Great Western Conference In Door in the 100 meter hurdles. Perhaps the best remarkable accomplish so far this In Door season has been the running of Roger Reuweler the former UIL Regional Champion on the 4 x 400 relays for Laredo United. Roger not only has captured the imagination of media he has electrified the running boards all In Door season in 2010 for Sam Houston State. Yesterday Roger came in 6th on the Medley Relays , he came in 8th on the 800 meters. A remarkable top 10 in conference as a freshman. Then there is master long distance runner Ivan Garcia from UTSA. The former All State from Laredo Alexander came in 11th in the Southland Conference In Door Championships at 5000 meters. We leave to last Joe Sciaraffa from UTPA. Perhaps the greatest BIG MAN story in In Doors this season. While Joe was a former Linemen in high school football. He is far most a Javelin thrower. The Junior at UTPA was asked to run sprints in doors this season. At first , this was a like "are you sure coach" . Here is a very tall very big former linemen throwing a Javelin being ask to run sprints. With out any second though Joe went through the process and participated in three In door meets . Including the In Door championships. To fate he was placed to run against the 60 meter runners that have the best times indoors this season. Against Pan American games winning sprinters and against a runner who had at the time the best time in the world at 60 meters. Obviously Joe a linemen slash Javelin thrower was not expected to finish first. But he finished all his sprints. The coaches and Joe admit it is going to help his speed down the track runway Javelin throwers use when they throw. All this had a madness and we got to see a big man run against the worlds best sprinters while hanging in there with them. A story for the ages a hero to all big throwers that one of their own held their reputation well . The ability to say yes and try it not once but several times and in the In Door championships gives credit to Joe's coaches throughout his track and field career. The new nicks came in flying high from his adventure. He is not only just "Javelin Joe" or "Slick Javelin Joe". Now he is "BLURR" , 'Speedy Joe" , "Light Footed Joe" and perhaps the best new nick "Laredo's 60 Meter Man". It took guts to do it and he did it Laredo Style. "CON GANAS". Joe all of us big persons are proud of you. Thanks for representing us well. This concludes the In Door Conference Championships for Laredo athletes. But, I am not finished without asking about our daily newspaper cosistas. Wow, a Tamiu basketball story regulated to the third page. We are in shock. Third page is the best inside any paper its the page we as humans see first when we open the pages of the newspaper. Lo que pasa cuando you try to only call in for the results. Our daily missed the brilliant perfect game pitched by Tyler Doyer from San Antonio Reagan Rattlers in yesterdays 2010 Border Olympics high school baseball tournament. Not a mentioned at all. The tournament has yield how great the teams from Laredo will be this season But have to be there to see what has taken shape the first two days. Besides their photographer their reporters could have handled one or two games during the day for the daily. Yet , they continue to only call around to get the scores. Now, do we understand why we say they at times cover sports in Laredo as "Beat reporters" not journalist. Big rocks I know that I am throwing to our only daily. Besides the obvious of not having enough reporters. There are many was to get the "PULSE of Laredo Sports" by the daily. Only if they would forget the 70's style of reporting and move on to our new century. Clara your our reporter of the day. Great story on the game you covered out of town. I hope you come back to. Laredo. We need your sports reporting. Someone has to do it at the daily. Again your "Special to the Times" thank you. Again to many "Laredo Morning Times" articles with no authors name. Then there is one that even us all 48 of us here at Lrd Sports Wire were left. "E Esto". We joke about the Esperanza ghost writing for the daily but the B.O. Golf tournament had a ghost writer. No mention of an author or the famous "Laredo Morning Times" no author name as the other stories. With quotes and all from different people. Oh do tell us what new technology your using we would like a crack at that one as well. Getting quotes from the air it appears now thats spooky getting quotes and printing them and publishing them with out an author. Brilliant toy. "MAY" we use it for the out of town games we need to cover? WE will trade your new high tech gadget that gets quotes from a long distance to our sports stories leads, pictures, story lines and up to the movement coverage of sports for the chance to see and use that gadget. You know where to call us or email us. Until Tomorrow yes we love Sundays we never know what "GATEWAY" has to say or not say from the 48 of us at Lrd Sports Wire have " A pleasant tomorrow". |
| Today All Day March 8, 2010 Laredo Sports News & Gateway Sports About Laredo Buenos Dias a todos! Si toditos Laredo had perhaps one of the most busiest sports events in Laredo in some time. Most of the events were driven by Border Olympics in University Golf, Track & Field for High School and Universities . There was a golf tournament held at Casa Blanca Championship Golf Course. Coming in first was Laredo United Longhorn A Ramos. While his father was busy in San Antonio with the Longhorn basketball at UIL Region IV semi finals on Friday. Ramos continues to show how much the talented golfer from Laredo United has accomplished the last two years. There were baseball teams in high school from Laredo in tournaments and the ladies were holding their own in softball as well. Lets not forget TAMIU Basketball had both the mens and ladies in the playoffs this weekend. Along with LCC tennis , softball and baseball. No si, way to many things to cover by the few sports reporters left in Laredo. As always KGNS Pro 8 Sports with the few moments they are only allowed to show sports. Did a great job just by being able to move here and there to show some of the sporting events going on in Laredo. KLDO had a great coverage as well and they are also limited to a few moments as well. Somewhere some way those two television stations will have to give them some more moments on the air to cover the vast sporting evens now in Laredo. Border Olympics by far this weekend had more athletes in their events in Laredo. Several things stood out in the high school track portion. Do we have great hurdlers or what? Laredo had in both ladies and mens 110 hurdles two athletes that will end up in state this year with the times they posted at the BO Track meet. Gonzalez for Alexander and Velasquez sure jump fast and run fast as well. While Gonzalez reached state a year ago. Its Velasquez turn this year and he is turning heads with his remarkable accomplishments this year. As we reported first last week as it happen Rick "The Slick" Velasquez had broken a long standing record on the triple jump with a huge leap of 44' 04" . A city record as we stated. We got to speak with Velasquez father Rick El Senior AKA "BLUE" as it happened. He was thrilled THE SLICK had reached this early in the track season a remarkable jump. WE quickly checked the data bank for city records ( A copy I have on my office wall with all the city records). I called "Blue" back and told him it was a city record. What a way to go into the Border Olympics with a city record in his belt. Rick "The Slick" Velasquez did not disappoint this weekend. He came in first on the 110 hurdles and 3rd on the 100 meter dash 4th on the triple jump and was part of the relay teams as well. The Slick is the point mans for United for this track & field event for sure. Well I can not finish without speaking about sports coverage by our daily newspaper. Something that everyone seems to have found they must read each time . The last time we had over 18,000 views of the comments. Daily our beloved daily newspaper. (I am being nice I am saying Beloved).. Orta ves we got the results of the Javelina H.S. Invitational results. I know I been ill and out a few days but I remember we read the same story the Monday of last week. Considering what a great weekend it was for Laredo sports with all the million of sporting events here in Laredo alone. Plus the out of town tournaments as well we figured we would get a special section written by the famous "Special To the Times" . While we were in respectful mode yesterday. The daily did provide a front sports page picture of track & field (the sport with more Laredo Athletes than any other sport) and they went ahead and had a FULL PAGE devoted to the final results of the Border Olympics track and field event. We had a tear in our beer for sure. The page is now part of the history of Laredo and we framed it in glass frame for all eternity. "SI se puede" was written in magic marker on top of the frame as a reminder when our Daily wants to they can do what ever they have the urge to cover sports in Laredo. Which brings me to a my only passing shot, my brush back pitch, my hard cross check (hockey) . I was researching the other day and I had going back 12 years of sports coverage in Laredo at my fingers tips on my lap top. It took several hours looking back at the coverage the daily used to have in Laredo sports. I noticed they used to really help a lot in many ways when they would always place the weekly golf tournaments the Sun Downers would have. Out of each tournament the Sun Downers generate income to offer scholarships to local students. Since of lately the Daily has stopped doing this on their famous Sports Shorts. Please find it in your ways to help the Sun Downers and other organizations when they have their golf tournaments by having them on the Sports Briefs. All those groups not just the Sun Downers generate a lot of money if the daily would place the tournaments on the Sports Briefs. I have started to finish a Face Book group call "LMT DAILY Bring back 3rd N Short". So far we have the frame work for the FB group but the "Natives" want me to create " Why Does LMT Not Cover My Mi Hijito & Mi Hijita". Seems there is more anguish over that one. I will stick to the first one for now. As always now I will have to visit my sports advisor . I will be going through withdraw not having a story on Dust Devil basketball daily even when it was "NADA QUE VER" happenings with it. I would figure there would have been more follow up stories on the hundreds of dramas that happen this weekend in sports action in Laredo. We were left by the daily with only a retold story of track meet in Kingsville that is a week old and one story in ladies basketball (No surprise its not Tamiu) it was the All District Selection for Ladies basketball in UIL District 29-5A. I leave you with a little sports humor. While I was watching the Border Olympics long jump. The coaches from the local high schools were all there . Some were helping as volunteers taking down the jumps. When on the announcement went up on the next jumper. The BO official calls out Josh Washington. Nombre everyone's head picked up. Players from Laredo, Martin, Laredo Alexander , Laredo United and Eagle Pass started to look at each other. The Official looks at me and we both started to have a chuckle . We were all thinking the same thing. No one could catch up to Washington all football season. Here he was standing all alone ready to run down the long jump track and the coach looks at me and says "what are you thinking" I said what the rest of us here are "here is the chance to catch Washington " everyone one around us laughed understanding how great of athlete Josh Washington is and the terror everyone faced trying to catch him in football. The Del Rio Coach was laughing at our comments with us and said that Josh has signed a letter of intent to play football at Texas A&M Kingsville to play football. Along with three other Del Rio Rams players. Now its someone else that has to catch Josh. Good Luck no one in district bi district and area could. Josh did not disappoint on the long jump. Washington came in second to a jumper from Corpus Christi Carrol. With the jump Josh Washington leads all jumpers in district 29 5A. A feat they all have to work on if they want to catch Josh Washington. The fastest man in Del Rio, Texas and district 29 5A is now the one to catch on the long jump. Catch him if you can... |