If U booed Mack Beggs: The UIL birth cert.rule made him wrestle girls when he wanted to wrestle boys. At NCAA level, he'd wrestle boys
Jim Vertuno
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Jim Vertuno
@JimVertuno
AP journalist for 29 yrs. Reporting Texas sports & full-contact politics: Longhorns, Legislature, F1, guns, mayhem and the SEC. Florida A&M grad '92
- Sam Ehlinger on Texas at 7-5: "Rome wasn't built in a day. If you had told Texas fans three years ago that we would have seven wins and headed to a bowl game and had a chance to win eight, I think people would be pretty happy ... Overall, we did a great job." #HookEm
- Kohlhausen's dad died this season. Says he convinced security to let his mom on the field where they cried together. #hornedfrogs
- Woke up from a nightmare that we all watched the worst Super Bowl ever ...
- On the day @GregAbbott_TX issues new order banning vaccine mandates, Texas hits 13,928 COVID patients in hospitals and 233 newly reported deaths. Here's the chart .. txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboard…
- Outside family reunification center, a man walked out of the building sobbing “she is gone” into his phone. Behind the building, by herself a woman is talking/screaming into her phone, shaking her fist and stamping her feet
- Tom Herman may rip off 100 wins in a row after today, but 6-5 in year 3 is a perfect example of why a school doesn’t need to give a contract extension after year 2. Texas is a destination job. It could have waited ...
- Houston first major city with every major variant of novel coronavirus:
- Ok, I’ve got 26 years at AP. Here’s an AP story about AP firing an AP reporter over AP’s anonymous sourcing policy. Based on …. Anonymous sources.
- In times like this, I think of the AP writer who has to delete, delete, delete, take a deep breath and start over. #MSUvsMICH
- Graham Harrell to Texas as OC? You know who had really good special teams in 2019? Houston: #1 in blocked kicks, 0 blocked kicks allowed, #1 in blocked punts, 0 blocked punts allowed, #17 KO return defense, #2 net punting ... special teams coordinator ... Blake Gideon. #HookEm
- Edward Michael Vertuno Sr. 1932-2022. Father, husband, educator, veteran and the kindest man you’d ever hope to meet.
- Texas Gov was once so suspicious of US military maneuvers in Texas, he sent Texas State Guard to monitor the situation and “protect” citizens back in 2015. #JadeHelmThis is the most offensive thing I've ever heard. No one should ever question the loyalty or professionalism of the Texas National Guard. @TexasGuard I authorized more than 1,000 to go to DC. I'll never do it again if they are disrespected like this. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
