40 Acres Sports

Priest Holmes hosts Celebrity Weekend 2008 in San Antonio. Fundraiser featured a football game, basketball game, and a concert.

NFL Live Breaks Down the AFC South. Apparently everyone but the Titans thinks they should have picked up a receiver for VY.

Summer update: Ryan Palmer. The one veteran in the secondary should play an important leadership role this season.

Great race by Texas senior [tag]Leo Manzano[/tag] in last weekend’s NCAA Track and Field Championships. He leads the 1500m race wire to wire and has an incredible kick at the end to pull away easily. I’m not a big track guy but watching him run the last lap of that race got me fired up as a Longhorn fan.

Watch the race below:

Interview with Manzano after the race:

Manzano is an incredible athlete. He also won a national title in the 1500m in 2005. Congrats Leo on the big win and good luck in your professional career.

John Chiles to double as QB-WR? Rumors are Harris will be 2nd string but Chiles will get his hands on the ball often.

Leonard Davis finds a level playing field with Dallas Cowboys. In one season he’s gone from draft bust to one of the best guards in football.

DJ Augustin gives Blazers another talking point. He probably won’t still be there at #13 but they’re reportedly very impressed.

ESPN names Darrell Royal the Face of the Program. Vote for him, Bevo, Vince, Earl, or Ricky to share your opinion.

I’m at the mall with my wife and had a Big 12-related observation. Here in North Dallas in the big sporting goods store (Dick’s) there’s a ton of Longhorns gear and some [tag]Oklahoma[/tag] stuff, but there’s very little A&M apparel at all. There’s a whole wall of Texas and OU stuff with two Aggie t-shirts in the corner. There was more [tag]Texas Tech[/tag] and LSU stuff than that.

It’s even worse at the sports memorabilia store. Some very cool and very expensive Vince Young and Kevin Durant stuff and some Ricky Williams and Earl Campbell autographed prints and mini-helmets. The Sooners are represented solely by Adrian Peterson and the Aggies have absolutely nothing. Think about it, what Aggie memorabilia can even A&M fans collect? Six year old Dat Nguyen Cowboys jerseys?

Dallas is three hours away from Austin, College Station, and Norman yet there’s absolutely no Texas A&M presence here. Just thought that was an interesting real world observation about the state of the three programs.

NFL rookie camp: Limas Sweed. Former Horn talks about his experience this summer in Pittsburgh.