40 Acres Sports

UT Comp Sci to unveil supercomputer on a chip. The TRIPS processor is capable of performing up to 1,024 instructions simultaneously.

Tully Janszen and Clint Haney are now competitive bass fishing. Janszen could go in late rounds of draft as deep snapper.

As an NFL fan, this Saturday is the second biggest day of the season and like many fans I’ll be bunkered down in front of the TV to watch the entire first day of the NFL Draft. Make the first round a little more interesting by making your own projections for the first 15 picks.

Use this link to sign up for the ESPN NFL Draft Forecast and you’ll join the “BevoSports.com” group. You’ll need a free ESPN account to play but our group is a public one so anyone can sign up. Feel free to invite your friends to the group. The picks lock in at 10:55 a.m. Saturday morning.

Sign up now and join our group so that my wife doesn’t win this like she did our NCAA Tourney pool.

As a freshman [tag]Kevin Durant[/tag] had the best season ever for a Longhorn basketball player. [tag]Colt McCoy[/tag] broke Texas passing records despite missing a game due to injury and only being a redshirt freshman. Sophomore baseball star [tag]Kyle Russell[/tag] has set baseball power records with plenty of games left to play in the season; It’s a great time to be a Texas fan and we’re lucky to get a chance to see all three of these guys play for the Horns in a single year.

Vote below on which one of the three amazing Texas athletes has had (is having) the best season:

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Texas right fielder [tag]Kyle Russell[/tag] continued his incredible record setting season for the Horns by hitting for the cycle against UT-Pan American. And he did it in only seven innings as the game was called early to allow UT-Pan Am to get out of town before El Niño hit.

Russell started off the game with a two-run homer in the first. He then picked up the toughest component of the cycle by hitting a triple in the bottom of the fifth. He added a double in the sixth and completed the feat by singling in a run in the seventh. Russell commented on his cycle, “It’s the first cycle I’ve ever hit, to do it at home in front of the burnt orange nation is really special.” He also finished the game with a five RBIs.

If Russell can stay hot and runners can get on base in front of him, the Longhorns should be in great shape to make a run out another national title. Kevin Durant may be the best basketball player to ever play at Texas, but right now Kyle Russell is putting on an even more impressive performance. He’s well on his way to earning player of the year honors of his own.

It’s not new but I was just found this 2005 national championship season highlight video up on YouTube:

Great use of music and love the black and white and the quotes at the very beginning. I can’t wait for the season to begin (both for the Horns and VY and the Titans.)

Video by WelcomeToAustin on Orangebloods.com.

Grant Teaff wants NCAA to modify text messaging ruling. Doesn’t like the all or nothing approach.

Pete Schenkel was the key in keeping Texas-OU at Cotton Bowl. I was shocked at hearing the news.

ESPN NBA Mock Draft 2007, only team with good chance of winning lottery that takes Durant is Milwaukee.

Oklahoma has declared the watermelon their official state vegetable. In case you weren’t sure, the watermelon isn’t a vegetable. It’s a fruit and it has always been a fruit. Oklahoma lawmakers disagree with science:

Sen. Don Barrington, R-Lawton, sponsored the bill in the Senate. “The controversy on whether watermelon is a fruit or vegetable has been officially decided by the Oklahoma Legislature,” Barrington said. He said watermelon comes from the cucumber and gourd families, which are classified as vegetables.

I hate to break it to Senator Barrington but the cucumber is a fruit too.

Webster’s dictionary vaguely describes a vegetable as “anything made or obtained from plants.” Of course using that definition sugar, rubber, and marijuana could all be considered vegetables. Maybe they could have named a cotton t-shirt the state vegetable. People from [tag]Oklahoma[/tag] are stupid.

Next week: Oklahoma declares the dolphin the official state fish.