A celebrity sighting kicked off an eyeful of observations Friday evening in Austin as the Demon football team hunkered down at their hotel getting ready for today's visit to Texas State.
With the Demon Sports Network crew at the renowned Iron Works BBQ on the banks of the Colorado River, we noticed actor Evan Handler on his own in line ordering up.
Handler is best known for his supporting role in the HBO series Sex in the City. Now he's got a prime role in the HBO series Californication. Friday night he was flying solo for dinner, and was polite and gracious when congratulated for his success by Patrick Netherton.
Either that or he was relieved we weren't asking if he was gonna eat all those ribs.
The real eyecatchers, however, were the unknowns. Each Halloween night, downtown Austin fills to the brim with costumed revelers. As Netherton observed, it's like Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, except with wider streets and no beads.
Seen on the street: a photo being taken of Superman meeting Batman and Spiderman (or a moment, I felt the world was a safe place again!) ... too many Teletubbies for my taste ... a Titantic group, with one walking in a model of the ship going down, along with a captain and a couple of distressed and presumably drowned maidens ... a group in cubes dressed as Tetris ... several different characters from the NBC TV series Heroes ... a lot of '70s costumes ... also, pirate gear was very popular this year ... and plenty of gouls, hooded gothic characters, and a fair sampling of witches and such ... there was Fiona from Shrek, the Stock Market Crash, one of our own (not one of the football team party) dressed as the villian in Scream, but you'll be glad to know that as popular as any getup were Demons. Various styles of Demons were on the prowl, none in football gear, but lots of horns and such!
We're about to head to lunch and then down to San Marcos, about a half-hour drive south on I-35.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Renovations all over
Workers are placing tape on the basketball court in Prather Coliseum, preparing to begin painting the new floor design.
There's a deadline of sorts - there's a Fellowship of Christian Athletes luncheon in the arena on Monday, which is already being planned for the volleyball court end of the coliseum.
And the Lady Demon basketball team is hoping to play an exhibition game in Prather on Wednesday night. There's a chance it could shift to Friday night if the floor's not ready in time for Wednesday.
Across the street at the Demon Diamond, the wooden fences along the outfield foul lines are gone and there's extensive work underway to the backstop and throughout the complex. Later, the old wooden stands in the Outfield Club are going to be torn down and replaced with soundly-built new ones along the lines of the outstanding structure engineered by Dr. Ron McBride and friends.
There's a deadline of sorts - there's a Fellowship of Christian Athletes luncheon in the arena on Monday, which is already being planned for the volleyball court end of the coliseum.
And the Lady Demon basketball team is hoping to play an exhibition game in Prather on Wednesday night. There's a chance it could shift to Friday night if the floor's not ready in time for Wednesday.
Across the street at the Demon Diamond, the wooden fences along the outfield foul lines are gone and there's extensive work underway to the backstop and throughout the complex. Later, the old wooden stands in the Outfield Club are going to be torn down and replaced with soundly-built new ones along the lines of the outstanding structure engineered by Dr. Ron McBride and friends.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Sanding the floor
You wouldn't recognize the basketball court in Prather Coliseum now.
It's been sanded clean of paint. That's the first step in getting a new court design, which is needed due to the change on the 3-point line, moving back a foot for this year in men's basketball.
The floor will be ready in time for next Thursday's Lady Demon exhibition game. That game was to have been next Wednesday night, but was moved back a day so the NSU team could have a day of practice in its own arena.
It's been sanded clean of paint. That's the first step in getting a new court design, which is needed due to the change on the 3-point line, moving back a foot for this year in men's basketball.
The floor will be ready in time for next Thursday's Lady Demon exhibition game. That game was to have been next Wednesday night, but was moved back a day so the NSU team could have a day of practice in its own arena.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sam Houston says thanks
NSU head athletic trainer Ed Evans and assistant trainer Jason Drury got a nice e-mail Monday morning from their counterpart at Sam Houston State after the Bearkats had two players needing transport to Natchitoches Regional Medical Center in the last minutes of Saturday's football game.
The injury to receiver Justin Wells wasn't noticed as much, but he got a concussion after taking a big hit from Demon safety Wesley Eckles over the middle with 3:30 remaining on a fourth-and-3 pass attempt. Wells was the intended receiver and Eckles made sure he didn't make the first down.
That collision was forgotten by most of us by the time Sam Houston linebacker Luke McCall was injured on the kickoff with 1:20 left when Demon linebacker Isaiah Greenhouse crashed into him busting up the Bearkats' wedge. It took approximately 10-15 minutes for medical personnel from both teams to evaluate him and load him into an ambulance, due to the concern over a possible neck injury.
Wells didn't go to the hospital until after the game ended.
As noted here earlier, Sam Houston athletics director Bobby Williams made sure to express his gratitude to the medical staff and security for handling McCall's situation so well. Today, Evans got a thank you and good news from Hope Parker at SHSU:
"I just wanted to thank you both for all your help on Saturday, and please let your doctors know how grateful we were for their assistance as well. Both athletes are doing well and also wanted me to pass on their gratitude. Hopefully none of us will have to that again for a while. Good luck on the rest of your season and I am sure we will see you throughout the remainder of the year. Thanks again.
Hope
Hope Parker, MA ATC-LAT
Head Athletic Trainer
Sam Houston State University"
The injury to receiver Justin Wells wasn't noticed as much, but he got a concussion after taking a big hit from Demon safety Wesley Eckles over the middle with 3:30 remaining on a fourth-and-3 pass attempt. Wells was the intended receiver and Eckles made sure he didn't make the first down.
That collision was forgotten by most of us by the time Sam Houston linebacker Luke McCall was injured on the kickoff with 1:20 left when Demon linebacker Isaiah Greenhouse crashed into him busting up the Bearkats' wedge. It took approximately 10-15 minutes for medical personnel from both teams to evaluate him and load him into an ambulance, due to the concern over a possible neck injury.
Wells didn't go to the hospital until after the game ended.
As noted here earlier, Sam Houston athletics director Bobby Williams made sure to express his gratitude to the medical staff and security for handling McCall's situation so well. Today, Evans got a thank you and good news from Hope Parker at SHSU:
"I just wanted to thank you both for all your help on Saturday, and please let your doctors know how grateful we were for their assistance as well. Both athletes are doing well and also wanted me to pass on their gratitude. Hopefully none of us will have to that again for a while. Good luck on the rest of your season and I am sure we will see you throughout the remainder of the year. Thanks again.
Hope
Hope Parker, MA ATC-LAT
Head Athletic Trainer
Sam Houston State University"
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