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High School Football is here, and it's here not because the teams are sweating it out through two-a-days, it's here because Fox7 Friday Football's Pre-Season Rankings hit the website this week. Check 'em out by clicking on our Sports tab. Take a look, then post back here. Who's too high? Too low? Who should be ranked? Who shouldn't be? Let's hear it!

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I saw what may very well be the next absolute stud to play baseball for UT last night at the state baseball tournament in Round Rock, a junior from Waxhachie named Colton Cain. Word has it that he may be leaning toward coming to Texas after high school. I'm from Waxahachie so I have a bit of a biased opinion (unlike the slew of unbiased opinions out there, haha), but this guy lives up to the hype he's already getting in the Dallas area and in many scouting circles. In last night's semi-final game, Cain pitched a complete game shutout and had 12 strikeouts. At the plate, he hit an opposite field home run and a triple. His future seems to be as a pitcher, but he's equally deadly at the plate. The profile on this kid is one that makes high-profile college programs like Texas salivate, over 6 foot, left handed, throws in the low-90's with a great curveball. Unfortunately for programs like Texas, that left handed/low-90's part makes other, more well-funded programs salivate as well: those 30 major league teams looking to spend a 1st round pick on a sure fire superstar with loads of potential. Good news for UT is that recent arm troubles may make teams leary of burning a 1st round pick on Cain, which could make him more likely to go to college to improve his stock for future drafts. So if Texas could somehow catch this guy slipping through the cracks, they could be striking gold. Stay tuned.

Hornets by 15. This young bunch is energized by their home crowd, everyone makes a big deal about the Spurs having 4 days rest, but it's not like the Hornets have been running marathons during that time, they're rested too. Onto the Western Conference Finals for New Orleans, and onto conspiracy theories and whining about how the NBA doesn't want their 4 time champion Spurs to win for Spurs fans. Because, as we've all learned by now, the Spurs never lose because the other team is better...

Not yet, but close. Amazing how much quicker New Orleans is than the Spurs. they're playing with so much more energy than SA it's not even funny. Part of me thinks the champs will somehow get it done, but it's hard to imagine them getting quicker, younger, and more athletic by game 3...

Spurs will lose to the Suns because David Stern realizes that Tim Duncan is boring, Shaq is entertaining and gets ratings, and he will never let the Spurs win the title (except for those 4 measley times in the last 9 years) because their a small market team, nevermind that SA is now the 2nd largest city in Texas, now bigger than Dallas. As always, if you ask Spurs fans, the Spurs will lose because the NBA is out to get them, not because the team they play is flat out better.

IT'S FINE!!!!!!!!! 96 percent of us who have a mortgage are paying that mortgage every month on time. It's only the other 4 percent you hear about in the media, those "geniuses" who bought into one of those "no money down, adjustable interest rate" deals a few years back. Now, their discovering that buying $300,000 house on a $30,000 per year income wasn't such a good idea. Just a few living beyond their means giving the smart shoppers a bad name.