Weekend Sports Update: What To Do When You're Too Busy To Blog About Political Sex Scandals

If it's the weekend, I have sports on the mind ... nevermind that my day has been devoted to little more than work and church, with sleep a too-distant third.

• Go Trojans! Trinity trounces only team that beat it last season

  Trinity (4-0, 1-0) looked deserving of its No. 3 ranking in The Associated Press' state poll. Taggart, in his first game since the opening week because of a shoulder injury, was razor sharp, hitting 7 of 11 passes for 133 yards in the first half.

  Trinity turned it over to the ground game in the second half. Running backs Shannon Moore (15-175) and Justise Campbell (19-94) helped Trinity increase its 17-7 halftime lead to 38-7. Moore finished with three touchdowns, and Campbell had two.

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  Trinity (4-0, 1-0) looked deserving of its No. 3 ranking in The Associated Press' state poll. Taggart, in his first game since the opening week because of a shoulder injury, was razor sharp, hitting 7 of 11 passes for 133 yards in the first half.

  Trinity turned it over to the ground game in the second half. Running backs Shannon Moore (15-175) and Justise Campbell (19-94) helped Trinity increase its 17-7 halftime lead to 38-7. Moore finished with three touchdowns, and Campbell had two.

  That sounds like the Trojan football I grew up on (plus the addition of the Hawgs). Only five penalties by the team ... that's majorly impressive for this point in the season. I'd have guessed we wouldn't see a game like that unless we faced a creampuff or the team nutted it up for the playoffs. Funny what happens when you win a State Championship ... more and more people (present company included) are in the process of upgrading Trinity's status from "Deep playoff run" to "likely Championship contender ... again." If we make it to the Finals, I've got to wonder what type of attention Coach Lineweaver is getting outside of Euless. What's even more impressive about this team is the depth it apparently has. Is it too early to start pencilling in playoff pairings for 2008?

• Miami edges Houston 14-13 From the sound of it, it looks like we were one play away from avenging David Klingler's shoulda-been Heisman season loss in 1990. That said, losing by a point is a far cry better than the old days (like ... a few years back, even). It's not the same ol' Miami team, of course, but piling up some wins the way the Coogs are doing strikes me as a bit better than learning at (or under) the heels of rampaging opponents.

• I give the Astros credit for having more heart than I thought they had earlier in the season. That we're still not out of the playoff hunt this far along is amazing. But St. Louis controls their own destiny and seem to have woken up from their slumber. If we get nothing more from this season than realizing the potential on tap for the post-Biggio/Bagwell era, I like what I see. Then again, another young potential HOF type to serve as Berkman's bookend would be a nice addition.

• The Vince Young era begins.

• Funny "top priority" here. I dunno, my "hope" for the Texans has floundered to simply hoping that for one game, I won't have to hear the phrase "having their way with" ... in the context of our opponents running roughshod over us. Maybe if the Texans can work out a move to Conference USA ....

• Why is it that a Jewish 6-man football team gets more ink in the Chron than an Aggies game? Granted, it's a neat story. Kudos to the editors for leaving in a reference to 6-man FB's origins in Nebraska, the significance of the ram's horn blown by the school's rabbi on the sidelines, and I'd like to offer a massive "WTF?" over this example of journalistic creativity:

  Shelly Serota, for one, had no intention of being the mother of a football player.

  Her son, Jason, spent two years on the sidelines.

  "Every day he came home and I said, 'How was your day?' And he said, 'I didn't get to play football,' " she said. "I said, 'Too bad.' "

  The Serotas aren't anti-sports. Jason and his brother played baseball. Jason plays basketball, too.

  Football, however, was another matter. "I told him to forget it," Shelly Serota said.

  This year, he announced he was playing, and his parents reluctantly went along.

  "He's a different person," his mother said. "He comes home, and he's in a good mood."

  So, was she a moderately disinterested football mom? ... or was she dissing her son's choice in sports? ... or is she a happy mom seeing her son's excitement? Why not all of the above. And nevermind that this verbage could/should have been about a quarter of what we're offered to here.

  And here I thought I was indulgent with my analysis of Trinity High games!