Sources: Truex to MWR in ’10

From ESPN.com

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Martin Truex Jr. will be named on Tuesday the newest addition to Michael Waltrip Racing, multiple sources confirmed on Saturday at Daytona International Speedway.

Truex

A press conference including sponsor NAPA is scheduled for noon at the team’s Cornelius, N.C., shop.

Truex is in the final year of his contract with Earnhardt Ganassi Racing. NAPA, the long-time sponsor of team owner Michael Waltrip, will be become his primary sponsor.

Waltrip will move from a full-time to part-time schedule that will include the Daytona 500 in February. He could remain in his familiar No. 55 with Truex taking another number, possibly the No. 56.

Truex’s younger brother, 17-year-old Ryan, already is a developmental driver for MWR.

North Korea fires missiles in 4th of July salvo

Wow…

Some countries just never learn.  North Korea fired 7 missles today.

The launches came on July 4, which is U.S. Independence Day. The display was similar to one that took place three years ago, also while Americans celebrated the Fourth of July during another period of tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.

Here’s my question(s).

1) Why is North Korea doing this?

2) What do they really hope to achieve?

3)  And don’t they know they have zero allies or friends in this display of futility?

 

North Korea fires missiles in 4th of July salvo (DMN)

Breaking News: Steve McNair dead

From News Channel 5

Steve McNair Found Shot To Death

 

 

 

 

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Former Titans quarterback Steve McNair has been killed. Police said McNair suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head in downtown Nashville.

The incident happened near 2nd South & Lea Ave. Police said it looked like a double homicide. A female victim was also found dead.

 UPDATE:::Deadspin.com

 

Stay with NewsChannel5.com for more information as it becomes available.

Planet Earth in high definition – awesome!

It’s probably me

You know, I just got some communication from someone that sort of brought me down.

In  an effort to better my life, some people can’t forgive mistakes. That’s a shame too. I never admitted to being perfect. I believe life are days of trying to be better at life. I fail miserably at that most of the time…but I try. I try to be a good person, I really do. Life happens. I learn. I try.

I hope God knows I’m searching for him. I know he knows I am. As a matter of fact, I feel like I found him many years ago, I just keep making mistakes. I guess the thing to do now is pray for fogiveness and let the chips fall where they may. It’s all I can do. Sorry if it isn’t good enough, but if God forgives me, that’s all that counts right? 

What are Texas’ favorite tourist spots?

NOTE: List is not based on attendance figures.

 SOURCE: 2007 survey conducted for the Texas governor’s office by D.K. Shifflet & Associates Ltd. of McLean, Va.

How Texas travelers rank the state’s top tourist attractions:

 1. The Alamo (San Antonio)

2. Galveston Island

3. San Antonio River Walk

4. San Marcos Outlet Mall

5. State Capitol (Austin)

6. South Padre Island

7. Cabela’s (Buda and Fort Worth)

8. Six Flags Over Texas (Arlington)

9. Sea World of Texas (San Antonio)

10. Fort Worth Stockyards

Other Dallas-area attractions and their rankings

 12. State Fair of Texas

14. Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

15. Fort Worth Zoo

23. Texas Motor Speedway (Fort Worth)

26. The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (Dallas)

34. Galleria Dallas (tied with the Texas Hill Country)

I think some of these are just downright comical.

 

Economy is ticket to Fair Park amusement park plan (DMN)

Wacked-up Over Jacko

From the Fort Worth Weekly

by Jimmy Fowler

“Breaking News: Michael Jackson Still Weird and Still Dead!”

CNN plays continuously throughout the day at my house as a kind of background noise. The amount of coverage being given to Jackson’s death is smothering, and I can only assume it resembles the rest of the cable news universe’s bug-eyed, salivating leer over every detail of this artist’s sad life and sudden death. Yesterday, anchors interrupted a discussion about the possibility of a post-U.S. withdrawal civil war in Iraq for the “breaking news” that Jackson’s memorial would go forward at Staples Center in LA. And there’s no sign that this particular “news cycle” is about to play itself out — a little while ago, CNN announced it would begin all-day coverage of Jackson’s Tuesday memorial starting at 6 am.

Post-traumatic stress disorder has begun to set in. I’m having flashbacks of 1982, when you had to avoid all public places, shut off the TV and the radio, and pull down the blinds if you wanted a brief escape from the “Thriller” single.

I enjoy the sugar jolt that comes from entertainment news and tabloid “revelations”—they’re like the Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls of cultural awareness. But any eight year old can tell you that a whole box of them consumed in under an hour will make you puke. My question to cable news producers is: At long last, have you no gag reflex?

Tours Begin At Cowboys Stadium In Arlington

From CBS11.com

Fans concerned about affording to see a game or a show at the new $1.15 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington can still check out the place.

For a fee.

Tours began Friday at the retractable-roof venue of the Dallas Cowboys, the same day as thousands of hopefuls for the Fox TV show “American Idol” showed up for auditions.

Stadium tours, at $15 for adults and $12 for children, will be conducted every half-hour and last up to 75 minutes.

The stops, subject to change, include the high-tech scoreboard control room, the press box, the Cowboys locker room and limited field access.

No purses, bags, backpacks, food or drinks are allowed on tours. Cameras and video recorders are OK. Bilingual tours are available.

Southlake woman is named Miss Texas 2009

ARLINGTON — “And Miss Texas 2009 is Kristen Blair, Miss North Texas.”

Blair, 22, of Southlake had dazzled the audience at Texas Hall at the University of Texas at Arlington with her vocal range while singing an aria from a Puccini opera.

Miss Carrollton, DaNae Couch, was named first runner-up. Other top finishers were Miss Grapevine, Ashley Melnick, second runner-up; Miss Fort Worth, Faith Bates, third runner-up; and Miss Frisco, Kathryn Dunn, fourth runner-up.

Last year, Blair was fourth runner-up as Miss Fort Worth.

Before Miss Texas was announced, Taylor Lowery, 16, of Lufkin was named Miss Teen Texas 2009.

The pageant began at 8 p.m. with talent displays, including ventriloquism, baton-twirling, dancing and singing.

Miss Texas was crowned about 11:30 p.m.

Relinquishing her title was Miss Texas 2008, Rebecca Robinson, a Texas A&M graduate who speaks four languages.

The Outdoor Concert

The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra began its celebration of Independence Day with its Old-Fashioned Family Fireworks Picnic concert in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden on Friday night with a program that will be repeated tonight and tomorrow as the orchestra’s Concerts in the Garden series heads into its final weekend.

I thought it was a blast and really enjoyed myself. And the fireworks were manifico! But I would kind of like to write about it as it came to me, and as it progressed through the evening. The gate didn’t officially “open” until 6:30 PM, but like a dork with nothing to do, I got there at 5:00 and this was what it was like. Can you hear the sound of the locusts?

And then the gates opened and here the people came.