They would have to contact whatever schools they want to play and work it out through the athletic directors.

It shows that when you play team basketball, anything can happen. And (Flanagan) played team basketball.

Whether it's a larger school or a smaller school, one community or two, it's a great experience. You never know what's going to happen (at the state finals).

While we've heard a lot about the problem of obesity, only recently communities, schools and workplaces are starting to intervene and impact the way we live. Until we really change the education factor — and say, look this is what you need to do to be healthy — we're not going to see a real change.

He designed the courtyards at Moss and Campbell schools, and did a master plan for the high school involving the fields project. He designed an outdoor environmental classroom at Edgar Middle School, and he worked with the Friends of Tommy's Pond on a planting design for it, for which students from his classes at Rutgers would also produce designs. Steve also designed the Carol Leach Memorial Garden at the First Presbyterian Church.

It's nothing against those schools at all. Coaches just would rather take a 10-minute drive to play. But the UIL looks at the bigger picture. They see the West Texas teams that have to travel long distances and they say our area doesn't have it that bad.