Play-by-play sportscaster, freelance voice talent, husband & father, member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.

Joined February 2010
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Got to see @sophieflayabc host @Nightline the past 2 nights. Nice job Sophie. Hope to see you at that desk some more in the future. 👍👍
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I am not believing these prices!!! 😱😱
Hungry? Thirsty? Be prepared …
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On June 6, 1966, Roy Orbison was following his wife Claudette on his car as she rode her motorcycle. A truck pulled out. She swerved. Crashed. Roy held her body in the road, screaming. Claudette was 25 years old. When the police arrived, they found her purse. Inside was a pregnancy test. Positive. She had planned to tell him that night. He never knew until it was too late. Roy stopped performing for a year. The stage, the lights, the audience — nothing mattered. Then, in 1968, disaster struck again. His house caught fire. Two of his three sons died in the blaze. Most people would have vanished from the world entirely. Roy did not. He wrote. He cried. He poured grief into melodies because there was nowhere else to put it. Songs built from a loss that had no bottom. Lyrics that carried what his heart could not release. For decades, he carried the weight silently. In 1988, Roy Orbison died of a heart attack at 52. When they went through his wallet, they found it. Claudette’s pregnancy test. Still there. Twenty-two years later. He had carried it every single day. His final album, recorded just weeks before he died, was titled — *She's a Mystery to Me*. Some grief doesn’t fade. It doesn’t end. It becomes the quietest, most permanent part of who you are. Every note he sang, every melody he wrote afterward, held a piece of that silence. Roy Orbison carried his love and his loss together, letting the sorrow shape the music itself. And in doing so, he transformed tragedy into art that could be heard, felt, and remembered. Some memories never leave. Some grief never lets go. Some love lasts beyond life, quietly shaping everything left behind.
Community note
The story of a pregnancy test in Claudette Orbison's purse is untrue, as home pregnancy tests were not available until 1976 and no biographies mention her being pregnant when she died in 1966. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Orbis… history.nih.gov/illustrated-hi… royorbison.com/claudette-orbi…
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Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire while our pay has stagnated. He owns 11 homes while most Texans can’t afford one. He trades favors with rich donors while blocking overtime pay for workers. Paxton doesn’t serve us — he serves himself.
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.@JamesTalarico: There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man. Recently on the campaign trail I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico. Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn, and then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because she was a widow. My dad never talked about it — he just did it, because that's what a man does. A man takes responsibility, upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors, and does what's right, even when no one is watching. Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life, sell their soul to the highest bidder, or steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves. I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man, and I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.
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Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress. It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress. The House of Representatives is not representative. One of the most important organs of our democracy is not democratic. They say, "Oh, no. We're not manipulating the map to disempower black people. We're manipulating the map to disempower Democrats who happen to be black people.” So, the time has come to make it impossible to manipulate the map for any reason and just have fair maps.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, CNN just played a devastating montage highlighting all the times that Donald Trump lied to the American people and told us he was "close to a deal." Nobody should trust his leadership anymore.
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BREAKING: California Senator Mike McGuire just completely exposed the truth about corporate spending in elections. This is a must-watch.
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So @realDonaldTrump decides to attend game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden. The fans boo his motorcade. They boo when he is shown on the big screen during the national anthem. And the Knicks lose. Did I miss anything?? 🤔🤔
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🚨Price increases — Coming this summer to a grocery store aisle, gas station, and airfare ticket near you! We’re running this video ad as part of Home of the Brave’s new Sticker Shock Summer campaign to show the public the real price tag of the Trump administration’s agenda.
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"When you do the crime, you HAVE to do the time." 😡 @carolinefenton1 sounds off on the latest twist in Brendan Sorsby's eligibility case. (via Yahoo Sports Daily)
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Big 12 ADs tell @YahooSports they’ve had “serious” talks on not playing Texas Tech. One SEC AD says there should be conversations about not playing Tech “in any sports.” The Brendan Sorsby ruling has left an industry jarred. “It’s total f***** bullshit.” bit.ly/4uWicN7
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BREAKING: In a stunning display of unity, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Freidrich Merz just met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Notably absent was Donald Trump. He’s turned America into a global pariah.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, the lawyer who defended Ken Paxton during his impeachment trials just announced he is endorsing James Talarico. This is huge.
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The 2026 Stanley Cup Final is shaping up to be an all-time CLASSIC 🍿
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Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal. Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan. All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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This video is so cool. You must watch it.
Congrats to @CBSSports on their #SportsEmmys Award for Outstanding Sports Camera Work: Short Form for this year's @ArmyNavyGame open 👏👏👏 The Harder Choice | The 126th Army-Navy Game
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The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...
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BREAKING: In a stunning admission on Fox News, Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn just admitted that Democrats and James Talarico will successfully be able to hammer Texas' likely Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton for his transgressions. Woah.
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Raise your hand if your bingo card had this Astros pitching staff throwing a combined no-hitter..... Anyone?? 🤔🤔
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