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4A Brownwood Bulletin Sunday, October 13, 2013
One fantastic finish, another to be determined
Gordon Wood Stadium has been the site
of countless magical moments in Brown-
wood Lions’ football history, but their two
most recent home outings have generated
arguably the most memorable finishes of
any games held at the facility.
After Brownwood’s 46-43 homecoming
win over Snyder on Sept. 13, which featured
four touchdowns in the final four minutes,
I was certain that was the most entertaining
game I had ever covered.
Little did I know Brownwood next’s home
outing — Friday’s 36-31 district-opening
victory over Burnet — would give it a run
for the money. I’ll still give the overall nod
to the Snyder game, by a hair, but the last
45 seconds against Burnet provided the
most incredible finish I’ve covered.
I was stationed around midfield when
Burnet kicked off after taking a 31-30 lead
on a 37-yard field goal with 31 seconds re-
maining. Having witnessed most of Burnet’s
kickoffs sail through the end zone, a Brown-
wood return never really crossed my mind.
I looked up in time to see Connor Howard
catch the ball deep in the end zone, then
entertain the thought of running it out. My
initial reaction was, ‘Nah, he’ll take a knee.’
Then, after scrambling around a little bit, I
remember thinking, ‘OK,
now’s a really good time to
take a knee.’
Next thing I know,
Kaimon Ontiveros has the
ball after a reverse, and is
executing a few jukes, but
is still pinned in the end
zone. Again I’m thinking,
‘Time is wasting, take a
knee.’ Ontiveros avoided
both my mental advice, as
well as a tackle near the
goal line that could have
created a nightmare. And once he finally es-
caped the end zone, a perfect wall of block-
ers had developed as he sprinted down the
home sideline.
Once Kaimon reached the 20,1 began
thinking to myself, ‘Um, I probably need to
get a picture of this.’ At that point, from a
sideline view, it was already clear that Onti-
veros had a chance to go the distance based
on the blocking.
As I turned to begin shooting photos, I
could hear the roar of the crowd filling the
stadium like a tsunami. And as I was raising
the camera to shoot, I saw a tidal wave of
maroon racing toward me, as Lion team-
mates were sprinting down the sideline
alongside Ontiveros on his journey to end
zone.
Needless to say, taking the photo took
a backseat to my own personal safety,
as I quickly pulled down the camera and
crouched into the fetal position as a mass
of humanity approached at what felt like
the speed of a comet. So, um, sorry about
missing the photo on that play.
Once the wave passed, I turned to see
one of the most exuberant celebrations I
can ever recall both on the sideline and in
the stands. A play that appeared on the
verge of disaster turned into one of the
most memorable moments in Brownwood
football history. And I am very thrilled I was
able to witness it — well, most of it.
Speaking of what I thought had the poten-
tial of being another disaster this weekend,
my alma mater, the University of Texas
Longhorns, stunned undefeated, 12 th-
ranked Oklahoma, 36-20, in Dallas.
I’ll be honest, I saw no way possible Texas
could win this game prior to about noon
Saturday — and I was not in the minor-
ity in the assessment. I didn’t expect Case
McCoy to finish the game, much less have
the performance of his career; I figured the
defense would give up at least 50 points,
not control the majority of the game; and I
assumed Mack Brown would be announcing
his retirement Monday.
For those who know me, I’ve been ex-
tremely outspoken about the direction of
the football program, and men’s athletics in
Austin in general. I’ve stated for weeks that
2013 should be Mack Brown’s final season,
and I stand by that statement.
Make no mistake, I’m thrilled Texas won,
though I’m not doing the backflips some
fans are. And let me explain why.
The performance Texas put forth against
Oklahoma was like nothing we’ve witnessed
all season. My only question is why? I’m not
buying the fact the Texas matches up better
against Oklahoma than it does BYU, Ole
Miss and the Iowa State team that almost
pulled the upset a week ago.
Prior to the season, Brown claimed this
Longhorn team was poised to return to
the program to national prominence, yet
fizzled with a 1-2 start. If the Longhorns
had performed all season the way they did
against Oklahoma, Texas would certainly be
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NATjONAL NEWS
Focus of shutdown
negotiations shifts
to Senate
The focus of efforts to end the government shutdown
and prevent a U.S. default shifted to the Senate on Satur-
day, where leaders were in talks aimed at resolving the
twin stalemates.
Word of the negotiations between Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and the top Republican, Sen.
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, emerged as the Senate,
as expected, rejected a Democratic effort to raise the
government’s borrowing limit through next year.
Republicans objected because they want the extension
to be accompanied by spending cuts.
The spotlight turned to the Senate as the partial
shutdown reached its 12 th day. It also came with the
calendar edging closer to Oct. 17, when administration
officials have said the government will deplete its ability
to borrow money, risking a first-time federal default that
could jolt the world economy.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told fellow
Republicans earlier Saturday that his talks with President
Barack Obama had stalled.
“The Senate needs to hold tough,” Rep. Greg Walden,
R-Ore., said Boehner told House GOP lawmakers. “The
president now isn’t negotiating with us.”
GOP senators said the talks between Reid and McCon-
nell had started Friday. That was confirmed by Senate
Democratic aides.
Saturday’s Senate vote derailing the Democrats’ debt-
limit measure was a near party-line 53-45 in favor of the
bill. That fell seven short of the 60 required to overcome
Republican objections to considering the measure.
“The only thing that’s happening right now is Sen.
Reid and Sen. McConnell are talking. And I view that as
progress,” said the second-ranking Republican senator,
John Comyn of Texas.
House conservatives said Obama was to blame for the
talks with their chamber running aground.
“Perhaps he sees this as the best opportunity for him
to win the House in 2014,” said Rep. John Fleming, R-La.
“It’s very clear to us he does not now, and never had, any
intentions of negotiating.”
“It doesn’t have to be this way. It’s not supposed to be
this way,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet
address Saturday. “Manufacturing crises to extract mas-
sive concessions isn’t how our democracy works, and
we have to stop it. Politics is a battle of ideas, but you
advance those ideas through elections and legislation —
not extortion.”
A bipartisan group of senators, closely watched by
Senate leaders, is polishing a plan aimed at reaching
compromise with Obama.
The Associated Press
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Business pushes immigration reform
even as it lays off American workers
Recently the pharmaceutical giant Merck
announced it will cut 8,500 jobs in an effort
to remain competitive in a rapidly chang-
ing drug industry. Earlier this year, Merck
announced plans to cut 7,500 jobs, bringing
the total of workers let go to 16,000. In all,
Merck intends to lay off one out of every
five of its employees.
At the same time, top Merck officials
are urging Congress to loosen the nation’s
immigration laws to allow more foreign
workers into the United States. In a Sept. 10
letter to House Speaker John Boehner and
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Merck Execu-
tive Vice President for Human Resources
Mirian Graddick-Weir urged that the U.S. ad-
mit more high- and low-skilled immigrants
to “address the reality that there is a global
war for talent” and to “align our nation’s
immigration policies with its workforce
needs at all skill levels to ensure U.S. global
competitiveness.”
Merck, whose officials did not respond to
requests for comment, wasn’t alone in sign-
ing the letter to Boehner and Pelosi. Other
companies that have laid off thousands
in recent years — Hewlett-Packard, Cisco,
United Technologies, American Express,
Procter & Gamble, T-Mobile, Archer-Daniels-
Midland, Cigna, Texas Instruments and
more — are also petitioning Congress for
more immigrant workers. In all, representa-
tives of more than 100 big U.S. corporations
signed the letter.
On Capitol Hill, the lawmakers who are
trying to stop a Gang of Eight-style com-
prehensive immigration reform bill believe
most of those companies support reform
because they want to hire immigrants at
lower wages. Watching firms fire American
workers while appealing for more immigra-
tion is a disheartening spectacle.
“Senate Democrats, the Gang of Eight
and the White House have all apparently
decided that large corporations should
be able to tailor the nation’s immigration
policy to suit their own financial interests,”
said Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Ses-
sions, a vocal Gang of Eight opponent, in a
statement. “Now it falls on the shoulders
of House Republicans to do the right thing
and to defend the legitimate interests of
American workers.”
The fear that Sessions and others have is
that immigration reform is not as dead as
some observers believe. The Gang of Eight
bill passed the Senate in June on a 68-32
vote, but promptly seemed to disappear in
the House.
Republican leaders in the
House stressed from the
beginning that a Gang of
Eight-style comprehensive
bill would have no chance.
That’s true, but what op-
ponents worry is that the
House will pass some sort
of bill, even a limited one,
that could then go to a
House-Senate conference
committee and eventually come out looking
a lot like the original Gang of Eight bill.
Certainly some industry leaders seem to
expect that. In August, the San Francisco
Chronicle quoted Carl Guardino, head
of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a
trade association that represents hundreds
of high-tech companies, saying that after
meeting with Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the No.
3 Republican in the House, he’s pretty sure
immigration reform will pass.
“Kevin is a longtime personal friend,”
Guardino said, according to the Chronicle.
“We just met one-on-one and I firmly be-
lieve, without breaking confidences, that we
are going to see deliberative and thoughtful
action in the House when they reconvene in
September and October. I would bet on it.”
Afterward, McCarthy told the paper he
didn’t say that, and a spokesman said only
that the House “will move with its own
ideas and solutions in an incremental way
when it comes to immigration.” But op-
ponents of reform know that in addition
to McCarthy, House Majority Leader Eric
Cantor also favors reform, as does influen-
tial House Budget Committee chairman Paul
Ryan.
The position of House Speaker John
Boehner isn’t fully clear, but at the moment,
the entire GOP leadership team is consumed
with the fight over government spending
and the debt limit. In a recent interview, a
House Republican said of the shutdown
battle: “Until this gets settled, nothing else
happens.”
That could be a while. The spending and
debt fight is unlikely to have a clean ending
and could stretch out for months as Repub-
licans and the White House negotiate some
sort of final agreement.
But immigration reform is always in the
background. On October 2, House Demo-
crats introduced a Gang of Eight-style bill of
their own. It’s given zero chance of passage,
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Byron York
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR
Who really shut down
the government?
The Democrats, with the
help of their buddies in
the mass-media, say it is
the Republicans, but who
really shut down govern-
ment?
The House of Represen-
tatives controls the purse
by Constitutional law and
has every right to say no
to excessive spending. Be-
cause they are the closest
to the general public and
answer more often to the
voter, they are called “The
People’s House.”
So do not be fooled
by liberals in the Senate,
or Obama, or the liberal
mass-media. The House
is doing exactly what our
founders set it up to do!
Since the taxpayer pays all
government bills and all
spending must come from
the House of Representa-
tives, they can legally say
no!
Also notice how Obama,
Democrats and the
mass-media show work-
ers unable to pay bills,
angry welfare recipients
and talk about babies
going without food, while
government is shut down.
It’s called the worst case
blame game and liberals
us it to their advantage
to keep growing govern-
ment by adding freebies...
which are never free!
Many governments
have tried socialism and
it never works but it looks
so good on paper, espe-
cially when government
can print paper money.
Unfortunately, that paper
money eventually be-
comes worthless because
workers stop working
when they find out they
are paying for others who
do not work!
Thirty million new
people on health care and
it will not increase costs?
Wow! That is just one of
Obama’s lies, like “You
can keep your doctor”
and “If you like your plan,
you can keep it.” Unfortu-
nately for Democrats like
Reid and Obama, facts are
not fitting their rhetoric
and although Obama got
reelected, thanks to the
IRS and NSA, the House
got a majority of conser-
vatives.
In a free society, govern-
ment does not have the
right to tell citizens they
must buy anything, no
matter what the Supreme
Court says, and anyone
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