Young Sym decided to release some tracks before his debut album soon to come (date will be announced later). The tracks are hot and available for free download, so why not? Young Sym is a producer so if you hear anything you like, or would like to put something together, send us an email and we’ll be in contact. Enjoy.

1. Sherro (Feat. Young Sym) – Everywhere She Go (VERY HOT)

2. Young X (Feat. Paccinno) – Rollin Up (HOT)

3. Young X (Feat. Young Sym) – Call Me (HOT)

4. Young X – Catch Up

5. Young Sym (Feat. Young X) – Welcome

6. Young Sym (Feat. Young X) – Baby By Me

7. Young Sym (Feat. Que & Hustle) – Forgot About H-Town (VERY HOT)

8. Young X – Hustle (VERY HOT)

9. Young X (Feat. Young Sym) – A Night Like This

10. Young X – Feel The Breeze (VERY HOT)

11. Young X – Nasty Chic (HOT)

12. Young X (Feat. Young Sym) – 5 Star

The case of the Houston Rockets vs. Tracy McGrady appears to be nearing its end. Read the full story

Tigers leave Unicorns in a fog, return to title game

Defense paves way for shot at third straight Read the full story

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AUSTIN – Cinco Ranch dug a first-half hole that proved to deep to climb out of as the Cougars fell to Austin Westlake 42-27 in the Class 5A Division I semifinals on Saturday at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.

The Chaparrals (13-2) advance to the Class 5A Division I championship game, where they’ll face Round Rock Stony Point or Euless Trinity at 2 p.m. next Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio. Read the full story

When choosing between a degree and going to work, paying rent, buying groceries or supporting family members, many students are forced to drop out, said Jean Johnson of Public Agenda, a nonpartisan public policy research firm that conducted a telephone survey of more than 600 people ages 22 to 30 for the report.

The research reflects a “very, very different reality” than the common image most people have of college as “a place where a young person goes and they become an adult,” Johnson said. “So many of them are already assuming adult responsibilities.” Read the full story

2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of the United States drug war. I have worked at the Drug Policy Alliance promoting alternatives to the war on drugs for 10 years, and I can say without a doubt that there was more debate and movement toward sensible drug policies this year than in the last 9 years combined! Here are 10 stories that contributed to the unprecedented momentum to end America’s longest running war.

1) Three Former Latin American Presidents Call Drug War a Failure (February) Read the full story

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. – All canned Slim Fast drinks are being voluntarily recalled by the company over fears of bacterial contamination that could cause diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. The recall affects all 10 million products currently on the market.

The products could possibly be contaminated with the microorganism Bacillus cereus. Unilever says the probability of serious health problems is remote, and the Food and Drug Administration says there have been no deaths or injuries associated with the recall.

An unknown number of people have gotten sick about six to 15 hours after consuming the diet drink, but have recovered within about 24 hours. Read the full story

Follow: @katysportsphoto Read the full story

1. Don’t

2. Drive slower

3. Don’t tail gate. And don’t drive beside people.

4. Beware of bridges (over and under), declines, and inclines.

5. If you lose traction and there is snow nearby, try to veer toward the snow gently. Read the full story

Authorities are searching for three men suspected of robbing a bank in Fort Bend County earlier this week.

The robbery occurred at the Chase Bank branch in the 17200 block of FM 1093 about 11:15 a.m. Tuesday.

Two suspects entered the bank brandishing handguns. One of them leaped over the counter, took a worker’s cellular phone and demanded money, authorities said. The worker handed over an undisclosed amount of cash. Read the full story

Some Houston-area school districts will dismiss students early Friday because of the possibility of snow and icy roads.

Anahuac ISD will dismissed all students at 12:30 p.m.

Awty International School will close early Friday. Primary School students will be released at 12:30 p.m. Secondary School students will be released at 1:15 p.m. Read the full story

K.C. Nlemchi, Cinco Ranch

• Notable: The junior running back had 21 carries for 245 yards and three touchdowns in the Cougars’ 49-26 win over Beaumont West Brook in the Class 5A Division I Region III semifinals on Saturday.

• Quotable: “K.C. is an outstanding football player and even better young man. We always get his best effort and he is definitely a great teammate. We are glad he is on our side.”

— Cinco Ranch coach Don Clayton

Other nominees

• Marquelle Davis, Brazoswood: The junior running back tallied 32 carries for 190 yards and a touchdown in the Buccaneers’ 42-19 win over Alief Taylor in the Class 5A Division I Region III semifinals on Friday. Read the full story

The Cinco Ranch Cougars are short on experience but you wouldn’t know it from the way they’ve played recently.

Despite graduating nine of the 11 players who helped them to 45 wins the past two seasons, they picked up back-to-back wins at the buzzer coming out of the McDonald’s Texas Invitational to improve to 5-2.

And that has second-year coach Neil King feeling pretty good early on. Read the full story

Hey, Tiger Woods: Why so dumb about tech?

When it comes to digital embarrassment, celebs are apparently just stupid

updated 7:59 a.m. CT, Thurs., Dec . 3, 2009

Not since Prince Charles of Wales told then-mistress Camilla Parker-Bowles of his desire to be her feminine hygiene product has an adulterous celebrity been so humiliated by a telephone communiqué. We’re talking about Tiger Woods here, and the voice mail message he left to an alleged mistress, released earlier this week by Us Weekly. In review:

“Hey, it’s, uh, it’s Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Um, can you please, uh, take your name off your phone. My wife went through my phone. And, uh, may be calling you. If you can, please take your name off that and, um, and what do you call it just have it as a number on the voice mail, just have it as your telephone number. That’s it, OK. You gotta do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right. Bye.”

Read the full story

Posted by Gerry Hamilton

Defensive tackle Mike Mustafa (Katy, Texas/Morton Ranch) is one of several defensive line prospects in the Houston area in the 2011 class. The 6-foot-4, 300-pounder burst onto the scene as a big-bodied sophomore flashing his potential. As a junior, he battled through a broken hand and coaching turmoil at Morton Ranch, but continued to show his potential.

“It started off tough this season because of the coaches,” said Mustafa. “I broke my hand on the first day of practice, but I still played the first game. We had a lot of selfish players early on and didn’t come together until the eighth week of the season.” Read the full story

Can you imagine an America without a strong middle class? If you can, would it still be America as we know it?

Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can’t make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans is on food stamps. More than 120,000 families are filing for bankruptcy every month. The economic crisis has wiped more than $5 trillion from pensions and savings, has left family balance sheets upside down, and threatens to put ten million homeowners out on the street. Read the full story

CLASS 5A DIVISION I
REGION III
Cinco Ranch (11-1) vs. Beaumont West Brook (9-3)
1 p.m. Saturday, Rice

CLASS 5A DIVISION II
REGION III
Katy (11-1) vs. La Porte (8-3)
1 p.m. Saturday, Tully

TAPPS
DIVISION IV
State semifinals
Faith West vs. Frisco Legacy
3 p.m. Saturday, Fairfield

Source:  Houston Chronicle

Friday Night Lights, Houston Style: Why Does Everyone Hate Katy So Much?

Standing in the rain on Saturday afternoon, watching Katy High School play Atascocita in a playoff game, Hair Balls remembered something we read on the Washington Post NFL blog this past week.

This question, about the Dallas Cowboys, was asked: “Why are the Cowboys So Hated? How does ‘America’s Team’ remain one of the most loathed franchises in sports?” Different bloggers weighed in on the question.

For example:

From Jimmy Johnson to Barry Switzer to Michael Irvin all circling upstairs to the guy named Jerry Jones who owns and runs the franchise — it’s all arrogance.

Or:

There’s a lot of reasons people hate the Cowboys, but, in my opinion, the biggest is that guy wearing the Cowboys jacket in your office…He’s the same guy in every state, in every town that decided to jump on the Cowboys bandwagon despite having no connection whatsoever to the city of Dallas or the state of Texas.

So, while we were watching the rainy game and enjoying it, we started thinking about all the bad things people have said to us about Katy while we’ve been following the team the last couple of years. (If you want to get a taste of hatred for Katy, just check out the K-Train Station, a blog about the Katy Tigers, even though he started banning people who post nasty things.)

1. The Fans. In a Houston Press cover story from October of 2008, we wrote about a game between Katy and Cypress Bay High School from Florida, and the mother of one of the players from Florida died two days before his team was scheduled to leave for Texas. He decided to make the trip, and after Katy won the game 31-6, he said, “It was an amazing experience up until about 2:30 p.m. (the start of the game). Then it was hell on Earth. I couldn’t wait to get out of that God-forsaken state and get back home to Florida.” It was the ocean of Katy red in the stands that made the player hate Rhodes Stadium. Maybe it’s one of those don’t-get-it-unless-you’re-a-part-of-it things, but it had to be demoralizing to Atascocita on Saturday when the rain started pouring and its fans disappeared under umbrellas. The Katy stands didn’t change, however, because everyone simply pulled out their Katy-red rain gear and continued to scream.

2. Gary Joseph. Joseph came to Katy in 1982 as a defensive coordinator and the team won three state championships before he became the head coach in 2004. Katy has won two more championships since then. In the Post blog, one person wrote, “How could anyone not cringe when [former Cowboy's head coach] Jimmy Johnson bellowed “how ’bout those Cowboys” in one particularly raucous postgame locker room scene also captured by NFL Films?” So maybe Jimmy Johnson made the Cowboys easy to hate. But that’s not Joseph. Physically he’s a small man, and away from football, he’s quiet and seems almost timid. He says things like, “There’s no better place to raise kids, or I wouldn’t have stayed in Katy all these years.” It takes a lot to admit you hate a guy like that, which only makes the hate stronger.

3. The success. Few high school teams if any can match the number of wins and, more importantly, the number of district and state championships Katy has racked up during the last two decades. But every year, Katy fields a team of the same group of mostly white, average looking players. Apart from the 2007 state championship team, there are rarely any blue-chip college recruits. It would seem this is enough to drive opposing teams crazy. At the opening game of the season against The Woodlands, one Woodlands fan, almost belligerent with hate, told us, “Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great program, but could Katy beat Westfield (a team The Woodlands beat in the playoffs last year)? I don’t think so.” The Woodlands demoralized Katy last year in the regular season, winning 47-0. Katy went on to win another state championship, The Woodlands did not.

Katy won Saturday’s game against Atascocita 45-7 to move on to the next round of the playoffs.

Eagles’ rally earns them Katy

The Atascocita Eagles came up with a miracle rally to beat the Chavez Lobos 43-37 in last week’s Region III-5A Division II playoff game.

Their reward is a date with the two-time defending state-champion Katy Tigers. The two teams will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday at Tully Stadium.

“This is definitely going to be an honor to play Katy,“ said Dean Colbert, who has guided his club to a 10-1 record in 2009. “For years, we have kind of set them as the team to emulate. Now, we get to play them and hopefully challenge them. It is going to be a great honor.“

Atascocita kicker Pablo Beltran kicked a 36-yard field goal with no time left to send the Chavez game into overtime tied at 37-37.

Jarvis Neal, who finished the game with 146 yards rushing and two touchdowns, then scored on a 25-yard run in overtime and Jeremy Coleman came up with an interception in the end zone to seal the victory.

“It was incredible,“ Colbert said. “Our kicker has ice water in his veins. But that is the way we have been all year. The kids feel like they are always going to find a way to win. They stick together like a band of brothers. They all try and provide positive energy. In the end, we always seem to get the job done.“

Colbert doesn’t mind being a heavy underdog against the tradition-rich Tigers (10-1).

“Our kids are playing with a lot of confidence and feel like they can win,“ he said. “We will be ready for the challenge and accept it. These young men have invsted so much into this season. They really play hard. They will leave it all out there on the field.“

Colbert said Chavez was very talented.

“The film didn’t do them justice,“ he said of the 7-4 Lobos. “They were a lot better than they looked on film. It was a playoff atmosphere. I think they played their best game, too.“