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A high school football team in North Texas has broken its 77-game losing streak that dragged on for nearly eight years.
Fort Worth Diamond Hill-Jarvis on Thursday night defeated Dallas Conrad 40-12.
Fort Worth Independent School District spokesman Clint Bond said Friday that the last victory for the Eagles had been on Sept. 18, 2010, in a 31-7 win over Thomas Jefferson, another Dallas school.
Bond says Diamond Hill-Jarvis students celebrated Friday morning by lining the school hallways to welcome the victorious players, who marched through to the sound of drums and cheers.
The Eagles on Sept. 7 play North Dallas.Tem
Former Philadelphia Eagles tight end Brent Celek has announced his retirement after 11 seasons in the NFL.
Celek was released in March after spending his entire career with the Eagles. He told a crowd of 8,000 fans at a radio station event last Saturday that he was planning to retire and made it official on Friday.
Celek had 398 receptions for 4,998 yards and 31 touchdowns in 175 regular-season games. He caught 27 passes for 257 yards and three TDs in nine playoff games, including a 41-33 victory over New England in the Super Bowl in February.
He missed only one game in his career and is fourth on the team’s all-time list for games played.
Celek was a fifth-round pick out of Cincinnati in 2007.
Usain Bolt’s soccer debut for the Central Coast Mariners lasted about 20 minutes against an amateur local team and with almost 10,000 people in the crowd.
The eight-time Olympic gold medalist is trying to become a professional soccer player and has been given a tryout with the Australian A-League club based in Gosford, north of Sydney.
The crowd for Friday’s exhibition game was about four times bigger than the average home attendance the Mariners attracted last season. The Australian Associated Press reported that the exhibition game was broadcast in 60 countries.
Bolt started on the left wing and had a clumsy first touch, but settled in and found himself in scoring positions a couple of times before having a stoppagetime shot blocked.