Kilgore's new TCL team sets '08 season schedule
TEXAS COLLEGIATE LEAGUE BASEBALL
From special reports
      Just one week after introducing its first-ever head coach, East Texas' new collegiate league baseball team has announced the schedule for its inaugural season. All the team needs now is a name. The 48-game regular season will open on Tuesday, June 10, when the team travels to McKinney to take on...
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Rangers' Hamilton grateful for a second chance
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL/ TEXAS RANGERS SPRING TRAINING
      SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) - Among the more than two dozen tattoos on Josh Hamilton's body are demons without eyes, the significance of which the new Texas Rangers center fielder never understood until he overcame his cocaine and alcohol addictions.
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Rain forces KHS-Rockwall to move tourney game here
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com
      Surprise, surprise: Kilgore's home opener is tonight. The Rose City Classic high school baseball tournament in Tyler didn't exactly get off to a roaring start this morning, thanks to the inclement weather that moved into East Texas.
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SPORTSVIEW
Don't look now, but the NBA is fun again
By TIM DAHLBERG of the Associated Press
      David Stern got what he wanted out of the NBA All-Star game even before LeBron James showed he could play without anyone defending him as well as he can when someone actually is. In a league where image is everything, it was hard to beat the images coming out of New Orleans.
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Rangers blow out J'ville; KC ladies sputter in second half
JUNIOR COLLEGE BASKETBALL
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com
      Revenge was sweet for the Kilgore College men's basketball team Wednesday night. Back on Jan. 12, the Runnin' Rangers were trying to get back in the middle of the Region XIV Conference playoff race when they were surprised in Jacksonville, dropping a 46-45 decision to JC on a last-second tip-in.
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Mavs lose Kidd's 're-debut' to Hornets
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
      NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Perhaps Chris Paul and the New Orleans Hornets don't need any blockbuster trades to keep pace with their Western Conference rivals. Paul had 31 points, 11 assists and a career-high nine steals, spoiling Jason Kidd's debut with Dallas and lifting the New Orleans Hornets to a 10...
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