Entertainment

The Longhorn Network, ESPN's groundbreaking and controversial partnership with the University of Texas, launches today with much fanfare and great hoopla to a nationwide audience of … well ... actually, not much.

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The Lufkin School Board has voted to seek competitive bids on some much-needed repairs and modifications at Abe Martin Stadium.

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Millions of TV viewers think David Letterman is funny. Others don't think he's funny at all, and at least one radical Muslim is highly insulted by him.  He's calling on Muslims to cut off Letterman's tongue because of a joke he made on his late night show.

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Did Butch Cassidy, the notorious Old West outlaw who most historians believe died in a 1908 shootout in Bolivia, actually survive that battle and live to old age, peacefully and anonymously, in Washington state?

And did he write an autobiography about his exploits under another name?

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Comedian Jerry Lewis is no longer serving as the Muscular Dystrophy Association's national chairman, and he won't be appearing on this year's Labor Day telethon.  Lewis, who is 85 years old, has been the MDA's national chairman since the early 1950s, and he has hosted the MDA Labor Day telethon since 1966.

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Most Texans with long memories know about the two Texas beauties who won the Miss America Pageant in the 1970s, but you need an exceptionally long memory -- or be very old -- or both, to know anything about the Tyler girl who was Miss America in 1942.

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Dustin Ellerman, a 28-year-old summer camp director from Zavalla, is also a crack shot with a rifle. That's why Dustin will be featured in the upcoming third season of "Top Shot," a History Channel show where marksmen compete for a grand prize of $100,000.

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The Houston Astros are, in the words of an old Merle Haggard song, headin' downhill like a snowball headed for hell.  They're not just last in their division, and not just last in the National League.  They're last in all of baseball.

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