his name is sam parker. there have been wonderful men in my life, women in my life, teachers in my life that affected me. sam parker was hired by the mount pleasant school board to be coach and to teach history. he was head coach at my tigers school. he led them to being undefeated after the first nine games. he turned the program around. he was part of the methodist church. taught sunday school. his wife, noreen, was the librarian at the junior high. we played silver springs and people were saying this looked like the best team in 3-a in texas. they went to sulphur springs. some teams told me it was their fault. they didn't take it serious enough and they lost by one touchdown and that was friday night. monday morning the school board fired sam parker and then he and his wife had a tough decision. they believed that god had called them to mount pleasant to plant their roots, invest their lives and change america from that small place. well, he did the unthinkable. he stayed and taught american history after

i had been inspired by american history in high school by sam parker, my teacher, my scout master. so i know a little bit about our history. i know a lot about world history as well. and it's important to take things in perspective, especially speeches here in washington, and take them from the perspective of how it all fits together. now, we have been in this chamber, sitting right back there on the aisle, and we had the president of the united states standing right there, i was on a direct line of sight, eye-to-eye with the president, except his eyes cut right into the teleprompter each time he looked my way so i don't think we ever made eye contact. but he kept telling us, over and over, 16, 17 times, i didn't count them, i've been told, but he said, we've got to pass this bill right now, right now. this bill, right now. unfortunately, last thursday, when the president was saying we've got to pass this bill, right now, there was no bill. there was no plan. he talked about his plan, he talked about his bill. they didn't have it quite ready yesterday until later and we kept harass

the first quarter, 7-7, sam bradley slipped and fumbles and parker picks it up, goes 66 yards for thedown. the eagles over the saint louis rams, 31-13. the colts minus peyton manning for the first time since 1997. and collins in for him at quarterback for andy. and sacked him three times, forcing two fumbles. the texans rob indianapolis, 34- 7. >>> how about some tennis? serena williams hadn't lost a set at the u.s. open in the women's final. different today. >> they will have to play it right there. >> started in the middle of the shot. >> the umpire awarded samaa soser the point because serena screamed white ball was still in play. [ booing ] serena's issues will be up, overshadowed a dominant performance by sorcer, winning in straight sets for the first- ever grand-slam title for her. congratulations to her. >>> how about the giants and the dodgers. the dodgers came in in third place, which is 2 1/2 games behind san francisco. all of a sudden, threatenning to overtake the giants for second place. l.a. in the football spirit, rob barrajas and the pop-up, nearly tackled by russ mitch

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