Dennis L. Shippey Aquatics Center

(via Linda Shippey Google+)

The new facility in Pasadena ISD is just about ready.  More here.

The new swimming pool on the Memorial Stadium grounds is essentially ready to go, giving the school district its first competition aquatics facility since the old Southmore Intermediate School, with its pool, was torn down some six years ago.

Learn more about Dennis Shippey here.

Quote of the Day

Bureaucrats, like mobs, don't respond to reason.

(via Strickland Screenshots)

Dale Alvin Gribble, a.k.a. Rusty Shackleford

Quote of the Day

Leave them wanting more and

you know they'll call you back.

(via Pop Rock Photos)

Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack

Quote of the Day

If you don't know why something is

working when it's working, you won't

know how to fix it when it breaks.

(via Star News)

Brent "Buzz" Williams

Water Polo Proposal Takes a Hit

After viewing this video, superintendents on the Legislative Council gave water polo a "thumbs down" (hint:  go full screen on this one):

Quote of the Day

The same independence that got me into trouble

in high school got me praise in college.

(via HARVARD gazette)

Alan Morton Dershowitz

Quote of the Day

Focus on remedies, not faults.

(via The Telegraph)

Jack William Nicklaus

Title IX: How a Good Law Went Terribly Wrong

How did an honorable equity law turn into a scorched-earth campaign against men’s sports?

Read entire Christina Hoff Sommers article here.

The original law was about equality of opportunity and indeed forbade quotas or reverse discrimination schemes. But over the years, government officials, college administrators and jurists — spurred on by groups like the National Women’s Law Center and the Women’s Sports Foundation — transformed a fair-minded equity law into just such a quota-driven regime, with destructive results.

(via Maclean's)

Instead of more investigations, restrictions, closed opportunities, bean counting, number fudging and gender politics, we should follow the advice of the novelist (and former wrestler) John Irving: “Keep Title IX: eliminate proportionality.” I can think of no better way to celebrate this intrinsically good law on its 42^nd anniversary.

Quote of the Day

Be prepared and be honest.

(via Academy of Achievement)

John Robert Wooden

Quote of the Day

When people stand up and talk about
the great success that the EU has been,
I'm not sure anybody saying it really

believes it themselves anymore.

(via The Spectator)

Nigel Paul Farage

Quote of the Day

Women don't want to hear what you think.  Women

want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

(via FilmGordon)

William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr.

Quote of the Day

When I go stand up at the podium in front of the

White House press corps, I never lie.  I never say

something that I know is untrue.  Credibility is

enormously important to a press secretary.

(via Taylor Marsh)

James "Jay" Carney

Quote of the Day

Road Does Not End

(via NY Post)

Stanley Marsh 3

Quote of the Day

Remember these two things:

play hard and have fun.

(via MLB Blogs)

Anthony Keith "Tony" Gwynn, Sr.

Quote of the Day

Keep your feet on the ground

and keep reaching for the stars.

(via L.A. Times)

Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem

Quote of the Day

I want people to see the passion I

have for swimming and become

more involved in the sport.

Ryan Steven Lochte

Quote of the Day

Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones

who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.

(via The Daily Mail)

Giacobbe "Jake" La Motta,

a.k.a. The Raging Bull

Quote of the Day

You know more of a road by having

traveled it than by all the conjectures

and descriptions in the world.

(via Wikipedia)

William Hazlitt

Quote of the Day

We cannot improve or restructure a horse and

buggy into a spacecraft regardless of how

much money and effort we put into it.

(via Wikipedia)

Béla Heinrich Bánáthy

Quote of the Day

A man is at his youngest when he thinks

he is a man, not yet realizing that

his actions must show it.

(via The Telegaph)

Eileen Mary Challans, a.k.a. Mary Renault

Quote of the Day

The greatest weapon against stress is our

ability to choose one thought over another.

(via Wikipedia)

William James

Quote of the Day

Something has gone seriously awry with this

Court's interpretation of the Constitution.

(via lawrence)

Clarence Thomas

Quote of the Day

Slow justice is not justice.

(via Primera Hora)

Federico Hernández Denton

Quote of the Day

 

Let's turn inflation over to the post

office.  That'll slow it down.

 

(via Wikipedia Commons)

 

Morris King "Mo" Udall

Quote of the Day

There are painters who transform the sun into

a yellow spot but there are others who, with

the help of their art and their intelligence,

transform a yellow spot into a sun.

 

(via Pictify)

 

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno María de los Remedios
Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad
Ruiz y Picasso, a.k.a. Pablo Picasso

Quote of the Day

Power without a nation's

confidence is nothing.

(via Wikipedia)

Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst,

a.k.a. Catherine the Great

Perspective

Tell John Q. Public you signed with an NFL team (32 teams x 53 roster spots = 1696 players in the league) and he'll be very, very impressed!

Tell JQP you competed in our Olympic Trials (around 1800 did in 2012) and he'll likely yawn.

Quote of the Day

Everybody hears, but few listen.

(via SMB)

Robert Montgomery "Bob" Knight

Quote of the Day

As long as you believe in what you're doing
and you stay on the path that you believe in,
then you're going to be fine.  The problem you
 have is when you start letting outside pressures
 and outside influences change you.  We're
 going to stay focused, no matter what.

(via KIAF)

Mark "Bo" Pelini