Globe-News 2000 Pigskin Preview Dispatch
The Globe-News Sports Department presents its 2000 Pigskin Preview featuring 72 team profiles and district predictions plus the inaugural Preseason Super Team in Amarillo Daily News and Globe-Times.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 2000
Page
1
The Globe-News Sports Department presents its 2000 Pigskin Preview featuring 72 team profiles and district predictions plus the inaugural Preseason Super Team in Amarillo Daily News and Globe-Times.
Globe News arts writer Chip Chandler surveys the finales of Survivor and Big Brother in Channel Surfer. The piece contrasts ratings and audience fatigue with highlights and hosts. A brown-bag lunch note previews convenient kitchen leftovers for parents and children, with tips on quick prep. See Wednesday's Amarillo Daily News.
Today remains mostly sunny with a high near 96. Tonight will be mostly clear and cool with a low around 66. Wednesday stacks hot again with a mid 90s high.
A Fort Worth pilot died when an F-16C crashed in a plowed field about four miles northeast of Tulsa while flying eastbound. The jet clipped a barn near Farm-to-Market 146, exploded, and debris spread over a quarter mile. Military officials from Fort Worth and Cannon AFB secured the scene for investigation.
A Spirit Gore Lieberman 2000 campaign jet carrying Sen Joseph Lieberman landed briefly at Amarillo International Airport for a refueling stop. Security was tight with Secret Service on the ground and no media allowed. Lieberman said he could not deplane and was flying from Chicago toward California for a health issue campaign stop.
Adrienne Cisneros weighing 1 pound 13.5 ounces was born by cesarean after mother Kimberly Lay Cisneros 20 died from injuries suffered when a Jeep was rear ended on Stickney Point Road near Sarasota. The infant survived, uninjured, in Tampa at Women’s Hospital. Authorities say the mother was not belted and the accident occurred in rainy conditions. Funeral services are planned in Canadian.
A friendly hello from the skies turned tragic when an F-16C fighter crashed just north of Tulsa killing pilot Steve Simons of Fort Worth. Simons, flying as a Naval Reserves member, had planned a flyover near Tulia and spoke with his father-in-law, Cletus Dobbs, before the incident on the Dobbs farm. Neighbors watching from nearby fields rushed to assist as emergency crews arrived within minutes.
Marine Corps pauses operations on 413 aircraft including 165 CH-53E Super Stallions and 40 MH-53Es after an August 1 crash near Corpus Christi. Some AH-1W Cobras returning as rotor blades are replaced. full return dates remain unclear. The Navy also grounds its MH-53Es.
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