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Beaumont native and University of Texas senior and honor student Layla Nejad will spend 70 days cycling 4,700 miles from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska, to raise awareness and funds to fight cancer.

Chad Cooper (The Examiner sports editor)
Winners: 88-242, .363
Best Bets: 5-9, .555
Longshots (hitting the board): 10-20, .500
Top 3 picks in the $: .544

Morning Line (opening odds)
Winners: 84-242, .347
Best Bets (9/5 or lower): 10-16, .625
Top 3 picks in the $: .545

Jason Richards was a standout baseball player in the 90s at Bridge City High School. So good, in fact, he went on to play on the collegiate level at Rice University. Richards, who now lives in Tyler with his wife and three children, also has a good eye for quarter horses. 

Saturday, May 23, is the big event for thousands of fishermen along the Texas Gulf Coast. It’s the first day of the very popular CCA STAR tournament. What makes this tourney so popular? Well, to begin with, 60 tagged reds will be released from Sabine Lake to South Padre Island. The first five of those tagged reds caught is worth a truck, boat, motor and trailer.

This is a tourney that is cheap to enter and is big time fun for kids and adults.