The UIL announced on Thursday afternoon that they will hold regional track meets after May 11th and then move the state meet to June 5th and 6th.

Former Longhorn defensive tackle Steve McMichael (1976-1979) is part of a 16 person class voted into the College Football Hall of Fame.  McMichael was a unanimous 1st team All American in 1979 on a Texas defense that allowed less than 9 points per game.

McMichael went on to a 13 year NFL career that included five pro bowls and he was part of the 1986 Chicago Bears Super Bowl champions.

McMichael is currently the head coach of the Chicago Slaughter of the Continental Indoor Football League.

Here’s a look at the rest of the 2009 Hall of Fame class.

COACHES

• DICK MacPHERSON - 111-73-5 (.601) - Massachusetts (1971-77), Syracuse (1981-90)
• JOHN ROBINSON - 132-77-4 (.629) - Southern California (1976-82, 1993-97), Nevada-Las Vegas (1999-2004)

Even though Lacrosse is not goverened by the UIL, their district playoffs and state tournament have been postponed.  Austin Independent School district has closed House Park Field until May 11th in compliance with the suspension of UIL activities due to the swine flu concerns.  They are still trying to devise a plan to finish the playoffs.

The 8th ranked Longhorn baseball team scored a season high 12 runs Tuesday on their way to a 12-2 win over Texas State at UFCU Disch-Falk field.  Freshman Kevin Lussen had four hits and scored five runs while Connor Rowe was 3-5 with 3 rbi.    Brandon Belt hit his team leading 5th homerun of the season to give Texas a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the 1st.  The Bobcats tied it up in the 2nd with a Tyler Sibley rbi.  The Longhorns took the lead back with a pair of runs in the bottom of the 2nd and poured it one from there.

Sophomore Stayton Thomas pitched five shutout innings to pick up his 2nd win of the season.

The Longhorns improve to 30-11-1 heading into their weekend series with Baylor which begins friday at 8:00pm in Austin.

Lance Armstrong is off to New Mexico for the Tour of the Gila.  Armstrong  found out Tuesday morning that he could ride in the event with Astana teammates Levi Leipheimer and ChrisHorner. Since pro teams like Astana are not allowed to send organized teams to the race, the three will race under the name of Armstrong’s Austin bike shop, Mellow Johnny’s and they will not be allowed to have  a team car or team director.

The Tourof the Gila will be Armstrong’s first race since shoulder surgery in March.  The five stage race begins  in Silver City, New Mexico on Wednesday and goes through Sunday. Silver City, New Mexico is about 150 miles northwest of El Paso, Texas.

Round Rock product John Danks improved to 2-0 on Wednesday as his White Sox beat the Orioles 8-2.  Danks allowed 1 earned run (Luke Scott solo HR) in 7 innings. Danks has now allowed just two runs in his 19 innings of work in three starts, with an E.R.A. at a staggering 0.95 which is good for 2nd best in the American League.

The 5th ranked Texas baseball team lost to 2nd ranked Rice 7-4 Tuesday in Austin.  Owls sweep the two game season series.  Horns back in action this weekend against 23rd ranked Kansas State.

The red hot Texas baseball team jumped from 9th to 4th in the latest Baseball America poll.  The Longhorns took over the Big XII lead with a three game sweep over Oklahoma this past weekend at UFCU-Disch Falk Field.  Texas has won ten straight heading into Tuesday’s game with 2nd ranked Rice in Austin.  Texas relief pitcher Austin Wood was named Big XII pitcher of the week, Wood appeared in all four of UT’s wins this past week, picking up two saves.

A blog is often a place where journalists and reporters (and the like) can brag on another reporter’s work. I again turn to the Dallas Morning News for the hilarity of Aggie, now Cowboys TE Martellus Bennett’s Cowboys Insider Blog.

Recently I talked to Martellus about his twitter page: www.twitter.com/martyBTV and I’ll post that soon. His advertisement? “If you don’t follow my page, you’re lost,” Bennett said. That got me thinking the man has a gift for the sports gab.

I’m not the only one: the News got to him and decided to publish it online: http://cowboysinsiderblog.dallasnews.com/

Bennett discusses the prominent social issues of our time, like,

1. What do you do when your girlfriend passes gas?

2. Rules of a scary movie so as to avoid getting killed

3. His latest celebrity crushes… and perhaps my personal favorite…

4. His theory that “aliens” or something like them, exist in the NFL. I think it’s code but I may have to re-read the blog.

Bennett provides us with something we don’t get to see often: really funny stuff. Let’s face it, sports is a way of goofing off sometimes and this is just another way to enjoy yourself and excuse it on the pursuit of athletics.

Keep in mind, Bennett is 21 years old, and is still full of the college humor. But it’s humor, and pretty refreshing as a whole, so I enjoy his contribution.

The Austin Toros won a wild NBA D-League playoff game Wednesday night at Concordia University’s new Fieldhouse  over Idaho 119-116 in overtime.  The Toros trailed by 16 points with two minutes to go in the 3rd quarter before storming back.  The Toros will now face top seed Colorado in a one game semifinal.