{"id":36486,"date":"2019-04-07T03:19:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T03:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36486"},"modified":"2019-04-07T03:19:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T03:19:25","slug":"theyre-yelling-themselves-hoarse-in-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36486","title":{"rendered":"They’re yelling themselves hoarse in West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Amarillo is only 120 miles or so north of Lubbock in West Texas.<\/p>\n

Both cities are full of happy basketball fans tonight. Indeed, as my wife and I are parked in our RV in far west Amarillo, I am wondering if I can hear the shouts from sports bars all over the city.<\/p>\n

Indeed, I might have to dial in my ears to hear the shouts from down yonder in Lubbock, where Texas Tech University sits.<\/p>\n

The Red Raiders have earned a shot at the men’s college basketball title by defeating Michigan State University tonight. Now they’ll go after the NCAA men’s title Monday night against the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n

I watched every minute of the game. I am not a Tech grad. I don’t even follow college basketball all that closely. But both my wife and I have many Tech grad-friends we met during our many years in Amarillo. I am happy for them all.<\/p>\n

However, you can count me as one happy former West Texan who will cheer loudly for the Red Raiders to bring home the hardware.<\/p>\n\n

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Amarillo is only 120 miles or so north of Lubbock in West Texas. Both cities are full of happy basketball fans tonight. Indeed, as my wife and I are parked in our RV in far west Amarillo, I am wondering if I can hear the shouts from sports bars all over the city. Indeed, I … Continue reading They’re yelling themselves hoarse in West Texas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3044,8545,4724],"class_list":["post-36486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-michigan-state-university","tag-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36487,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36486\/revisions\/36487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}