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He's a Texas legend, a Hallof Fame broadcaster, the voice of the
Texas Longhorns, and your host ofthe Craigway Show. Here he is now
Craig Way. Can we rolled intothis final hour of the program. My
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name is Craig Waite, alongside CameronParker, and where we give up until
five o'clock and we're with you outthe course of this week. See,
this is the way it worked outwith vacasion, even a couple of days
off here and there the Camahan duringthe time end I was out that we
both knew we would be back fora full solid week in house in the
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studio in the building this week.So you got all that Monday through and
then the first four days of nextweek we will be in Dallas for SEC
Football Media Days, the first effortthat will involve the Texas long Worns as
well as the Oklahoma Sooners, andwe look forward to bringing you our program
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from up there, not just theday when Texas there, which is I
think is what Wednesday, the thirdday. Yep, we're there all four
days. They're along with Mike Hardballharch Harder to be up there bringing you
the Harts Knox Life up there,and we'll look forward to bringing you the
program from SEC Media days. Wedo have our text line open if you
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want to join in the conversation,have a question or a comment for us,
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message for us. Now, Iwill tell you this. I mentioned this
last hour we do have coming soon, and I'll just leave it soon because
we have to have a couple ofdiscussions on this one in specific tomorrow morning.
Coming soon, however, we willbe giving away copies of Dave Campbell's
Texas Football Magazine, as we doevery year, no matter where I am.
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When this started, when I washere not only in the pre iHeart
days of AM thirteen hundred The Zone, but in the pre AM thirteen hundred
The Zone days. This actually startedback in nineteen ninety seven. Bill Schening
and I did the show together forfour years before Bill left to go do
the Spurs, and when I firstcame down in ninety seven we started,
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and I guess I should amend this. I came down and started doing doing
the show with Bill in ninety seven, and we had a few copies to
give away that year, so itdid count. And it was back in
the days before we were all sports. Some of you longtime listeners remember that
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when this signal was known as theAM thirteen hundred, it was a news
talk operation was morning drive news block, and then there were talking programs on
a variety of political, general interests, things like that, and then the
sports talk started in the afternoon.So Bill and I did a show together
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for four years and then he leftthere in the fall of a one But
that first year we had a fewcopies to give away. But then starting
the next year in ninety eight,and just by a couple of months,
preceded the AM thirteen hundred morphing intoSports Radio thirteen hundred the Zone, and
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we call it almost identical Downsports RadioAM thirteen under the Zone. But that
year in nineteen ninety eight is whenwe started getting a full shipment of Dave
Campbell's Texas football magazines shipped to usto give away on the air. We
started that year in ninety eight,went through the time, and then Bill
left, like I said, todo the Spurs. And then throughout the
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course of most of the first twodecades of the twenty first century, I
did the show either alone or Ihad different co hosts with me that came
and went. John and Danny didfor a while, Rod Babers did for
a while, Keith Morland was inthere for a while. AJ Hoffman was
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in there for a time. Ihad a lot of different co hosts at
the time. I had an internone summer, Chris Ogden. How about
that Doggie was an intern for me, and of course now he's the general
manager of the University of Texas men'sbasketball program. But throughout the course of
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the whole first decade of the twentyfirst century two thousand and one up through
twenty ten, and then the firstseveral years while I was still at iHeart
up through January of twenty seventeen,we gave away those copies that were sent
to us at the station, wentacross town did a show over there from
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twenty seventeen to last year to twentytwenty three. The trend continued. Dave
Campbell's Texas Football Magazine sent me copiesover there. We gave those way.
Now I'm back obviously, iHeart startedlast August again, back home again.
But the giveaways will continue. Infact, we already have the magazine.
They are in the house, sowe will start to give away and we're
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going to have a little bit ofa more creative way to do it than
we've done it in the past.It will require just a little bit of
effort on your part other than justluck being the fifth caller or the tenth
caller or the thirteenth caller. Butit will give you a chance, a
realistic chance, other than by sheerluck and lottery, to land a copy
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of the magazine. So we'll giveyou some details on that in the coming
days. Just wanted to wanted tolet you know about that. That's that's
just around the corner. We'll dothat. I handed a copy over to
Cameron. He was pretty excited.He just said, what what do you
like? What do you what doyou most look forward to in the magazine
when it comes out every year.Well, before I started working in sports
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media, it was always to readabout UT and the other Texas teams,
and the scouting reports and the previews. Now because I do so much work
with high school football and play byplay. I use it on the high
school level, looking at the highschool teams, the previews and all.
So, I mean they put ina lot of work with the records from
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last year, returning letterman how manythey lost key players height weight, because
it's not always easy to get theheight and wait to certain players, but
they do a great job of gettingthat from coaches during the summer. So
I use a lot of what theywrite in my broadcast when doing high school
football. I mean, it trulyis a bible, but specifically I think
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for high school football. I meanI use that thing from week one all
the way through the playoffs. Somegreat great note notes and nuggets in there,
no doubt about it. In caseyou didn't hear it is Texas and
Texas A and M presented on thecover with for Texas Quinn Viewers and Connor
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Wigman for Texas A and M.And there's a little bit of an insert
piece about that on inside about thatwhere they show the guys for the setting.
And it's kind of good too becauseyou see Thomas Stepp from the Texas
Sports the Relations Department there in thephoto there with that, you see Alan
Canon, longtime football sid from TexasA and m involved with that, our
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friend Mike Craven and the staff ofDave Campbell's Texas Football magazine, Ashley Pickle,
and of course Greg Chepper, themanaging editor. You see, you
see that that whole thing in there, so that's pretty cool. They also
have so they're on the cover,and then on the inside there's the the
insert cover which has become exclusively likehigh school of the past few years,
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and it's pretty cool. It's gotfather and son on there. Eddie Joseph
excuse me, Gary Joseph. Eddiewas his father, Gary Joseph, a
longtime head coach of Katie ed hisson Jeff Joseph, who's head coach at
Morton H. S Groves who wonthe five A Division two state championship last
season. So there's all of that, all of the great high school coverage
and in addition, and it topsout once again at four hundred pages.
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It's the Bible, obviously, andwe're going to be giving away bunches of
copies coming up here in the nearfuture. Just wanted to make you aware
of that. I think my favoritepart real quick Craig is. I love
logos. I love high school logos, and it looks like this year's edition.
I don't know if this is afirst, but in their preseason rankings
they now have incorporated high school logos. Yeah, they did. It is
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a first. I noticed that aswell. I thought it was really cool.
I did all right. Up next, we're going to shift back to
baseball and we'll talk some baseball withGene Watson from the Chicago White Sox front
office when we continue on Sports RadioAM thirteen hundred Zone A, the Ieartradio app