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I found this on some Associated Press wire reports during a web search Thursday. Looks like HP-ex Clayton Kershaw is the early favorite to become the Dodgers' opening day starter. 

(from the AP) 
GLENDALE, Ariz. - While the Dodgers still aren't confirming their opening day starting pitcher, Clayton Kershaw appears to be in line for the assignment. 

A day after manager Joe Torre said the team's regular-season rotation plans would become obvious, the soon-to-be 22-year-old Kershaw was being pointed toward the April 5 season opener at Pittsburgh.

Torre did announce his spring rotation plans Thursday, saying Vicente Padilla will start the spring opener March 5 against the Chicago White Sox. Left-hander Eric Stults, one of a bevy of candidates for the No. 5 spot in the rotation, will pitch in the second spring game.

 The clue to the regular-season rotation takes shape after that. Kershaw will pitch the third spring game, ahead of fellow opening day starting candidates Chad Billingsley and Hiroki Kuroda.

Despite being so young, Kershaw is the candidate that has done the most to earn the honor. He had the fifth-best ERA in the National League last season at 2.79 in 30 starts and 171 innings. His 1.83 ERA at home led the major leagues.

With two days remaining in the 2009 regular season and the slumping Dodgers losing their grip on a potential National League West title, Kershaw pitched six scoreless innings in a victory that made the team division champs.

"To be put in that situation and be able to come through was an awesome feeling," said Kershaw, who has a modest 13-13 career record. "But at the same time, it was just one game too. Hopefully I'll have a lot more of those throughout my career."

Billingsley had been the team's No. 1 starter in waiting, but he stumbled to a 3-7 record and a 5.20 ERA in the second half last season after being named an NL All-Star. He blamed mechanical issues for his struggles.

Kuroda started the season opener last season at San Diego, but three separate injuries in 2009 cost him at least 11 starts. Padilla pitched well down the stretch last season and into the playoffs, but he only joined the organization last Aug. 19.    

As predicted here following the UIL realignment released earlier this month, Sherman and Denison appealed the UIL regarding their placement in District 13-4A along with Texarkana Texas, Sulphur Springs and Mount Pleasant. They wanted to be in District 10-4A with HP, Richardson Pearce, two McKinney schools and two Wylie schools.

The Sherman/Denison appeal would then send Rockwall and Rockwall-Heath, who were realigned in 10-4A, into 13-4A and make them make the long trips up I-30 just like new 13-4A members Greenville and Royse City will. The appeal makes sense geographically.

Their appeal was denied on Thursday, according to a news released from the UIL.

This comes from Michael Gardner, who has been covering the HP boys' basketball team for our site most of the district season. It's his first-team all-district team for District 10-4A, based on statistics and what he's seen from each of them during the district season.

 It's hard to argue against any of these picks. Listed below are Gardner's picks for the top five players in the district. The 10-4A coaches will release their team once all of the district's teams have been eliminated from the playoffs.

First Team All-District:
PG: Pierre Hayden - Royse City (19.8 pts./game)
SG: Randell Joyner - Carrollton Smith (11.2 pts./game, 5.4 rebs./game, 3.2 ast./game)
SF: Al Lasker - Carrollton Smith (14.8 pts./game, 8.9 rebs./game)
PF: Kenny Slocum - Richardson Pearce (17.4 pts./game, 7.5 rebs./game)
C: Daniel Edwards - HP (15.8 pts./game, 9 rebs./game)

Co-MVPS: Randell Joyner - Carrollton Smith; and Daniel Edwards, HP
Newcomer of the Year: Luke Turpin - HP

I found this story from the Greenville Herald-Banner today saying that Greenville High School football coach and athletic director Jim Phillips is leaving to assume the same positions at Pasadena Dobie High School outside Houston.

 Phillips was 8-12 in two seasons at Greenville, but took a woeful 2-8 team in 2008 and molded them into a 6-4 playoff contender in one year. 

Greenville won't be in HP's district the next two years, but they are a potential playoff opponent. They expect to have a new coach in place for school board approval at their March 23 meeting.