6/21/24: Happy First Day Of Summer, What’s The Most Texan Thing You’ve Done This Week, Raiderland Hot Links Featuring Texas Tech Golf, Texas Rangers Signing Things & Carp

June 21, 2024 Ryan Hyatt Raiderland Hot-Links, West Texas, Pop-Culture, Questions Of The Day Comments Off

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Happy Friday, Y’all !

We made it!

Now if we can just get a little rain around here over the next week or so, the cotton farmers will all say Thank You! Not looking good on that front… say let’s Pray For Rain and Pray For Ruidoso…

Most Texan Thing

Each Friday we have one Standing Order for Raiderland.

Tell us what the Most Texan Thing is you’ve done over the past week.

Big, Small, In-Between… What did you do that made you feel like a Texan????

Post your comments in the section below. Then… share this post on your Facebook Feed or Twitter Feed and invite your friends to tell us how Texan they were this week.

Raiderland Hot Links

We serve ’em up fresh and hot each morning! The hottest links from around Raiderland and Beyond!!!

Good morning! pic.twitter.com/WiSTZpQhnE
— Dane Dewbre 🌵 (@MarlandDane) June 21, 2024

From 288 participants starting Monday to 16 after Thursday … Calum Scott has advanced to Friday's quarterfinal round of the 129th Amateur Championship!

» Round of 32:
Scott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 def. S. Cave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, 5&4
» Round of 16:
Scott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 def. D. Shaw-Radford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, 3&2 https://t.co/kfywqe6WEt
— Texas Tech Men’s Golf (@TexasTechMGolf) June 20, 2024

Houston is moving on from AD Chris Pezman, who helped usher the Cougars into the Big 12 era and recently hired head football coach Willie Fritz.

A search for his replacement will begin immediately. SVP for administration and finance Raymond S. Bartlett will serve as interim AD. pic.twitter.com/mp0m396yla
— Matt Fortuna (@Matt_Fortuna) June 20, 2024

They were asked to sign what? 🤣 pic.twitter.com/szrYSqFFxL
— Texas Rangers (@Rangers) June 20, 2024

“Old Days”Mets Mgr.Gil Hodges shares a laugh with old foes
Willie Mays and Leo Durocher before the 1969 All StarGame in Washington.#Mets #Cubs #SFGiants #MLB #HOF #1960s #RIPWillieMays pic.twitter.com/mzjAJ4TFgx
— Tom's Old Days (@sigg20) June 21, 2024

June 21, 1982: ABC released their debut album, Lexicon of Love. #80s pic.twitter.com/gPb2cH2qmQ
— Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) June 21, 2024

Traces of Texas reader Art Holmes kindly sent in this 1950s photo of the Diamond Horseshoe restaurant in Midland. Per Art, it was located at 3132 West Wall Street. The first time Art ever ate fried shrimp it was at this place. He also remembers that they served great steak. Art… pic.twitter.com/FUDsIrOqfG
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) June 20, 2024

Use live bait where you catch it—invasive silver & bighead carp look like shad when small and can be transferred to new water bodies as live bait.

Invasive carp also compete with native fish for food.

Report invasive carp sightings to [email protected] pic.twitter.com/GY7Mwt8VYm
— TPWD Fishing (@TPWDfish) June 20, 2024