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11-05-2025
- Sport
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Nix, Shearmire inducted into TABC's Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame
High school basketball season has long been over, but Saturday May 10, 2025 featured a special celebration for two Texoma Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) hosting its annual clinic, including the Texas High School Basketball hall of fame City's Darryn Shearmire is one of eight members of the class of 2025. He played for the Wildcats from 1979 to 1982, twice earning all-state honors while leading the team to three straight undefeated district championships and a pair of state tournament appearances. Shearmire is currently head coach of the girls basketball team at Bridgeport high inducted in the class of 2025, Burkburnett legend Danny coached the Bulldogs boys basketball team for 43 years, 40 as the head coach. He also spent 26 of those years as Burkburnett's athletic director. At his alma mater, Nix led the Nulldogs to 19 district titles and two state championship game appearances. He has 866 coaching wins at one school, the third most in Texas high school retired three years ago, and the gym at Burkburnett high school is named in his honor. He is also a member of our local hall of fame, the Nexstar Sports hall of fame, inducted back in 2022. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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19-02-2025
- Politics
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Bill proposes renaming part of Southern Boulevard as President Donald Trump Boulevard
A bill filed in the Florida Legislature would rename a portion of Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach County as "President Donald J. Trump Boulevard." The measure, House Bill 697, was filed by state Rep. Danny Nix, Jr., R-Port Charlotte. It would also affect the naming of three other roadways in Florida, including another part of Southern. It would not be the first road named after the 45th and 47th president. Last year, a Miami-Dade city, Hialeah, named a four-mile stretch of roadway President Donald J. Trump Avenue. Mayor Esteban Bovo made the announcement at a rally Trump held in the city in November 2023, at which Bovo even presented Trump with the sign. Neither would it be the first roadway in Palm Beach County named for recent U.S. presidents. In 2015, Riviera Beach renamed part of Old Dixie Highway 'President Barack Obama Highway.' Delray Beach also has a George Bush Boulevard, named after the 41st president. The legislation in Tallahassee proposes President Donald Trump Boulevard would span the section of Southern from S. Ocean Boulevard, in front of Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, across the Southern Boulevard Bridge over the Intracoastal to Kirk Road in West Palm Beach. Southern Boulevard is U.S. Route 98, which crosses almost a thousand miles from Palm Beach to Bude, Mississippi. In Florida, it wraps around the eastern boundary of Lake Okeechobee, cuts through Sebring, Lakeland and then along the Panhandle coast from Apalachicola to Panama City to Pensacola. The counties that U.S. 98 traverses in Florida have voted heavily for Trump since his first White House run in 2016. Nix's bill would also designate a piece of Southern Boulevard between the the 18000 22 block and Royal Palm Beach Boulevard as "PBSO Motorman Highway." It would also designate U.S. 41 between Melbourne Street and 13 Church Street in Charlotte County as "Sergeant 14 Elio Diaz Memorial Highway," as a portion of Interstate 275 between mile markers 47 and 48 in Hillsborough County as "Master Patrol Officer 17 Jesse Madsen Memorial Highway." Diaz was a Charlotte County deputy who was killed after conducting a traffic stop in 2024. Madsen was a Tampa police officer who veered into the path of a wrong-way driver in 2021 to protect others on I-275. In 1998, the Legislature designated the Florida Turnpike as the Ronald Reagan Turnpike in honor of the 40th president. Antonio Fins is a politics and business editor at The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at afins@ Help support our journalism. Subscribe today. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Florida bill proposed: Rename Southern in West Palm Beach after Trump
