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James Stanford could not be reached at his home in Mexia, Texas, for comment...
...only way the sport could be more American is if a big Texas tycoon were bankrolling it. Oh, have you met Allen Stanford? The wealth-management billionaire from Mexia, Texas, is forking out $20 million in prize money for a single winner-take-all game in his adopted home of Antigua on Nov. 1. It is far and away the largest purse for any team sport, and Stanford, 58, is betting the match will attract a TV audience of 700 million. His primary motivation is to revive cricket's fading fortunes in the Caribbean, but he's also hoping...
...Born in Houston on Nov. 28, 1967, her parents moved quickly to Mexia, a small town of some 6,000 that lies just 40 miles east of Waco in the heart of Texas. Three weeks before her second birthday, her parents were divorced. She dropped out of school by eighth grade and at 17 married Billy Wayne Smith, the 16-year-old fry cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken. The fried chicken drive-in is still there and Billy still lives in Mexia. He was one of the 50 mourners at a memorial service last fall...
...word spread in Texas that she had died, they began to gather in Mexia. The satellite trucks, that is, lining up in the parking lot at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken. As Anna Nicole said, "What else do you need to know...
DIED. CINDY WALKER, 87, Hall of Fame country tunesmith whose hits for performers from Bing Crosby to the Byrds--including You Don't Know Me and In the Misty Moonlight--made the pop or country charts some 400 times; in Mexia, Texas. She drew unequaled praise from peers (Dolly Parton said Walker had "never written a bad song"; Willie Nelson last month released his CD of her songs; songwriting legend Harlan Howard called her the "greatest living songwriter of country music"), and she had Top 10 hits in every decade from...