Thomas and Rona Reeves have two children who are star athletes with 4.0 or better grade point averages. Both kids also are playing basketball today for a chance to reach the Georgia High School Association’s Class AAAAA Final Four. Life is great in the Reeves household, right?

Well, yes and no.

Tevin Reeves is a 6-foot-1 senior guard for theWheeler Wildcats whose team is playing at theUniversity of West Georgia at 5:30 p.m. today. Amber Reeves is a 5-foot-10 sophomore guard for the North Cobb Warriors. Her team also is playing today at 4 p.m., but 157 miles away at Fort Valley State University.

The start time for the two games is separated by only 90 minutes, making it impossible for both parents to see both games. But this is nothing new for this busy family who has juggled basketball schedules all season.

During the regular season, when both Tevin and Amber played on the same day–a normal occurrence–both Thomas and Rona would start at Amber’s North Cobb game.

“Normally I will jet out of Amber's game and rush to Wheeler's game,” Thomas said. “Normally I get there and the Wheeler guys are warming up. Sometimes it's close; sometimes it's not as close.”

Thomas will record Tevin’s game and share it with family and friends, but not until all four members of the Reeves family sit down and watch the game together.

When both teams play at the same time, as they will today, the family relies on text messaging to stay up to date. Each parent will send the other a score update at the end of each quarter.

It’s a system the family has just about perfected, but it has taken time and a lot of work. It starts with both basketball schedules on the refrigerator. Then the family maps out the locations of games and the quickest routes. The plan has been drawn up and worked over with great care. The Reeveses know just about every detail of the surrounding area when it comes to the two team’s schedules.

“We know where each team is playing, and it kind of makes it easy because Wheeler has a smaller region,” Rona said. “They don't have as many games as North Cobb. And Tevin plays with Wheeler, who many times may go out of town. It kind of made it easy this year for us because Tevin was out of state playing and Amber was still playing locally.”

A great example occurred over the holiday break. Wheeler traveled to national tournaments in Hawaii and Myrtle Beach while North Cobb played locally in Atlanta.

The Reeves family caught another break when the snowstorm hit the area in January. Because of makeup games, North Cobb played a Wednesday game–typically high school games are on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday–and Wheeler played a Monday game. That gave Tevin and Amber a chance to see each other play live.

Tevin “was so excited that he could actually attend her game,” Rona said. “And she was excited because his game was on a Monday. They are excited when they get to go to each other's game. They are the biggest critics of each other too. They love to get that criticism from one another, and they feed on that.”

The criticism is mostly constructive, Thomas said. “They are each other's biggest fans. And when they get to go to each other's games, trust me, they are probably the loudest fan in the gym.”

Tevin works out frequently with Amber on conditioning and helps with other aspects of her game. But Amber paid the biggest homage of sibling support this season when she changed her number from 30 to 22.

“Out of respect for her brother, she changed her number to 22 when it became available this year,” Rona said. “She changed her number to 22 to match Tevin.”

As much as they like and care for each other, the two basketball stars still aren’t afraid to hand out harsh criticism. According to their father, you can frequently hear either one telling the other to "pick it up" or offering advice about a certain area of the game.

But how will the family handle two basketball games so far apart today? Who will go where?

Thomas will head back to his alma mater to watch Amber play with her North Cobb teammates. “I'm actually going to go to the game at Fort Valley State. I'm a Fort Valley State graduate, so it will be like going home for me. I played ball there also.”

Thomas is hoping that one of the other Wheeler parents will take over for him and record the Wildcats’ game. But what both parents really hope for is two wins.

“To see both of them make it to the Final Four would really be a great achievement for them,” said Thomas, who coached both Tevin and Amber since they were 5 years old. “Tevin was on the 2009 state championship team. And Amber, when she was 11, was on the 11-U AAU national championship team. Tevin's goal is to win a second state championship, and Amber's goal is to get a state championship to go with her AAU championship.”

You might say Thomas and Rona’s only goal is to get both kids in the same gym at the same time.

“I'm just really hoping that they do both win on Saturday so that we'll have them at one venue at the Gwinnett Center and we'll see both of them play back to back,” Rona said. “That's my hope.”

Terry Crews and Rebecca Crews Pictures: Terry Crews and Rebecca Crews arrive on the red carpet at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on March 4, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

The NAACP Image Awards is the nation's premier multi-cultural awards show celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts (television, recording, literature, motion picture and writing and directing), as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Lina Ron, a vocal supporter of President Hugo Chavez who led radical street groups, died of a heart attack Saturday, a Venezuelan government official said. She was 51.

Information Minister Andres Izarra confirmed her death, saying she had no vital signs when she arrived at a hospital in the capital,Caracas. "Honor and glory to Lina Ron," Izarra said on Twitter.

Ron led groups of Chavez supporters that were involved in attacks on opposition protests, and she repeatedly said she would take up arms if necessary to defend Chavez and his socialist movement.

With platinum-blond hair and a tough-talking nature, Ron soon became a household name in Venezuela within the first few years after Chavez took office in 1999. She founded the small political partyVenezuelan Popular Union and was for years a prominent voice in the radical wing of Chavez's movement.

Chavez once said Ron was "a good woman, but she tends toward anarchy."

The president publicly opposed some of her tactics. She faced various charges related to her involvement in disturbances.

In 2009, a court upheld criminal charges against Ron including assault and illegal use of a firearm for her role in an attack in which her group hurled tear gas canisters at the studios of the television station Globovision. She also led a group that stormed and temporarily occupied the offices of the Vatican's representative in Caracas in 2008.

In an earlier protest that drew widespread criticism, she burned a U.S. flag shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

In a 2002 interview with The Associated Press, Ron described herself as a "social fighter."

"I'm the ugly part of the process, the one who gets the disagreeable part — confronting" Chavez's enemies, Ron said.

Some government opponents have said Ron was useful for Chavez in that she would regularly intimidate members of the opposition while government officials publicly distanced themselves from her.

The Detroit Tigers, Stevo Poulin, and Dwight Howard are absolutely dominating the sports headlines on this early Saturday afternoon. Good stuff, to be sure, and making things even better is the fact that we have a full slate of college hoops to discuss too.

Before we get into that, however, let's briefly discuss the headliners.

Thanks to Miguel Cabrera, spring training for the Detroit Tigers started out as a much-publicized affair. Things have calmed down a little recently though, which means that both the team and fans can get back to focusing on baseball. The AL Central is pretty deep this year, and the Tigers are going to have to match wits with a Minnesota Twins squad that looks very strong and a Chicago White Sox team that is as thunderous as ever. Naturally, we have some thoughts about their chances, and we just might share them.

Have you head of Stevo Poulin yet? If you haven't, all you really need to know is that he might be the most intimidating wrestler in the world right now. He dominates the competition, and he does it with a certain kind of ferocity that you just don't come across that often. He also has a badass mohawk.

Oh, he's also just eight years old.

And then there's Superman. Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic had their four-game winning streak snapped by the Chicago Bulls Friday night. Howard got a loose with his elbows at one point, and was awarded his 16th technical foul. That's the line as far as the NBA is concerned, and Howard will be out of action against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night as a result.

All this and more is ahead!