How Dallas Teams Integrated Professional Sports in Texas
First came an already integrated NFL franchise, which moved from New York in 1952. The same year, Texas League baseball would follow.
First came an already integrated NFL franchise, which moved from New York in 1952. The same year, Texas League baseball would follow.
By Jeff Miller
For Dynamic Prep, the North Texas academy founded by NBA retiree Jermaine O’Neal, training future college and pro athletes is the mission.
By Jeff Miller
On Thursday, schools across Texas will learn what districts they’ll play in for the next two years. Then, the scheduling madness begins.
By Jeff Miller
Jamie Rigdon and his sons have made a habit of bouncing between high schools and collecting football championships along the way.
By Jeff Miller
How the North Texas commuter school, which competes in Division III sports, built one of the top e-sports programs in the country.
By Jeff Miller
Fifty years ago, the Houston Aeros stunned the hockey world by bringing the 45-year-old Howe out of retirement to play with two of his sons.
By Jeff Miller
High school athletes are free to monetize their name, image, and likeness rights in thirty states. Texas ain’t one of ’em.
By Jeff Miller
While negotiating his Major League Baseball rookie deal in 2007, the Texas Rangers' newest ace started his career with the independent-league Fort Worth Cats.
By Jeff Miller
Before Pete Delkus was known for joshin’ it up on the news, he was a sidearm pitcher who nearly made it to the major leagues.
By Jeff Miller
No other school in the state—not UT, not A&M, not Texas Tech—has made the last nine NCAA tournaments in a row.
By Jeff Miller
Keith Meister, a team physician for the Texas Rangers, has reconstructed the elbows of many of the best players in baseball.
By Jeff Miller
Before he began his pro baseball career, Jackie Robinson spent a season on the hardwood for Austin HBCU Samuel Huston College.
By Jeff Miller
Now 63, the college basketball coaching wunderkind turned cautionary tale is leading Tarleton State's transition to Division I.
By Jeff Miller
The Nazareth Swiftettes have won 25 state championships in less than fifty years—and they just hung another banner for 2023.
By Jeff Miller
Sanctions against last year's team banned Duncanville from the 2023 state tournament. What'd the Panthers do? Aim for a national championship.
By Jeff Miller
The Dallas Stars left winger is on pace to set new franchise scoring records—and he’s inspiring a generation of new hockey fans along the way.
By Jeff Miller
While the state racing commission jousts with a new federal oversight body, business is cratering at Texas racetracks.
By Jeff Miller
Bally Sports Southwest’s Craig Way wouldn’t trade his annual high school football marathon for a chance to call the Super Bowl.
By Jeff Miller
There’s no stoplight, no stores, and no walk-in businesses in Valentine. But there’s plenty of space to stretch those legs.
By Jeff Miller
For the second time in history, the oversight body delivered its stiffest penalty—to a tiny central Texas high school with 48 total students.
By Jeff Miller
As rains fall across Texas, remember the 1976 Houston deluge that improbably shut down an Astros game at the famed “weather-proof” Astrodome.
By Jeff Miller
Fifty years ago, a minor league game in Midland was postponed for the rarest of reasons—a swarm of grasshoppers biblical in its proportions.
By Jeff Miller
From chronic injuries to botched courses, members of the Texas-based 50 States Marathon Club go the distance to go the distance.
By Jeff Miller
“By the way, what’s the score?” asked NHL emergency backup goalie Thomas Hodges just before taking the ice.
By Jeff Miller
A decade after Jackie Robinson integrated MLB, Black Texas League players found themselves banned from competing at road games in Shreveport.
By Jeff Miller
The timekeepers for the Spurs, Rockets, and Mavs open up about one of the most overlooked and pressure-packed jobs in sports.
By Jeff Miller
For 25 years, sportscaster Daryl "Razor" Reaugh has been the verbose, bombastic, grandiloquent voice of Texas's lone NHL franchise.
By Jeff Miller
Decades after the Wichita County town saved its stadium from an oilman’s plan to drill at midfield, the structure has been condemned—after pipes once donated by oil companies rusted out.
By Jeff Miller
At tiny Dell City School in far West Texas, more than half of the high schoolers are on the varsity football team.
By Jeff Miller
Inside the state appeals process for UIL students who've been suspended from varsity sports because they transferred "for athletic purposes."
By Jeff Miller
Fifty-four years ago this week, the offensive lineman stood shoulder to shoulder with Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali at the historic Cleveland Summit.
By Jeff Miller
On the football field, one team went from six to eleven. Another went from eleven to six. And both faced challenges they didn’t expect.
By Jeff Miller
Half a century ago, Terry Daniels was an SMU undergrad majoring in political science who had taken an interest in boxing. Then he found himself in the ring with the heavyweight champion of the world.
By Jeff Miller
Goodbye to Glen Garden.
By Jeff Miller