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Hook’d »
The Longhorns may have lost the BCS National Championship on the hallowed field of the Rose Bowl, but they gained something almost as important: a long-lost fan.
March 2010 by John Spong
Orange Crush
A slide show of images featuring die-hard Longhorns fans, celebrities, and students getting into the spirit of things at the Rose Bowl.
March 2010 Photographs by Lauren Greenfield/Institute
The Manual 2.0
Watch Robin Kolton of Texas Parks and Wildlife teach Andrea Valdez how to tie a Texas rig.
March 2010
Playing the Field »
How the state's top two players made their college choices.
February 2010 by Jeff Beckham
Pirate Under Attack. Avast, Ye Swabs! »
If Texas Tech fires Leach, there will be a mushroom cloud over Lubbock for thousands of miles and a likely revolt of Tech fans, alums, and former players.
January 2010 by S. C. Gwynne
Let the Games Begin »
Amateur athletes from across the state will have a chance to dream big at the Winter Games of Texas.
January 2010 by Kristin Ellertson
The Manual 2.0
A cowgirl and the experts at WWS Stables teach Andrea Valdez how to barrel race.
December 2009
Covering Football »
Dave Campbell on covering football.
November 2009 Interview by Brian D. Sweany
The Real McCoys »
Following in his brother’s footsteps, Case McCoy is looking to become the next quarterback for the Texas Longhorns.
November 2009 by Jeff Beckham
Don’t Back Down »
Why can’t TCU seem to break into the national sports consciousness?
November 2009 by Jeff Beckham
Texas Tailgate
Longhorn spirit is alive and strong. And on game day, grilling and getting ready for the gridiron action has almost become as important as watching it. Almost.
October 2009
Jerry Jones »
Jerry Jones’s high hopes for his new stadium.
October 2009 Interview by Evan Smith
Snap Judgment »
Raise a Pearl beer to our ten greatest college football plays. Ever.
October 2009
Get in the Game
Lions and tigers and bears. And cardinals and eagles and pirates. Good sports from schools across Texas get into character. (Adapted from the October 2007 issue.) Photographs by Jeff Minton
October 2009
Texas Tailgate
For some University of Texas football fans, getting together with friends to eat, drink, and rally before a game is a ritual that they wouldn’t miss for the world. Photographs by Kristin Ellertson
October 2009
The Champs »
How mixed martial arts went from what one senator called “human cockfighting” to an event that draws record crowds and millions of pay-per-view buyers.
October 2009 by Jeff Beckham
Dove Hunting »
How to dove hunt.
September 2009 by Andrea Valdez
Mike Leach Is Thinking ... »
And you would be too if you were an itinerant Rollerblader with a passion for pirates who’d reinvented the game of college football, brought joy to Lubbock, beaten UT, and narrowly missed a shot at a national champi- onship. And what you’d be thinking is, “Gangway!”
September 2009 by S. C. Gwynne
Life Coach »
The long-time coach of the Texas A&I Javelinas looks back on his twenty-one years of football.
August 2009 by Casey Wheeless
Game Over »
Sure, sure, the newspaper business is dying, and this is bad for freedom, accountability, and democracy itself. But worst of all is what’s happened to sportswriting.
June 2009 by Gary Cartwright
Cecil Cooper »
Astros skipper Cecil Cooper on life in baseball.
June 2009 Interview by Evan Smith
Game On? »
A sports columnist disputes Gary Cartwright’s assertion that sportswriting is dead.
June 2009 by Richard Justice
Still Life »
A violent tackle in a high school football game paralyzed John McClamrock for life. His mother made sure it was a life worth living.
May 2009 by Skip Hollandsworth
Game Changers »
How Lamar Hunt and Clint Murchison Jr. cooked up the first Super Bowl.
February 2009 by Bryan Burrough
She Got Gamed? »
On January 13, the girls’ basketball team for the Covenant School of Dallas, an elite private Christian school in upscale North Dallas, demolished its opponents from the Dallas Academy, a lesser known East Dallas school that focuses on students who face a variety of learning problems.
February 2009 by Skip Hollandsworth
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