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Year-End Favorites: The Basketball Scandal That Rocked Odessa

Texas Monthly senior editor Michael Hall on why GQ's story about Jerry Joseph, the too-good-to-be-true athlete in Odessa, was one of his favorites of the year. 

December 28, 2011 | by Michael Hall
Books That Cook
November 1, 2006 | by Katie O'Reilly | Books That Cook
Larry Gatlin
Larry Gatlin's Odessa high note.
May 1, 2000 | by Patricia McConnico | The Ex Files
Friday Night Ringers
Why do the towns that have oil also have the best football players?
January 1, 1986 | by Larry King | Feature
Who’s Number One in the Permian Basin?
Midland and Odessa are only seventeen miles apart, and that’s too close for comfort.
June 1, 1975 | by Larry King | Feature
More Texas newspapers in trouble
| by Paul Burka
Camera! Lights! Action!
October 1, 1999 | by Eileen Schwartz | The Inside Story
Coach Class
A salute to some of our favorite gridiron heroes.
September 1, 2006 | State of the Art
Murder, She Wrote
Senior editor Pamela Colloff on researching a 45-year-old murder case, tracking down sources, and using a ghost story to show how the crime still haunts Odessa.
February 1, 2006 | by Patricia McConnico | Web Exclusive
SBOE finds a new bogeyman: textbook terrorism
| by Paul Burka

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