Sports
March 14, 2024
What Will the Dallas Stars’ Mike Modano Statue Look Like?
When Texas’s lone NHL franchise unveils the Hall of Famer’s sculpture, chances are it’ll depict the lightning-fast skater’s flapping jersey.
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Sports
September 21, 2023
When Hockey Great Gordie Howe Turned Houston Into “Howeston”
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.
Sports
June 2, 2023
The Dallas Stars Will Win the Stanley Cup. Just Not This Year.
Yes, their Western Conference Finals loss still stings. But the future is big and bright for Texas’s lone NHL franchise.
Sports
February 2, 2023
Filipino American Jason Robertson Is the Breakout Star of the NHL Season
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.
Sports
May 2, 2022
How an Insurance Salesman Wound Up Playing Goalie Against the Dallas Stars
“By the way, what’s the score?” asked NHL emergency backup goalie Thomas Hodges just before taking the ice.
Sports
December 31, 2021
A Silver Anniversary for the Dallas Stars’ Silver-tongued TV Analyst
For 25 years, sportscaster Daryl "Razor" Reaugh has been the verbose, bombastic, grandiloquent voice of Texas's lone NHL franchise.
Sports
May 21, 2021
How the Dallas Stars Went From the Stanley Cup Final to Missing the Playoffs
COVID-19, injuries, and the winter storms made it a bumpy season—with far too many overtime losses. Will the Stars be back in 2022?
Sports
May 7, 2021
Why Team Canada’s Under-18 Hockey Coach Can’t Seem to Quit Texas
From the Dallas Stars to the Houston Aeros to this week's world title with Team Canada, the Toronto native can't quit our state.
Sports
September 24, 2020
It’s Not Too Late to Jump on the Dallas Stars Bandwagon: A Stanley Cup Final Guide
The Texas team is playing in the final for the first time in 20 years. Here’s a few things to know.
Sports
December 31, 2019
Outdoor Hockey . . . in Texas! The Winter Classic Comes to the Cotton Bowl.
The Dallas Stars face off against the Nashville Predators at the Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Day. Here's what you need to know.
The Culture
October 15, 2014
Number Nine’s Revolution
Mike Modano on being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame—and embracing golf.
Sports
April 25, 2014
The Stars Are Bright
The Dallas hockey team is winning games—and thereby fans—again.
The Daily Post
October 25, 2013
Hate Your Favorite Sports Team Owner? Could Be Worse.
In 1997, Dallas businessman John Spano purchased the New York Islanders for $165 million. His ownership tenure would be unlike any other in professional sports history.
Sports
January 22, 2013
The Dallas Stars’ Special Guest: “Manti Te’o’s Girlfriend”
The Stars' first game of the lockout-shortened NHL season was an announced sellout, but at least one seat in the American Airlines Center appeared "empty," as the team had a little fun with last week's biggest sports story.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Dallas Cowboys’ Twitter Smack Backfires
Scoreboard! @DallasStars won Twitter Tuesday with their response to @DallasCowboys’ accidental smack-tweet, which also dissed the Rangers.
Sports
January 21, 2013
UT and A&M Resume Hostilities This Weekend
If you thought the rivalry between the University of Texas and Texas A&M was currently on ice, you are correct. Tonight in College Station, the two schools face off in, you guessed it, hockey.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Mike Modano and Willa Ford Call It Quits
The former Dallas Stars player and his wife of five years, Willa Ford, announced that they're divorcing.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Panhandle’s Beloved Hockey Team
The story of the junior hockey team that brought two hundred Amarilloans to a hockey rink on a Monday afternoon in Frisco.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Houston Aeros Player Tweets Gay Slur
Justin Fontaine is sitting out two games as punishment for using the word "faggot" in a tweet, and Aeros captain Jon DiSalvatore is also under fire for retweeting him.
Sports
January 9, 2013
Dallas Cowboys’ Twitter Smack Backfires
Scoreboard! @DallasStars won Twitter Tuesday with their response to @DallasCowboys’ accidental smack-tweet, which also dissed the Rangers.
Sports
February 19, 2012
Is America’s Best College Hockey Player From Texas?
Dallas native (and Stars prospect) Austin Smith leads the nation in goals, and he has a chance to win the Hobey Baker Award, college hockey’s Heisman.
Sports
May 31, 2008
Empty Netter
The puck stops here.
The Culture
January 1, 2007
Around the State
Jordan’s PickNHL All-Star CelebrationDallasHOCKEY WILL NEVER BE FOOTBALL. In Texas, at least, this truth is self-evident: No matter how many hockey fans rise up in defense of their sport (or write letters to a certain magazine’s editor decrying yet another football cover, as the case may be), the puck will
Sports
April 30, 1999
Ice Guys Finish First
Hockey in Texas? And the team is good? Don’t laugh. The Dallas Stars could win it all this year, and sports fans across the state could soon be drinking Shiner Bock from the Stanley Cup.
Sports
February 1, 1997
The Ice Bats Cometh
Even when they’re not winning games, minor league hockey teams like Austin’s are winning fans by the thousands. Who’d have thought skaters would score in Texas?