Sports
January 23, 2024
The Cotton Bowl Gets Messi
Fans braved near-freezing temperatures and frigid rain to catch a glimpse of soccer icon Lionel Messi on the pitch against FC Dallas.
Soccer
Sports
June 1, 2023
The Haunting Cross-country Journey of Austin FC Fans’ Uvalde Memorial Banners
Supporters have unfurled the anti–gun violence flags at soccer matches after mass shootings in Texas, Nashville, and Louisville.
Sports
November 21, 2022
The USA Made the World Cup Knockout Stage Thanks (in Part) to FC Dallas
Five USMNT players came through FC Dallas’s system, which is considered the nation's best incubator of world-class soccer talent.
Sports
May 10, 2022
Austin FC and Los Verdes Preserve Latinidad in the Gentrified Capital
In a city famous for its transplants, Austin’s Major League Soccer team has created a space where longtime residents can feel at home.
Sports
April 6, 2022
H-Town United: An Unlikely Soccer Power Rises in Texas
At Elsik High School, students from Honduras, Senegal, Houston, and most places in between form the best boys soccer team you've never heard of.
Sports
November 8, 2021
How Did All Three Texas MLS Teams End Up Stinking This Season?
It was a rough campaign for FC Dallas, Austin FC, and Houston Dynamo FC, but there's good reason to hope that next year will be better.
Sports
October 7, 2021
El Paso’s Ricardo Pepi: From Recent HS Graduate to USMNT World Cup Savior
The eighteen-year-old FC Dallas star is back in the lineup as the United States takes on Jamaica Thursday in Austin.
Sports
August 12, 2021
Houston and Dallas Are Thirsty to Host 2026 World Cup Matches
Inside the two Texas cities’ bids to host the world’s biggest sporting event.
Sports
March 12, 2021
How Austin FC Became Texas’s Most Popular Soccer Team—Before Ever Playing a Match
Sports fans in the capital city have long clamored for a pro team. Savvy marketing helped too.
Sports
August 29, 2019
Carli Lloyd Won’t be Kicking in an NFL Game Tonight, But Might Some Day
The former Houston Dash star is the most intriguing 37-year-old rookie prospect in a long time.
Sports
August 23, 2019
Matthew McConaughey Is One of Austin F.C.’s New Owners
Just keep kickin’.
Meanwhile, in Texas
April 16, 2019
The Austin Bold Soccer Team Encourages Farmers to Bring Chickens to a Game, and PETA Is Not Happy
Today in weird news in Texas.
Sports
June 13, 2018
Why Texas Cities Should Host the 2026 World Cup
The event will be played in sixteen cities across the United States, Mexico, and Canada—and Houston and Dallas are both on the short list.
Sports
February 9, 2018
Why Does Austin Want a Soccer Team So Badly Anyway?
The largest American city without a professional sports team is awfully thirsty for a team that might not even have many fans.
Sports
October 28, 2017
Meet the High School Football Kicker Who Was Crowned Homecoming Queen
A week after winning the crown, Claire Jeffress kicked a game-winning field goal.
Sports
October 17, 2017
Will Austin Really Get a Major League Soccer Team?
Sports team owners use San Antonio for leverage. They may be pulling the same move in Austin.
Sports
September 14, 2015
I, Robot. You, Ball.
A group of UT computer scientists tries to program a team of machines to play soccer like the pros.
The Daily Post
September 4, 2015
The Texas-Based Soccer Franchises Are Apparently Worth A Fortune
Even with one club in the red, the Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas are apparently worth nine figures.
Sports
July 13, 2015
Two Houston Dash Teammates Married Each Other Last Week
Houston Dash players married two recent headlines: women’s soccer and same-sex marriage.
Sports
April 23, 2015
The Complicated Simplicity of Fandom
When the U.S. and Mexico soccer teams played last week, it proved that fandom is more a state of mind than a state of place.
Home Boy
July 2, 2014
Nacogdoches Is Proud of Clint Dempsey
Watching the U.S. Men's National Team's final match of the 2014 World Cup—which they lost to Belgium 2-1—in Dempsey's hometown.
The Daily Post
June 17, 2014
Austin and El Paso Would Both Like to Have Major League Soccer Teams
World Cup fever is spreading!
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Houston Dynamo for Dummies
An abbreviated primer on the most successful sports franchise in Texas this side of the Spurs. (Update: the Dynamo lost to the LA Galaxy, 3-1, in the 2012 MLS Cup Final.)
Sports
February 7, 2012
The Backlash Against Roland Martin for His Tweets about David Beckham’s Underwear Ad
GLAAD calls on CNN to fire the Houston native and A&M graduate, saying his tweets were "advocating violence against gay people."
Sports
July 31, 2011
Brad Davis’s Locker
The Houston Dynamo player gives us a glimpse of his life off the field.
Sports
May 31, 2006
Going to the World Cup
Clint Dempsey’s World Cup runneth over.
Sports
July 31, 1996
Burnin’!
A Dallas soccer team burns up the competition.