Sports
September 24, 2021
On the Field With the Smallest Texas High School Playing Football This Year
At tiny Dell City School in far West Texas, more than half of the high schoolers are on the varsity football team.
Sports
June 21, 2021
Three Words That Can Doom a Texas HS Student’s Varsity Dreams
Inside the state appeals process for UIL students who've been suspended from varsity sports because they transferred "for athletic purposes."
Sports
June 1, 2021
East Texas’s John Wooten on His NFL Career and Social Activism, From 1967 to Today
Fifty-four years ago this week, the offensive lineman stood shoulder to shoulder with Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali at the historic Cleveland Summit.
Sports
November 28, 2018
The Expectations and Realities of Six-Man Football in Small-Town Texas
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.
Sports
January 14, 2015
The Fight of His Life
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.