Sports

November 1, 1995

Twelve Yards and a Cloud of Dust

The Tiny town of Mullin adopted its high school football heroes in more ways than one. These foster children and native sons had the time of their lives playing in the Super Bowl of six-man football.

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September 30, 1995

Getting His Kicks

He scored big for UT and four NFL teams; now Raul Allegre is back in the game with his weekly Spanish-language football show.

By Helen Thompson

August 31, 1995

The Reel World

In Mexico’s Sea of Cortés the bonito, tuna and dorado nearly jump into your boat. No wonder I’m hooked.

By Turk Pipkin

August 31, 1995

Texas Twenty: Ben Crenshaw

Back in the swing.

By David McCormick

May 31, 1995

Of Mats and Men

At the 1995 state high school wrestling championships, pinning wasn’t everything. It was the only thing.

By Dan Cichalski

May 31, 1995

Big Wheel

Once he raced cars; now he builds them. Even at 72, it seems, Carroll Shelby can’t slow down.

By Carol Chapman

March 1, 1995

Rudy Awakening

As Houston Rockets head coach Rudy Tomjanovich is discovering, it's one thing to win the MBA title—and quite another to play like champions.

By Robert Draper

February 1, 1995

Big

In heavyweight boxing—and in the glare of media lights—it helps to be larger than life. Ask George Foreman, 1994’s comeback kid.

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January 1, 1995

Barry Switzer Gets the Last Laugh

The rookie Cowboys coach has turned out to be exactly what all the critics said he wasn’t: a winner.

By Bud Shrake

October 1, 1994

Rah! Power

All for Texas cheerleading, stand up, sit down, and read, read on.

By Jeannie Ralston

September 1, 1994

Hakeem Olajuwon

All-star, MVP, and now champion.

By Robert Draper

August 31, 1994

A Good Sport

By all rights, Oilers coach Jack Pardee should be the most respected Texan in football. Instead, his days may be numbered.

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July 31, 1994

Empty Cup

To Dallas, the World Cup meant gearing up for riots, a crime wave, and—of course—real football.

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May 31, 1994

Vain Glory

Jerry Jones may have the biggest ego in football, but don’t bet against him. Even without Jimmy Johnson, he still has the best team.

April 30, 1994

Seasons to Remember

The end of the Southwest Conference was predictable, but for eighty years it gave Texas fans a brand of football that was anything but.

By Paul Burka

April 1, 1994

Home Field Advantage

Baseball season is here at last, and for the Texas Rangers and their fans, it’s a whole new Ballpark.

April 1, 1994

Once Upon a Green

Carrying someone else’s golf bag used to be the best way to learn about the game. Now caddying is a lost art.

By Turk Pipkin

March 1, 1994

Once, the fight for funding and attention in college sports pitted women against men. Today, with women’s sports commanding greater respectability, it’s also women versus women, and the fight is uglier.

By Helen Thompson

February 1, 1994

The Crying Game

When Houston’s pro sports teams collapse late in the season—as they may do this year—faithful fans like me are never surprised. We’ve almost come to expect it.

By Robert Draper

December 1, 1993

The Old Man and the Tee

How 89-year-old Harvey Penick turned life’s lessons into a best-selling book—and followed it up with another master stroke.

November 1, 1993

Tuff Stuff

Tuff Hedeman was born in El Paso and raised on rodeo. Today he’s one the best bull riders in the world.

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November 1, 1993

Belle of the Balls

By speaking softly and carrying a custom made stick, san Antonio’s Vivian villarreal is breaking pro pool’s gender barrier.

By Michael Geffner

August 1, 1993

Chasing the Red Eagle

At play in the fields of Mexico, onetime major leaguers find beisbol is an entirely different game.

July 1, 1993

Raise the Roof

The Alamodome is more than an outsized sports arena. It’s a marvel of urban planning that ensures San Antonio’s downtown vitality for years to come.

May 1, 1993

A Farewell to Arm

Even after his baseball career is over, Nolan Ryan will continue to be a role model for my kids—and me.

April 30, 1993

Linksmanship

Far away from the crowded urban courses, there’s an older, saner game. Welcome to the pleasures of nine-hole golf and sand greens.

By Turk Pipkin

March 1, 1993

Tom Who?

Jimmy Johnson said he’d see us in the Super Bowl, and he was right. Now he is a hero, and his critics are eating crow.

September 30, 1992

A Yen to Golf

Can the desire to win transform Japan’s gung ho golfers into pros?

By Helen Thompson

August 31, 1992

The Hungriest Coach

Three years after he replaced Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson is giving Dallas Cowboys fans something to cheer about—and his critics are eating their words.

July 31, 1992

The Puffy Taco

HIS HEAD IS A TOMATO CHUNK. HIS tortilla shell is surprisingly furry. His feet look like jalapeño peppers. And when kids tackle him during the sixth-inning footrace at the San Antonio Missions’ home games at V. J. Keefe Field, they sometimes send his shredded lettuce and grated cheese flying. What’s

By Texas Monthly

June 30, 1992

Gold Star

One of the state’s strongest contenders for a gold medal at the Summer Olympics will be San Marcos high jumper Charles Austin. That’s assuming that the 24-year-old Austin, the reigning world champion in the high jump, makes the team at the Olympic trials in late June. He is one of

By Marty Lange

March 1, 1992

Rodeo, Texas, U.S.A.

Rodeo, rodeo, wherefore art thou rodeo? Mary Ellen Mark went to small towns all over Texas to find out.

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February 1, 1992

Rubén, Rubén

The Texas Rangers have been thinking: Can they afford to keep Rubén Sierra, their best player ever?

By Milton Jamail

February 1, 1992

Shock Jock

Whether on the field or on the tube, Steve McMichael’s roughhousing grabs fans.

By Michael Corcoran

February 1, 1992

Border Brawlers

Quick: Name the Laredo brothers who were world bantamweight champs at the same time.

By Rich Deutsch

December 1, 1991

“I Have Made Their Lives Miserable”

Young girls who want to win an Olympic gymnastics medal have to pay the price, and Bela Karolyi makes sure that they don’t get off cheap.

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November 1, 1991

Bummin’ Around

The most satisfying part of being a Houston Oilers fan isn’t their record this season or quarterback Warren Moon’s command of the run-and-shoot offense or the way the home crowds get so worked up that they threaten to blow the roof off the Astrodome. No, it’s that distinctive drawl on

September 30, 1991

Unsung Hero

Austin’s Kevin Schwantz is one of the world’s most famous and highest-paid athletes, and no one in Texas knows who he is.

By Alan Tennant

Business|

August 31, 1991

Sales Pitcher

Whenever sports–souvenir companies look at Rangers ace Nolan Ryan, they see dollar signs.

By John Anderson

August 31, 1991

New Ball Game

Introducing the Wild West Conference, the ideal league for Longhorn and Aggie football.

By Paul Burka

Art|

July 31, 1991

Earl Campbell on Mount Bonnell, Austin

Photograph by Michael O’BrienMichael O’Brien put the legendary Heisman trophy winner on the highest available pedestal for this shot. Campbell joins the trio of other famous Texans —Nolan Ryan, George Strait, and former Miss USA Gretchen Polhemus—who have posed looking spiffy for Wrangler’s “Western originals” advertising campaign, created by

By Texas Monthly