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November 1, 1989
Hotter’n Hell
Cycling a hundred miles is a hard enough way to spend a Saturday. It’s even harder in Wichita Falls in August.
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November 1, 1989
Can’t Win for Losing
When San Antonio’s Memorial Minutemen took on a crosstown rival, all they had to lose was their chance to go down in history as Texas’ worst high school football team.
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September 30, 1989
Texas Primer: The Herkie Jump
Three cheers for Lawrence Herkimer and his leap to fame.
Sports
May 1, 1989
The World’s Greatest Poker Player
Johnny Chan became a champion through nerve and dedication—and every now and then a few good hands.
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March 1, 1989
The Boys of Spring
You probably think that the main reason to go to the Texas Rangers’ Florida training camp is to watch baseball. You’re probably wrong.
Sports
January 1, 1989
Two-Point Conversion
The question wasn’t whether my son was tough enough to play high school football. It was whether I was tough enough to watch him do it.
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December 1, 1988
Kick ‘Em Back! Kick ‘Em Back! Waaay Back!
SMU’s fall socer season had cheerleaders; it had a band; it had pom-pom girls. What it didn’t have was excitement.
Sports
November 1, 1988
Mojo Madness
The Permian Panthers provide the best entertainment between Dallas and El Paso, and nobody enjoys the show more than Jerry Swindall.
Sports
September 30, 1988
Texas Primer: Football Hand Signals
From “Hook ‘em, Horns” to “Peck ‘em, Owls,” the Southwest Conference is football’s most hospitable habitat for hand jive.
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September 1, 1988
Football? What’s the Big Deal?
As much as I hated playing football, I hate watching it more.
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June 1, 1988
Hope and Glory
A salute to Texas athletes trying young: seven hearts set on the Summer Olympics.
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January 1, 1988
Texas Primer: The Cotton Bowl
The ghosts of bowl games past recall an era when cotton and the Cotton Bowl were king in Texas.
Sports
November 1, 1987
Spur of the Moment
San Antonio put a full-court press on basketball superstar David Robinson in hopes that he wouldn’t forget the Alamo City.
Sports
October 1, 1987
The World According to Coach
Never say Kant, Socrates it to ’em, and other collected wisdom from Texas’ Friday-night philosophers.
Sports
September 30, 1987
Beating the Elusive Red Drum
What sport requires cunning, stamina, skill, and a fondess for sloshing aroound in the muck? Why, fishing for reds off the coast of Texas, of course.
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September 1, 1987
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
When he played for the Dallas Cowboys, Hollywood Henderson had everything. Here he tells how he lost it.
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July 1, 1987
Donald Curry vs. the World
All boxers are wary in the ring, where defeat is only a well-placed punch away. But Donald Curry knows that the real terrors of boxing lie beyond the ropes.
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June 1, 1987
Texas Primer: Clint Murchison, Jr.
He was one tycoon who enjoyed the hell out of his money.
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September 1, 1986
The Cowboys, the Indian, and the Computer That Fumbled
The most important new addition to the Dallas Cowboys is a veteran from the team’s early years —computer genius Salam Qureishi.
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January 1, 1986
Friday Night Ringers
Why do the towns that have oil also have the best football players?
Sports
December 1, 1985
Professor of Football
Okay, now, listen up. This story is about Bill Yeoman, a really good football coach. Read it or run three laps after practice.
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September 30, 1985
Texas Primer: The Wishbone Offense
Darrell Royal’s supremely simple invention took Texas teams to the top and kept them there.
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August 1, 1985
The Wee World of Golf
Looking for a sport that offers plenty of cheap thrills and wacky challenges but requires no training, no equipment, and no big bucks? Try miniature golf.
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July 31, 1985
Don’t Do What They Did to David Clyde
Though he fought against bad management, bad coaching, and bad habits, he finally struck out at baseball, the victim of too much too soon.
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January 1, 1985
Towers of Power
So. Ralph Sampson listens to Grover Washington and Akeem Olajuwon craves Chinese food. Now you know.
Sports
December 1, 1984
Has Success Spoiled Snook?
After winning seven straight state basketball championships, the Snook Bluejays are learning that success has a flip side.
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July 31, 1984
The Fastest Nice Christian Boy in the World
Bobby Morrow was America’s most celebrated Olympic athlete in 1956. Today he wishes he’d never left the starting blocks.
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February 1, 1984
The America’s Team Caper
Someone had done in the Cowboys and I had to find the killer, but there were too many suspects.
Sports
January 1, 1984
Gambling on the Gamblers
Jerry Argovitz made himself unpopular with NFL management as an abrasive player’s agent. Now that he owns Houston’s new football team, he finds himself on the other side of the table—and the issues.
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Sports
December 1, 1983
Secrets of a Deep, Dark Game
Listen up, you Monday morning quarterbacks. How much do you really know about the classic triple option?
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September 1, 1983
Passing the Bucks
Football recruiting makes the NCAA see red, but SMU sees orange.
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April 1, 1983
Hell on Wheels
In which John Howard, our toughest athlete, goes after a world bicycle record and hopes america will care.
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December 1, 1982
Coach Royal Regrets
Does Texas’ greatest college coach miss football? Nope.
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March 1, 1982
We Believe In You, Coach
In hiring football coach Jackie Sherrill, the A&M regents were acting life shrewd businessmen, but that may not be the best way to run a university.
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November 1, 1981
Running Dogs
Four hundred Texans breed and train an uncommon kind of livestock—greyhounds.
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October 1, 1981
Throw It to Me!
Drew Pearson, Tony Hill, and Butch Johnson are wide receivers for the Dallas Cowboys—in other words, they’re artists, egomaniacs, fierce competitors, and the heart of the team.
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September 1, 1981
Carl Lewis and the Exquisite Science of Jumping
All this twenty-year-old University of Houston student wants to do is jump farther and run faster than anyone else ever has.
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April 30, 1981
The Pitcher’s Right Arm
The Hendricks brothers are pros at making money - for themselves as well as for the pros they represent.
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March 1, 1981
Cardinal Virtues
Lamar University’s hotshot basketball team makes lost of hoops, little hoopla.
Sports
November 1, 1980
The Ultimate Sport
Polo? It’s passé. Big game hunting? Humdrum. It’s the pursuit of the wily blue marlin that admits men to the world’s most exclusive club.
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November 1, 1980
Teaming With Problems
The Houston Rockets need work; the Dallas Mavericks need help.
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November 1, 1980
On the Rebound
After a sloppy 1979-80 season, the San Antonio Spurs had no coach, no center, and no end to their problems. But all that has changed.
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September 1, 1980
The Modified Triple-Reverse, Double-Handoff Option
Football has degenerated into a routine encounter between two sets of programmed, steroid-stuffed robots. These trick plays could change all that.
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August 1, 1980
Ring of Truth
Two brave bulls stood between Paco Olivera and the prize he had worked for all his life.
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July 31, 1980
It’s Not Whether You Win
The Astros are packing ‘em in with a great new pitch—a sales pitch.
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June 1, 1980
Spit and Polish
If throwing a spitball is an art, Gaylord Perry is Michelangelo.
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March 1, 1980
Termite Watkins and the Fatal Pancakes
In a big fight you can outwit, outhit, or outlast your opponent. But you’d better not try to outeat him.
Sports
December 25, 1979
The Real Mean Green
Talk to coaches and team owners about AstroTurf and you’ll hear all its advantages. Talk to the players and you’ll hear a different story.
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November 1, 1979
Trial by Water
Marathon canoe racing is the toughest sport in Texas. It’s tougher than bull riding, more grueling than pro football. The canoeists say that’s why it’s fun.
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September 1, 1979
Football Heroes
The best part of Texas high school football is that it’s the biggest thing in town—and still only a game.