The Sport of Rough Gentlemen
Football evolved from rugby, which may show that evolution doesn’t always mean progress.
Vital analysis and news unpacking the world of Texas sports
Football evolved from rugby, which may show that evolution doesn’t always mean progress.
Boxing is the real school of hard knocks. James Helwig, the Texas Heavyweight Champion, hopes he’ll be able to graduate in time.
Women’s college sports, after years of atrophy, are getting more attention, but the same amount of financial support—almost none.
DEGAS IN DALLASBetter known for his paintings, the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas saw only one of his seventy-three sculptures exhibited in his own lifetime. Admirers of his work today are more fortunate. Seventy pieces, on loan for the first time from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, are currently
A rodeo is an anachronism, like javelin throwing: but its bumps, bruises, and brawls are real.
Even though Wheatley High's last teamful of stars got snapped up by eager colleges, winning is such a habit there that they just might keep on doing it.
In Texas the bookies go where the action is and in Texas the action is with football.
Behind the mask is a man of God, a man devoted to the all-American goal of winning the all-American game as few have done before him.
Big-time poker players don't worry about luck; they don't need it.
What to do with your quarters.
In which nice guys finish last, if they finish at all.
Don Meredith brings football and TV into focus.
Why the best runner in pro football ran right out of the game.