Inside the wild, glamorous, and complicated saga of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, an institution that changed sports, entertainment, and countless childhoods of boys and girls like me.
With the blockbuster signings of Corey Seager and Marcus Semien, the woeful Texas Rangers just fast-tracked their franchise rebuild.
Season got you down? (Not you, UTSA.) Why not spend Saturday watching the first-round FCS game between Stephen F. Austin and Incarnate Word?
Clumsy administrators. Meddling boosters. Blown double-digit leads. A six-game losing streak. And a home loss to lowly Kansas. What's next?
Terry Middleton of ‘Horns Illustrated’ tried to be positive during Monday’s Longhorns press conference. He didn’t know he’d get dragged for it.
With six top-25 teams among the state's men's and women's programs, there's never been a better time to be a basketball fan in Texas.
The boozy winter pastime that Senator John Cornyn once deemed “the most obscure Olympic sport” is on the rise—even in Texas.
Good luck finding a Texan who’s lived a more complete football life than Westlake High School coach Todd Dodge. Now in his final season before retirement, the six-time state champion is looking to add one more trophy to his mantel.
The Red Raiders’ hire is beloved by former players at Baylor and Cedar Hill High School and is known as one of the top recruiters in Texas.
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.
Five straight winning seasons, three trips to the World Series, one title—but can the Astros keep it up if Carlos Correa leaves town?
Fourth-year head coach Dana Dimel's team has won more games this season than it did over the previous three years combined.
How Apollo Media won over Astros fans by embracing hometown pride and telling Houstonians there's no shame in supporting this team.
If the Astros win the World Series, buyers win free mattresses—and Mattress Mack cashes the biggest winning ticket in sports-betting history.
Houston is 2-0 in the MLB postseason with local furniture magnate Mattress Mack's "Rally Nuns" in attendance.
The Astros have faced every kind of taunt imaginable this year—and it has only brought the team and its city closer together.
Decades after the Wichita County town saved its stadium from an oilman’s plan to drill at midfield, the structure has been condemned—after pipes once donated by oil companies rusted out.
Head coach Steve Sarkisian diagnosed his team's weakness after Saturday's loss to Oklahoma State. Now he has to repair it.
These courses are beautiful, fun for all skill levels, and are available to play at a great value. Fairways and greens!
The day the Texas A&M coach turned 56, his Aggies delivered the upset of the 2021 college football season.
Through scandal, roster overhauls, and managerial uncertainty, the AL West division champs just keep winning.
The sophomore running back looks to carry UT to its first win over the Sooners since 2018 in Saturday's Red River Showdown.
The eighteen-year-old FC Dallas star is back in the lineup as the United States takes on Jamaica Thursday in Austin.
Thanks to a three-game winning streak and the NFL’s most complete offense, we’re almost ready to declare that America’s Team is back.
Rival teams and their fans might refuse to move on, but the 2021 Astros are playoff-bound and the city deserves to take pride in its team.
From the Woodlands High School to a Stud First Baseman at Texas State, the MLB star made coaches ask, "What doesn't this cat do?"
The Aggies had dreams of an undefeated season and a trip to the College Football Playoff, but life in the SEC ain’t all peaches and cream.
At tiny Dell City School in far West Texas, more than half of the high schoolers are on the varsity football team.
The Texas Tech defensive lineman interned with the campus police during the pandemic and hopes to improve law enforcement from within.
Ladies, start your engines.
The veteran manager has Houston poised for another MLB playoff run, but the team appears lukewarm on retaining him after this season.
The AL West cellar dwellers have used another rebuilding year to audition loads of young talent. They're not winning, but they sure are fun.
With a little luck, the Longhorns senior and Team Canada Olympic hero could be playing pro soccer in Austin someday.
Joining a tradition with roots in the 1960s, today’s skaters blend styles from across the U.S.—and have a lot of fun doing it.
Kick off the football season with this underappreciated, Denton-filmed comedy, which captured some truths about Texas football that later, more-serious movies would expand on.
The Cougars' move is great news for UH fans, but it shouldn't have required UT taking a sledgehammer to the conference to make it happen.
The second-year head coach plans to turn UTSA into a Conference USA force, thanks to Texas’s deep reserve of football talent.
With Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, and DeMarcus Lawrence at full strength, Dallas could be headed back to the playoffs. But first, Tom Brady.
All twelve FBS teams in Texas play this week. Here’s what we’re wondering about, from UT and A&M to UT San Antonio and Texas State.
The 38-year-old contender comes from a fighting family and faces 2012 Olympic champion Katie Taylor on Saturday in England.
The coach has overseen the rise of Aggies football into a national powerhouse, and the rest of the university stands to benefit.
For 38 years, the famed Dallas newsman’s Cowboys criticism and impassioned pleas on racism, gay rights, and sexual assault were must-see TV.
The sophomore running back from Round Rock talks explains how Texas high school football prepared him for a breakout freshman campaign.
The document, from 1959, describes the view of Darrell K. Royal, Bibb Falk, and others that integration would be "ruinous for recruiting."
With Joseph in charge, Katy has won more than 90 percent of its games and five state championships over the past seventeen seasons.
The linebacker arrived in the United States at ten, knowing nothing about football. Now he's stealing the show on HBO's ‘Hard Knocks.’
The Houston Cougars quarterback broke NCAA records in the early nineties. Now he teaches the Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Forget Kevin Costner. The Houston native best captures the complex glory of American sports.
With a top-six preseason ranking and a spot in the conference UT wants to join, Texas A&M is the state’s dominant college football program.
With UT headed to the SEC and the Big 12 on life support, the state stands to lose its century-old football culture.
