Sports
August 30, 2022
The Night the Astrodome Got Rained Out
As rains fall across Texas, remember the 1976 Houston deluge that improbably shut down an Astros game at the famed “weather-proof” Astrodome.
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Sports
July 28, 2022
The Night That Grasshoppers Killed Texas League Baseball
Fifty years ago, a minor league game in Midland was postponed for the rarest of reasons—a swarm of grasshoppers biblical in its proportions.
Sports
June 16, 2022
Meet the “Not Smart” Texans Who’ve Run a Marathon in All Fifty States
From chronic injuries to botched courses, members of the Texas-based 50 States Marathon Club go the distance to go the distance.
Sports
May 2, 2022
How an Insurance Salesman Wound Up Playing Goalie Against the Dallas Stars
“By the way, what’s the score?” asked NHL emergency backup goalie Thomas Hodges just before taking the ice.
Sports
April 15, 2022
The 1950s Louisiana Law That Stalled Racial Progress in Texas Baseball
A decade after Jackie Robinson integrated MLB, Black Texas League players found themselves banned from competing at road games in Shreveport.
Sports
March 4, 2022
Secrets of the Texas NBA Shot Clock Operators
The timekeepers for the Spurs, Rockets, and Mavs open up about one of the most overlooked and pressure-packed jobs in sports.
Sports
December 31, 2021
A Silver Anniversary for the Dallas Stars’ Silver-tongued TV Analyst
For 25 years, sportscaster Daryl "Razor" Reaugh has been the verbose, bombastic, grandiloquent voice of Texas's lone NHL franchise.
Sports
October 22, 2021
The Great Burkburnett Football Field Feud of 1972
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.
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.
Sports
December 5, 2014
The Last Hole
Goodbye to Glen Garden.