Round Rock Archives

February 28, 2023

A Round Rock Jeweler Creates Tiny Bell Charms From His Garage (and They Actually Chime!)

With a little bit of faith, John Cockle turned his passion for retail and handcrafted jewelry into a successful business.

By Texas Country Reporter

Politics & Policy|

November 7, 2022

How to Lose a Texas School Board Campaign in 150 Days

Maryam Zafar, a college junior, wanted to improve the Round Rock schools she had attended. Then she saw how hard it was.

By Saliha Bayrak

Best Thing in Texas|

November 2, 2022

CrossFit Star Dani Speegle Handles 215-Pound Logs Like Pick-Up Sticks

The CrossFit athlete and #GirlsWhoEat impresario stole the show at the annual Rogue Invitational in Round Rock.

By Hannah Williford

Politics & Policy|

January 26, 2022

A Texas GOP Candidate’s New Claim: School Cafeteria Tables Are Being Lowered for “Furries”

The allegation isn’t true. But that isn’t stopping some politicians and right-wing activists from running with it.

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Sports|

December 3, 2021

Texas Monthly Recommends: A Game of Spikeball

The only limit to where it can be played is your imagination.

By Texas Monthly

Texas History|

December 1, 2021

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Barbette, a Gender-bending 1920s Aerialist From Round Rock

Performing death-defying trapeze stunts in drag, he shocked Parisian audiences.

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Travel & Outdoors|

November 29, 2021

A Day Inside America’s Largest Indoor Water Park in Round Rock

On Kalahari’s thirty waterslides and lazy river, my kids and I took our first plunge into some kind of normalcy since the pandemic started.

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Deuce Vaughn Kansas State Wildcats Running Back with Texas Roots

Sports|

September 1, 2021

Texan Deuce Vaughn Is Kansas State’s Big 12 Wild Card

The sophomore running back from Round Rock talks explains how Texas high school football prepared him for a breakout freshman campaign.

By Bryan C. Parker

Texas minor league baseball: Amarillo Sod Poodles vs. Midland Rockhounds.

Sports|

April 6, 2021

Texas’s Best (and Weirdest) Minor League Baseball Team Names, Ranked

We salute the Sugar Land Lightning Sloths, the Amarillo Sod Poodles, and their compatriots.

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BBQ Joint Reviews|

June 20, 2019

Barbecue Flatbreads Set Liberty Barbecue Apart From John Brotherton’s Other Joint

The pitmaster behind Pflugerville’s successful Black Iron Barbecue tries a new formula in Round Rock.

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Sports|

April 12, 2019

This Austin Startup Hopes to Be the Top Golf of Baseball

Home Run Dugout’s first location, at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, is funded in part by Nolan Ryan’s Ryan-Sanders Baseball, and is just the start of their plans.

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Business|

February 20, 2019

Is the World Ready for Dell 3.0?

Michael Dell has transformed the stodgy computer manufacturer that bears his name into a nimble data-management outfit. He’s hoping that's enough to bring the pride of Round Rock back to its former glory.

By Loren Steffy