Sports
July 22, 2021
After the World’s Shortest Retirement, UT Swim Coach Comes Back for More
Four decades on the job and 15 national championships apparently weren't enough for 80-year-old Eddie Reese.
Swimming
Sports
July 6, 2021
How Team USA’s Cammile Adams Learned to Beat the “Olympic Hangover”
The Houston swimmer finished just short of the medal stand in 2012 and 2016, but her greatest challenge has been adjusting to normal life.
News & Politics
June 28, 2021
Why Is Texas So Short on Lifeguards This Summer?
The cascading effects of COVID-19—including a job-seekers’ economy and recruitment delays—are mostly to blame.
Travel & Outdoors
January 25, 2019
Balmorhea State Park Will Reopen, Thanks to $2 Million in Donations
TPWD's fundraising from Apache Corporation and hundreds of Texans will support repairs at the park.
Parks & Recs
September 21, 2018
Blanco State Park Embodies True Texas Spirit
Despite threats to its survival over the years, the picturesque and petite park goes with the flow, just like its namesake river.
Travel & Outdoors
June 22, 2018
Fort Clark Springs Is a True Historic Refuge
With its inviting spring-fed pool and abundant wildlife, the former military base is an oasis in Southwest Texas.
Travel & Outdoors
June 16, 2016
Get Thee to Water
We’ve mapped out nineteen places to cool off the way nature intended by swimming, wading, and diving into Texas’s restorative waterways.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1977
The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea
The Baja wilderness isn’t a great place to confront one’s own neuroses, but it’s an even worse place to confront someone else’s.
Being Texan
December 1, 1976
One for the Book
Meet the people who can eat, leap, kick, and talk more, better, higher, and faster than anyone else in the world.