Once about 15 years ago, I was walking in downtown Waco alongside my friend and fellow Tribune-Herald sportswriter John Werner. I think we’d gone for lunch over on Austin Avenue, and were taking advantage of the short walk and sunny day.
Texan pride is an unmistakable thing, and anyone who has lived in the state for any length of time is imbued with at least a bit of it. Sometimes it shows up in a, “Yeah, we’re bigger and better than you” type of swagger, and why not? It’s a pretty great place.
You can take the kid out of Florida, but you can’t take the Texan out of the kid.
A long time before the Connecticut Huskies and Baylor Lady Bears climbed to the top of the mountain of women’s college basketball, before the Tennessee Lady Vols or Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters dominated the game, and before there was a WNBA there was a kid from Queens, New York, who could …
Coming off their 1983 College World Series championship, the Texas Longhorns faced a major league dilemma.
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Texan pride is an unmistakable thing, and anyone who has lived in the state for any length of time is imbued with at least a bit of it. Sometimes it shows up in a, “Yeah, we’re bigger and better than you” type of swagger, and why not? It’s a pretty great place.
Every once in a while, sports fans get a glimpse, during the heat of battle, into their hero’s soul.
The members of the 2018 induction class sat together at a long table inside the Tom Landry Theater on Saturday afternoon at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Each in turn gave humble and gracious answers to the press conference moderator’s questions.
Jill Sterkel is the living embodiment of the idea of, “I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.”
On Aug. 27, 2010, Houston’s Wheeler Baptist Church overflowed with more than 1,000 people who came to pay their last respects to Johnny Bailey.
