Trial by Water
Marathon canoe racing is the toughest sport in Texas. It’s tougher than bull riding, more grueling than pro football. The canoeists say that’s why it’s fun.
Marathon canoe racing is the toughest sport in Texas. It’s tougher than bull riding, more grueling than pro football. The canoeists say that’s why it’s fun.
The best part of Texas high school football is that it’s the biggest thing in town—and still only a game.
Pickup basketball is not a pastime for the lily-livered or the lackadaisical.
At midseason, long-suffering Astros and Rangers fans were having visions of grandeur. We hope they weren’t delusions.
Who’s calling the balls while the major league umpires are out on strike?
The difference between eleven-man and six-man football is a lot more than five men.
The Texas Rangers are spending their way to an American League pennant—or bankruptcy.
What happens when a high school football team tries to bench its coach?
At the state touch football tournament, winning wasn’t everything—or was it?
Inside the cushy private boxes at Texas’ top sports stadiums, far from the madding crowd.
Frisbee, the sport of the counterculture, is going straight.
One week with a thousand cheerleaders.
Where are the cheerleaders of yesteryear?
Roger Staubach is one Cowboy who always wears a white hat.
You don’t have to be crazy to attend Texas-OU Weekend, but it helps.
In the bush leagues, rooting for the home team can be a humbling experience.
There’s more at stake than money when two hustlers cue up.
The most popular club at the Colonial Golf Tournament is the one with barstools.
This is the Houston Rockets. We have lift-off.
The rodeo where it really doesn’t pay to win.
Surprise! There may be hope for Southwest Conference basketball.
You can’t tell a Frenchman that football’s the wave of the future. But then, you can’t tell a Frenchman much.
In some towns, high school football is still a way of life.
Don’t blame Darrell Royal for all those orange toilet seats.
Not all Texans make lousy gamblers.
In the world of skiing, one man’s mountain is another man’s molehill.
Why would any woman risk life and limb on the rodeo circuit? Hint: it’s not for the money.
A tale of white sails, blue water, and how they turn refined men into barbarians.
Court costs and other rackets.
Wrestling isn’t fixed; it was never broken.
People bring their gangly quarter horse colts to Bubba Werner to transform into winners. Now and again, he does.
Not all the action was on the field at Super Bowl X.
Don’t bet your life—or your livelihood—on a football point spread.
A tale of chukkers, stable snakes, Andy Warhol, and the booming sport of polo.
Hint: his initials are B.S.
When Billy Martin takes his Texas Rangers on the road, the games are among the least of their worries.
Canoeists battle more than white water when they run the Guadalupe.
A candid celebration of ten years of the Astrodome and Astrothink.
One of pro basketball’s smartest players thinks about everything but the game.
Ben Crenshaw picks his favorite golf holes.
Will success spoil Ben Crenshaw?
What football does to its people.
When was the last time you went to an SMU-Baylor game?
Football evolved from rugby, which may show that evolution doesn’t always mean progress.
Boxing is the real school of hard knocks. James Helwig, the Texas Heavyweight Champion, hopes he’ll be able to graduate in time.
Women’s college sports, after years of atrophy, are getting more attention, but the same amount of financial support—almost none.
DEGAS IN DALLASBetter known for his paintings, the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas saw only one of his seventy-three sculptures exhibited in his own lifetime. Admirers of his work today are more fortunate. Seventy pieces, on loan for the first time from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, are currently
A rodeo is an anachronism, like javelin throwing: but its bumps, bruises, and brawls are real.
Even though Wheatley High's last teamful of stars got snapped up by eager colleges, winning is such a habit there that they just might keep on doing it.
In Texas the bookies go where the action is and in Texas the action is with football.