America’s Girls
December 8, 2021
Meet the First Woman to Wear the Cowboys Cheerleaders Uniform
Vonciel Baker still holds the record for most years on the squad.
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December 7, 2021
The Lone Star State College Football Report Card
Grading the season performances and outcomes for all twelve FBS programs in Texas. You already know who's getting an F.
America’s Girls
December 7, 2021
America’s Girls, Episode 2: All That Glitters
The cheerleaders enjoy the glamour of sudden fame, while grappling with low pay and the dangers that celebrity brings.
America’s Girls
December 7, 2021
America’s Girls, Episode 1: The Rise to Fame
The modern Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders launch in 1972 and rocket to national fame.
Sports
December 6, 2021
A Masterpiece Season for Baylor Football and Coach Dave Aranda
After last year’s 2–7 campaign, the Big 12 champions are sitting pretty thanks to their coach’s low-key, high-character style.
Sports
December 3, 2021
Texas Monthly Recommends: A Game of Spikeball
The only limit to where it can be played is your imagination.
Sports
December 3, 2021
The Hidden All-Texas Flavor in Tonight’s Conference USA Championship Game
Officially, UTSA faces Western Kentucky in Friday's title matchup. But the Hilltoppers' high-octane offense is fueled by transfers from Houston Baptist.
America’s Girls
November 30, 2021
Announcing Our New Podcast, ‘America’s Girls’
Inside the wild, glamorous, and complicated saga of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, an institution that changed sports, entertainment, and countless childhoods of boys and girls like me.
Sports
November 30, 2021
561 Million Reasons to Believe the Rangers Are Committed to Winning
With the blockbuster signings of Corey Seager and Marcus Semien, the woeful Texas Rangers just fast-tracked their franchise rebuild.
Sports
November 26, 2021
The First-Ever All-Texas College Football Playoff Matchup Is Here
Season got you down? (Not you, UTSA.) Why not spend Saturday watching the first-round FCS game between Stephen F. Austin and Incarnate Word?
Sports
November 23, 2021
Texas Longhorns Football Is in Free Fall, and It Still Hasn’t Hit Rock Bottom
Clumsy administrators. Meddling boosters. Blown double-digit leads. A six-game losing streak. And a home loss to lowly Kansas. What's next?
Sports
November 18, 2021
The Guy Who Asked Steve Sarkisian That Endless Question Explains Himself
Terry Middleton of ‘Horns Illustrated’ tried to be positive during Monday’s Longhorns press conference. He didn’t know he’d get dragged for it.
Sports
November 17, 2021
Get Ready for the Best College Hoops Season in Texas History
With six top-25 teams among the state's men's and women's programs, there's never been a better time to be a basketball fan in Texas.
Sports
November 15, 2021
Curl Austin’s Bet: If You Freeze It, They Will Come
The boozy winter pastime that Senator John Cornyn once deemed “the most obscure Olympic sport” is on the rise—even in Texas.
Sports
November 10, 2021
Westlake High School Football Coach Todd Dodge Might Be the Best Who Ever Did It
Good luck finding a Texan who’s lived a more complete football life than Westlake High School coach Todd Dodge. Now in his final season before retirement, the six-time state champion is looking to add one more trophy to his mantel.
Sports
November 9, 2021
Can New Texas Tech Coach Joey McGuire Build a Winner in Lubbock?
The Red Raiders’ hire is beloved by former players at Baylor and Cedar Hill High School and is known as one of the top recruiters in Texas.
Sports
November 8, 2021
How Did All Three Texas MLS Teams End Up Stinking This Season?
It was a rough campaign for FC Dallas, Austin FC, and Houston Dynamo FC, but there's good reason to hope that next year will be better.
Sports
November 3, 2021
After World Series Loss, Houston Faces the Possible End of an Era
Five straight winning seasons, three trips to the World Series, one title—but can the Astros keep it up if Carlos Correa leaves town?
Sports
October 29, 2021
The 6–1 UTEP Miners Are the Surprise of the College Football Season
Fourth-year head coach Dana Dimel's team has won more games this season than it did over the previous three years combined.
Sports
October 28, 2021
Meet the Media Upstarts Behind Those “H-Town vs. Everyone” Shirts
How Apollo Media won over Astros fans by embracing hometown pride and telling Houstonians there's no shame in supporting this team.
Sports
October 27, 2021
How Mattress Mack Pays For His Sports-Related Mega Giveaways
If the Astros win the World Series, buyers win free mattresses—and Mattress Mack cashes the biggest winning ticket in sports-betting history.
Best Thing in Texas
October 26, 2021
A Divine Presence Could Propel the Astros to a World Series Title
Houston is 2-0 in the MLB postseason with local furniture magnate Mattress Mack's "Rally Nuns" in attendance.
Sports
October 25, 2021
In This Year’s World Series, It’s Houston vs. Everybody
The Astros have faced every kind of taunt imaginable this year—and it has only brought the team and its city closer together.
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
October 19, 2021
“Negative Thoughts” and the Texas Longhorns’ Latest Unraveling
Head coach Steve Sarkisian diagnosed his team's weakness after Saturday's loss to Oklahoma State. Now he has to repair it.
Sports
October 14, 2021
The Best Public Golf Courses in Texas
These courses are beautiful, fun for all skill levels, and are available to play at a great value. Fairways and greens!
Sports
October 11, 2021
Happy Birthday, Jimbo Fisher: Here’s a Win Over Alabama
The day the Texas A&M coach turned 56, his Aggies delivered the upset of the 2021 college football season.
Sports
October 8, 2021
No Houston Pro Team Has Been as Good for as Long as These Astros
Through scandal, roster overhauls, and managerial uncertainty, the AL West division champs just keep winning.
Sports
October 8, 2021
Bijan Robinson Is Transcendent, but Can He Run Past Oklahoma?
The sophomore running back looks to carry UT to its first win over the Sooners since 2018 in Saturday's Red River Showdown.
Sports
October 7, 2021
El Paso’s Ricardo Pepi: From Recent HS Graduate to USMNT World Cup Savior
The eighteen-year-old FC Dallas star is back in the lineup as the United States takes on Jamaica Thursday in Austin.
Sports
October 5, 2021
Are Cowboys Fans Ready to Start Getting Their Hopes Up?
Thanks to a three-game winning streak and the NFL’s most complete offense, we’re almost ready to declare that America’s Team is back.
Sports
October 1, 2021
Houston Fans Are Done Feeling Guilty Over the 2017 Astros
Rival teams and their fans might refuse to move on, but the 2021 Astros are playoff-bound and the city deserves to take pride in its team.
Sports
October 1, 2021
St. Louis Slugger Paul Goldschmidt Is Texas Through and Through
From the Woodlands High School to a Stud First Baseman at Texas State, the MLB star made coaches ask, "What doesn't this cat do?"
Sports
September 27, 2021
Losing to Arkansas Was Texas A&M’s Reality Check
The Aggies had dreams of an undefeated season and a trip to the College Football Playoff, but life in the SEC ain’t all peaches and cream.
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
September 24, 2021
Tony Bradford Wants to Change Police Work—Right After He Stops UT’s Offense
The Texas Tech defensive lineman interned with the campus police during the pandemic and hopes to improve law enforcement from within.
Sports
September 22, 2021
Meet the Fearless Women of the Lone Star Mower Racing Association
Ladies, start your engines.
Sports
September 22, 2021
Dusty Baker Gave the Astros Some Dignity. Now Can They Re-sign Him?
The veteran manager has Houston poised for another MLB playoff run, but the team appears lukewarm on retaining him after this season.
Sports
September 17, 2021
Call This Season’s Rangers the “Arlington Experiments”
The AL West cellar dwellers have used another rebuilding year to audition loads of young talent. They're not winning, but they sure are fun.
Sports
September 15, 2021
UT Gold Medalist Julia Grosso and the Future of Women’s Soccer in Texas
With a little luck, the Longhorns senior and Team Canada Olympic hero could be playing pro soccer in Austin someday.
Sports
September 14, 2021
For Texas’s Black Roller Skaters, Life Is Good on the Wood
Joining a tradition with roots in the 1960s, today’s skaters blend styles from across the U.S.—and have a lot of fun doing it.
Film & TV
September 14, 2021
‘Necessary Roughness’ Made Texas Football Into a Joke. But It Also Moved the Chains.
Kick off the football season with this underappreciated, Denton-filmed comedy, which captured some truths about Texas football that later, more-serious movies would expand on.
Sports
September 14, 2021
Houston Should Have Been Invited to the Big 12 Decades Ago
The Cougars' move is great news for UH fans, but it shouldn't have required UT taking a sledgehammer to the conference to make it happen.
Sports
September 10, 2021
Meep! Meep! Jeff Traylor Has the UTSA Roadrunners on the Fast Track
The second-year head coach plans to turn UTSA into a Conference USA force, thanks to Texas’s deep reserve of football talent.
Sports
September 9, 2021
No Matter How This Season Goes, We’ll Still Be Talking About the Cowboys
With Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, and DeMarcus Lawrence at full strength, Dallas could be headed back to the playoffs. But first, Tom Brady.
Sports
September 3, 2021
Fifteen Questions About Texas College Football This Season
All twelve FBS teams in Texas play this week. Here’s what we’re wondering about, from UT and A&M to UT San Antonio and Texas State.
Sports
September 3, 2021
El Paso Boxer Jennifer Han Has a Chance to Pull Off the Upset of the Year
The 38-year-old contender comes from a fighting family and faces 2012 Olympic champion Katie Taylor on Saturday in England.
Sports
September 2, 2021
Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher Is Worth Every Penny of His Contract Extension
The coach has overseen the rise of Aggies football into a national powerhouse, and the rest of the university stands to benefit.
Sports
September 2, 2021
Sportscasting Legend Dale Hansen, Known for His Viral Social Commentary, Signs Off
For 38 years, the famed Dallas newsman’s Cowboys criticism and impassioned pleas on racism, gay rights, and sexual assault were must-see TV.
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.