Hart: Make it or break it day for ex-Yellow Jackets QB Kolb
Unless Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donavan McNabb somehow recovers from his injury from last week’s game, former Stephenville quarterback Kevin Kolb will make or break his chances with the team...
View ArticleStudent's research project discovers football pioneer
While researching a term paper on the history of six-man football in Texas, McMurry student Leman Saunders stumbled upon something fascinating last spring.
View ArticleGorillas' win shatters scoring record for six-man football
NOVICE — The record lasted one year. In 2008, Throckmorton outscored May 102-100 in five ovetimes in the highest-scoring Texas six-man football game ever played. On Friday, the Trent Gorillas had 100...
View ArticleCooper principal says school may return to 5A status
Thursday was the day schools across the state gathered enrollment numbers to report to the University Interscholastic League for district reclassification and realignment, which is done every two...
View ArticleHigh school football player wearing pink to show love for his mom
Dakota Brewster had his mom, Jody, take him to Wal-Mart late one evening to get pink shoelaces.
View ArticleFormer Wylie player walks into SMU opportunity
Like former Wylie quarterback Case Keenum, Cameron Rogers wouldn’t let not receiving a Division I scholarship offer deter him from realizing his football dream. And just a little more than a year...
View ArticleBig Country names dot Texas Football anniversary issue
It’s a special edition that a football junkie will read cover to cover. Dave Campbell’s Texas Football has published a 50th anniversary issue, subtitled “Best of the past 50 years in Texas football.”
View ArticleFour get chance to win Fulenwider pickup — but miss their kicks
Kicking a field goal through the football goal posts — 10 feet high and 23 feet, 4 inches apart posts — from any distance is difficult enough for most people who aren’t paid to kick footballs for a...
View ArticleEagles' oldest fan has a big night
She’s been a part of Abilene High for longer than just about anyone else. And now she has the final piece to say she’s a full Eagle. Faye Douglass put four children through Abilene High School and, at...
View ArticleTurf at Shotwell Stadium in good shape
Shotwell Stadium’s turf is in such good shape that it should last another two years after this season, according to recent tests.
View ArticlePrice of the playoffs: Abilene competes to host football games
The prices and locations of high school football playoff games are as unpredictable as a coin flip.
View ArticleEuless Trinity's 88 point most in playoffs since 1941
Euless Trinity has scored the most points by an 11-man team in the Texas high school playoffs since 1941.
View ArticleShotwell again busy playoff site
Three high school football playoff games are scheduled this weekend at Shotwell Stadium. Merkel and unbeaten Brady square off in a Class 2A area-round game Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Abilene ISD stadium.
View ArticleJaklewicz: Why do we favor AHS (Cooper)? We don't
Not that I don’t enjoy answering messages e-mailed to me — even if it puts my inbox over its space limit — but I will attempt in this space to save time and fingerache. The topic is the local war of...
View ArticleHart: Other schools passed on record-setting passer Keenum
I always thought Art Briles was a good coach. After all, he did win four Class 4A state championships at Stephenville High in the 1990s. His next head coaching job was at the University of Houston, and...
View ArticleCooper fans loyal to the end
Tony Click stood on the sidewalk near the Shotwell Stadium stands, contemplating a sometimes painful-to-watch first half and hopeful, along with thousands of other blue-and-red clad Cooper High fans,...
View ArticleFCA dinner lineup adds QB Keenum, singer Watson
The Big Country Fellowship of Christian Athletes’s Victory Dinner, scheduled Jan. 22, also will include as guests singer Aaron Watson and University of Houston quarterback Case Keenum. Guest speaker...
View ArticleSigning Day preview: ACU has line, secondary needs
The college football recruiting process is starting to wind down, with national signing day Wednesday. For Division II schools such as Abilene Christian, recruiting doesn’t end on that day. Still, a...
View ArticleRealignment a boon to economy
At a time when Abilene’s economy could use a shot in the arm, the University Interscholastic League’s decision to re-create the Little Southwest Conference — a long-heralded powerhouse Class 5A...
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