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Thursday, 22 July 2010 05:00
The architect of Southlake Carroll's football success received his profession's highest compliment Wednesday.
Bob Ledbetter, 70, who led the Dragons to the first three of the school's seven state titles, was inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor as the organization's 78th annual convention concluded its three-day event.
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 05:00
Back before he coached at Texas Tech, before the days he spent at Midland Lee during the height of the Little Southwest Conference’s power, Jack Tayrien played football at Odessa High.
Permian hadn’t been built yet. Under a pair of talented head coaches, Cooper Robbins and Hayden Fry, Tayrien started at guard for a Bronchos squad that built a reputation for hard-nosed football when OHS won the state championship in 1946.
Tayrien wanted to follow in the footsteps of those coaches.
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Sunday, 18 July 2010 05:00
On a hot and windless morning in early July, more than 1,400 boys assembled on the vast intramural athletic fields at Texas A&M University, in unity and uniform. They wore no pads. They wore no helmets. They were there to win a football title.
The 7-on-7 version of football is a throwing game, which explains why no big linemen sprinted the 45-yard field in shorts and sleeveless shirts during the three days of the 128-team tournament. There is no tackling, blocking, chucking, bumping or grabbing and little suspense: The defense knows to expect a pass because the rules allow nothing else. Contact is prohibited. So is any pursuit of the quarterback. He has four seconds to release the ball or the play is over.
"Oh, it's a joy," said Alex Dean Jr., the quarterback from Pflugerville. "Every quarterback's dream is to throw."
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Sunday, 11 July 2010 12:00
Dennis Parker has won state championships as a high school head coach and assistant coach. He’s had several other coaching stops, survived three heart attacks, written five books, co-authored two others and retired in December, after his Texas Lutheran football team went 0-11.
But the successful longtime coach has learned that he can’t stay away from football and being an educator. He is a volunteer football coach for new Nacogdoches Dragon head football coach Scott Ford.
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With a long road of rehabilitation ahead for Mercedes’ Albert Chavez, it’s going to be nice to know Sul Ross State University is still on board to have the star quarterback.
Chavez is recovering from a broken right leg, which required surgery after he suffered the injury early in the second quarter of last Saturday’s 14th Annual RGVCA East-West All-Star game. As he was carried off the field on a stretcher, Chavez said many thoughts crossed his mind, including the possibility of losing his chance to play college football.
“Right when I got into the ambulance, I was thinking negative, ‘Why, why, why?’” Chavez said.
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Friday, 07 May 2010 00:00
It was the scariest day in Dillon Parker’s life.
The Houston Cypress Ranch sophomore defensive lineman was competing in a football practice on Aug. 28, 2009 with the Mustangs’ Junior Varsity squad when he tripped over somebody and fell head first. Parker, 15, tried to think positive thoughts, but he wasn’t sure if he would ever be able to walk again.
“I couldn’t move any sort of muscle at all for two weeks,” Parker said. “In Week 3, I got some feeling back in my arms.”
Cleared to exercise, Parker has made close to a full recovery and still visits the doctor for check-ups and until March, he was required to ride in a wheelchair. Cy Ranch coach Gene Johnson offered Parker the opportunity to serve on his staff as a student coach; he debuted as a student coach during the first day of spring drills on April 30 on the Cy Ranch practice fields.
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