Wednesday, 08 September 2010 23:00
Corpus Christi ISD's Cabaniss Multipupose Stadium could be open for business -- of the football kind -- in less than a month.
Even with the recent deluge courtesy of Tropical Storm Hermine, officials with AstroTurf, the company installing the stadium's new synthetic turf, say Oct. 5 still is a reasonable goal.
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 05:00
In Home Field: Texas High School Football Stadiums From Alice to Zephyr (University of Texas Press, $39.95), a remarkably tender homage to the Texas high school football stadium, photographer Jeff Wilson shows the endless possibilities of a rectangle of turf marked off in 10-yard increments. It is the promise of overcoming impossible odds, of getting, as any coach will tell you, to the Promised Land.
The coffee-table book focuses on 57 stadiums large and small. Photographed in the desolation of winter — Dragon Stadium in Welch is snow-covered — the images seem to be both haunted by echoes and ghosts, and reverberating with anticipation.
Friday, 03 September 2010 05:00
Behind every good coach, there stands a patient, loyal and understanding wife. And, sometimes, an enterprising wife.
Carolyn Allen, wife of Dallas Highland Park football coach Randy Allen, spent three years writing a 168-page book, “The Coach’s Wife,” which was completed in 1997, when Randy was at Abilene Cooper. Ten years later, Carolyn spent a year writing a second edition of the book.
In February 2009, Carolyn launched a website, thecoachswife.com, which has more than 700 members in 36 states, including two in Alaska, and even one in Japan. Eighty percent of the website’s members are high school coaches’ wives.
The site is open to wives of full-time coaches in all sports, but 85 percent are wives of football coaches — although many coach other sports as well.
“I never professed to be an expert. I just wanted to be available. Most coaches’ wives don’t have the time to do something like this,” said Carolyn, who has been a coach’s wife for 34 years in Bryan, Ballinger, Brownwood, Abilene and Highland Park.
Thursday, 02 September 2010 06:00
The Killeen Harker Heights volleyball team took last weekend off. While everyone else was playing their third tournament, the Lady Knights pulled out of the Aransas Pass Tournament following new travel boundaries set by the Killeen Independent School District athletic department before the school year.
Creating a four-pointed box that surrounds Killeen in a 200-mile radius, KISD athletic director Tom Rogers said the move was made purely for fiscal reasons in an attempt to help alleviate athletic travel costs.
Sunday, 29 August 2010 06:00
The legal battle between the Texas Association of Sports Officials and the University Interscholastic League came to a halt on Friday, but it won’t be for long.
On Monday, TASO, the state’s governing body for sports officials, will continue its quest to prevent the UIL, the state’s governing body for high school athletics, from requiring officials to register with the league.
Friday, 27 August 2010 11:00
Bo Jones was named as Corsicana ISD’s interim Athletic Director on Tuesday. Jones replaces Joe Young, who was recently moved to the central office to assume the responsibilities of the Assistant Superintendent of Special Programs.
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