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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.

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

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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.

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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.

San Angelo Standard-Times

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For 7-on-7 football in the summer, school coaching staffs are allowed to help organize the team and select the players. They can also decide the person – usually a player's parent or member of the booster club – who will coach.

Members of the school coaching staff can even watch 7-on-7 games from behind the end zone. But there is one thing, according to the University Interscholastic League rules, that coaches cannot do. Coach.

You won't see coaches working on a defensive back's footwork or refining a quarterback's throwing motion, but they'll yell out some quick instructions as shown in the television report.

Dallas Morning News