Football Alumni news

Steve Magness can’t really explain how he became the fastest kid in Texas seven years ago.

But on a spring day at Klein Memorial Stadium in 2003, Magness – then a Klein Oak High senior – setting the record for the 1,600-meter (one mile) run in...

Toya Jones knows he can't change the past, but he wonders.  Jones won a record 13 gold medals at the University Interscholastic League's Track and Field State Championships during his four years at Refugio. He continued his track and field career at Texas A&M...

Former Snyder baseball pitcher Lance Day continues to improve -- more than a year after nearly being killed when he was "sucker punched" at a Lubbock-area party. Day, who is currently 5-0 at Midland College, was given a 60 percent chance of survival after both...

If not for being involved in two of the funniest moments in baseball history and stroking the first hit in The Ballpark in Arlington, San Angelo native David Hulse’s major league career would have been rather nondescript thanks to injuries that cut his career...

On Aug. 30, former Abilene High multiple-sport standout John Lackey joined Nolan Ryan, Frank Tanana, Chuck Finley and Mike Witt as the fifth player in Los Angeles Angels history to win 100 games. Read More...

Since he was 7, Lanny Smith has had the same birthday wish every year. Each time he blew out the candles on his birthday cake, he asked for the same thing: to make it to the NBA. It wasn’t long ago that the dream seemed well within reach. The Chronicle’s 2003...

Whose career would you rather have? A string of Hall of Famers with spectacular individual accomplishments? Or a couple of kids from the Golden Triangle who won state championships for Andre Boutte more than half a decade apart, then parlayed that into solid --yet...

Abilene Wylie graduate Jordan Click, who continued her soccer career at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Okla., may face a future without soccer due to a spinal cord injury sustained in a one-car crash April 10. Jordan, who underwent...