Because of my job, and since I’ve been doing this since Moses was a freshman at Egypt High, I'm occasionally asked to speak at events and to share some of the things I’ve witnessed during my more than three decades as a sports writer in East Texas.
With a 5-1 start to the season and two wins to begin district play, most teams wouldn’t want a bye week to slow down their momentum.
QUITMAN — The Quitman Lady Bulldogs scored a 3-0 win over Emory Rains on Tuesday in a District 12-3A volleyball match.
The Brook Hill Lady Guard volleyball squad can clinch an unbeaten district championship on Thursday in Tyler.
It was a career day for Oklahoma wide receiver CeeDee Lamb on Saturday in the Red River Rivalry.
LONGVIEW — Longview made a spirited comeback in the third set but the hole was too big to dig out of against the Lady Raiders on Tuesday night.
LONGVIEW — Sawyer Goram-Welch's process has involved a lot of research, consideration, discussion and travel when it comes to his future on the field.
Tyler Junior College will enter the 2019-20 basketball season with a target on its back in Region XIV.
UNION GROVE — Union Grove's girls captured their fifth straight title, and the Union Grove boys made it back-to-back championships on Monday at the District 16-2A Cross Country Meet.
TYLER — There wasn’t any movement at the top of the #bEASTTexas Fabulous 15 polls following Week 7 of the high school football season.
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QUITMAN — The Quitman Lady Bulldogs scored a 3-0 win over Emory Rains on Tuesday in a District 12-3A volleyball match.
The Brook Hill Lady Guard volleyball squad can clinch an unbeaten district championship on Thursday in Tyler.
It was a career day for Oklahoma wide receiver CeeDee Lamb on Saturday in the Red River Rivalry.
LONGVIEW — Longview made a spirited comeback in the third set but the hole was too big to dig out of against the Lady Raiders on Tuesday night.
LONGVIEW — Sawyer Goram-Welch's process has involved a lot of research, consideration, discussion and travel when it comes to his future on the field.
Tyler Junior College will enter the 2019-20 basketball season with a target on its back in Region XIV.
UNION GROVE — Union Grove's girls captured their fifth straight title, and the Union Grove boys made it back-to-back championships on Monday at the District 16-2A Cross Country Meet.
TYLER — There wasn’t any movement at the top of the #bEASTTexas Fabulous 15 polls following Week 7 of the high school football season.
Defending Region XIV Conference regular season champion Tyler Junior College is picked to finish second to Trinity Valley in the women’s basketball league, it was announced on Tuesday.
EMORY — Three Rains juniors rushed for more than 100 yards each to power the Wildcats to a 66-0 win over Bonham on Friday in a District 5-3A Division I at Wildcat Stadium.
Donovan Adkins, Kilgore — The junior free safety had three interceptions and three tackles, while scoring a rushing TD and catching two passes in the Bulldogs’ 35-7 win over Chapel Hill.
Texas Girls Coaches Association
Tyler Lee 3, Longview 1
After two straight losses, the Kilgore Bulldogs were anxious to open district play on a positive note.
In a key league contest against the Gladewater Bears, the Mineola Yellow Jackets stepped up and scored a 17-14 victory Friday at Jack V. Murphy-Bear Stadium in Gladewater.
LEWISVILLE — Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and TexasFootball.com’s high school football rankings following Week 7, distributed by The Associated Press, with rank, team and team’s record in parentheses, last week’s result and last week’s ranking:
Texas Girls Coaches Association
Friday's State Scores
With quarterback D’Eriq King redshirting the remainder of the season, Houston coach Dana Holgorsen used three different QBs against Cincinnati on Saturday, including former John Tyler standout Bryson Smith.
The No. 10 Tyler Junior College Apaches soccer team swept a weekend conference doubleheader at Pat Hartley Field.
Derrick McClendon and Chris Sanders, two of TJC’s stalwart defenders, came up with big interceptions to spark the Apaches to a 26-20 victory over Northeastern Oklahoma A&M on a cool Saturday evening at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium.
The Texas College Steers stayed with the visitors from Arizona in the first quarter, but the depth of No. 18 Ottawa was too much to overcome.
This week I’ve got my picks, the dumbest thing the NCAA has ever done (this week) and the NFL’s perfect metaphor. But first, a simple answer to a complex question.
LINDALE — The Lindale Eagles spotted the Hallsville Bobcats seven points before scoring 34 straight points of their own to down the Bobcats 34-7 Friday night in a District 9-5A Division II tilt at Eagle Stadium.
On the night when offense ruled, it was free safety Travion Ates who came up with the biggest play.