Industrial didn’t intend to wait a week longer than its District 29-2A opponents to start the season.The Cobras had arranged to play either Boling or Van Vleck in Zero Week, but those plans were scuttled when the teams ended up in the same district. more >>
EL PASO — Colt McCoy passed for 282 yards and four touchdowns and No. 10 Texas spoiled the biggest sports party in years in this city with a 42-13 win over Texas El-Paso on Saturday night. Quan Cosby caught eight passes for 154 yards and a score for the Longhorns (2-0), who built a big first-half lead, then put the game away with McCoy's 15-yard TD strike to Jordan Shipley early in the fourth quarter. Moments later, Rod Muckelroy returned a fumble 26 yards for a touchdown. more >>
HOUSTON – Victoria boxer Jesus Villarreal lost a four-round decision to Rory Moreno in their 151-pound bout Saturday evening at the Toyota Center. Villarreal, who trains at Garcia’s Outreach Boxing Club in Victoria, had his professional record fall to 2-5-1. more >>
HALLETTSVILLE – Refugio linebacker Jacob Garcia didn’t get to play football last season, but he more than made up for the lost time against Hallettsville. Garcia stripped the ball from Hallettsville running back Ryan Lenzy and recovered it just inches from the goal line with 55 seconds remaining in the game to help the No. 8 Bobcats preserve a 28-25 win on Friday night at Hallettsville Memorial Stadium. more >>
SCHULENBURG – Quarterback David Houston isn’t worried if ESPN Classic doesn’t request game film from Schulenburg next week. He doesn’t care about his team’s penalties or how many turnovers it had against St. Joseph on Friday night at Shorthorn Stadium. more >>
DALLAS – There were a lot of long faces in Aggieland after new coach Mike Sherman and unranked Texas A&M lost their season opener 18-14 to Arkansas State last week. more >>
Texas-El Paso has played a lot of football in the shadows of the Franklin Mountains, tucked away in a far-flung corner of a football-crazy state. more >>
DENVER (AP) – Clint Barmes homered, Ubaldo Jimenez won for just the second time in a month and the Colorado Rockies ended the Astros’ eight-game winning streak, beating Houston 5-2 on Friday night. more >>
You know the cheer: "We've got spirit, yes we do..." But shouting across the field doesn't really settle the question, does it? Which school in the Crossroads region really has the most spirit? In search of the answer, the Victoria Advocate kicks off today its "Who's Got Spirit" competition.
To help answer the question each week, our panel of experts and our readers will get their say. If you're true to your school, vote and comment online at VictoriaAdvocate.com. We'll list four schools each Friday in the VictoriaAdvocate.com poll. For this week, readers will be able to choose from the Memorial Vipers , El Campo Ricebirds, Bay City Blackcats and the Calhoun Sandcrabs. Our experts, sports editor Coy Slavik and and education reporter Rubi Reyes, offer their predictions to get you in the mood. The winning school will be featured next Friday. Vote early and often at VictoriaAdvocate.com. Also, leave your comments there backing up why your school has the most spirit. Voting closes at 5 p.m. Monday.
In honor of their big home game against Refugio, we start our weekly feature with the Hallettsville Brahmas. Next week, the school featured here is up to you and our expert panel. Let the games begin. more >>
Refugio and Hallettsville accomplished what they wanted in their season openers. The Bobcats and Brahmas made mistakes, but still came away with wins. more >>
Terry Puhl heard about the smog in Beijing, but he wasn’t sure what to make of it until one of Team Canada’s outfielders lost a fly ball in the haze during an exhibition game. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Puhl said. “It was really bad.” more >>
Coming off a frustrating season where they went 7-3 but missed the Class 2A playoffs, the Schulenburg Shorthorns started this season scratching their heads after a loss to Shiner. “Offensively we moved the ball but we just couldn’t score,” said Schulenburg head coach Tommy Bludau of the Shorthorns 41-8 loss to the Comanches. “We had two drives in the red zone in the first half and didn’t score. We were able to move the ball pretty consistently against a good Shiner defense. We just didn’t capitalize.” more >>
Improvisation wasn’t St. Joseph’s style last season. The script, week to week, was to hand the ball off to tailback Brett Stanford and watch him run for touchdowns. Looking back it wasn’t a bad idea. more >>
One night the Memorial Vipers were on top of their world after a win. Two days later they were running on top of a hill. The Vipers, coming off of their 20-17 win over San Antonio Taft, took to the “mountain” behind Memorial Stadium on Labor Day after a morning practice. more >>
EL CAMPO – Maverick Smith can be hard to find, but he rarely gets lost. Smith is small in stature, but big in production as he proved again Friday night by rushing for two touchdowns and catching a touchdown pass in El Campo’s 49-14 season-opening win over Brazoswood. more >>
I returned to racing a few weekends ago, racing in a sprint triathlon after my recovery period from competing in an Ironman race in June. I went out the day before to check out the swim course and the run up to transition. I passed on the opportunity to check out the bike route. I have chosen to do this a lot, instead choosing to see the biking route for the first time on race day. I’ve decided that during a long race, such as in an Ironman, I have 112-miles to get it figured out. However, at this particular race, lack of attention to details (such as the bike course) would cost me precious minutes. more >>
Calhoun didn’t take long to get into a rhythm offensively against Mercedes. Quarterback James Ezzell ran 48 yards for a touchdown on Calhoun’s first play from scrimmage and the Sandcrabs were off to a 54-26 season-opening win in the Texas Football Classic on Saturday night at the Alamodome in San Antonio. more >>
Just imagine what O.J. Hughes could have accomplished if he wasn’t sick. The Memorial quarterback ran for 99 yards, threw for another 107 and led the Vipers to a season-opening 20-17 win over San Antonio Taft on Friday. more >>
All six teams in the championship flight are in contention after the first round of the annual Labor Day Invitational at Riverside Golf Course. The six twosomes are within five shots of each other with Donovan Dekowski and Steve Franz grabbing the early lead with a 61. Doug Wilson and Jeff Massey are a stroke back at 62. more >>
