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December 14, 2011
Caraway: "In My Opinion, Skyline Won That Game, and All of the Players are Champions."
This is not the first time Dwaine Caraway has stood up for Skyline High School. Three years ago, back when the Dallas ISD first toyed with tinkering with its magnets, the District Four council member -- and Roosevelt grad -- went to the board of trustees and demanded they keep their hands off Sky ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Lewisville Basketball Coach Calls Cops to His Apartment, Winds Up Accused of Trafficking
A Fighting Farmers basketball coach is accused to farming for talent in Mexico, and then fighting the talent.Today's lesson, boys and girls, courtesy of WFAA's Craig Civale and the Lewisville police: When you appear to be running a racket that involves importing a high school basketball playe ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Hometown Heroes
A Fighting Farmers basketball coach is accused to farming for talent in Mexico, and then fighting the talent.Today's lesson, boys and girls, courtesy of WFAA's Craig Civale and the Lewisville police: When you appear to be running a racket that involves importing a high school basketball playe ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Concussing Our Kids, One Hit At a Time
While pro sports finally fess up to the dangers of high-impact athletics, trainers, coaches, parents and lawmakers struggle to curb head injuries that are even more dangerous for kids.
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May 20, 2011
DISD Trustee Ranger Wants Hinojosa Out Now
Photo by Todd Overman/Courtesy Dallas Independent School DistrictDistrict 6 trustee Carla Ranger and the state-champion Kimball High School basketball team back in MarchLeft a few messages for Dallas Independent School District board trustee Carla Ranger yesterday, but never heard back. No matter ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
RIP: David Milson
Despite another brave battle, cancer won again yesterday. Back in July I told you about friend and fantastic basketball coach David Milson, one of the happiest people I ever did meet. Lung cancer finally got the best of him, as the former Cedar Hill High School basketball coach has pass ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
A Sneak Peek at Web Doc About How Jared Williams's Injury Changed an Entire Community
On October 1, 2009, 14-year-old Jared Williams, at the time a freshman defensive back on the Pinkston High School varsity football team, was paralyzed from the waist down in a game against North Dallas High School. As The News would explain a few days later: "He had struck his head against another p ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
I'll Admit It, I Was Dead Wrong About Todd Dodge
Something I thought I'd never write in 2011: Todd Dodge is the new quarterbacks coach at Pitt. By now I figured Dodge -- who ascended from historic success at Southlake Carroll High School to a gig at North Texas -- would be choosing from primo Division I jobs in the wake of multip ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
Fragels Rock: A Bagel-Doughnut That Tastes Like Home
Rooting for Ohio State isn't an easy thing for a native Michigander to do. But we Midwesterners believe conference loyalty trumps internecine rivalries (I'm told SEC fans take a different approach), so last night I cheered for the Buckeyes in the Sugar Bowl -- a task made exponentially easier ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Author of Book About Corruption in College Sports Sees Nothing Wrong With Allen Eagles' Under-Construction $60-Mil Stadium
Mark Yost is the author Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics. But back in late September, he was more interested in a high-school game: Plano vs. Allen, which the Eagles won by the score of 30-13. Yost wasn't really there to see the game -- well, ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Go For Two
Mark Yost is the author Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics. But back in late September, he was more interested in a high-school game: Plano vs. Allen, which the Eagles won by the score of 30-13. Yost wasn't really there to see the game -- well, ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
Veterans Day, Meet Texas High School Football Veterans Week
On Veterans Day we stop -- if only for a minute -- to thank all those who have served in our military and fought to provide us the freedom to do things like vote, drink beer, sleep in if we want and, of course, blog insanely and/or sharply and anonymously criticize those who blog.. ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
David Milson: Bad News For a Great Coach
I had a couple people recently make fun of the fact that I wear a Livestrong bracelet. "Those are out of style," the jab went. To some it's a fad I guess. But to me it's a reminder of a couple people who are - fashion trends be damned - still battling cancer. Unfortunately, I've got anoth ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
Cowboys Stadium to Host, Well, Everything
You've come a long way, baby.Cowboys Stadium hasn't yet officially celebrated its 1st birthday. Yet, by my count, the joint in Arlington has already hosted: Pro football College football High school football Pro basketball College basketball A high-school prom A high-school graduation ... More >>
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June 8, 2010
Texas Rangers Draft Some Guys They Can Actually Afford
Rangers Matt Purke = Coulda. Shoulda. Woulda,While UT-Arlington outfielder Michael Choice was the 10th overall pick in Monday's Major League Baseball Draft, your Texas Rangers went with a two-pronged philosophy: 1. Players who had character. 2. Players that were cheap. Not necessarily in ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
A Parade of Carter Cowboys
For no apparent reason, other than this marks the 47th anniversary of when Parade magazine began naming players to its All America High School Football Team, the Sunday supplement today has listed its The Top 10 High School Football Programs. The ranking process was simple enough: They just talli ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
GQ Goes in the Trenches With the Writers and Editors at ESPN's Dallas Site
For his new piece about how ESPN's locally focused Web sites are proof that the Worldwide Leader's "thinking bigger than ever," per GQ's headline, New York Magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman spent most of his time in Dallas with the likes of Calvin Watkins, Tim MacMahon and other ex-dai ... More >>
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February 22, 2010
Do You Believe in Miracles ... Ye ... Well, Do You?
I was playing catch on a lazy Friday afternoon, warming up for a chilly practice as a sophomore second baseman on Duncanville High School's baseball team when our coach came running out of the field house: "We did it! We beat the Russians!!" Was an upset last night when the U.S. beat Canada, 5-3, ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
Step To This
I was playing catch on a lazy Friday afternoon, warming up for a chilly practice as a sophomore second baseman on Duncanville High School's baseball team when our coach came running out of the field house: "We did it! We beat the Russians!!" Was an upset last night when the U.S. beat Canada, 5-3, ... More >>
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January 12, 2010
Super Bowl XLV: Century in the Making
In Texas, the old saying goes, there exist only two sports: Football. And spring football. God, after all, decreed Texas Stadium have a hole in its roof so he could look down upon his favorite team. Right? From the old wooden Fair Park Bowl through the Cotton Bowl, Texas Stadium and now the ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
Super Bowl XLV to Bring Quite the Collection of Gridiron Greats to Woodrow Next Week
Tony Fay started working for the Dallas Mavericks in 1987 as the media relations intern; by the time he left in '99, he was director of communications -- which was no easy feat back then, given that was six months before Mark Cuban bought the then-struggling franchise just off a lockout season. T ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
While Glee's Off For Two Weeks, a True-Life, Tigertoned Alternative at Woodrow Wilson
Here's proof, as if we needed it, that Woodrow Wilosn is the one high school in Dallas capable of producing high-achieving graduates not afraid to appear in international situations wearing odd pants. We offer this photo of Woodrow Wilson High School Over-and-Over Achiever Thomas Simpson and the ... More >>
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April 2, 2009
Corporal Punishment at Dallas Lickin' High School
The board of education.I'm 44. But I'm about to sound 84. It was a better world when paddling was a part of school. A safer world when "licks" between a teacher and student were punishment rather than perverted pleasure. Hear me out: I'm not condoning the 21 "licks" allegedly applied to the b ... More >>
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March 26, 2009
Girls 61, Boys 44
Mike Rhyner actually drained this 3-pointer. The rest of Team Ticket's night was considerably suckier. One player wore low-top running shoes and - duh - sprained his ankle. A guy in only a diaper was escorted out by security. And, in the end, the teen-aged girls reduced the mid ... More >>
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February 27, 2009
Video of the Week: SOC's Fame Over Shame
I'm only half-kidding when I ask this: Was it worth it for South Oak Cliff High School to change the grades of three players - including McDonald's All-American Darrell Arthur - and win back-to-back state basketball championships in 2005-06, only to have the titles later forfeited? At the time ... More >>
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September 3, 2008
See, Josh Howard Was Right All Along
I'm only half-kidding when I ask this: Was it worth it for South Oak Cliff High School to change the grades of three players - including McDonald's All-American Darrell Arthur - and win back-to-back state basketball championships in 2005-06, only to have the titles later forfeited? At the time ... More >>
Blogs
August 15, 2008
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse
I'm only half-kidding when I ask this: Was it worth it for South Oak Cliff High School to change the grades of three players - including McDonald's All-American Darrell Arthur - and win back-to-back state basketball championships in 2005-06, only to have the titles later forfeited? At the time ... More >>
Culture
July 10, 2008
Clique Shtick
The retail racket that is High School Musical on Tour! sells the same old Disney message but without the magic
Calendar
April 3, 2008
Quarterback Sneak Attack
Second Thought combines pigskin and mayhem
Blogs
September 17, 2007
High School Football: Too Big-Time for its Britches, Says One Writer
Second Thought combines pigskin and mayhem
News
August 16, 2007
'Roid Rage
Baseball's new k*ng swats one close to home
Blogs
May 14, 2007
The Friday Night Lights Stay on for Dallas Actress Liz Mikel
Baseball's new k*ng swats one close to home
Culture
January 4, 2007
Tubal Migration
TV brings big Break, hot Lights to Dallas actors; plus, theater's best 10 of 2006
News
December 21, 2006
Dodgeball
North Texas' new football coach will be fast, furious and fruitful
Blogs
December 12, 2006
UNT = BCS
North Texas' new football coach will be fast, furious and fruitful
Blogs
October 6, 2006
Pick Your Pleasure (or Poison)
North Texas' new football coach will be fast, furious and fruitful
Calendar
October 5, 2006
Val Holla!
Uptown presents parallels in comedy
Blogs
August 9, 2006
Cue Aretha Franklin
Uptown presents parallels in comedy
Calendar
May 25, 2006
Great Scots
Uptown presents parallels in comedy
Best of Dallas
October 14, 2004
Best Local NBA Hopeful (Who Actually Has a Shot)
LaMarcus Aldridge
Best of Dallas
October 14, 2004
Best Place to Watch High School Basketball
Forester Field House
Film
October 7, 2004
Hell of a Catch
Friday Night Lights goes deep, rare for a movie about football
Best of Dallas
September 25, 2003
Best Place to Buy Hockey Equipment
Players Bench
News
September 25, 2003
Friday Night Lite
Far away from big cities, big stadiums and big offensive lines, six-man football keeps the game pure
Calendar
June 19, 2003
H.O.G. Wild
Harleys take over Ennis
Best of Dallas
September 26, 2002
Leonard Bishop
Lincoln High
News
April 23, 1998
Getting Madden
A McKinney family sues Fox for sacking a young quarterback's dream
News
February 20, 1997
Losing by Decision
The good ol' boys are winning their fight to keep Courtney Barnett and other girls out of high school wrestling

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