10 under-the-radar players who could break out next season
At this point, you probably know the major players in Dallas area high school football for next season. They spent last season making plays on the field. The recruiting websites have...
View ArticleFive key questions answered for Mansfield Lake Ridge as last year's state...
Mansfield Lake Ridge returns only five starters from last year's football team that was the Class 5A Division I state runner-up and finished 15-1. Here are five key questions for a team that...
View ArticlePrestonwood baseball coach suspended from coaching in state championship...
By JOSH KOCH/Special ContributorHOUSTON -- Plano Prestonwood head baseball coach Todd Cash was banned from coaching in his team's TAPPS 5A state championship game Wednesday afternoon against Beaumont...
View ArticleThe schedule for Frisco ISD's four-game marathon at The Star; one game gets...
A Texas high school football season doesn't normally start with district play, but when you're opening in a $261.6 million city-owned facility run by the Dallas Cowboys, an exception can be made.All...
View ArticlePrestonwood wins first baseball title to complete sweep alongside football,...
HOUSTON - Never has a Plano Prestonwood baseball team been the last one standing.The Lions had been close before, advancing to the TAPPS state tournament in 2007, 2013 and 2015, but they had...
View ArticleSource: UIL state football championships will return to AT&T Stadium
The Cowboys have scheduled a news conference for Thursday, and according to a source, the team will announce that the UIL state championship football games are returning to AT&T Stadium.The UIL...
View ArticleDistrict 6-6A predictions: How will Guyer finish? Does Allen go for 11...
Every week I hope to do predictions for a different football district in our area. I'll pick the top four teams (reminder that four teams from each district make the playoffs) in order of how I think...
View ArticleFive defensive players who will be game-changers in the fall
When people talk about football playmakers, they're often referring to guys on offense. But there will be plenty of defensive playmakers -- many you could even call game-changers -- that will be on the...
View ArticleUIL state championship football games will return to AT&T Stadium in...
ARLINGTON -- After a year absence, the UIL state football championship games are returning to AT&T Stadium. They'll stay for a bit, too.On Thursday, the Cowboys and the UIL announced a two-year...
View ArticleBaseball playoffs: Wylie loses for first time in postseason as rally falls...
For the first time in Wylie's playoff run, the Pirates are staring at a series deficit.Whitehouse held off a late Wylie comeback bid for a 7-6 victory in the opener of a best-of-3 Class 5A Region II...
View ArticleBaseball playoff roundup: Lufkin pulls away late to beat Poteet; Keller gets...
TYLER -- What started as a pitcher's duel ended in a comfortable Game 1 victory for Lufkin.Lufkin scored five runs in the top of the fifth inning on the way to a 6-0 win over Mesquite Poteet in a Class...
View ArticleHow mega-district Frisco ISD is proving that fear of talent being 'watered...
FRISCO -- On a corner of Preston Road in the big boom of suburbia, near a mix of new homes, shopping centers and grazing cattle, the 2002 Frisco state softball champions are honored. The painted water...
View ArticleGirls All-Area track and field teams, athlete of the year and newcomer:...
GIRLS ATHLETE OF THE YEARALEXIS DUNCAN, DESOTO, SR.When Alexis Duncan was a freshman in 2013, she was already one of the state's top hurdlers. But at the area meet that year, she fell while...
View ArticleBoys All-Area track and field teams, athlete of the year and newcomer:...
BOYS ATHLETE OF THE YEARREED BROWN, SOUTHLAKE CARROLL, JR.Southlake Carroll junior Reed Brown has something in common with basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan. Both had to compete on the junior...
View ArticleBaseball playoff roundup: State No. 1 Coppell drops series opener to Midland...
For the second time in four rounds of the playoffs, the state's top-ranked baseball team will have to rally after losing Game 1 of a series.Coppell managed only two hits Friday night and lost 7-2 to...
View ArticleSoftball playoffs: Keller beats rival Timber Creek in 1-game playoff to reach...
By Robert Thomas / Special ContributorSAGINAW -- Keller made sure its second straight trip to the Class 6A Region I final wasn't the end of its season, jumping out to an early lead and holding...
View ArticleJunior right-hander earns second win in 13 hours as Jesuit shuts out Conroe...
A week after losing his spot in the Jesuit pitching rotation, J.J. Montenegro kept the Rangers' playoff drive alive for another week.The junior right-hander who wears the No. 13 recorded his second win...
View ArticleSoftball playoffs: Frisco wins twice to reach state tournament for first time...
Texas A&M softball pledge Maddie MacGrandle threw 216 pitches while pitching two complete games Saturday as Frisco beat Lufkin twice and advanced to the state tournament for the first time since...
View ArticleBaseball playoff roundup: Midland Lee stuns state No. 1 Coppell in Game 3;...
Midland Lee scored one run in each of the first six innings and shocked the state's No. 1-ranked team, beating Coppell 6-4 in Game 3 of a best-of-3 Class 6A Region I semifinal series Saturday.Midland...
View ArticleFive things to know from the baseball playoffs: Nationally-ranked Coppell...
The regional semifinals might've been the wildest weekend of the baseball playoffs. More than half of the area's remaining teams were ousted this weekend, including the state's No. 1-ranked 6A...
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