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by Brewing America | Nov 20, 2020 | All, Dallas Cowboys, Garrett Gilbert, Lake Travis, NFL, Sports, Uncategorized | 0 |
Staubach. Aikman. Romo. … Gilbert? True, this Dallas Cowboys season isn’t quite what had been promised. But even as the ’Boys lost their fourth straight game before the recent bye week, backup quarterback Garrett Gilbert gave...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 20, 2020 | All, Friday Night at the Coliseum, Geoff Winningham, houston, Sports, wrestling | 0 |
One Friday morning in the spring of 1971, Geoff Winningham picked up the sports section of the now defunct Houston Post. At the time, Winningham had just begun teaching photography at Rice University, but at night, he’d grab his...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 18, 2020 | All, anthony precourt, Austin fc, MLS, Sports, Uncategorized | 0 |
Austin is the twenty-ninth largest metro area in the United States, with more than 2.2 million residents. The area’s sports fans have long had limited options: they can root for the Longhorns, even if they don’t have an...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 14, 2020 | All, Fiesta Jersey, San Antonio Spurs, Sports | 0 |
San Antonio Spurs fans don’t ask for much. We love our coach, we’re fiercely loyal to our players (unless their Uncle Dennis tries to orchestrate their move to another city), and we cheer on new team members. Even when the team...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 13, 2020 | All, Buzz Bissinger, friday night lights, Sports, Texas football, The Culture | 0 |
Robert Clark was working as a contract photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1988 when he heard that one of the newspaper’s star reporters, Buzz Bissinger, was planning to move to West Texas to write a book about high...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 12, 2020 | All, becky hammon, NBA, San Antonio Spurs, Sports, WNBA, Women's Basketball | 0 |
If Becky Hammon is disappointed when we get on a Zoom call on Wednesday afternoon, she doesn’t show it. Earlier that morning, the Oklahoma City Thunder announced the hiring of a new head coach—and despite being widely considered...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 4, 2020 | All, Athletes, documentary, Film, History, Olympics, Sports, The Culture | 0 |
On October 17, 1968, American track-and-field athlete Tommie Smith won the gold medal for the 200-meter dash at the Olympics in Mexico City. As he took the podium and the National Anthem played, he and his teammate John Carlos...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 2, 2020 | All, high school baseball, Houston Astros, Major League Baseball, Sports, World Series | 0 |
Texas Longhorns baseball coach David Pierce was torn. A Houston native, Pierce has always been a diehard Astros fan. He’d suffered through Houston’s many postseason heartbreaks, and he was hoping that 2017 would finally be the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 23, 2020 | All, Music, playlist, Sports, Sports broadcasting, The Culture, World Series | 0 |
A lot of Michael Gruber’s sports dreams wound up coming true this season. Just not quite how he’d planned. Gruber—or Grubes, as he’s known to fans and on Twitter—has been the DJ for the Dallas Stars since 2013, and this season,...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 16, 2020 | All, Longhorns football, Sports, The Eyes of Texas, University of Texas | 0 |
On Saturday, despite staging a thrilling four-overtime near-comeback, the University of Texas Longhorns football team lost its second straight game to an unranked rival. At a Monday press conference, in addition to speaking to...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 15, 2020 | All, Longhorns football, Sports, Tom Herman | 0 |
DeLoss Dodds saw this coming. In early 2013, Mack Brown’s Longhorns had just finished a 9–4 campaign, including a 63–21 shellacking at the hands of Oklahoma, plus a pair of Big 12 season-ending losses, to TCU and Kansas State....
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 13, 2020 | All, Baseball, Houston Astros, MLB, opinion, Sports | 0 |
Are the Houston Astros winners or losers? They won their first two playoff matchups—but they lost more games than they won in the regular season. The team still has a World Series trophy—but they lost the hearts of baseball fans...
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