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by Brewing America | Jul 31, 2020 | All, Baseball, Brandon Taubman, Houston Astros, Jim Crane, Sign-stealing scandal, Sports | 0 |
On Friday, Houston Astros owner Jim Crane decided to give a long, rambling, lunchtime interview to USA Today’s Bob Nightengale. Over a meal of salmon, Crane aired his grievances with the reputation his team acquired over the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 29, 2020 | 30 For 30, All, gymnastics, Heavy Medals, Karolyi Ranch, Sports, The Karolyis | 0 |
“When he heads for his ranch on a rural highway north of Houston, in his four-wheel drive with Merle Haggard on the dashboard cassette deck and a day’s collection of bugs on the windshield, well, you would swear you were riding...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 28, 2020 | African American history, All, Protests, Sports, The Culture, The University of Texas at Austin | 0 |
Last month, Shuronda Robinson was scrolling through the news when she came across an article discussing Texas Longhorn football players’ June 4 march from Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium to the Texas Capitol. The team was...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 16, 2020 | All, arlington, Baseball, coronavirus, Globe Life Field, Sports, texas rangers | 0 |
No matter what, the 2020 Major League Baseball season is going to be weird. A smattering of star players and journeymen alike are opting not to risk COVID-19 to play ball. Workouts have commenced, then halted, amid coronavirus...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 7, 2020 | All, Crime, Greg Kelley, Leander, Outcry, Showtime, Sports, Television, True Crime, Wrongful conviction | 0 |
Every Wednesday morning for nearly two years, Greg Kelley had a ritual. A few minutes before 9 a.m., he’d sit down at his kitchen table with a cup of coffee and his cellphone. Then the soft-spoken young man would pull up the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 24, 2020 | All, Football, Heisman Trophy, Reggie Bush, Sports, Vince Young | 0 |
The 2005 Heisman Trophy battle was essentially a three-way race between Texas quarterback Vince Young and USC’s Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart. In the end, Bush won the Heisman, Young finished second in the balloting, and Leinart...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 5, 2020 | All, Bobby Morrow, Olympics, Running, Sports, The Culture, Track and field | 0 |
When it came time for me to choose a college in the mid-sixties, Abilene Christian College was at the top of my list. We were a Church of Christ family, and my cousin had been a track and football star at ACC (now ACU) a few...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 2, 2020 | All, Baseball, Bryan, Collegiate Summer Baseball Invitational, coronavirus, Sports, The Culture | 0 |
On the weekend of June 4, Texas will host the first team sporting event in the United States since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Collegiate Summer Baseball Invitational is scheduled to bring one hundred college...
Read Moreby Brewing America | May 28, 2020 | All, Basketball, coronavirus, greg abbott, Health, News, Panhandle, Politics, Sports | 0 |
Billy Scroggins drove out of Abilene, where he’d been working on a maintenance job, and headed toward Levelland, a small town thirty miles outside Lubbock. It was Friday afternoon on March 6, and he was eager to meet his wife,...
Read Moreby Brewing America | May 8, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Dallas Cowboys, Football, houston texans, NFL, Sports | 0 |
It’s been almost two months since we’ve had sports in the United States. Nothing like this has ever happened before: even during World War II, when many gifted athletes had joined the service, sports continued, with even FDR...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 30, 2020 | All, coronavirus, houston roughnecks, Sports, XFL | 0 |
On March 7, quarterback P.J. Walker dropped back on a third and goal play from the five yard line while his team, the XFL’s Houston Roughnecks, were down 23-20 against the Seattle Dragons. Walker, poised, found receiver Cam...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 17, 2020 | 2020 NFL Draft, All, Deandre Hopkins, Football, houston texans, Sports | 0 |
On Monday, the Houston Texans traded away DeAndre Hopkins, the 27-year-old wide receiver who, since entering the league in 2013, has established himself as perhaps the game’s best player at his position. In exchange, the Texans...
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