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by Brewing America | Apr 13, 2021 | All, Boxing, Sports | 0 |
When the pandemic started shutting everything down in March 2020, Kayla Gomez, a youth amateur boxer, scrambled to figure out how to continue training. Gomez, a seventeen-year-old from El Paso who competes in the 112-pound...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 12, 2021 | All, Astros, Baseball, MLB, Sign-stealing scandal, Sports | 0 |
One trash can tossed from the bleachers into the outfield—that’s clever. Two flying trash cans—that’s a message. So is a fan holding a placard that says: “If you’re looking for a sign from God, the Astros probably stole it!” So...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 8, 2021 | All, Boban Marjanovic, Dallas Mavericks, Humor, NBA, Sports, Viral video | 0 |
Professional athletes often do things that remind us they are capable of feats well beyond the abilities of ordinary humans. Look, here is a video of J.J. Watt doing a box jump higher than a Toyota Yaris! Here’s Michael Brantley...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 7, 2021 | All, Baylor Bears, College Basketball, March Madness, NCAA Basketball, Scott Drew, Sports | 0 |
Eighteen years ago, at the beginning of my senior season on the Baylor University basketball team, my teammates and I sat in the front row for a press conference at the Ferrell Center. After living through one of the worst...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 6, 2021 | All, Baseball, Humor, Minor League Baseball, Sports | 0 |
It’s been a weird year for sports, and even weirder for the lower-level sports leagues that rely on fan attendance to bring in any money. In 2020, Minor League Baseball canceled its season for the first time in history (the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 5, 2021 | All, Coaches, College Basketball, Red Raiders, Sports, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech, UT Austin | 0 |
Chris Beard just broke one of the most important rules of coaching: Never leave a place where they’re probably going to build statues and name streets in your honor. That’s what he had at Texas Tech, and that’s what he’s...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 2, 2021 | All, education, Sports, UT Austin, UT football | 0 |
When you go back and look at it, really look at it, it’s not even a good image. It was shot on a phone. It’s strangely cropped. Blurry. But it sure captured a moment. The photo taken of University of Texas quarterback Sam...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 1, 2021 | #MeToo, All, Deshaun Watson, houston texans, Media, NFL, Sports | 0 |
On Wednesday, the Houston Chronicle published a story on its website under the headline “Statements from massage therapists in support of Deshaun Watson.” The story reproduced a press release issued by Watson’s attorney in which...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 1, 2021 | All, Major League Baseball, MLB, Sports, Texas Rangers (baseball) | 0 |
Can a 41-year-old Princeton grad with zero front-office experience lead a rebirth of the Texas Rangers? There you go. That’s your opening day story line for Major League Baseball in North Texas. Well, besides President Joe Biden...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 1, 2021 | All, Baylor Bears, College Basketball, Houston Cougars, March Madness, NCAA Basketball, Sports, UTEP | 0 |
A few miles from the border separating Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico, an orange banner hangs from the rafters at Don Haskins Center. That’s where the Miners of the University of Texas at El Paso, UTEP, play their home games....
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 25, 2021 | All, College Basketball, Houston Cougars, March Madness, NCAA Basketball, Sports | 0 |
Kelvin Sampson had been on the job only a couple of days in 2014 when a FedEx box showed up in his office at the University of Houston. Inside he found an aluminum ladder and a note written on University of Oklahoma letterhead....
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 25, 2021 | All, gymnastics, simone biles, Sports | 0 |
A year ago this month, the countdown clock to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was halted and then reset because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, once again, we’re just about four months out from an Olympic Games that, should...
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