Earn Your T.E.A. Credit Hours at Coaching School
from THSCA
Coaching School will be held in Austin, Texas, July 19 through July 22. This year will be the 77th Annual Convention of the Texas High School Coaches Association. The convention itself will be held in the Austin Convention Center on 500 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78701-4121. More

Former Lewisville, McKinney Football Coaches Selected to THSCA of Honor
from The Dallas Morning News HS Game Times
Former area football coaches Ronnie Gage and Ron Poe will be inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor on July 22. More

Ponder Football Coach is on Road to Recovery
from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The way John McLarty tells the story, the happy ending comes first. He’s a Methodist minister, so what else would you expect? That’s the way the story appears, end to beginning, chapter by chapter, post by post, as John wrote it on his Web site back when it all started in late April, a daily journal that followed his brother Patrick’s out-of-the-blue fight for his life. More

Westlake's Success Made Transition Easy for Permian's Allman
from the Austin American-Statesman
At Westlake, Allman heads one of the top overall athletic programs in the state of Texas, and for the second straight year, the Chaparrals enjoyed the finest year in an American-Statesman survey of Central Texas schools' athletic success for the 2008-09 school year. More

Tomball Senior Football Player Leslie Hits Stride
from the Houston Chronicle
Well-wishers continued to visit or call Corey Borner on as word spread about the 16-year-old's rehabilitation and return to his family's DeSoto home. Borner was paralyzed May 6 when he collided with a teammate at football practice. More

Former Canton Football Coach Takes Job at Sherman
from The Dallas Morning News HS Game Time
Gary Joe Kinne, the former Canton football coach, has been named head football coach and athletic director at Sherman. Kinne replaces Drew Young, who resigned to become athletic director for the Durant, Okla., school district. More

High Schools Seek to Curb Heat-Linked Sports Injuries
from The Wall Street Journal
On a hot day last August, Max Gilpin, a high-school sophomore from Louisville, Ky., collapsed during a preseason football practice. Three days later, he died from complications of heatstroke. His coach, Jason Stinson, was later indicted for reckless homicide in the first known criminal case of its kind. With high-school football season set to get under way in many parts of the country next month, Max’s story, which received widespread media attention, has spurred a nationwide debate about how far high schools should go to prevent heat-related injuries among their athletes. More

Early Start vs. Tough Competition Pays Off for Moody's Justin Meza
from the Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Justin Meza, bat in hand, all of 9 years old, would dig in against college pitchers waiting for the ball to sail toward the plate. Meza, of course, missed far more than he hit. And it was a Wiffle ball — not a baseball — that was being tossed. Quite different, yet Meza took away a lot from those games. More

Quarterbacks Taking Aim
from the Houston Chronicle
The 2008 high school football season, which produced eight NCAA Division I quarterback signees and 15 players who threw for more than 2,000 yards, was dubbed “The Year of the Quarterback” for Greater Houston. Now that the majority of those elite passers have moved on, it begs the question “Who is the next great Houston-area quarterback?” More