Packed house at Gobbler Stadium
The stands were full at Gobbler Stadium in Cuero on Friday night and the fans got their money's worth. Cuero and Edna battled for the District 28-3A championship and the Gobblers claimed a 48-32 win. The teams combined for 957 ...

Crushing blow
Talk about breaking your heart. The Los Angeles Dodgers did that on Monday night. One out away from victory and tying the NLCS at 2-2, Jimmy Rollins hit a two-run double into the gap to give the Phillies a commanding ...

Silvas shines in Refugio victory over Hallettsville
BY MIKE FORMAN MFORMAN@VICAD.COM REFUGIO -- Draigon Silvas is too young to have seen Willie Mack Garza play for Refugio, but he has talked football with his uncle. "He told me if you want to play well, you've got to ...

At Last
If you're a Dallas Cowboys fan, Saturday is a day to celebrate. Bob Hayes will finally be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame. The wide receiver changed the way the game is played. He was an Olympic sprinter, who ...

Hitting Home
My son, Ethan, and I were driving through Topanga Canyon back to my sister's house on Sunday after spending the day at Santa Monica beach with my friends Lynnsey and Jason, who had gone to school with me at UCLA. ...

Coaching School
The Texas High School Coaches Association's coaching school gets under way Monday in Austin. Coaching school is being held a week early this year, but the start of practice is scheduled for Aug. 3. Football season is coming and coaching ...

Camp time
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Jerheme Urban held his second annual football camp in Victoria recently. It was a great camp for the 65 high school players who turned out. The camp was for quarterbacks and receivers, but there were a ...

Playoffs under way
The high school baseball playoffs are finally under way. Refugio won twice at Riverside Stadium on Thursday night to defeat Hitchcock in their best-of-three game Class 2A bi-district series. The Bobcats won 7-1 and 14-1. Hitchcock won the first game ...

Track and field galore
Three track meets were held in the area Thursday. Goliad and Industrial hosted invitational meets and Memorial had a dual meet with Alice. The wind was blowing extremely hard in Victoria. If the same was true in Goliad and Vanderbilt, ...

New Coach
Word is the new athletic director and head football coach at Flatonia is Rodney Dowell. Dowell was the athletic director and head football coach at Louise from 2005 to 2007 and had a 17-15 record. Dowell replaces David Sine, who ...