Michael Watson, a former pitcher for the Nelson University Lions and a native of Glen Rose, has achieved a significant milestone in his baseball career. On July 16, Watson was signed as an undrafted free agent by the St. Louis Cardinals organization.
In the almost forty years that I’ve been penning this weekly outdoors column, I’ve written many times about some of the highlights of my life that began as a very rural kid hunting and fishing in northeast Texas and later outdoor adventures that ranged to bass fishing in Japan and the wilds of Canada to guiding for elk and bear in the Rocky Mountains.
LAKE JACKSON — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Coastal Fisheries Division released the billionth hatchery-produced fingerling into Texas coastal waters.
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Four Italy High School softball players and one from Red Oak were recently named to the Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association all-state softball teams.
The phrase “cooking out” often equates to applying heat to steaks or burger anywhere other than in the kitchen, often outside on the patio using a gas or charcoal grill. My first memories of outdoor cooking goes back a long, long way to the late fifties when as a young boy, I watched my dad grill chicken halves first over a pit he dug in the ground on an expanded metal grill over a hot hickory fire but later on a homemade smoker.
Mrs. Kim Vernor of Ennis has been a mother of three very involved track and field competitors for years, and their family is somewhat used to winning at track tournaments and bringing a lot of hardware back home.
Texas Longhorn and former Waxahachie Indian baseball standout Jared Thomas was selected on Sunday with the 42nd overall pick by the Colorado Rockies in the second round of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft.
Southwestern Assemblies of God University has announced that Cesar España, the Director of SAGU Men's and Women's Soccer, has been honored as the North Texas Soccer Boys Competitive Coach of the Year.