With the start of football season around the corner, it’s time to take a look at the players who will be making the biggest impact in 2025. For the first installment in an eight-part series that ...

For decades, the Stephenville football program has been known as a quarterback factory that can consistently be counted on to score with the best 4A teams in Texas. And ...

Hired last June to take over the Clyde program, former Cooper offensive coordinator and Plainview head coach Johnathon Haddock had less than three months to get his staff filled and his team ready ...

Coming off a season filled with injuries, the Sweetwater Mustangs and new head coach Brian Hodnett have their fingers crossed that they can avoid the medical tent in 2025. If ...

Former Brownwood defensive coordinator Marvin Wilson did not see himself as a head coach when he came to Early in the spring. Nonetheless, that scenario has taken place at EHS following ...

There are reasons to believe the Jim Ned Indians could produce a quality team in 2025, with six offensive and seven defensive starters back among 23 lettermen from last year’s 9-4 ...

Since his arrival at Comanche in 2021, Jake Escobar has made a habit of proving people wrong —me being one of them. Replacing Stephen Hermesmeyer, who had resigned to take the job at ...

By his own admission — and that of Clyde coach Johnathon Haddock — Devan Wright was more of an athlete playing quarterback than a polished signal caller last year as a sophomore. But the talented ...

A year ago, Julius Laine was well on his way to his first 1,000-yard rushing season when a non-contact injury to his right knee ended his junior year prematurely. It was a devastating blow for the ...

If the name of Brian Hodnett sounds familiar to area football fans, it probably should. The first-year head football coach of Sweetwater held the same position at Jacksboro for ...

It is hard to fail at something when you have a good belief system in place, a good work ethic, support from friends, family and your entire community, and an attitude that failure is ...

In the two seasons he’s been on varsity, Mineral Wells defensive end Trent Yowell has been named his district’s Newcomer of the Year and Defensive Lineman of the Year. Blessed with an ...