Few Texas High School Athletes Fail Steroid Test
from Associated Press
 The second round of steroid testing for high school athletes in Texas found only seven positive results in nearly 19,000 tests, about the same minuscule outcome as the first round last year. The University Interscholastic League released the latest results from random tests on male and female athletes in Texas from September through December. All seven athletes who tested positive were male. More
Being a Coach’s Kid has Perks, but it can be a Balancing Act for All
from Fort Worth Star-Telegram
It’s not always easy being the coach’s kid. Sure, it comes with its perks — unlimited access to the gym or ballpark being one. Finding a ball, or 20, shouldn’t be a problem either. By that token, though: When, if ever, does practice stop? When does the parent-child relationship kick in? Why are their own teammates questioning their place on the team? A look at a few area parent-child, coach-athlete duos. A coach-child relationship can be stressful at times, but the time together can create a bond of a lifetime. Here’s what some who know have to say. More
Dane Johnson to be New Boerne High School Football Coach
from The Boerne Star
Dane Johnson has been hired to be the next Boerne Greyhound football coach by a unanimous vote of the Boerne school board. Johnson comes to BHS from Lewisville Hebron and his resume is quite impressive, although this is his first head-coaching job. Johnson won two state titles as a football player at Southlake Carroll High School and another with the Carroll basketball team. He was also the secondary coach at Lewisville Hebron when they won the state championship in 2005. More
One Final Run: Socorro in the Hunt for Elusive State Title
from El Paso Times
The Socorro Bulldogs have done just about everything a Texas high school baseball team can do, except for one thing. "The only thing we haven't done at Socorro baseball is get to the Final Four and win that state championship," senior pitcher Bobby Mares said.
For Mares and 18 of his fellow seniors, this is the year that the Bulldogs finally stop flirting with fate and capture what head coach Chris Forbes calls "the elusive state championship."
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TEXAS FOOTBALL FESTIVALS KICKING OFF
IN MARCH & APRIL
 Eddie DeBartolo, Jr. may be best known in the sports world for building one of the NFL’s greatest dynasties, the San Francisco 49ers. As the owner of the 49ers, he won five Super Bowl Championships and brought together Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Ronnie Lott, and Coach Bill Walsh. His latest sports vision has been the launch of a new amateur sports education organization, DeBartolo Sports University. DeBartolo Sports University is putting on Texas Football Festivals in Dallas and Houston in the coming weeks. More info
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Retirement Leaves South Garland Coach Feeling ‘Empty’
from Dallas Morning News HS Game Time
After 42 years as a teacher and basketball coach, Garland Nichols has earned a rest. But the retiring South Garland coach isn't sure he wants it. Most years, the 62-year-old would be looking forward to the playoffs. But as many teams start the postseason tonight, South Garland is missing the playoffs for only the fifth time in Nichols' 21 seasons. He coached his last game a week ago, when South Garland lost to Garland to drop to fifth place in District 10-5A. It's not the way he wanted to go out. But after battling kidney stones in recent years and other nagging health issues, Nichols decided it was time.
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New Braunfels Pole Vaulter Payne has Olympic Potential
from San Antonio Express-News
Not prone to hyperbole, private pole vault tutor Glen Dickson needed only one workout with New Braunfels sophomore Demi Payne to break his inclination for understatement. Go home, he told her, and write 2012 on your mirror.
Puzzled, Payne asked why. “I said, ‘That's when the Olympic trials are, and that should be your goal,'” Dickson said. “That was way, way out of character for me. I've had a lot of kids I thought could be good. But I've never told anybody something like that.”
Then again, he's never had a pupil with this much potential.
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Central Hires Coach, Ozen's Rison Resigns
from Beaumont Enterprise
One coach is out, and another coach is in. On the same day the Beaumont ISD school board approved Central assistant football coach Andrew Washington to be the school's head coach, Ozen head football coach Ishan Rison resigned to care for a sick family member. The school board approved Washington's promotion to head coach and campus coordinator by a 6-0 vote. Washington, 54, has served as a Central assistant since the school opened in 1986. He spent the last four seasons under former coach Donald Stowers, who resigned Jan. 26 to take a head coaching job at Class 4A Little Elm, near Dallas. More
Junction Football Earns Another Honor
from San Angelo Standard Times
After the best season in school history in 2008, the accolades keep coming for the Junction High School football team. The latest honor is the biggest one so far for the Eagles. Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine recently honored Junction as the Army Strong Team of the Year in 2008 in Class 1A after the Eagles' inspirational run to the state semifinals this past season.
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