COLLEGE STATION — Dylan Rock drove in the goahead run with a sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh inning and No. 5 overall seed Texas A&M beat 12th-seeded Louisville 4-3 on Saturday to win the College Station Super Regional and become the first team to earn a berth in the College World Series.
Sitting in the wooden end zone bleachers at the northwest end of the Cotton Bowl, we would confidently make one prediction before Cowboys games in the 1960s: “The first play is a handoff to Perkins.”
With the sweltering heat the past week, I’ve taken a cue from the fish and wildlife I write about; I’ve been stirring during the “cooler” morning hours and again with the setting of the sun. My outdoor adventures have been a bit limited.
Heritage High School’s CaShan Clark is going home. The Jaguars head boys’ soccer coach has accepted a similar head coaching position with his alma mater of Alvarado following five seasons at Heritage and becomes the latest departure in an offseason of change at the Midlothian ISD school.
ROUND ROCK — Not every outcome necessarily goes as planned or hoped. That’s just sports.
The Waxahachie Daily Light and Midlothian Mirror are proud to announce the nominees for the 2021- 2022 Softball Player of the Year for the Ellis County High School Sports Awards. The Player of the Year will be announced in a special section in both the Daily Light and Mirror to be published June 29 and 30 respectively.
Kyle Busch held off Zane Smith in a frantic two-lap push to the finish at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway to earn his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory of the year; extending his record career total to 62 series victories and a streak of 10 consecutive years with at least one series win.
WWE wrestlers Brie Bella and Nikki Bella give the command to start engine onstage. CHRIS GRAYTHEN/GETTY IMAGES Daniel Suarez, driver of the #99 Onx Homes/Renu Chevrolet, celebrates with a burnout.
“Win Numero Uno.” Those were the words on the flag Mexican driver Daniel Suárez held out the window of his No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet as he turned celebratory “donuts” on the frontstretch of Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway Sunday afternoon in the ecstatic first moments of his first ever NASCAR Cup Series victory.
How can we in good conscience celebrate Father’s Day in the middle of an epidemic of gun violence almost exclusively perpetuated by men? We can’t. There’ll be time enough for backyard barbeques once fathers take the lead in establishing “Dads Demand Action to Raise Healthy Boys,” following in the footsteps –a decade late – after “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense,” launched the day following the mass murders at Sandy Hook.