Subject: High School Football

• Football Practices Canceled at Hot O'Clock

  August 13, 2007

• Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking: John McClain, Coach Fran and Mike Sherman

  November 27, 2007

• The Five Biggest Choke Jobs in Houston Sports History

  April 24, 2008

• HISD Cancels Games, Trips This Weekend

  September 10, 2008

• Let The Bidding For Galveston's HS Football Stars Begin!!

  September 19, 2008

• Taking Care of the Boys

  December 16, 1993

• Countdown To Championship Saturday: Hightower

  The Hightower High School football program fielded its first varsity team in 2000, but in just nine seasons, the school has graduated some great players -- two have played in the NFL -- and made the playoffs seven times.     This year, however, is the first time the team has advanced to the state championship game, and the first time a Fort Bend ISD team has made it this far since 1991. Still, outside of the high school, finding a central community of fans going nuts about th

  December 17, 2008

• Blog on Blog: Greg's Opinion's Greg Wythe

  Each week Hair Balls interviews other area e-writers to explore what they're writing about, why they write about it and why you should read what they write about. This week it's Greg Wythe of Greg's Opinion. His blog covers a healthy dose of political opinion, high-school sports updates and funny videos. We found this mix of serious and kooky is a reflection of Wythe's dry sense of humor. On the two photos he sent to be used with this write-up he says, "I'm partial to Shamu, but feel free t

  December 24, 2008

• Post Office Push-ups

  April 7, 1994

• A Little Sororal Love for Broward's BCS Live Blog

  Our old pal Michael J. Mooney, who helped us out with our October feature about the Katy High School football team, posted up at Dolphins Stadium last night to live blog the game for our sister paper, the Broward-Palm Beach New Times. Here's the recap, which includes frequent references to the University of Texas, Vince Young and an opinion that the Longhorns could beat either team. Another bitter fan. -- Paul Knight

  January 9, 2009

• Madison High's Ray Seals Honored By NFL, As Vince Young Finally Does Something Right This Year

  Seals and VYRay Seals, head coach at Madison High, has been chosen the 2008 National Football League High School Coach of the Year. Two of his former players, Vince Young of the Tennessee Titans and Moran Norris of the Detroit Lions, nominated Seals for the award.  In his essay, Norris called Seals "a great inspiration" and wrote, "Even though I grew up with two parents, he was like another father. He always guided me right, and it wasn't always about football. He wants you to be successful

  January 26, 2009

• The Unchanging Face of Milby

  October 9, 1997

• Final Down

  March 5, 1998

• No Pressure. It's Just Texas High School Football.

  Katy High School was going to play against a Florida team on national TV. Now all it had to do was find a way to win again.

  October 23, 2008

• Drummer Love

  July 20, 2006

• Risky Business

  November 23, 2006

• Lights On or Off?

  The fight for a TV show about truth, justice and high school football

  November 9, 2006

• Making the Call

  Broadcasting high school games, ESPN-style

  November 9, 2006

• Letters

  December 30, 2004

• What Price Glory?

  In an era when booster dollars give high school football teams a high-tech edge, scratching out a winning season gets tougher and tougher

  December 16, 2004

• Hell of a Catch

  Friday Night Lights goes deep -- a rare route for football movies

  October 7, 2004

• Best Landmark

  September 23, 2004

• Tee Time

  Lee High School dropped football, deciding golf was a better sport for its kids, no matter how poor or new to this country they might be

  November 13, 2003

• Best Texan

  Aaron Glenn

  September 25, 2003

• Best Place to Turn Back the Hands of Time

  James Coney Island

  September 26, 2002

• No Sissies Allowed

  They'll run. They'll catch. They'll tackle. Women's professional football ramps up (again) in Houston.

  September 28, 2000

• Real Life

  February 24, 2000

• Winning in the Worst Way

  Rock Knapp transformed little Northwest Academy from gridiron patsy to playoff powerhouse. So why are some parents calling for his head?

  April 15, 1999

• The Thing About Frito Pies

  Photos by J.C. ReidHaute cuisine? For people who did not grow up in Texas, and for the occasional Texan who did not spend time in public school lunch rooms or patronize the concession stands at Friday night high school football games, a Frito pie is a dish containing three ingredients: Fritos corn chips, chili, and cheese. I make this rather simplistic statement because since its invention by Daisy Dean Doolin of San Antonio many years ago, the recipe for Frito pie has been tweaked, tested, mo

  April 17, 2009

• High School Football Classic 2009

  August 27, 2009

• Friday Night Lights, Houston Style: What Ever Happened To The Yates-Madison Rivalry?

  Photo by Paul Knight​Hair Balls traveled to HISD's Barnett Stadium on Friday to check out the James Madison Marlins play the Jake Yates Lions, a refreshing change of pace from last week's Battle of the Super Suburbs. Madison and Yates are apparently old rivals, and we went to the game with high expectations. But after walking around the stadium that stayed fairly quiet and empty through the first couple of quarters, we started wondering, What happened to the Madison/Yates rivalry?"The names --

  September 14, 2009

• Friday Night Lights, Houston Style: Six-Man Football Isn't Just For Tiny Towns

  ​Since Hair Balls started covering high school football, we've been itching to check out a six-man game, because after all, the supposedly big-time games in recent weeks have been somewhat of a letdown. But on Friday night, we found a true football mecca: the Rosehill Christian School. Along a tree-lined, two-lane blacktop road that winds across the northern part of Harris County -- just outside Tomball -- past a Dollar General store and RV-parts store, past gas stations where gas is $2.13 a g

  October 5, 2009

• Friday Night Lights, Houston-Style: Hightower-Dulles, And Ranking The Best

  Photos by Paul Knight / Click here for a full slideshow​Hair Balls watched a game about a month ago between two old HISD rivals, and we noticed that the stands were a little empty and the game play was a little soft. We found an old Madison coach, Richard Blair, who told us that he thought Houston high school teams have been watered down while suburban schools -- particularly in Fort Bend County -- have grown. So this weekend we decided to check out the best Fort Bend has to offer, the H

  October 12, 2009

• Memorial High School Keeps It Classy, Plus, Lessons We Learned from the T-Shirt Fiasco

  October 15, 2009

• Friday Night Lights, Houston Style: The Difference Between High School Football In Texas And Pennsylvania

  Photos by Paul Knight​Hair Balls traveled to a high school football game this weekend with a native Pennsylvanian to see how high school football in that state matches up against high school football in Texas. We went to Rosenberg to watch a Saturday night match up between the B.F. Terry Rangers and the Bay City Blackcats. In our first 4-A game of the year, Terry beat a struggling Bay City 17-0 in a fairly uneventful night. But the game was Terry's homecoming and, apart from our first we

  October 26, 2009

• As The HS Football Playoffs Begin, Here Are The Three Best Games Of The Past 15 Years

  High school football playoffs start this weekend, and Hair Balls is excited.The Woodlands and Hightower High School finished undefeated and, from what we saw this season, look like they'll be tough to beat. Katy High School, whose only loss came in the team's opening game against The Woodlands, won a huge game against Cinco Ranch High School on Saturday, winning the district championship. Katy could be on the way to a third straight state title. And everyone should be cheering for Galveston

  November 10, 2009

• Friday Night Lights, Houston Style: Another Hurricane Beating For Galveston

  Photos by Paul Knight​After the high school football playoff schedule was released last week, Hair Balls was ready to jump on the Galveston Ball High bandwagon and follow the team on what we hoped would be a miracle playoff run. Ball had already exceeded expectations by making the playoffs, considering Hurricane Ike made football in Galveston an afterthought just a year ago. Shortly after the storm, rumor had it that Ball would cancel the whole season, and Ball's head coach, Ron Holm

  November 16, 2009