Archive for the ‘Football’ Category

Carthage creates history in historic high school game

The final high school game played at Texas Stadium came to an end tonight with the Carthage Bulldogs defeating the Celina Bobcats 49-37.

39th Annual Lombardi Awards events

As you may be aware, we do the video production work for the Lombardi Awards – we follow the finalists around for a day and half, filming everything they do. It is a great event that is highlighted by the athletes and dignitaries touring Texas Children’s Hospital as well as the M.D. Anderson Children’s Cancer [...]

Massillon Schmassillon

Sometimes when you review a movie, you have to take your own beliefs out of it – this is just such a case.  Go Tigers! is the story of high school football in Massillon, Ohio.  It chronicles the 1999 season, but the subtext is the city and its passion for high school football. Being a [...]

LSG Update

Lots of fun around the state when it comes to football. As usual, we saw some great games, recorded some excellent audio and of course put out another LSG Video Cast. 091008 – LSG Weekly Statewide Show Here is the latest edition of Lone Star Gridiron Video Cast. We’ll feature two of the top games [...]

EA Sports – It’s IN the Game (albeit wrong)

There is a graphic in the EA Sports NCAA 2009 football game for the XBox 360 that has bugged me on a few fronts. Now keep in mind that this is one of the transition screens that you see when you are playing the University of Texas.  One of them is BEVO, the longhorn – [...]

LSG Report

9.5.08 Another exciting week of action just got underway last night with the big wins by Austin Lake Travis over Austin Westlake and Spring Westfield making child’s play of Cypress Falls. Earlier in the week, myself, “Mighty” Mike Wright and Eric Wiede sat down to look ahead at a lot of the action. 090408 – [...]

The football craziness continues

The gridiron marathon is just about half over as I sit in the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.  We are midway through the second game of three and it has been great so far.  Not only is the football great, but catching up with the Houston portion of the LSG crew is always a treat. [...]

LSG Report

Week Zero is almost over. As we head to Texas Stadium for the final stanza of opening weekend, I thought it would be a good time to recap some of the highlights. As I mentioned earlier, it started for us Thursday in Abilene for the Odessa Permian win over Duncanville. The play of the Permian [...]

LSG Report

Wow – what an action packed opening week. Things started off with a trip to Shotwell Stadium in Abilene, Texas for the game between the Odessa Permian Panthers and the Duncanville Panthers. The game looked to be a one-sided blowout in Permian’s favor, but the wheels fell off late and it ended up going down [...]

I wish I was earning frequent ‘driver’ miles

You know I keep a pretty harried schedule, but it is about to get seriously crazy over the next few days. Even if you discount all the driving I have been making in the last few weeks, the stretch between now and Tuesday is brutal. Thursday – drive from San Marcos to Abilene for the [...]