Eric Moreno

The area’s best high school basketball stars converged on the Northside Gymnasium in San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday, March 23, for the Second Annual SA Sports All-Star Basketball Games. The four games featured 126 players from 60 area high schools.
Two evening contests featured the best of the best from the 6A schools. The East Central Hornets were represented in the girls’ and boys’ events by three of their stars in seniors A’Nya Williams, A’Maya Holton, and Zahir Williams. All three represen...

Recreation Center
1 University Way
San Antonio, TX 78224
Texas A&M-San Antonio Jaguars website
Recreation Center website
Year Opened: 2024
Capacity: 900
TAMUSA Jaguars New Rec Center
In 2009 the Texas A&M University System opened its newest stand-alone institution, Texas A&M University-San Antonio (TAMUSA) on the far southwest side of the Alamo City. In the ensuing decade and a half, the school has gone from holding classes...

Photos by Eric Moreno, Stadium Journey
Stadium Info FANFARE Score: 2.57
Bulldog StadiumUniversity DriveSeguin, TX 78155
Texas Lutheran Bulldogs website
Memorial Gymnasium website
Year Opened: 1976
Capacity: 2,200
Texas Lutheran Bulldogs – Memorial Gymnasium
Founded in 1891 as the Evangelical Lutheran College, the present-day Texas Lutheran University (TLU) is a private institution of higher learning based in the south Texas town of Seguin. Nestled on the banks of the Guadalupe River, the scho...

Photos by Eric Moreno, Stadium Journey
Stadium Info FANFARE Score: 3.14
William H. Bell Center1 S Campus DriveSan Antonio, TX 78212
Trinity Tigers websiteWilliam H. Bell Center website
Year Opened: 1992 Capacity: 1,800
Trinity Tigers – William H. Bell Center
Trinity University was originally founded in 1869 as a private liberal arts school, ultimately merging with the University of San Antonio in the 1940s. The beautiful 125-acre campus was designated a National Historic District, and is one ...

SAN ANTONIO - A key component of the San Antonio Area Foundation’s 60th anniversary public engagement campaign was the Share Your Story (SYS) series.
These brief video testimonial segments, published on the Area Foundation’s YouTube channel as well as on its other social media platforms, provided a diverse cadre of voices from people with experience and knowledge working with the organization.
Essentially, the campaign was an open invitation to the community to quite literally share their per...

Founded by the Society of Mary in 1852, St. Mary’s University is a private Catholic institution of higher learning that has the distinction of being the oldest Catholic university in both Texas and the U.S. Southwest.

East Central linebacker Myron Robinson, with the East team, and Coach Joe Hubbard — coaching the West team — greet each other Jan. 11 after the Navy All-American Bowl in the Alamodome. Hubbard and the West team won, 13-7, in the annual showcase for high school football athletes. NICHOLAS SIERRA/svtox.smugmug.comSome of the best high school football players in the nation converged on the Alamodome ...

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Photos by Eric Moreno, Stadium Journey
Stadium Info FANFARE Score: 3.84
Amon G. Carter Stadium2850 Stadium DrFort Worth, TX 76129
Armed Forces Bowl website
Amon G. Carter Stadium website
Year Opened: 1930
Capacity: 45,000
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl
They have been playing the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas, at historic Amon G. Carter Stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University (TCU) since 2003. Formerly the Fort Worth Bowl, the game has featured numerous ...

Photos by Eric Moreno, Stadium Journey
Stadium Info FANFARE Score: 2.71
Mabee Gymnasium
411 SW 24th St
San Antonio, TX 78237
Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) Saints website
Mabee Gymnasium website
Year Opened: 2002
Capacity: 1,600
The Saints of OLLU
Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) was founded in San Antonio in 1895 by the Sisters of Divine Providence from Lorraine, France. It is the oldest school offering degrees in Social Work in Texas. For much of OLLU’s history, it was strictl...

SAN ANTONIO - This week, the city of San Antonio lost a true icon when businesswoman Rosemary Kowalski passed away at 100. Kowalski, who famously told in stories that she never even liked cooking, founded her catering business, the RK Group, with no formal training in business.
She grew The RK Group into a force in South Texas, catering and serving food at events of all sizes and to a litany of luminaries, including President Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Queen Elizabeth II and John Wayne...

Since its founding in 2017, Successfully Aging and Living in San Antonio (SALSA) initiative was created to increase the leadership, funding and collaboration among individuals and organizations to help provide better opportunities for older adults.
This program, part of the San Antonio Area Foundation’s Community Engagement and Impact (CEI) Department, had a banner year in 2024, showing marked growth in terms of coalition partners and expansion in programming.
“One of the big ‘wins’ for us in...

Photo courtesy of the City of San Antonio
The year 2024 will go down as a monumental one in San Antonio and South Texas, especially in terms of the state of its sports venues. A once-in-a-lifetime confluence of circumstances – both planned and unforeseen – have created a moment in time that is going to impact four (and potentially five) of the city’s venues and three of its major sports teams: the San Antonio Spurs, San Antonio Missions, and UTSA Roadrunners.
These factors include a looming d...

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Stadium Info FANFARE Score: 4.14
NRG StadiumOne NRG ParkHouston, TX 77054
Houston Texans website
NRG Stadium website
Year Opened: 2002
Capacity: 72,000
Houston Texans – NRG Stadium
In 1997 the Houston Oilers packed up shop, bid goodbye to the Astrodome and Space City, and moved to the Volunteer State, Tennessee. This left the fourth-largest city in America without professional football for the first time since 1960. The ensuing years would be frustrating...

Photo by Eric Moreno, Stadium Journey
My beloved hometown of San Antonio is known the world over as a true food lovers’ paradise. We – and I almost exclusively use “we” when talking about the Alamo City – were the second city in the United States to be recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Creative City of Gastronomy.
If you want it, we’ve got it. The Best Tex-Mex in the state? Yep, that’s ours (come at me everyone else; this is the hill ...

Photo courtesy of Dave Campbell's Texas Football
Growing up in Texas, many of us are introduced to two distinct versions of the “Bible” – there is the one revered worldwide across virtually all Christian religions, and there is the one found on the desks of every football coach from Amarillo to Brownsville, Beaumont to El Paso, and all points in between. The latter would be Dave Campbell’s Texas Football (DCTF).
For those who are completely unaware, football – especially high school football ...