Eric Moreno

Last season did not end the way that anyone, especially Head Football Coach Chris Taber, hoped it would for the La Vernia Bears. After finishing the season 5-5, the Bears were knocked out of the first round of the playoffs by La Feria. But expectations are extremely high heading into this season. With the UIL recently announcing that all 4A and under schools will start their seasons on time, Taber and his staff are now running full steam ahead to get the Bears prepared to get back on the fiel...

Few people are more identified with a college football program more than Barry Alvarez is with the University of Wisconsin. Now in his seventeenth year as the Athletics Director, Alvarez spent 16 years as the Head Coach of the Badgers. During his tenure, Alvarez helped turn a program that had been long dormant into a consistent winner and a true powerhouse in college football.
His football career began during grade school on the fields of his hometown of Langeloth, Pennsylvania. Alvarez was a...

East Central Independent School District (ISD) families are urging the school board to consider all available information to safely address the district reopening campuses for the 2020- 21 school year.
Community members, via public comments during the July 16 meeting of East Central trustees — held via videoconference — urged district leaders to utilize all available scientific information available to make the best-informed decisions possible regarding the upcoming school year. The three dis...

While he has been working as a realtor for almost 20 years now, it really was not that long ago that Jeff Jaeger was kicking game-winning field goals on the gridiron. A native Washingtonian, Jaeger got his start in football at a young age and almost immediately gravitated to the world of placekicking. He found he had a true gift for it. This helped him gain serious attention while playing for the Kent-Meridian High School Royals.
“I found out I had a real aptitude for [kicking] at a pretty yo...

In college football, few teams carry with them larger legacies than the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Between the two schools, they lay claim to 19 National Championships and 14 Heisman Trophy winners.
Notre Dame first fielded a team in 1887 with Ohio State following in 1890. While they combine for well over 200 years’ worth of football between them, these two blue blood programs have only met on the field a scant 6 times. None proved to be more important as their fir...

When you think about the sports that capture the hearts and minds of young Texans, you run across the obvious ones like football, basketball, baseball, and volleyball. Every once in a while, though, you will come across those who have devoted themselves to a sport more commonly found in the northern and midwestern portions of our country. That would, of course, be hockey.
Longtime La Vernia residents, the McKnights are a quintessential hockey family. They moved to South Texas from the Big Sky...

Everyone is trying to adjust to our new normal way of life. With social distancing being the order of the day for the immediate and foreseeable future, it has become imperative to find ways to adjust.
With so many hours left open during the day and realistically only so many of them you can – and should – spend watching Netflix or YouTube, it’s important to find other ways of keeping your mind occupied.
While currently on this temporary forced leave from live and televised sports, I have take...

Current St. Louis University High School Head Coach Mike Jones enjoyed a 12-year career in professional football before embarking on his career on the sidelines. Originally a running back at the University of Missouri, Jones was asked to make the switch to linebacker once he got to the NFL in 1991 as an undrafted free agent with the then Los Angeles Raiders. His hard work and perseverance would ultimately pay off as he would go on to make one of the most famous plays in Super Bowl history.
“B...

Since 2009, Dr. Jon Steinbrecher has served as the Commissioner of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). In that time, he has helped grow the MAC to be one of the top non-power five conferences in the country by expanding the bowl opportunities for the Conference, increasing its television revenue and exposure, and securing a $1 million grant for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District over a five-year period to focus on teacher recruitment, mentoring and retention.
He has been a true leader ...

The pool, located at 250 Viesca St., has been a fixture of the community since 1947, earning the nickname the “Little Oasis” because of the recreational opportunities provided to generations of residents.
“There really hasn’t been any updates to the pool since it was built in 1947,” said City Manager Buddy Kuhn. “The pool had leaks that were getting into the ground, it had an outdated gutter and filtration system. For the last probably about 25 years, it just kept getting repainted after bein...

Nestled on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu is the picturesque town of Laie and the Polynesian Cultural Center. This sprawling complex is part Polynesian-centric theme park and part educational resource.
Highlighting the diverse peoples and islands that make up the Polynesian peoples – including the host island of Hawaii and Tonga, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Tahiti, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and Samoa – the center is one of the most popular tourist attractions here.
A unique part o...

It’s never easy to try and create something from scratch. For the new Texas A&M University-San Antonio (TAMUSA) Athletics Director, Darnell Smith, he has the challenge of building the school’s athletics program from the ground up. For the San Antonio native, it’s a challenge that he relishes and is certain he is up to the task for thanks to the foundation laid through the game of football.
While Smith’s first love was basketball, he truly found himself once he got back into playing football a...

Few people ever achieve true greatness in their field or profession. Even fewer achieve greatness in multiple fields. However, this greatness on multiple levels is exactly what Robert Calvin “Cal” Hubbard attained. As the son of a farmer from Keytesville, Missouri, Hubbard came from the humblest of beginnings to become the only person – to date – to be enshrined in both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Big and imposing from an early age – it is said that H...

From an early age, John Thomas Lamar III (everyone calls him “Trey”) had goals for himself. The current House District 8 Representative for the state of Mississippi knew he wanted to play football at a high level, knew he would probably follow in the footsteps of his family and practice law. He also knew that he would one day want to give back to his community.
“Football taught me so many lessons growing up that it's hard to pinpoint one thing,” Lamar said. “I've always been the kind of guy t...

As the 2019-20 basketball regular season races toward its inevitable conclusion, the energy and excitement surrounding each critical game ramps up to a fevered pitch. The last three weeks of the season are, for all intents and purposes, playoff basketball.
This was exactly the atmosphere that the East Central Hornets found themselves in when they traveled north on I-35 to New Braunfels to take on the Unicorns Jan. 31. At a packed New Braunfels Field House, the Hornets rallied late in the four...