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Stadium Info FANFARE Score: 4.43
NRG Stadium One Reliant Park Houston, TX 77054
Houston Texans website
NRG Stadium website
Year Opened: 2002
Capacity: 71,995
Houston Texans – NRG Stadium
At the close of the 1996 NFL season, the Houston Oilers left the Space City for the rolling hills of Tennessee, eventually settling in Nashville and becoming the Tennessee Titans. For the next half-decade, the fourth-largest city in the United States was without professi...

Photo courtesy of Spurs Sports & Entertainment
On Thursday, August 3 the five-time NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs announced a new naming rights partner in Frost Bank. Starting with the 2023-24 season, the formerly named AT&T Center will be known as the Frost Bank Center.
“We believe in San Antonio – it’s our hometown,” said Frost Chairman and CEO Phil Green in a news release. “We want this relationship with the Spurs to demonstrate our unwavering sense of pride for San Antonio’s rich history ...

The East Central Independent School District (ISD) is working frantically to retain a contractor and get repairs made to the main gym on the East Central High School campus, following flood damage.
District trustees held a special meeting July 13 and unanimously approved delegating the responsibility for finding a contractor to handle the work needed to address the flooding damage to Superintenden...
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Photos by Eric Moreno, Stadium Journey
Stadium Info FANFARE Score: 4.14
Minute Maid Park 501 Crawford St Houston, TX 77002
Houston Astros website
Minute Maid Park website
Year Opened: 2000
Capacity: 40,963
Houston Astros – Minute Maid Park
It’s a little hard to believe, but the Houston Astros have been playing at Minute Maid Park for over two decades. In that time, the Astros have seen periods of both success and decline, have changed leagues, sent players to the Hall of Fame, and captured Ma...

Photos by Eric Moreno, Stadium Journey
Stadium Info FANFARE Score: 3.57
Whataburger Field 734 E Port Ave Corpus Christi, TX 78401
Corpus Christi Hooks website
Whataburger Field website
Year Opened: 2005
Capacity: 7,679
Corpus Christi Hooks – Whataburger Field
Professional baseball landed on Texas’ Gulf Coast in time for the 2005 season, when Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan and his group moved their Double-A team from Round Rock and rechristened them the Corpus Christi Hooks. Since day one, they have...

It was a gorgeous night for football May 24 at Hornet Stadium. The East Central Hornets completed spring practice with their annual Black & Gold Spring Game with Team Gold – the offense – prevailing over Team Black – the defense – by an unofficial score of 17-7.

One of the most prestigious academic institutions in the country, Rice University has a long history of fostering educators, Nobel laureates, and Pulitzer Prize winners. The school also has a long history of success in athletics, as well, including on the baseball diamond.

The XFL returned in full force in 2023 with a new spring season and new owners Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his business partner, Dany Garcia. After the unplanned hiatus caused by the pandemic, the returned league brought back with it one of its cornerstone franchises, the Houston Roughnecks.

In 2020, WWE Owner and Chairman Vince McMahon relaunched the XFL, bringing a team to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Then the pandemic happened and the XFL, like much of the rest of the world, shut down. In 2023, Dwayne Johnson and his business partners relaunched the league and returned a team to north Texas with the Arlington Renegades.

The early months of 2023 saw the second revival of the XFL, this time under the auspices of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his business partners. This third iteration (XFL 3.0?) brought with it a new franchise in the Alamo City with the San Antonio Brahmas. Virtually every startup/experimental/spring/minor league football league has set up camp in San Antonio over the years.

Photos by Eric Moreno, Stadium Journey
Stadium Info FANFARE Score: 4.00
UFCU Disch-Falk Field 1300 East MLK Blvd Austin, TX 78702
Texas Longhorns websiteUFCU Disch-Falk Field website
Year Opened: 1975 Capacity: 6.649
Texas Longhorns – UFCU Disch-Falk Field
The Texas Longhorns have a rich and storied history on the baseball diamond. Since taking the field in 1894 the Longhorns have appeared in the College World Series (CWS) a record 38 times, been runners-up six times, and have won the whole t...

San Antonio Spurs – AT&T Center
The 2022-23 NBA season marks the 50th in the illustrious history of the San Antonio Spurs. Spurred on by Hall of Famers – and future members of the Hall – such as George “The Iceman” Gervin, David “The Admiral” Robinson, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, and Tony Parker, the Spurs were one of the most dominant franchises in the late 20th and in the early part of the 21st century. From 1998-2019 the Sp...

As the largest Catholic university in Texas, with a student body of over 9,300, the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) has a long and storied history. Founded by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, the school’s athletic teams are known as the Cardinals. They began the school’s basketball program in time for the 1980-81 season.
After much of their existence in the NCAA’s Division II, where they made the postseason tournament in 2002, 2009, and 2010, they moved up to Division I an...

Stadium Info FANFARE Score: 3.71

All-American Bowl – Alamodome

For over 20 years the nation’s best high school football players have competed against one another in the annual All-American Bowl. The game between all-stars from the East and the West has featured some of the best players in the recent history of the game – these include Vince Young, Andrew Luck, Tim Tebow, Adrian Peterson, Odell Beckham, Jr., and Chase Young.

Since 2002 – with exception of a COVID year in 2021 – the game has be...