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Strategy and Strategery
Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel on Darkon and the real-world implications of role players at war
"...are camping out in the Baltimore winter. Meanwhile, their jock contemporaries have been promoted to solitary armchair quarterbacking...."

Jan. 26, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Out, In, and Onscreen
The 19th Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival
"...my characterization to come off as more of a jock, but at the time, I couldn't cut my hair..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

What's Best for Frankie?
Williamson County wastewater deal yields the familiar odor of Commissioner Limmer
"...communiqués also first alerted the Norman family – Isaac "Jock" Norman, his wife, Frances, and their kids and grandkids,..."

Sept. 15, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A Brief History of Helen of Troy
Capital T Theatre Company's 'A Brief History of Helen of Troy' depicts a lot of brutality in a teenage girl's world, but ultimately it's about caring, connection, and love
"...one of her sexual fantasies. As a high school jock, Ryan Ciardo nails the juvenile superiority and privileged swagger..."

June 30, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

From Austin to Neptune
Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas on the rise of his career-making cult favorite
"...he was a proud (but apparently likable) high school jock...."

Jan. 13, 2006 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

School Finance: Where We Are and How We Got Here
The Supreme Court's ruling leaves a lot of blanks for the Lege to fill in
"...cause a statewide stampede of angry football coaches (and jock parents) on the Capitol...."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Austin Asian Film Festival 2
Nov. 3-6
"...Shock Jock Shorts Program, noon..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

There Goes the Neighborhood
Ray Pride's 'Beauty School' Crack Pipes: No day at the ballpark
"...Pride (né Colgan). As the stadium DJ pumps out jock jams between innings, our conversation veers from Bob Wills..."

July 29, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Bigger Stakes
Richard Linklater on remixing 'The Bad News Bears'
"...AC: Word is you're a jock...."

July 29, 2005 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Zupan on Impact
'Murderball' and the making of a celebrity
"...ThinkFilm that perhaps Zupan is too imposing, too intimidatingly jock, to get arthouse audiences and multiplexers alike to the..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

About AIDS
For HIV-positive people, a few simple precautions can make trips safer and more fun
"...also a good idea; you wouldn't want athlete's foot, jock itch, or a yeast infection as traveling companions...."

June 10, 2005 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Friday Sleepers
SXSW picks & sleepers
"...EP, Vista Street Sessions, last summer. Airplay by hometown jock Nic Harcourt on KCRW's Morning Become Eclectic has garnered..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Luv Doc Recommends: Bottle Rocket Screening with Kumar Pallana
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Saturday, February 26, 2005
"...care about thporth, but more importantly, unlike the vapid jock talk around the copier/water cooler the morning after the..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

Are You Decent?
Dudley & Bob and the footsoldiers in the FCC's war on pop culture
"...Zero tolerance. "What about a fart sound effect?" one jock asked. Nothing, they were told...."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad
Afro-Canadian political activist, poet, and playwright Minister Faust's first novel, The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad, begins at the end.
"...as a child for being different. Their employer, an ex-jock and successful entrepreneur, devises a plan for metaphysical Armageddon...."

Aug. 20, 2004 Books Review by Rick Klaw

TCB
Getting heavy with Recover, poppy with Voxtrot, and rejoicing that the AMN flap is finally over. More or less.
"...Usher, and Mario Winans, but were instead greeted by shock-jock supreme Howard Stern. Seems the station's parent company, New..."

July 23, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

TCB
This week's column brought to you by the letters J, O, U, R, N, E, and Y
"...advertisers pulled out, so they axed longtime KLBJ midday jock Peg Simmons and bumped multiple Austin Music Award winner..."

July 16, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Walk Like Cleto
H-town's Chingo Bling slings tamale beats
"..."I was just a regular jock, but I'd say, 'My cousin Chingo's in town,' and..."

June 11, 2004 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Rocks Off
SXSW 04 encore: Saturday showcases and more
"...by the Recording Academy and moderated by L.A. radio jock Jason Bentley, Saturday's Turn the Beat Around panel addressed..."

March 26, 2004 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

My Obsession
Joe Nick Patoski leaves this terrestrial plane -- radio plane, that is.
"...the street that have previously escaped me with solid jocks stringing the mixes together. The five dance channels, particularly..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
Three highly amusing and personable comic actors skewer, pun, and cook their way through all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a show that launches the Austin Shakespeare Festival's 20th anniversary season with a bang, a few whacks, and a lot of laughs.
"...might mistake for a crown, and all the jocular jock-antics that you'd find in the smelliest locker room in..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Two Gentlemen of Verona
Different Stages' modern-dress production of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona isn't so hip as to be Two Dudes From Verona Beach, but its spirit of contemporary youth does show us how little young love has changed since Elizabethan times.
"...Coe buzzes with the revved-up physicality of the modern jock. And Parker Williams' Silvia, whose elegance and charisma make..."

July 11, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Too Tough To Die
The last surviving real Ramone takes us back to the best years of our lives.
"...You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?" When the bandstand jock intones, "This is rock & roll radio, c'mon let's..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Coach's Corner
Why you want to read about golf, Coach's great metaphor for life
"...up before him, and I once was considered a jock...."

July 19, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner
Anna wants to become a top-flight tennis star? Kan o' kourn. Just become a Williams sister.
"...Kournikova's singles career has been so decidedly mediocre. A super-attractive-non-lesbo-non-porker-female-jock- with-a-sense-of-humor-who-likes-being-a-girl would be a story and a ratings machine..."

July 12, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

I Before E
A career retrospective on one of the lost cosmic cowboys, Rusty Wier
"...is over, but for now, she's entrancing an aging jock in a polo shirt...."

May 31, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW News
"...manager says the assault was random and the drunken jock didn't know or care who he was attacking. Green..."

March 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dead Man Blues
7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.
"...seemed to have it figured out. He was a jock but he had a spiky hair phase (the punk..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Chapter 5: An Ongoing Odyssey
Twenty years of The Austin Chronicle: the final chapter and coda
"...of coping (not to mention the much-celebrated brand of jock thuggery) manifested by the old-timers. In no way are..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Pride of the Yankees?
Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.
"...scrappy that it became, because Broyles -- Rhodes Scholar, jock, ex-Marine, and now successful Hollywood screenwriter -- and his..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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