The Girls on the 50-Yard Line

Documentarian Mylène Moreno always wanted to be a professional athlete. Instead, she made True-Hearted Vixens, a film about women who did. Moreno brings Vixens, documenting the attempt to create a women's professional football league, and her short "Cormac's Trash" to the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday.

"...try to make a go of a professional women's football team. The film focuses on the stories of two..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Tarnished Legends

"..."To attack football is to attack the major exhibit of the masculine..."

July 9, 1999 News Feature by Mike Butts

First Things First

Paradise by UT's Stadium Lights

"...illustration by Jason Stout Football games over Philosophy and Finance? Sounds like an old..."

May 2, 1997 News Column by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Under the Stadium Lights

True-life high school football drama uses a worn-out playbook

"...Abilene, we've got faith, we've got family, we've got football – the Holy Trinity," pronounces high school football chaplain..."

June 4, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

'The NFL Beat': Spinal Stenosis

What will this condition mean for Jarvis Jones' career?

"...was one of the most productive players in college football during the 2012 season. He plays with an extremely..."

Jan. 23, 2013 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Playing Through

Shannon McCormick and Graham Reynolds' Unbeaten revels in the camp aspects of football in a loving way

"...Theater this weekend, revels in the campiness of professional football. It might suggest that their play tries to make..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Column by Thomas Hackett

Playing Through

It's not the NFL, but Arena Football League 2 is still professional football, and 'you gotta take pride in what you do'

"...No kid dreams of strutting his stuff in Arena Football 2. He dreams of all the privileges and prerogatives..."

June 27, 2008 Column by Thomas Hackett

Why the Texas Longhorns Must Lose This Weekend

Fathers, children, and when glorious runs come to their ends

"...his kids, one by one, to University of Texas football games. I didn't know it then, but he was..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Sports Feature by Joe O'Connell

Coach's Corner

The XFLdebut: It has to get better, doesn't it?.

"...of noxious hype -- struck me quickly. It's still football. Very, very bad football, but football nonetheless. All the..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

Everybody hates a winner.

"...Two stories about two extraordinarily successful high school football programs. One, the cover story by Michael Hall in..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

"...It strikes me that football is a sport singularly susceptible, for various complex, conflicting,..."

May 21, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

"...crowds when things were going badly for the Longhorn football program. 1995 had been a bad fall for Coach..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Zimmerman Talks Housing

D6 CM explains his position to the Chronicle

"...since we're on the record. The University of Texas football team. I could take the same person making these..."

March 6, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

The Slow Dying of Johnston High

State accountability standards may close a school on the edge of survival

"...school in practical terms. "I think about the last football game, and I think about the spirit the team..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

12 Mighty Orphans

Historical football drama can't get past first down

"...orphan” is a line that is shouted on the football field in Ty Roberts’ Texas sports drama 12 Mighty..."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Pahokee

Austin filmmakers' portrait of rurban Florida both illuminates and obfuscates

"...In small towns all across America, high school football is king, and so it goes in Pahokee, Fla.:..."

April 24, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Hero Returns

Vince Young carves out a second career at UT-Austin

"...faculty of color. When one imagines where a legendary football hero will go when he returns home to the..."

Feb. 13, 2015 News Feature by Jessica Luther

Texans Cage Bears, Lowly Jags Loom

Houston remains on top of AFC

"...or make the sports highlights, but it will win football games. One thing that Kubiak is constantly instilling in..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Sports Post by Barrett Walton

'The NFL Beat': Week 10

Our little season is all grown up

"...But fantasy football has a way of humbling you, as does giving..."

Nov. 10, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Code Maroon: Texas A&M Disarms Mississippi State

Contemplating the thin line between violence and condoned aggression

"...As I watched the Aggie football team dismantle the Mississippi State Bulldogs in Starkville on..."

Nov. 5, 2012 Sports Post by Emily Bevan

Big 12 Power Rankings: Week 3

Ladies love the grillmaster

"...as much about bass fishing and an Oklahoma State football game as entertaining my folks' friends...."

Sept. 25, 2009 Sports Post by John Razook

In Play

EA Sports has truly outdone itself with this year's installments of Madden 2004 and NCAA Football 2004, with each game taking its respective franchise to the next level.

"...NCAA Football 2004EA Sports, $49.95Madden NFL Football 2004EA Sports, $49.95..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan

The Good Eye: Painting With Clothes

Take a trip back in time: Just make sure you're properly outfitted for it

"...most ambitious project to date, the Angelo Pizzo-directed UT football film that takes place during the 1968 and 1969..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Recommended at Texas Book Festival

Capsule reviews and panel info

"...the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football FutureBy John Eisenberg Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 320 pp., $27..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Books Feature

Sucking the Life From Penn State

The baddest beast on the block

"...State University with a $60 million sanction, a four-year football postseason ban, and the dismissal of all football related..."

July 23, 2012 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Sports Illustrated: The Football Book Expanded Edition

This almost 5-pound tome is a must for any serious NFL fan

"...Sports Illustrated: The Football Book Expanded Editionby the editors of 'Sports Illustrated' Sports..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Books Feature by Mark Fagan

TV Eye

The 'Friday Night Lights' depth chart

"...not resonate with folks who didn't grow up in football country. Why all the fuss about high school football?..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Food-o-File

Mangia best served 'Cold'; plus, cake talk

"...You know this town is in full football-fever mode when even Mangia pizzas can be purchased in..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Friday Night Lights

'Friday Night Lights' is the story of Odessa's Permian High School football dynasty in the 1980s. It's a good story, but did Hollywood pull off a film rendition of Odessa high school football?

"...Lights is the story of Odessa's Permian High School football dynasty in the 1980s. It's a good story, but..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Screens Review by Ed Baker

Coach's Corner

UTmay finish in the Top Ten for the first time in 17 years -- but it won't be enough for Longhorn Fan, the nation's most spoiled and delusional sportsfan. Part two of a two-part series.

"...continuation of last week's column on the worst college football fan in the nation: Longhorn Fan. If you missed..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

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