How could they be expected to accept the harsh reality of studies showing that of the thirty million children taking part in youth sports in the United States, only about two hundred would go on to be...
Instead of understanding that they were the beneficiaries of history, they began to believe that they were the creators of it.
Athletics lasts for such a short period of time. It ends for people. But while it lasts, it creates this make-believe world where normal rules don’t apply. We build this false atmosphere. When it’s ov...
She said also that they absolutely hated any assignment in which they had to interpret what they had read. If they had to think about anything, make critical judgments and deliberations, the cause was...
If the season could ever have any salvation, if it could ever make sense again, it would have to come tonight under a flood of stars on the flatiron plains, before thousands of fans who had once anoin...
Under the right circumstances, the demon wins the heart of the most steadfast soul, and the nemesis always becomes a lover. Permian
Will Bates was drummed out of Carter and reassigned to teach industrial arts in a middle school. He was given an unsatisfactory evaluation rating, placed on probation for a year, and had his salary fr...
Odessa eked out a living from the livestock trade, all dreams of Utopia gone forever when the town’s first sheriff, Elias Dawson, decided that the ban on alcohol constituted cruel and unusual punishme...
Molly Ivins, a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald, described Odessa as an armpit, which, as the Odessa American pointed out, was actually quite a few rungs up from its usual anatomical comparison w...
It was hard not to think that wherever he wound up, it was not going to be good. He drank. He drugged. He regarded life with devilish disdain. I could never see him turning it around. Which is why I h...
In Texas, no man was more of a coward than the one who was chicken shit with his money.
I just felt something pulling at me, nagging at me, a soft voice telling me to do it, to see for myself what was out there and make the journey before self-satisfaction crept in for good.
Fruits, nuts, and vegetables are highly dependent on insect pollinators, especially bees. Bees will always play a valuable role in our food system. Food
They clearly saw their town as the one exception in an area of the country once described as having enough ignorance to support not simply a four-year university but an eight-year one.
There were also those who had grown weary of it and the oft-repeated phrase that what made it special was the quality of its people. Odessa has an unspeakable ability to bullshit itself, said Warren B...
Let each of you discover where your chance for greatness lies. Seize that chance and let no power on earth deter you.
J. D. Cone, when he came here from Oklahoma in 1948 to become a family practitioner, went on house calls with a thirty-eight pistol stuck into his belt after the sheriff told him it was always a good...
I don’t want him to turn out like I turned out. That’s my worst fear. I don’t want my son to go through what I went through. It was horrible. I don’t want that for him.
What do Dukakis and panty hose have in common? They both irritate Bush. What’s twelve inches long and hangs in front of an asshole? Dukakis’s necktie.
Permian had established itself as perhaps the most successful football dynasty in the country—pro, college, or high school. Few brands of sport were more competitive than Class AAAAA Texas high school...