I'm joining the Bombers and Cavalry FC
I’m thrilled to be joining the Brazos Valley Bombers and Brazos Valley Cavalry FC as the on-field emcee for both teams starting this summer. Since their first season in 2007, the Bombers have become a staple of the region, expanding each year to provide a fun family experience to a growing community. Four straight championships aren’t bad, either. The addition of Cavalry soccer to the sports lineup over the summer is fantastic, giving one more option to folks looking for qual
The drive to fight hunger
This week, public and private celebrations are being held in honor of KBTX's 60th anniversary. With that, I'm looking back on some of my favorite and memorable moments and people from my 12 years-plus at the Brazos Valley's first television station. A woman drove up. On the passenger seat of her vehicle was a plastic bag with six cans of food inside. As she handed it through the window, she said she was giving what she could to the Brazos Valley Food Bank. She said the bank h
Gone too soon
This week, public and private celebrations are being held in honor of KBTX's 60th anniversary. With that, I'm looking back on some memorable moments and people from my 12 years-plus at the Brazos Valley's first television station. The world of television news is a demanding, tough, sometimes troublesome one. The days and nights bring moments of inspiration and celebration, but also drama, sadness and anger because of the stories covered and the people dealt with each day. To
A trip to a war zone
This week, public and private celebrations are being held in honor of KBTX's 60th anniversary. With that, I'm looking back on some of my favorite and memorable moments and people from my 12 years-plus at the Brazos Valley's first television station. I believe it was October 2013. I was preparing to anchor a newscast when I got a call from KBTX management. There were on-going talks about our sister station, KWTX in Waco, going to Afghanistan early in the new year to cover Fort
The morning Kyle came down
This week, public and private celebrations are being held in honor of KBTX's 60th anniversary. With that, I'm looking back on some of my favorite and memorable moments and people from my 12 years-plus at the Brazos Valley's first television station. For major events, though there is spontaneity involved in the big moments, anchors and commentators will often pre-script some words to ensure they describe that moment well. I'm under no illusion that my words were memorable or a
The tapes I'll never use and always want
On this week 13 years ago, I placed an order that, on the surface, appears to have been a waste of money and now forever obsolete. Surfaces can be deceiving, as can circumstances, and hope is never obsolete. So how is a box of VHS tapes a symbol of hope? Less than a week earlier back in 2004, my future was uncertain, as it was for so many college seniors, as it is for so many now. As a journalism major at Indiana University who had fallen for the television side, I had been s
A special bond
The statement of the ideal can take many forms. Wayne Gretzky said, "You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." Others say you can't win if you don't play. One wouldn't expect Gary Blair to disagree with any of that, but for a man who has pursued scoreboard victories with passion and determination, something he's said about some of his favorite athletes rings loudly and true: "Competing is winning to them." Friday, the Texas A&M women's basketball coach and member of
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