SPORTS
STORM CENTER: NFL season is here
Well, the National Football League season officially started on Thursday night with the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the New England Patriots.
The Patriots defeated the Steelers 28-21 as New England celebrated the pomp and circumstance of its fourth Super Bowl title. And now, we have a new problem, headsets.
The Bowie News will run the games expected to be televised here locally.
That’s for those of you without the DirecTV package like some fancy folks I know here in Montague County.
For the first time since the 1960s, and because CBS is no longer carrying the U.S. Open tennis tournament, that network will have the doubleheader for the first weekend of the season.
Early on, local CBS affiliate KAUZ will present the Kansas City Chiefs at the Houston Texans. The late game will be the Baltimore Ravens at the Denver Broncos.
There only will be one game on FOX, shown locally on KJTL, with this area set to receive the Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears.
Here are the broadcasters you’ll have for those games.
The Kansas City/Houston game will have Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon. Jim Nantz and Phil Simms have been paired for Baltimore/Denver. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman will team up for Green Bay/Chicago.
Of course, the Dallas Cowboys will play host to the New York Giants in AT&T Stadium, aka Jerry World, at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday. Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth will bring the action to you.
On Monday, there will be a doubleheader featuring the Philadelphia Eagles at the Atlanta Falcons at 6 p.m. and then the Minnesota Vikings at the San Francisco 49ers. Read more from this column, including season predictions, in the weekend Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
The Dallas Cowboys will play host to the New York Giants at 7:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time at AT&T Stadium. The Cowboys are favored to win this NFC Eastern Division clash. (Courtesy photo by James Smith/The Dallas Cowboys)
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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