Josh Havard

It’s been a busy week in Diboll. With school starting, them holding a kickoff event for Diboll Day and the Lumberjacks and Lady Jacks being featured as our Athletes of

It’s a little too common for people from my generation to talk about how easy the kids today have it. You know how it goes.

Even before I started working as a sports writer here at The Lufkin Daily News back in the winter of 1999, I knew high school football was more than just a sport, at least when it comes to East Texas.

Haygen Townsend exemplifies Groveton football. He has been a starter on the football team since stepping on to the high school campus, he comes from a football family and is

Corrigan-Camden’s Derrick Reagie doesn’t like to lose. From the football field to the track, he’s got a competitive streak that starts in warmups and doesn’t end until an event is

I’ve got a pretty good range of sports memorabilia sitting around the office that ranges from pretty cool to about as obscure as it can get.

GROVETON — It was less than two years ago that the Groveton Indians went through a season in which they didn’t win a game. In the season opener Friday night,

Now that the high school football season is underway, it’s officially been a quarter of a century since the Lufkin Panthers started their march to the school’s first state football

A master of the outdoors, I am not. Some of my best stories of the outdoors come from when either myself or an acquaintance was somewhat of a fool.

I’ve been helping out with Rice athletics for the better part of a decade now. And I use the term “helping out” pretty loosely.