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After shutting out Marble Falls 1-0 on Tuesday, the Brownwood Lady Lions’ soccer team will host Graham at 7 p.m. Friday at Gordon Wood Stadium in another nondistrict match.

FRISCO (AP) — Safety Jayron Kearse was more than happy to reflect on a late-season blip from the Dallas defense when the regular season was still going on. Now that the playoffs have arrived, it’s a hard turn to 2023 for the Cowboys in Kearse’s mind.

These photos by Steve Nash are from the Brownwood Lady Lions soccer game with Marble Falls Tuesday night at Gordon Wood Stadium .

Second-year May girls’ basketball coach Brad McGann handled his Fab Five freshmen differently than coach Steve Fisher handled the original Fab Five at the University of Michigan in 1991. Fisher started freshmen Chris Webber, Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard all season, but he didn’t ease Jimmy King into the lineup until after 13 games.

MINERAL WELLS – Mady Pyle scored 13 points and Hannah Dean added 12 points Tuesday night as Brownwood Lady Lions beat the Mineral Wells Rams 5433 in District 6-4A girls’ basketball. Brownwood improved to 14-15 overall and 1-1 in district.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — TCU’s unlikely run to the College Football Playoff championship came at a most fortuitous time for the Big 12. “If you think about where this conference was 18 months ago, and the uncertainty and the lack of stability and you fast forward to today, it’s a game changer for us,” Commissioner Brett Yormark told AP at Saturday’s CFP media day.

Kirby Smart has spent the past 16 years coaching at the top two powerhouses of this era in college football, so he already knew the question on everybody’s mind the morning after his Georgia Bulldogs won their second straight College Football Playoff championship game.

The Brownwood Lions’ soccer team last year won its first playoff game since 2015. Armed with that momentum, plus improved numbers in Michael Westerman’s second season as head coach, the 2023 Lions possess considerable optimism as they venture into a new seven-team district.