As we head into yet another season of Lion football, 40 years ago there was a team that faced many of the challenges that the current team faces today. They were in their second year moving up classifications, they were on the lower end of the financial totem pole, and there was change on the…
Another Lion has answered the roll call. Johnie Herndon lettered at East Texas State from 1988-1989, where he was an All-LSC Conference Back in 1989 and an integral part of the 1988’s team resurgence back into the Lone Star Conference. Before his time in Commerce, Herndon was an outstanding back for the Dangerfield Tigers of…
When the announcement was made that Texas A&M-Commerce would become a Division I NCAA institution, most of you know I did not agree with the decision. However, there was a hope that maybe the school would add some sports we either used to have or had never really had, such as Baseball or Soccer for…
This past weekend was a truly terrific weekend, as we got to see some great Lion athletes graduate from college, we got see Russ beam from ear to ear as his beloved daughter Shelby graduated from our Alma Mater Dear with a Degree in AgBusiness, we got to see former Lion great Luis Perez lead…
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Jason, I never thought all those years ago when I met you at the campus rec center playing pick up basketball that I would meet the greatest coach in the history of Texas A&M-Commerce Women’s Basketball. Life is funny like that. When you took the job back in 2014, Women’s Basketball was dead at TAMUC.…
I knew I said we were on a break, but seeing all the great Basketball that has been played in the NCAA tournament has Me thinking about hoops a lot lately. In the decade that I have been writing for this site, doing a smattering of things from history, to great stories, to games we…
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