Talk about a surreal night. Last night was pretty tough to grade this game but I have more than enough material to do so. The game kicked off about the time I was leaving DFW and going to East Texas for the weekend. Watching a high school game in Van (near Tyler) I was kept…
Former Baylor Bear Cornerback and Jim Thorpe Award Nominee Travon Blanchard will be joining the TAMUC Football team after making the decision via Twitter to come North to Commerce. Blanchard was a 3 year starter at Baylor and was also an All Big 12 Selection as a Sophomore and a Junior. A product of West…
First and foremost, The Lion Wire sends it’s prayers and condolences to the family of Harry Icenhower. Mr. Icenhower passed away Monday at the age of 94 in Commerce. For those who do not know, he and his wife Rheba have been two of the biggest boosters and supporters for the Lions and not just…
A lot to get to, so lets start with the best news, 36 Lion Student Athletes completed their degrees, most of them doing what the mission of Lion Athletics has been, to leave Commerce with a Diploma in one hand, and a Championship ring on the other. ATHLETIC TRAINING Angelique Carmouche – Bachelor of Science –…
For those of you who do not know, Guy Morriss, TAMUC Football coach from 2009-2012, has been diagnosed with Alzhiemer’s Disease. Reading from an article that I will put at the bottom of this post, Coach Morris started to have problems about 4 years ago while still in Commerce and then moved back to Kentucky,…
Here is part two of the Women’s Sport’s Post Mortem for 2017. Season Results: 20-9 Record Overall, 4th Place in LSC Play. There is no doubt that Jason Burton being hired as Head Coach at Texas A&M-Commerce was probably the best hire since Colby Carthel arriving. I have said that Coach Burton has been a…
So, let’s get to it. Soccer-15-6-1 Record, Lone Star Conference Regular Season and Conference Champions. NCAA Elite 8. Neil Piper’s Squad had yet another banner year. Another LSC Championship and run at a national championship. A&M-Commerce Soccer is a perennial power and has been for a long time. What TAMUC fans have expected year after…
Kickers are typically the most under appreciated position in all of Football. They are often looked at as “necessary evils” as former Run and Shoot Inventor Mouse Davis said in referring to his “hatred of field goals and punts.” But for 4 years in Commerce, TX Billy Watkins gave the Lions of ET a valuable…
A huge set of Congratulations are in order to the nearly 1,900 students who received their respective degrees from Texas A&M-Commerce Friday and Saturday. I was present at the Friday Afternoon commencement for The Graduate School as one of my good friends graduated with a Master’s in Accounting. It was a great ceremony and I…
A lot to get to day, so we will start with some really cool news. Luis Perez was featured in Dave Campbell’s Texas Football by being named the 37th “Most Important College Football Player in Texas.” The list has 50 names on it and for Perez to be on it is a big deal in…
A huge congrats are in order to the Men’s Track and Field Team who notched the 4th Conference Championship of the year on the Men’s Side and overall 5th title with a first place finish, outpacing Angelo State by 22.5 points. The Women’s team finished 3rd, a solid showing. This season has been great by…
Today’s Lions for Life features a more recent guy who had a fantastic career in Commerce. Israel Hughes played for 4 seasons in Commerce and was a superb cornerback and defender, but what made him potent was how dangerous of a return man he was. D2football.com had said about Hughes prior to the 2010 season-…
In an era where Football has evolved past the idea of “three yards and a cloud of dust” and gone into “spread ’em and shred ’em, many current wide receivers are seeing themselves catch a lot of passes from well schooled quarterbacks and getting a lot of recorded yards and touchdowns. Before all of that,…
Texas A&M-Commerce has had a long list of great quarterbacks that have come through Commerce. Of those many signal callers, Bobby Bounds is in the argument for the greatest ever, and that includes names like Wade Wilson, Will Cureton, and Kyle Mackey. Bounds success over his 3 years as a starter is something that few…
First, let me apologize to the members of the golf team. I have not done a good nor adequate job in covering this fine group of linksters, and I will step up my coverage as they head into the post season. Now, sentiments out of the way, here is to the good news. The A&M-Commerce…
If you have the time, be sure to Turn into the Big 10 Network as Allen Roulette (Football, 85-88) will be officiating the Penn State Spring Game up in State College, Pennsylvania. For those who do not know, Allen has been officiating DI Football for a while and was a Big 12 ref. Commerce has…
It is a great honor to feature a man who I had the pleasure of watching in the NFL on TV, but never knew I would have the pleasure of personally knowing the man, and that is Curtis Buckley. Buckley was known as another ET Lion who went to the NFL and made an impact…
Today’s edition of Lions for Life features another Man that I have the privilege of calling a friend. When I first started this Blog, Cary Noiel was one of the first guys to reach out to me and really encouraged me in what I have been doing over the past few years. Cary is a…
Next man up is a guy that I really have a ton of personal respect for just because he is such a good guy, and that is Van Hargis. Van has a great college football story. He started his career at Austin College in Sherman, winning a NAIA National Championship as a member of the…
Historical figures often teach us lessons and mirror individuals and their own stories. There was once a man who sat on the throne of England named Richard The Lionhearted who earned his moniker by being known as a man with no fear, a cunning and tough warrior, and one who did not wish to be…
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