Area Sports

Big 7 Boys Basketball: Playoff Preview     On the final day of the regular season, with the UIL Boys State basketball playoffs on the horizon, four Big 7 basketball teams are gearing up for a postseason run. The La Joya Palmview Lobos, La Joya Coyotes, Sharyland Rattlers, and Sharyland Pioneer Diamondbacks all eagerly anticipate…

Lady Rattlers and Lady Coyotes advance     Last Tuesday evening the Sharyland Lady Rattlers basketball team went into the PSJA North High School gym knowing that the 31-5A District Championship was theirs for the taking. All they had to do was to defeat the Lady Raiders, who they were tied with atop the district…

Sharyland High finishes 3rd at State Wrestling Championships     When the intractable chaos of the 2026 UIL State Wrestling Championships dissolved, six Sharyland Rattlers emerged from the fray as medalists, iron-clad survivors of battles against some of the best student-athletes in the state; six medalists, four boys and two girls. The accolades don’t end…

Girls’ playoffs tip off     Heading into Tuesday night’s district finales, four Big 7 girls’ hoops teams had already clinched one of their respective districts’ four UIL state playoffs berths. However, this did not mean that these teams had nothing to play for, as three of the four were still in the running for…

Big 7 Wrestling: State Championships Preview     Right now, an unstoppable flood of thousands is pouring inside the Berry Center in Cypress, Texas, where they’ll watch high schoolers from six different classifications, across twenty-eight different weight classes fight each other on eleven different mats in one of the University Interscholastic League’s most magnificent spectacles.…

Palmview Boys and Girls sweep Eagles   Hundreds of people lined the bleachers at Mission High’s Nehaus Gymnasium, ready to cheer on their Eagles, as they have for generations, when the La Joya Palmview Lobos and Lady Lobos entered the court. With waves of championship hopes and boom-or-bust postseason fears swirling throughout the gym, the…

2026-2028 realignments unveiled   As the governing body that organizes and supervises extracurricular academic, athletic and music contests across the state of Texas, the University Interscholastic League (UIL) realigns its districts every two years. As a result, Monday’s unveiling of the UIL’s most recent realignment may not be anything new, but that does not mean…

Mission Boys and Girls soccer stun Huskies in thrilling Double Header     The Eagle’s primacy in the American ecosystem and imagination is mythological. Its fearless, rugged nature represents the spirit of exploration, individualism, and relentless effort, emblematic of a nation that takes a backseat to none. This year, the Mission High girls and boys…

Rattlers host Diamondbacks tonight     With just two and a half weeks remaining in the high school basketball regular season, five of the seven boys’ teams from the Mission, Sharyland and La Joya school districts, the Big 7, remain in the hunt for district titles and/or playoff berths. As for the other two, they’ll…

Palmview girls and boys basketball look to recover after losses to Laredo Nixon     The La Joya Palmview High basketball programs have been among the Valley’s Elite for at least the past half-decade. The Lady Lobos are two-time defending District 30-5A Champions, having only lost 6 district games over the past three seasons. Meanwhile,…