I first met Coach Helm when my oldest son was beginning to play youth football. Coach had been part of starting the local youth football...

It was the first game of the season, we were playing a team which would end the season ranked # 8 in the state of Texas. We were a 45...

In 2017, our fourteen player football team won the TAIAO sixman state title; however, it looked very unlikely because in week two, we...

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill I recently finished watching the...

As the father of six children, three of which are girls, two of whom have developed into amazing Christian women. God has called me to...

I recently heard someone say "Legends are not defined by their successes but how they bounce back from their failures." As a coach, I...

Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors...

Jim Irish August 31, 2021 Special to the Bastrop Advertiser Tribe Consolidated ran into a strong Emery Weiner quarterback tandem, losing...

Jim Irish August 31, 2021 Special to the Bastrop Advertiser Former Bastrop Tribe athlete Nathaniel Heilig made his college football debut...

Jim Irish Special to the Bastrop Advertiser August 18, 2021 Online Version Bastrop Tribe has confronted a severe obstacle before the...