Larry Birdwell says John the Baptist would have made a great Basketball Coach.
"Great coaches are the ones who spend their entire life serving others." Birdwell says.
His philosophy of coaching includes strong and deliberate actions coupled with meticulous detail; combining to form the perfect balance of passion and discipline.
A balance that lead to more than 30 winning seasons coaching high school basketball.
Lorenzo Legacy: Coach Larry Birdwell
Sports can provide some of the most inspirational and motivational sports.
And Matthew and Andrew Reyna know the power of the game.
The twins have battled a mild form of autism since they were in elementary school.
But that has never held them back. The 14-year-old boys have invested their whole lives in Frenship High School basketball; never once missing a game despite grief that seemed overwhelming.
Their family, their healing was found on the court.
Overcoming Autism: Twin Brothers Battling Autism Find Healing On The Hardwood
Ten-year-old Rex Fleming stands toe-to-toe with the ACU footbal team.
They tower more than 4 feet above him and outweigh him by more than 100 pounds easily.
But he's not afraid.
Because ten-year-old Rex Fleming has been battling brain cancer for two years.
His aggressive form of cancer causes him to studder through his pregame speech.
But it still brings tears to the eyes of players and coaches.
He served as the honorary team captain for the last ACU home football game of the season and was asked to call the first play of the game.
This is the story of Rex's journey.
Rex Fleming, Facing Giants
It's a tradition that defines Red Raider football.
The first entrance of The Masked Rider was in 1954 during the Gator Bowl.
At the time, the famous entrance was known as "the most spectacular entrance by a college mascot."
Meet Fearless Champion and Corey Waggoner, the man behind the mask.
We take an up close and personal look at Texas Tech's Masked Rider.
The sweet story of how one precious young girl defied all odds.
Hannah Grace Venable is a vibrant, bubbly and smart 14-year-old at Laura Bush Middle School.
She was born with Down syndrome, but has never let it define who she is or determine what she is capable of.
Challenging the Harlem Globetrotters to a game of HORSE.
You won't believe who won!
In a town of just 593 people, a charter bus carrying the McMurry men's basketball team seems like a strange sight.
But when it pulls into the Meadow city limits, for one rider, it feels just like home.
Head Men's Basketball Coach Clif Carroll was born and raised in Meadow, just outside of Lubbock, TX.
When the team headed to west Texas to play LCU, Coach Carroll said it was a number one priority for him to take his team back home.
Revisiting Roots
Fehoko Family Legacy
Family Over Everything. #FOE- These three words completely define the lifestyle of all 6 members of Vili and Linda Fehoko's family.
If that last name sounds familiar, it could be because of two of their sons have been star players for the Red Raider football team.
Or perhaps you're familiar with Vili the Warrior, iconic performer on the sideline at every University of Hawaii football game.
But if you're a high school football fan, it's likely you've read about 5-star Defensive Lineman Breiden Fehoko.
The Hawaii native from Farrington High School will graduate early, pack his bags and move in to Lubbock Texas to join his brothers Sam and VJ.
Sam is a graduate assistant for the Tech football team and VJ just finished his senior year.
Their oldest son, Whitley, followed his dream of college football at San Diego State University.
But the Fehoko family legacy at Texas Tech began in 2007 with Sam.
Fearless Champion
Being Hannah Grace
HORSE with a Harlem
Izone: Play for Him
Jaden Isler didn't expect this year to turn out the way it did.
Just 6 months after his highly successful coaching dad, J.D Isler, accepted a job in Elida New Mexico he was tragically killed in a car accident.
In the midst of tragedy Jaden stepped in to fill his dad's shoes as the head coach for the Elida girl's basketball team.
"Our players just kept telling thier families and parents 'No, we dont' want to talk about it, we're not okay. We just want to practice.'"
And practice is exactly what they did, every day until March 13 when they faced Cimmarron in the Class 1A New Mexico State Championship.
Emmanuel Omogbo took the sports world by storm in January. Not because of an outrageout slam dunk, or a crazy buzzer beater to win the game, but becasue of an insurmountable tragedy that gripped the nation. The young man suffered loss that would have stopped many in their tracks, but when a basketball coach showed up from Omogbo's past, he found strength to move on and find healing for the future.