Texas Football

The magazine football fans in Texas anticipate most is on newsstands starting today.

Host Communications and Texas sports icon Dave Campbell are proud to focus the cover of this year's edition on small town Texas Football heroes. Texas A&M’s Stephen McGee, Texas’ Colt McCoy, and TCU’s Tommy Blake earned a spot as Texas Football Coverboys. All three played at 3A schools and below.

“We think this cover and the accompanying story illustrate what we all know but what we seldom talk about, that small-town Texas high school football players are making an impact at the higher levels, and have been doing so since football started being played in Texas,” managing editor Jake Shaw said.

The cover story, written by David Barron, looks at several current players from 3A schools and below who are making an impact at the college level. Side features within the cover story look back at Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith, who played at 1A Big Sandy, and Dallas Cowboys lineman Leonard Davis, who played at 1A Wortham.

This year’s magazine will again cover college and high school football in Texas as no other publication can. Among the standard features in the 2007 edition are:The Reebok Super Team, showcasing the top high school talent in Texas;

The State Farm High School Top 25 rankings;

GearBoss High School Coaches of the Year;

The college All-Texas Team;

Reviews of each Division I college program’s signing class and look-backs at their classes from five years ago.

New features for 2007 include:

• The return of the DCTF Writers’ Poll, where the state’s print media weighs in on the upcoming season;
• An inside look at the role of high school coaches in college recruiting;
• Examining what Wade Phillips must do to be successful in his first year with the Dallas Cowboys.

About Host CommunicationsLexington, Ky.-based HOST, which owns Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and the Texas Football Classic, is the centerpiece subsidiary of Triple Crown Media Corporation. With more than 20 U.S. offices, HOST provides comprehensive sales, marketing, multimedia, special event and convention/hospitality services to domestic and international grassroots sports and lifestyle events and national/global associations.