My favorite sports books all-time are “A Season on the Brink,” about then-Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight, and “Friday Night Lights,” about high school football in Texas. Finally, almost 15 years ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger will speak on “The Art of Nonfiction Storytelling,” this Wednesday as part of the Journalism Program’s Lecture Series on Broadcast and Media. The ...

H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger has just published Father’s Day, a highly personal new book about his relationship with his 24 year-old brain-damaged son Zach. But when the author of Friday Night Lights came to ...

If you're from Texas, or even lived in the Lone Star State at any point, chances are you have heard of "Friday Night Lights." Your exposure to the story of the 1988 Odessa Permian football team may ...

After six years of associating the title Friday Night Lights with television’s fictionalized Dillon, it is finally—and unexpectedly—time to go back to Odessa. Without any advance fanfare, author H.G. ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- When H.G. Bissinger went to Odessa in the late 1980s, he wanted to write a story about the impact high school football had on American towns. But Odessa's devotion to -- or ...