“Nearly every day I talk to someone my age and they say, ‘Oh if this had only been a thing when I was younger.’ And I think that speaks to the importance of this,” says Baylor’s first-ever Esports director and coach, Adam Stanley.

Film productions are finding it more difficult to shoot in the Lone Star State because Texas can’t compete with neighboring state’s tax credits and incentive programs. But several proposals before lawmakers this year could change that tune.

Decades after her death, there remains no shortage of ways fans memorialize the Tejano superstar. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the city where she lived and now rests.

“If that’s a stump, it’s the weirdest stump I’ve ever seen.”

1972 Pub is opening right across from UT’s campus and is committed to only showing women’s sports.

"My blindness doesn’t really make me stand out. It just makes me another person on the team," said Thomas Stivers, an employee at the South Austin facility.

Mason LaDue raises a few dozen cattle in Leon County, about 90 minutes east of Waco. But before that, he wrangled rappers like Wiz Khalifa and Post Malone.

Rep. Cassandra Garcia Hernandez, who was elected in November to represent District 115 in the Texas House, was born in Hereford and for most of her life has lived in Texas.

Last year, Austinite Ben Duong set a world record for the fastest half-marathon time while dribbling a basketball. Now, he’s going the full distance.

“If we really want to tackle the fact that Texas has one of the highest kill rates in animal shelters, then we have to make it even a little bit easier for people to own dogs and cats in our state.”