Author: Mark

This year, I covered St. Anthony football games and when the San Antonio Express News and TAPPS unveiled their All-District teams, I was totally expecting to see several familiar names representing TAPPS District 2-1.  Well, I was very disappointed when nobody from St. Anthony was selected.  Just because they withdrew from TAPPS earlier this month,…

Now that the 2016 High School football season is officially over, I can finally publish my wrap-up article for the St. Anthony Yellow Jackets.  It has been sitting comfortably in my back-pocket for a few weeks, but I have been updating it daily. It was my absolute pleasure to be a writer/photographer for St. Anthony…

Last Tuesday, I received this Facebook message on The Statman Speaks: Hi my name is Ruby Dominguez. My son, Jacob, is a freshman at Charlotte high school and is taking a college course right now. In this class he had to state his career choice and he chose a sports statistician. He would like to interview…

On Friday, I was at Bob Benson ’66 stadium as the Central Catholic Buttons hosted the St. Anthony Yellow Jackets. Last year, I was going to cover the Antonian Apaches VS the Central Catholic Buttons (primarily because I wanted to experience Bob Benson ’66 Stadium for the 1st time and also I really wanted to…

On Saturday, I was at Lang field for a District Tapps 2-1 game between the St. Anthony Yellow Jackets (6-1) and the Antonian Apaches (7-0).  Usually when you have a game that features an undefeated team and a one-loss team so late in the season, it should get a lot of coverage and that is…

On Friday, I was at the Texas Military Institute (TMI) as they played the St. Anthony Yellow Jackets.   This Week 8 game is the last non-district game for St. Anthony. They have accomplished a lot in their previous non-district games, but they will be tested mentally, physically, and emotionally in Weeks 9, 10, and 11…

On Thursday, I made my first appearance at the Wheatley Heights Sports Complex as the St. Anthony Yellow Jackets played the Lee Academy Rebels.  I do have an unpublished list of San Antonio area stadiums that I haven’t visited yet and thanks to St. Anthony, I was able to cross off St. Gerard in Week 1 and…

On Saturday, I made my first visit to Lang Field, which is the home of the St. Anthony Yellow Jackets.  Lang Field is the oldest high school football stadium in Texas (it was  built in 1910). The only other thing I was able to gather about the stadium was that is was named after Father…

As The Rolling Stones say, “Please allow me to introduce myself…” Hi, my name is Mark Lieberman and I am a writer/photographer for St. Anthony football.  I am not a rookie, since I was a high school football statistician for the Texas Sports Radio Network from 1997-2014 and Thursday Night Lights on CW35 in San Antonio…

Week 1 of the 2016 TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL season starts tonight and up until last Friday, I was really looking forward to being the statistician for Thursday Night Lights in San Antonio.  I am not regretting my decision to step away. It is strange for to be home tonight (because I have been a…

On Friday, I was notified by the producer of Thursday Night Lights that my first priority of being a statistician for TNL was to provide down, distance, and yard line to the truck graphics operator. I am a statistician and my first priority is to provide statistics to the talent and the truck.  Oh, the…

This past weekend, I was having 2nd thoughts about covering St. Anthony football.  And, the reason being is I want to spend that time with my wife and son.  I don’t want to be stuck at my laptop writing.  I want to be able to go out and not be stuck at my laptop writing. …

This year’s football season is going to be unlike any season I have worked since 1997 because I am scaling down my workload so I can have more time at home with my 2 ½ month old son and wife.  ​I don’t want to hear any negative feedback (like, I am not a true high…

​On June 22nd, Frank Harris, the junior quarterback from Samuel Clemens High School made a verbal commitment to the University of Texas at Antonio (UTSA).   In my article, I asked a rhetorical question: What happens if he has an unbelievable senior season where his stats are beyond greatness and more colleges take notice (maybe even…

photo courtesy of Frank Harris Last Wednesday, Frank Harris, the junior quarterback from Samuel Clemens High School made a verbal commitment to the University of Texas at Antonio (UTSA).  In an article I wrote for Texas Redzone Report on January 24,th of this year, I said, “I would love to see Frank play college ball…

​I had originally intended for this article to be very short since I don’t have a lot of time on my hands (we have a 7-week old baby at home).   In my first very rough draft, I wanted to write 1 or 2 sentence’s about each team.  But, once I get going on a writing…