Mid-August in Texas can only mean one thing: it is time for football season, finally!
Before we can start school and focus on the upcoming schedule, we tune up with "two-a-days." In its purest form, that means teams practice in the early morning, take a break, and come back in the evening for a second practice, thus avoiding practice during the hottest part of the day.
A Texas mom of two teenagers - a son in his first year of middle school football and a daughter on the high school drill team - slogs through an endless series of two-a-days in preparation for another year of school and sports.