Austin, TX
Texas high school football: Top 10 Austin-area QBs include TCU recruit, Wimberley senior
With the 2024 Texas high school football season fast approaching, the American-Statesman is revealing our top 10 players at every position.
Today high school reporters Colby Gordon and Rick Cantu highlight the area’s quarterbacks.
Led by Central Texas offensive Player of the Year Cody Stoever of Wimberley, the area’s elite include Ali Scott of LBJ, Cole Taylor of Pflugerville and Jax Brown of Weiss.
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Top 10 quarterbacks in the Austin area
(Players listed in alphabetic order)
Ty Blair, East View
Blair emerged as one of the top passers in Central Texas as a junior by throwing for 2,411 yards and 24 TDs.
Jax Brown, Weiss
A New Mexico State pledge, Brown passed for 3,014 yards and 33 touchdowns for a team that finished 9-2.
MORE ON BROWN AND CO: Why Weiss is No. 4 in our preseason top 10
Luke Dunham, McCallum
One of the top dual-threat QBs in the Austin area, Dunham contributed 2,651 combined passing and rushing yards and 32 touchdowns.
Max Gerlich, Anderson
A recent UTSA pledge, the 6-3 Trojan should emerge as a top QB in the region after missing much of 2023 with an injured knee.
Logan Mitchell, Leander
The dual-threat QB combined for 2,745 total yards and 29 touchdowns during his junior campaign.
London Morgan, Rouse
The leader of the Raiders offense returns after contributing 2,670 passing yards and 25 touchdowns as a sophomore.
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Weston Nielsen, Bastrop
Despite missing half his freshman season with a knee injury, Nielsen impressed by averaging 238 yards passing a game while throwing 13 TDs. He’s a four-star recruit with offers from Nebraska, Miami, Houston, Baylor and TCU.
Ali Scott, LBJ
The Jaguar senior threw for 2,083 yards and combined for 40 passing and rushing touchdowns for a team that finished the year 8-4. UNLV, Grambling State and Bethune Cookman are among the universities interested in his services.
Cody Stoever, Wimberley
The 2023 All-Central Texas offensive player of the year accounted for 73 touchdowns while leading the Texans to a 14-1 record and a spot in the Class 4A DII state semis. He’s being recruited by Mary Hardin-Baylor, Hardin-Simmons University and Howard Payne University.
EXPECTATIONS OF PERFECTION: Why the Wimberley Texans are No. 3 in preseason countdown
Cole Taylor, Pflugerville
The leader of the Panther offense had a breakout sophomore year, passing for 2,381 yards and 16 touchdowns.
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Austin, TX
Body found in same Austin lake where 6 other deceased individuals were found in 2024
Another body was found in the popular Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, where other deceased individuals were found recently.
The latest body found joins the growing mystery after at least 6 additional bodies were found throughout the year in the lake in 2024. On Friday, police were called to investigate reports of a dead person in the water near 1st Street Bridge and the 300 block of Cesar Chavez.
The Austin Police Department (APD) said that they do not suspect foul play as the body showed no signs of trauma, but are investigating the incident.
Despite APD attempting to quell community fears, questions and speculation have run rampant. Police have attributed most of the deaths to accidental drowning due to the lake’s proximity to nightclubs and bars.
BODY FOUND IN SAME AUSTIN LAKE WHERE OTHER DECEASED INDIVIDUALS DISCOVERED IN RECENT MONTHS
The most recent body was found on December 1. The victim was recently identified as 73-year-old Thi Lang Nguyen. Austin police said that there is nothing connected to the other deaths this year.
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In September, a man was behaving erratically near East Cesar Chavez and Nueces Streets. He then went into the water and did not resurface. He was later pulled out and pronounced dead.
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Back in February, a woman’s body was found in the water about 20 feet from the north shore and in April, a fisherman spotted another person floating in the water.
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In July, a man was suffering from blunt force trauma on the trail near Rainey Street. The man was pronounced dead a short time later.
In September, a body was found along a trail near the lake off Pleasant Valley Road.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the APD for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
Austin, TX
Born and Braised Food Trailer Lands in East Austin – Texas is Life
Born and Braised, a food trailer specializing in native wild game meats and seasonal food, recently opened at the Sign Bar in Austin at 9909 FM 969, Building 3. Chef and owner William Woodland, a.k.a. Woody, is looking forward to his new venture and serving wild game meats and other special menu items to Austinites.
Menu items customers will enjoy includes birria tacos, birria ramen, venison frito pie, pulled pork Cubano tortas, venison bratwurst, venison smash burger, and sides like braised greens, beans, and street corn.
Born and Braised started at Lustre Pearl in 2022. The food trailer moved to Sage Brush for over a year. The trailer worked at Bastrop, but now it operates in East Austin at the Sign Bar.
Born and Braised hours include Tuesdays through Fridays from 4 pm to 2 am, and Saturdays from 11 am to 2 am, at Sign Bar Austin (9909 FM 969, Bldg. 3).
Vitals
- Address: 9909 FM 969, Bldg. 3, Austin, TX
- Website: https://bornandbraisedatx.square.site/
Map to Born and Braised
Featured image from Born and Braised Instagram page
Austin, TX
DANNY TANTRUM defecates and consumes it on stage during set at Coral Snake in Austin, TX
Texas-based noise artist Danny Tantrum performed in Austin, TX at the Coral Snake last night alongside Schizing Out and Terminull. However their onstage antics may have rubbed the venue and some attendees the wrong way. During the performance, Tantrum appears to perch themselves up on a stool and proceed to channel their inner GG Allin.
Attendees and venue staff were shocked to witness the solo noise act defecate on the stage and then immediately consume it. There is also a video of the act on Instagram (below) posted by Tantrum. In the video venue staff can be seen trying to somewhat intervene to stop it but to no avail. Finally calling for the set to be cut short.
If you dare, you can watch the video via Instagram Reels if the embed below does not work.
This is seemingly not the first time Tantrum has performed this act, a previous video on their Instagram features a similar shocking performance from several months ago.
Following the incident there seems to be a divide and discourse online either condemning or defending the act.
The venue itself re-shared a message directed at all other Austin venues warning them about booking Tantrum and the extreme show.
The venue shut the show down and forced the act and other members of the crowd to clean up the mess with cleaning supplies. Tantrum would ultimately take responsibility and clean the mess up himself and claim there were no bad intentions towards the venue.
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