Rick Cantu
24.9K posts
Sports writer, Austin American-Statesman. Air Force brat. Grateful for the Cantu/Leonhardt lineage.
Austin, Texas
Born September 4
Joined April 2009
- Funeral service for Jake Ehlinger noon Wednesday, per coach Dodge. Riverbend church. Sam has returned from Indy. Prayers for family. @statesman #Longhorns
- Nice honor. Former @LTHSCavFootball Lake Travis football player @nathan_parodi Nathan Parodi is third team All-SEC @SEC punt returner for @RazorbackFB Arkansas. Congrats from @statesman #centexpreps
- Family friends teammates gathering now to pay respects for Jake Ehlinger at Riverbend Church. Prayers for family @TexasLonghorns @Westlake_Nation @statesman #centexpreps
- It's official. Ty Detmer confirms to American-Statesman he is leaving Austin to become offensive coordinator at BYU. #detmer
- Sad news from @LibertyHillHS Liberty Hill HS: football coach Jeff Walker has passed away after a long bout with cancer, according to the district. His team was unbeaten this year. @statesman @uiltexas #centexpreps
- Amazing gesture. Crosby officials present @LibertyHillHS with a check for $4,100 in honor of the late Jeff Walker. Accepting is his wife @Miranda_in_TX Walker and spdt. @S_Snell Steve Snell @statesman #centexpreps
- The Texas School for the Deaf, 32-0, won its first TAPPS basketball playoff game on Tuesday, 69-26 over Houston St. Thomas. Next game Saturday in San Marcos vs. Boerne Geneva @statesman #Centexpreps
- Austin’s Ben Duong, sponsored by @spurs just entered @GWR Guinness Book of world records by continuously dribbling basketball in Austin half marathon. 1:21.39. Breaks previous record by three minutes @statesman #UILState
- Coach Mike Thibault of @WashMystics of @WNBA said he loved this Statesman quote from Ariel Atkins in Feb.: What are your plans after graduation? “I plan to get drafted and go pro. That’s Plan A,” she said. What’s Plan B? “To make sure Plan A works.” @TexasWBB @statesman #FAM
- This is crushing. Tatyanna Bailey has died from cancer. @PfISDAthletics Hendrickson basketball. She was @statesman Courage Award winner at awards ceremony in June. She was 17. Amazing and courageous young lady #Hendricksom #statesman











