ABILENE, Tex. — She has been a football wife and a football mom, and now Kari Leong finds herself a football grandma, climbing many of the same sun-drenched bleachers she did 20 years ago, zooming down some of the same endless highways on her way to another game.
In football’s epicenter, a shifting landscape
A shrinking pee-wee league. Worried football moms. Even under the Friday night lights of west Texas, the sport is losing some of its glow.
By Dave Sheinin