{"id":325283,"date":"2023-08-22T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=325283"},"modified":"2023-08-22T18:59:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:59:30","slug":"excessive-heat-in-houston-other-texas-areas-delaying-kickoffs-for-high-school-football-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=325283","title":{"rendered":"Excessive heat in Houston, other Texas areas delaying kickoffs for high school football games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Football season has begun, but evidently, mother nature hasn&#8217;t gotten the memo. Extreme heat and dangerous weather events have been battering practically every region of the United States this summer, and it&#8217;s continued into the third week of August. This week alone, there have been hurricanes in California as well as Texas, plus wildfire smoke in the Pacific Northwest and dangerous heat index conditions in many locations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The south has been hit particularly hard, especially by the excessive heat. In Texas, several high schools are delaying their kickoffs until later in the evening to avoid the heat, per Michael Shapiro\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/highschool\/article\/texas-high-school-football-games-18308538.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">at the Houston Chronicle<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101504153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101504153\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101504153\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/USATSI_19607948.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"739\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-101504153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(PAUL BRICK\/CONTRIBUTED)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;Houston ISD Athletics announced Monday a slate of updated game times for the first week of the high school football season, which will begin with games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. Most games have been moved to 8 p.m. or later, which should mitigate the impact of likely triple-digit temperatures in the area. Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Athletics also announced later start times, with varsity games moved to 7:30 p.m.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The latest\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/video\/weather\/houston-forecast-no-end-in-sight-for-heat-drought\/285-d2e8b5d0-9518-4ef3-aa49-767262359b7a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">forecast for Houston<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0this weekend projects highs of 106, 103 and 105 degrees on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steaming:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/texas-high-school-football-how-to-watch-the-2023-season-nfhs-network\">Texas high school football: How to watch the 2023 season<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>More football stories<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/oregon-major-contender-for-4-star-mater-dei-ot-brandon-baker\">Oregon &#8216;major contender&#8217; for 4-star OT Brandon Baker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/tiktok-challenge-gets-georgia-hs-matchup-canceled-for-second-straight-year\">TikTok prank gets Georgia HS matchup canceled again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Several high schools are delaying their kickoffs until later in the evening to avoid the heat.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325294,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325283\/revisions\/325294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}