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• Phone Number: (806) 766-8734
• Email: don.williams@lubbockonline.com

• Children: Mikey, age 12
• Location: Lubbock, Texas
• Education: Midland College ('85) and Texas Tech ('88)
• Profession: Sports writer
• Birthday: December 21, 1964

Don Williams has covered Texas Tech football as either a beat writer or columnist for all but one year beginning in 1986. That counts three seasons he spent at the University Daily. He joined the A-J full-time in 1988. Since then, he's covered around 200 Tech football games, including 15 bowls. In the 1990s, he also staffed Dallas Cowboys home games and three Super Bowls. Some of his other beats include Tech track and field and small college basketball and baseball. He was on hand in Lewiston, Idaho, when Lubbock Christian University won the NAIA World Series in 2009. Williams graduated from Midland College in 1985, following the Chaparrals to the NJCAA final four one year, and from Texas Tech in 1988. He interned at the Arizona Republic in 1987, where he spent the summer covering the Triple-A Phoenix Firebirds and future major leaguers Matt Williams, Terry Mulholland, Dennis Cook and Jeff Brantley and ex-major leaguer Dave Kingman. (Thankfully, Kingman, a renowned media hater, did not send a rat to Don in the press box.)