Challenge Accepted: Haack Replaces Legend at Houston Memorial

It was bedtime in the Haack household. But when Leslie walked into her 5-year-old son’s room and saw him sitting at a play school desk, she paused, backed out and hollered at her husband to come see this. They stood peering around the door at Brooks, his back turned to them, hunched over a piece of paper, furiously scribbling.

Brooks was drawing Xs and Os. He’d started flag football that year.