KSAT Explains

When you think of San Antonio sports, you no doubt think of the Spurs. With five NBA championships and decades of competitive basketball, the Spurs have had success many other NBA cities envy. But for years city leaders have tried to attract another successful major professional sports team to San Antonio with little to no luck. San Antonio is the seventh most populous city in the U.S. and growing every year, so why can’t the city attract another major franchise? That is the topic of this week’s episode of KSAT Explains. We dive into San Antonio’s history with professional sports, its future and the debate over using public funding to build new stadiums or arenas for pro sports franchises.

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You’ve probably seen it -- junk dumped alongside a road as if someone didn’t know what else to do with it or didn’t care to find out. The KSAT Explains team found junk along a quiet residential street near Loop 410 and Rigsby avenue. A mattress, a toilet, an old carpet, a car seat, paint cans and more piled up on an empty lot. On this particular day, city crews were out cleaning up the mess.

“There’s really no need for this because we have many options to dispose of unwanted items,” Gutierrez said. And yet, it still happens on every side of San Antonio. And not just on city streets. Major highways, too.

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The Alamo is one of the most historic sites in the United States and it’s located in the heart of downtown San Antonio.

The Spanish mission was built more than 100 years before the start of the Texas Revolution, but it is best known for the battle that happened on its grounds in 1836.

The Battle of the Alamo has been depicted in film and television for nearly a century. It has turned men who lived long ago into larger-than-life Texas legends.

But recent headlines about the Alamo have focused on the controversial plans for its future.

The topic has become a political lightning rod and raised questions about whose stories are prioritized and how those stories are told when discussing the past.

In this episode of KSAT Explains, we examine the history, legacy and myths associated with the Alamo, as well as the battle over how the historic mission is remembered.

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It’s often a challenge for major cities, but a particular struggle for San Antonio: how to improve transportation across the area.

This week’s episode of KSAT Explains examines what the future of transit could look like for our city and how will we fund that future. (Watch full episode in video player above.)

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This episode dives into the potential benefits of esports to student athletes, professional players and the local economy.

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In this episode of KSAT Explains, we took a closer look at a phenomenon underway across the United States, the recent surge of conspiracy theories and extremism and how to battle disinformation online.

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Many people have argued for years that more needs to be done to when it comes to mass transit in San Antonio. From streetcars to light rails, there have been efforts to expand transportation offerings, but these efforts have not been successful. Our primary mode of public transportation is VIA Metropolitan Transit, but there has been an ongoing struggle for years for added funding for the transportation service. In this week’s episode of KSAT Explains, we examined San Antonio’s troubled mass transit history, the challenges ahead as our city continues to grow and what and lies down the road for VIA.

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Meteorologists Kaiti Blake and Sarah Spivey examine the weather events that have become politically charged.

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The KSAT Explains team dives into the major role beer has played shaping the Alamo City .

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