Sports
February 8, 2024
How Rashee Rice Became One of Patrick Mahomes’s Top Targets
Rice, the rookie from North Texas and former SMU star, has emerged as a key facet in the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl ambitions.
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Sports
December 27, 2023
Why Isn’t SMU Playing in a New Year’s Six Bowl Game?
Florida State isn’t the only conference champion who got shafted by the College Football Playoff rankings committee this season.
Sports
September 22, 2023
The TCU-SMU Football Rivalry Is Ending. Why Aren’t More Fans Upset?
The schools will play their last “Iron Skillet” game in 2025, but despite a century of history, the rivalry is ending with a whimper.
Sports
March 1, 2023
Can College Sports Get More Absurd Than SMU Joining the Pac-12?
They can and they will. NCAA conference realignment is making bizarre matchups like SMU versus Oregon the norm.
Food & Drink
September 27, 2022
A New SMU Exhibit Tells the History of Texas Food Through Cookbooks
Culling from 6,000 volumes, the DeGolyer Library spotlights gems, including the first collection of recipes printed in Texas, from 1883.
Sports
April 22, 2022
SMU Turned Eric Dickerson’s Gold Trans Am Into a Recruiting Image
Long a symbol of SMU football’s 1980s rule-breaking, the flashy car has become an edgy marketing strategy, and Dickerson loves it.
Sports
February 8, 2022
The Passion of Eric Dickerson
With his ex-team in the Super Bowl and a new memoir on bookshelves, the Hall of Fame running back from Sealy, Texas, is back in the limelight.
Sports
April 29, 2021
A New Sports History Book Shows How Texas Athletes Have Always Fought for Equality
In ‘The Sports Revolution,’ Frank Guridy revisits the 1960s and ’70s, when Black, Latino, and female athletes pushed for change.
Politics & Policy
September 14, 2020
#BlackAtSMU Tries to Pierce the “Bubble” of Southern Methodist University
In the spring, racial-justice activism flourished on the affluent campus. Now, as the fall semester kicks off, Black students and alumni are hoping to see change.
Sports
October 3, 2019
A Bandwagon Fan’s Guide to SMU Football
The Ponies are ranked for the first time since 1986. What you need to know about the hottest college team in Texas.
News & Politics
June 11, 2019
‘Say Yes to the Scary’: The Best Advice From 2019’s Texas College Commencement Addresses
We watched a host of graduation speeches from the state’s hundreds of universities, and these are the ones we found most inspiring.
Politics & Policy
March 26, 2018
More Sinkholes for West Texas?
A new study from two SMU scientists finds that oil and gas activity has made the ground unstable over a 4,000-square-mile swath of West Texas.
The Daily Post
August 8, 2017
SMU Student Groups: Moving The 9/11 Memorial Restricts Freedom of Speech
Students believed the original language in the policy would consider a 9/11 memorial “triggering, harmful, or harassing.”
The Daily Post
April 8, 2015
A Five-Year-Old Boy Discovered a 100-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Behind a Mansfield Supermarket
Good work, li’l guy.
Sports
February 27, 2014
The Best Coach in Texas Works for SMU
Larry Brown on March Madness, Allen Iverson, and being an eyewear trendsetter.
Sports
September 20, 2013
Anybody (Nick Saban) Want to (Nick Saban) Talk About (Nick Saban) UT (Nick Saban) and Kansas State (Nick Saban)?
The Longhorns need to beat the Wildcats for the first time in five meetings, but the game's been overshadowed by more questions about Mack Brown's future.
Sports
August 29, 2013
A&M Will Make It Two Straight Over ‘Bama, But Could UT Have the Better Season?
College football predictions—some more serious than others—heading into the first weekend.
Politics & Policy
May 13, 2013
The Afterlife
In Dallas, our newly not-so-unpopular forty-third president tries to bend the arc of history’s judgment.
Sports
March 21, 2013
The Mike Leach Family Tree Keeps Growing: Hal Mumme to SMU
The sometimes controversial "Air Raid" offense guru, who has coached everywhere from Copperas Cove High School to (most recently) DII McMurry in Abilene, joins June Jones' staff as assistant head coach and passing game coordinator.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Ranking the Texas Bowl Games So Far
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls.
January 21, 2013
‘Playboy’ Honors SMU, UT, and TCU
Playboy's annual list of "Top 10 Party Schools" is out, with SMU scoring number one for "Best Nightlife." Former champion UT is still in the top ten, along with TCU.
January 21, 2013
SMU Football Players Accuse Prostitute of Theft
Three SMU athletes claim a woman stole over $3,000 in electronics from their home after one of them didn't pay her for sexual acts.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
What the Media Really Thinks About Craig James’ Senate Candidacy
The former SMU star and longtime ESPN analyst officially announced his intent to run on Monday, but the media's been discussing it for a week.
Sports
January 2, 2013
Ranking the Texas Bowl Games So Far
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls.
May 1, 2012
Fightin’ Words: SMU Slams Student Newspaper
A Daily Campus story alleges the university improperly uses "secret hearings" to deal with sexual assault cases involving students, and SMU fires back.
Sports
April 22, 2012
How Long Will Larry Brown Coach SMU?
And does it matter? Southern Methodist University's hiring of the famously well-traveled hoops coach has already paid off with big headlines.
Sports
November 14, 2011
“Cougar High” is now about the University of Houston’s BCS ranking
ESPN “Game Day” puts Saturday’s Univeristy of Houston–Southern Methodist University game on the national stage as undefeated Cougars inch toward their first-ever BCS bowl.
The Horse's Mouth
December 1, 2009
Gift Giving
Ginger Reeder on gift giving.
Politics & Policy
May 15, 2009
First Kill All the Law Schools
I would have voted against a law school for Dallas. Why build a new law school when a law school already exists at SMU? There are two alternatives to building a new law school in Dallas. (1) Arrange for the state to pay the operating costs for the SMU law
Politics & Policy
February 1, 2007
Ravi Batra
In The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos, the best-selling author and Southern Methodist University professor of economics expounds on corruption and the keys to global prosperity.Your new book identifies a laundry list of global economic problems. Can you single out the most worrisome?
Sports
September 30, 1998
Kristen Link and Lindsay Long
When twenty-year-old Kristen Link, a junior at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, asked eighteen-year-old freshman Lindsay Long to be her synchronized diving partner in the spring of 1997, Long wasn’t sure she wanted to take the plunge. “It’s scary enough to dive by yourself, and in synchronized diving you have
Sports
May 31, 1996
Cheril Santini
MAKING A SPLASH—so to speak—is what Cheril Santini does best. As a member of Southern Methodist University’s diving team in the early nineties, the Dallas native made All-American ten times, was a finalist for NCAA woman of the year, and was named one of the nation’s top ten college women
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1992
Happy Babble
George H. W. Bush's commencement speech at Southern Methodist University was long on rhetoric and short on specifics.
Sports
September 1, 1983
Passing the Bucks
Football recruiting makes the NCAA see red, but SMU sees orange.
Sports
September 30, 1977
The Joy of Cheerleading
One week with a thousand cheerleaders.