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Sports
February 26, 2024
Everyone Johnny Manziel Blames in His Interview With Shannon Sharpe
Turns out, everyone from former Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin to the ghost of Mickey Mantle helped cause Johnny Football’s downfall.
Bum Steers
December 11, 2023
A Conversation With an A&M Mascot After One of the School’s Worst Years Ever
The Aggies’ unofficial mascot has a few things he may or may not like to say about his school’s many recent travails.
Sports
November 28, 2023
Can Mike Elko Bring Stability to Texas A&M Football?
Few programs can recruit or raise money as well as the Aggies. This week, A&M hired Elko to coach the team to its championship potential.
Sports
November 14, 2023
What Else Could Texas A&M Afford With Jimbo Fisher’s Buyout Money?
The $77 million the university will pay Jimbo Fisher to not coach football could fund 1,666 full-tuition scholarships—or buy 17 billion Goldfish crackers.
Sports
November 13, 2023
Texas A&M Had to Fire Jimbo Fisher, Even With a $77 Million Buyout
At a program that covets football greatness—and whose donors will pay almost anything to attain it—firing Jimbo Fisher was an easy call.
Sponsored
August 28, 2023
Kick Off Fall at Century Square in College Station
Find boutiques, restaurants, lodging, and a Biergarten right next to Texas A&M University.
Sports
August 15, 2023
Texas Ranked Above TCU? Of Course—It’s the Preseason
Though this year, the Longhorns have so much talent and experience that their number-eleven ranking feels appropriate (unless you’re in Fort Worth).
The Texanist
August 15, 2023
The Texanist: What Happens to College Sports Mascots When They Die?
The California parent of a UT freshman wonders about Bevo’s ultimate fate when the final whistle blows.
Sports
August 11, 2023
Gary Blair, From South Oak Cliff to Texas A&M to the Hall of Fame
The architect of the Aggies’ 2011 NCAA title and one of the greatest coaches in women’s basketball history enters the Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Sports
August 11, 2023
What Did We Learn From the Johnny Manziel Netflix Documentary?
As the NFL (and CFL, and AAF) washout prepares a College Station comeback, a new film tells Johnny Football's story.
Politics & Policy
August 10, 2023
Ain’t From Around Here: Is Texas A&M a “Military School in the Lone Star Hinterlands”?
The Guardian thinks so and, weirdly, so do many Aggies.
Politics & Policy
August 4, 2023
Dan Patrick Defended Himself Against Free Speech Critics. Does His Case Hold Up?
We analyzed the Texas lieutenant governor’s argument about why he was right to have A&M investigate a professor who’d allegedly made critical comments about him.
Politics & Policy
July 26, 2023
Texas A&M’s Journalism Fiasco Has Roots in the School’s Conformist Culture
Now that right-wingers have forced out a top-notch journalist at my alma mater, I worry that future students won't enjoy the same opportunities I did.
Sports
July 19, 2023
Welcome to the Best Time of Year to Have Faith in UT and Texas A&M Football!
Glossy recruiting classes, promising quarterbacks, unmatched spending power—enjoy it now before they start underachieving.
Sports
June 6, 2023
Nick Saban Doesn’t Need to Fear the Longhorns’ and Aggies’ Money
The Alabama football coach warned that wealthy programs could dominate through NIL spending. But money can't buy what UT and A&M need most.
Sports
April 12, 2023
Texas A&M’s Sam Bennett Was the Talk of the Masters
The Aggie senior and reigning U.S. amateur champion flirted with setting an amateur course record before finishing sixteenth overall.
Sports
March 15, 2023
The Texas Versus Everybody Guide to March Madness
How a renowned football state became a college basketball hotbed, with five top-25 teams looking to make noise in the NCAA tournament.
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
Texas Football’s Greatest Rivalry Will Return—But at What Cost?
With the Texas Longhorns set to join the Southeastern Conference no later than in 2025, UT will play Texas A&M for the first time in more than a decade.
News & Politics
November 9, 2022
Inside Texas A&M’s New Military Combat Lab
At the high-tech testing ground near College Station, the Army can develop its future drones, missiles, lasers, and vehicles.
Sports
November 2, 2022
Aggies Never Lose, But Will Jimbo Fisher Run Out of Time?
Texas A&M is riding its worst losing streak since 2005, and the only thing protecting Jimbo Fisher’s job is his huge guaranteed contract.
Being Texan
October 8, 2022
This 1981 Photo Essay Captured Why Being an Aggie Is Not at All Funny
Will Van Overbeek's images, with words by Oscar-winning screenwriter and Texas A&M alum and proud Aggie Al Reinert, were "good bull."
Sports
September 20, 2022
Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M Staved Off Disaster—but for How Long?
The Aggies saved their season by beating Miami, but after the team’s dreadful start, every game will feel like a referendum on its coach.
Sports
September 12, 2022
Texas Shouldn’t Feel Too Satisfied Over Its Near-Upset of Alabama
A one-point loss to the top team in the country is a promising sign for the Longhorns, but they can still improve on Saturday’s performance.
Sports
August 4, 2022
How to Decode College Football’s Summer of Greed? Look to Impish Booster Buddy Garrity of ‘Friday Night Lights.’
The beloved TV character, full of flaws and moral compromises, reminds us that big-time football has always been about excess.
Sports
July 7, 2022
NCAA Conference Realignment Got You Down? Blame Texas.
How UT sparked the chain reaction that killed traditional rivalries and created a college sports landscape dominated by super conferences.
Sports
May 19, 2022
Jimbo Fisher and Nick Saban Are Bickering Over Who Cheats Most
The Texas A&M football coach denied Saban’s claim that the Aggies “bought” all their players and called the accusation “despicable.”
News & Politics
April 22, 2022
Texas Beaches May Be Filthier Than We Realize
A&M researchers say more-robust testing is needed to understand just how much human feces ends up in Gulf waters.
Health
March 21, 2022
Your Pets Have Been Getting COVID-19 Too. Here’s Why That Matters.
A team of scientists at Texas A&M has been testing cats and dogs throughout the pandemic. The CDC is furry interested.
Travel & Outdoors
February 16, 2022
I Went Skiing in Texas
On top of Mt. Aggie, the only slope in the state, it’s all downhill from here.
Sports
February 11, 2022
Former Texas A&M Coach Mike Sherman’s Super Bowl Dilemma
He can root for his ex-player, Aggie legend and L.A. Rams pass rusher Von Miller, or he can root for his son-in-law, Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor.
Sports
December 29, 2021
COVID Gave Texas A&M a Reason to Skip a Bowl the Aggies Didn’t Want to Play
Don't overlook the role of injuries, NFL draft opt-outs, and players leaving via transfer in the decision to withdraw from the Gator Bowl.
Sports
December 7, 2021
The Lone Star State College Football Report Card
Grading the season performances and outcomes for all twelve FBS programs in Texas. You already know who's getting an F.
Sports
October 11, 2021
Happy Birthday, Jimbo Fisher: Here’s a Win Over Alabama
The day the Texas A&M coach turned 56, his Aggies delivered the upset of the 2021 college football season.
Sports
September 27, 2021
Losing to Arkansas Was Texas A&M’s Reality Check
The Aggies had dreams of an undefeated season and a trip to the College Football Playoff, but life in the SEC ain’t all peaches and cream.
Sports
September 2, 2021
Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher Is Worth Every Penny of His Contract Extension
The coach has overseen the rise of Aggies football into a national powerhouse, and the rest of the university stands to benefit.
Sports
August 19, 2021
Hullabaloo, Caneck! Caneck! The Year of the Aggies Is Upon Us
With a top-six preseason ranking and a spot in the conference UT wants to join, Texas A&M is the state’s dominant college football program.
Sports
August 17, 2021
Losing Our Religion: Texas’s College Football Identity Crisis
With UT headed to the SEC and the Big 12 on life support, the state stands to lose its century-old football culture.
Health
April 9, 2021
This COVID-19 Vaccine Plant Shows Texas Is Becoming Biotech’s Third Coast
With the pandemic spurring officials to keep more high-tech drug manufacturing on U.S. soil, the state stands to benefit.
Sports
March 23, 2021
2021 March Madness: Can Three Texas Teams Make the Women’s Final Four?
Texas, Texas A&M, and Baylor are still alive—and in separate regions—with a chance to make the national semifinals in San Antonio.
Art
August 17, 2020
At UT and A&M, Visionary Takes on Yearbooks Celebrate the Beauty of Blackness
These distinct initiatives embody something I long wished for while studying at a predominantly white Texas university: a community of color connected through creativity.
Art
February 21, 2020
Texas Monthly Recommends: Taco Night at Zavala’s Barbecue
Plus, artist Shyama Golden, a podcast connecting Texas A&M AgriLife to an underground mango trade, and plenty more.
News & Politics
January 22, 2020
Texas A&M Slaps Back at Harvard Critics of Its Beef-Industry-Backed Research
Chancellor John Sharp pens a strongly worded defense of the integrity of his university’s work.
Health
January 22, 2020
Does the World Need Doctors With Engineering Degrees?
Texas A&M wants to transform medicine by training a generation of innovation-minded physicians.
Sports
January 14, 2020
How the Aggies, Longhorns, and Bears Stacked Up This Season
LSU may have won the national championship, but we’d rather focus on arguing over which college football team was the best in Texas.
Art
December 23, 2019
“What Were You Wearing?”: A Roving Campus Art Exhibit Addresses Misconceptions About Sexual Assault
The show has traveled to the likes of Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech.
Sports
December 6, 2019
Put Texas and Texas A&M in the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl, You Cowards
Two 7-5 teams renewing a rivalry that’s never really coming back is what this season deserves.
BBQ
November 14, 2019
BBQ News Roundup: a Barbecue Magic Trick, a Meaty Summer Camp, and a Sausage Caper
Plus: highlights from Texas Monthly’s annual smoked-meat extravaganza in Austin.
Sports
October 11, 2019
Why Oklahoma and Alabama Would Be Nothing Without Texas
Sure, they’ve had the better football teams in recent years. But we’re still the better state.
Sports
September 27, 2019
Is Kyle Allen’s NFL Debut What You Expected, Aggies and Cougars?
The Panthers backup quarterback is only the second in NFL history to throw for six TDs and no interceptions in his first two games.