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September 17, 2021
Call This Season’s Rangers the “Arlington Experiments”
The AL West cellar dwellers have used another rebuilding year to audition loads of young talent. They're not winning, but they sure are fun.
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September 14, 2021
Houston Should Have Been Invited to the Big 12 Decades Ago
The Cougars' move is great news for UH fans, but it shouldn't have required UT taking a sledgehammer to the conference to make it happen.
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September 10, 2021
Meep! Meep! Jeff Traylor Has the UTSA Roadrunners on the Fast Track
The second-year head coach plans to turn UTSA into a Conference USA force, thanks to Texas’s deep reserve of football talent.
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September 9, 2021
No Matter How This Season Goes, We’ll Still Be Talking About the Cowboys
With Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, and DeMarcus Lawrence at full strength, Dallas could be headed back to the playoffs. But first, Tom Brady.
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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.
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September 2, 2021
Sportscasting Legend Dale Hansen, Known for His Viral Social Commentary, Signs Off
For 38 years, the famed Dallas newsman’s Cowboys criticism and impassioned pleas on racism, gay rights, and sexual assault were must-see TV.
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August 27, 2021
Coach Gary Joseph Has the Katy Tigers Eyeing Back-to-back State Titles
With Joseph in charge, Katy has won more than 90 percent of its games and five state championships over the past seventeen seasons.
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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.
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August 9, 2021
The Highest Highs and Lowest Lows: Remembering Astros Great J.R. Richard
The right-hander, the onetime most-feared pitcher in baseball whose career was cut short by a devastating stroke, died last week at 71.
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August 6, 2021
How ’Bout That Cowboy: Jimmy Johnson Heads to the Hall of Fame
Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin, and even Johnson’s sometimes-nemesis, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, will be in Canton this weekend to toast the former Dallas coach.
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August 3, 2021
Texas High School Football Didn’t Have to Lose Quinn Ewers
The five-star recruit will skip his senior season at Southlake Carroll to pursue sponsorship offers currently prohibited by state rules.
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July 30, 2021
UT Will Join the SEC; College Football in Texas Is in Chaos. Now What?
Tough luck, Big 12 loyalists and Southwest Conference hardliners. At least Texas and Texas A&M will play each other again.
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July 27, 2021
When Simone Biles Comes Home to Houston, Throw Her a Darn Parade
The gymnastics GOAT withdrew from competition at the Olympics, but she’s already accomplished enough to deserve a lifetime of gratitude.
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July 22, 2021
Texas and Oklahoma Joining the SEC Would Kill the Big 12
The reported move would mean big bucks for the Longhorns and the Sooners, while leaving Baylor, Texas Tech, and TCU out in the cold.
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July 19, 2021
Three Former Longhorns Almost Stole the Show at the British Open
Onetime UT golfers Jordan Spieth, Dylan Frittelli, and Scottie Sheffler all finished in the top ten at the PGA Tour event.
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July 15, 2021
Boo ’Em All You Want: These Astros Keep Winning
The sign-stealing scandal won’t stop hounding Houston, and the 55–36 Astros are responding with the only thing they can control: their play.
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July 13, 2021
How Colton Cowser Became the Surprise Top-Five Pick of the MLB Draft
Sam Houston was his only Division I offer coming out of high school. Three years later, the outfielder from Cypress is headed to the Majors.
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July 9, 2021
Meet the Dallas HS Shortstop Who Reminds Scouts of Derek Jeter
Eighteen-year-old Jordan Lawlar is a projected top-five pick in Sunday’s MLB Draft, with a chance to be chosen by his hometown Texas Rangers.
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July 6, 2021
How Team USA’s Cammile Adams Learned to Beat the “Olympic Hangover”
The Houston swimmer finished just short of the medal stand in 2012 and 2016, but her greatest challenge has been adjusting to normal life.
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June 28, 2021
The Longhorns’ Wild College World Series Run Comes to an End
Texas lost a heartbreaker in the NCAA semifinals Saturday night, but Coach David Pierce's team had a season to remember.
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June 23, 2021
Scott Drew on What’s Next After Baylor Basketball’s NCAA Win
The Bears head coach reflects on bringing a title to Waco and keeping faith front and center in the Baptist university’s hoops program.
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June 18, 2021
Can Mark Cuban Name a Better Duo Than Rick Carlisle and Donnie Nelson?
After the Dallas Mavericks parted ways with its longtime coach and general manager, the franchise must rebuild around young star Luka Dončić.
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June 15, 2021
Simone Biles’s NFL Safety Boyfriend: “I Didn’t Know Who She Was”
The Houston Texans’ Jonathan Owens on falling for the Olympic gymnast during the pandemic and watching her compete in person for the first time.
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June 8, 2021
New Book Shows Astros Kept Cheating After 2018
In ‘Cheated,’ Andy Martino reports that Houston’s sign-stealing scheme continued through the 2019 MLB playoffs.
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June 4, 2021
For Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys, Hope Springs Eternal
And for the state's other NFL franchise, the Houston Texans, hope looks like the AFC South basement and a prolonged rebuild.
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May 25, 2021
Is Texas Ready for a Third MLB Franchise?
With the league eyeing expansion, the stars could be aligning for big-league baseball to set up shop between Austin and San Antonio.
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May 4, 2021
From a Private Harris County High School, Three Players Appear to Be NFL-Bound
From 1983 to 2020, Houston’s Episcopal High School produced just two NFL players. In 2021, Jaylen Waddle, Walker Little, and Marvin Wilson are all on their way to NFL careers.
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April 29, 2021
Where Did All the NFL Draft Prospects From Texas Schools Go?
With only TCU's Trevon Moehrig projected to go in the first round, Thursday's draft won't bring much home-state pride to fans.
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April 26, 2021
Kim Mulkey Made Texas Fall in Love With Women’s College Hoops
After 21 years in Waco, the coach who led Baylor to three NCAA titles is headed to her home state of Louisiana to take over at LSU.
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April 19, 2021
The Dallas Cowboys NFL Draft Mantra: ‘Jerry Is Going to Get it Right This Year …’
It's a tradition unlike any other: rookies, free-agent signings, and convincing football fans their team is on the upswing.
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April 12, 2021
Hey, Astros: Get Ready for a Full Season of Raining Trash Cans and “Houston Asterisks” Signs
From tossing trash cans to renaming the Astros the “Houston Asterisks,” baseball fans won’t let Houston forget the 2017 cheating scandal.
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April 5, 2021
Chris Beard Could Have Had a Statue in Lubbock, but He Chose UT Instead
Leaving a near-perfect situation at Texas Tech is an enormous risk for the once-beloved basketball coach, but Beard just might be good enough to succeed where other Longhorns coaches fell short.
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April 1, 2021
Can New GM Chris Young Steer the Texas Rangers Back to the MLB Playoffs?
It's Opening Day, and the 6'10" journeyman pitcher and former Ranger has a tall task ahead of him as general manager.
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March 25, 2021
“Some People Didn’t See This as a Championship Program”
Inside the University of Houston's basketball rebuild, as coach Kelvin Sampson and the Cougars prepare to face Syracuse in the Sweet 16.
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March 15, 2021
Scott Drew Has Baylor Poised to Make Its First Final Four Since 1950
Despite Friday's loss to Oklahoma State, the Bears are still arguably the most experienced, versatile, and battle-tested team in the nation.
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January 29, 2021
The Texans’ New Head Coach Deserves Better Than the Mess He’ll Inherit
David Culley’s arrival should inspire hope; instead, with a Deshaun Watson trade looming, there is no such thing as good news in Houston.
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January 26, 2021
The Heck With Football, Texas Is a College Basketball State Now
With powerhouse teams in men’s and women’s hoops, maybe basketball is no longer just a way to pass time between fall and spring football.
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January 21, 2021
Nobody Mattered to the Houston Astros Quite Like George Springer Did
The All-Star outfielder is headed to Toronto, and however the team tries to replace his production on the field, they won’t be able to replace Springer’s presence.
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January 12, 2021
The Houston Texans Can’t Afford to Squander Another Year of Deshaun Watson’s Career
Maybe Deshaun Watson has had enough of the Houston Texans. Enough losing, enough playoff meltdowns, enough dumb trades, enough physical beatdowns. Maybe it’s as simple as that.He may see J.J. Watt as a cautionary tale, a great player who wasted his best years on losing teams, and Watson doesn’t want
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January 4, 2021
The Old Mack’s Still Got It
Mack Brown's UNC Tar Heels fell to Texas A&M in the Orange Bowl, but the former UT coach's personal touch remains strong as ever.
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December 29, 2020
Can the Texas Longhorns Still Be a National Football Powerhouse?
The Longhorns' disappointing 6–3 season closes against Colorado in tonight's Alamo Bowl; but is the program's future any brighter?
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December 9, 2020
Fred Akers, 1938–2020: A Remembrance
The former Texas Longhorns head coach was “one of those guys ... you realize that part of your lifestyle is based on things you learned from him."