The NFL-Style Developmental Football League Launching This Fall Will Base Its Texas Team in Austin
Or maybe Cedar Park, or Round Rock—there are still a few TBD's for the just-announced team.
Or maybe Cedar Park, or Round Rock—there are still a few TBD's for the just-announced team.
World Cup fever is spreading!
Spurs!
The rise and fall of David Renk, one of the few Americans to become a matador.
That's at 47 colleges, 4 NFL teams, and 2 high schools, according to some exhaustive reporting from ESPN. What, no CFL?
Not only has Art Briles made Baylor’s football program successful, he’s made it hip.
The diving play of his life from Devon Conley preserved a 7th inning lead and, ultimately, a trip to Omaha.
ESPN thinks the time is right for a developmental league for the NFL, and any list of prospective homes for that league's teams would have to include the Alamo City.
Just one?
Maybe it's because Tim Duncan is the anti-LeBron, but it's pretty clear that during this year's NBA Finals, San Antonio’s team is America’s Team.
America loves the Spurs these days, but so do the offshore bookies that put their money where their love is.
The problem with Barkley's statement wasn't that it ignored the young hotties, it's that he dismissed the city because there were women he wasn't attracted to there.
Dustin Vaughan from West Texas A&M impressed the hell out of everybody with the viral hit YouTube video that showed off his skills.
Only in Texas can you make football even rougher.
It took until the final minutes of the 2014 NFL Draft for Michael Sam—the Texas native who, as the first openly gay player to attempt to enter the NFL, made history this weekend—to hear his name called. The league, and a few prominent football players, have some growing up to
Every year, some of Mexico’s very best matadors travel to a remote South Texas bullring—one of the few in this country—for no-kill fights. Their pageantry draws spectators by the busload.
How psyched are you right now, Texans fans?
UT fans meet Charlie Strong.
The Olympic gold medalist tells us about her sports-watching—and playing—habits in a new recurring feature.
The most intriguing quarterback prospect to come out of Texas in years has a big day ahead of him, and his local team has the very first pick.
And by "big plans," they mean, "better rent a car, international visitors."
Willie, who turns 81 today, proves that age is just a number.
A once-great, now-disgraced cyclist whose name we're not going to type here because you might still be sick of seeing it is in a video intended to go viral poking fun at his image. Is this part of a path to redemption?
All three Texas NBA teams had at least one game end with a massive three-point shot to steal the lead.
The Dallas hockey team is winning games—and thereby fans—again.
Welcome the Wolf Pack, the, uh, Texans, and the... Huskies? That can't be right—wait, no, it's the Huskies.
Jeff Francoeur hit the first home run in El Paso Chihuahuas history earlier this month—but if it's up to his teammates, he'll go into the history books as "idiot."
Can JFF save the Texans?
How Comcast SportsNet Houston could doom the Astros. A cautionary tale.
Catch a day game, snag a foul ball, and yes, go for that third hot dog.
The former Waco basketball star now adds "author" to her list of impressive accomplishments.
Today in "wow, that's a crazy photo..."
Patterson's desire to take the UT brand to China and Dubai may have grabbed the headlines, but the bigger deal could be that he's comfortable dropping the three-year-rule that requires college football players to wait to enter the NFL Draft.
Spring is in the air, and baseball is on the diamond once again—though the final preseason games between the Rangers and the Astros took place in the musty confines of the Alamodome.
Tyler Kolek is a hard-throwing high school senior from Shepherd. And he just may be the first pick in the Major League Baseball amateur draft.
The Maverick NBA owner issued some cautionary words for the people who run America's most popular sports entertainment.
A Jumbotron Arms Race.
Larry Brown on March Madness, Allen Iverson, and being an eyewear trendsetter.
If there’s ever a tamal shortage in McAllen, it might be the Rio Grande Valley Vipers’ fault. The Houston Rockets’ minor league affiliate has always made a fair amount of three-point shots, so before the current season, local institution Delia’s Tamales sponsored a promotion: any time the Vipers hit
The legendary Dan Jenkins has been covering sports since the forties. Things have not improved.
In the wake of the incident between Oklahoma State basketball star Marcus Smart and Texas Tech "superfan" Jeff Orr, the question of why fans spend half of their time idolizing athletes and the other half treating them like dirt is one worth asking.
Michael Sam, the SEC's reigning defensive player of the year and sack leader went from promising prospect to Jackie Robinson overnight—a transition that says a few things worth saying about the places he came from.
It doesn't mean that they're not going to tear it down.
Sports Illustrated thinks that Austin should be in the mix to host the game.
Johnny Football, Future Role Model?
Brittany Norwood, a twenty-year-old undergrad at the University of Houston who claims she is pregnant with the Texans' running back's baby, is taking him to court in pursuit of a restraining order and accusing him of pressuring her to have an abortion.
That is, if the mixed-use development plans for the Texas Stadium site currently before the Irving City Council come to pass.
The Florida State quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner, and MVP of last night's BCS Championship Game has a standing offer from a team in Texas. But it's not what you think.
According to various pundits, he's "not a hip hop coach," but that won't stop them from comparing him to Arsenio Hall.
Well, you can if you live in Nevada, because Internet gambling is illegal. (Wink, wink.) But the betting odds can tell us that holding out hope for Jim Harbaugh is probably a sucker's game.