
The Dallas Stars Will Win the Stanley Cup. Just Not This Year.
Yes, their Western Conference Finals loss still stings. But the future is big and bright for Texas’s lone NHL franchise.
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Yes, their Western Conference Finals loss still stings. But the future is big and bright for Texas’s lone NHL franchise.
No other school in the state—not UT, not A&M, not Texas Tech—has made the last nine NCAA tournaments in a row.
Supporters have unfurled the anti–gun violence flags at soccer matches after mass shootings in Texas, Nashville, and Louisville.
After six dreadful years, the Texas Rangers are on top of the American League West—with the Houston Astros just two games behind.
David Robinson, Tim Duncan, and now Victor Wembanyama—when the Spurs draft number one overall, they get Hall of Fame big men.
No other NBA star raises his game for the postseason quite like Miami Heat guard and Tomball, Texas, native Jimmy Butler.
By basing all of its operations and its teams in Arlington, the XFL may have hit on a formula for spring ball success.
Luka Dončić’s war on referees, the failure to re-sign Jalen Brunson, the trade for Kyrie Irving—it was all bad for the Mavs this season.
Legal sports gambling in the state still faces a long and complicated path that would require a constitutional amendment.
The Dallas Mavericks’ superstar guard is recognized for being a Texan who gave so much only to receive very little.
The 49–1 Sooners have been nearly unbeatable. But one day, Dariana Orme, Aliyah Binford, and the Baylor Bears got the best of them.
Keith Meister, a team physician for the Texas Rangers, has reconstructed the elbows of many of the best players in baseball.
Chris Vaughn, the team’s assistant director of college scouting, shared the good news with sixth-round pick Deuce Vaughn.
The beleaguered Houston Texans landed college stars C. J. Stroud and Will Anderson Jr. in the first round of the NFL draft.
No matter how many star free agents the Houston Astros lose in the offseason, the reigning World Series champs keep winning.
The Texas Rangers’ new uniform design takes great pains—including the creation of a new, mythical mascot—to make fans throughout the Metroplex feel seen.
Before he began his pro baseball career, Jackie Robinson spent a season on the hardwood for Austin HBCU Samuel Huston College.
Texas Southern University's cheer team went to the competition confident they'd come home champions. Mission accomplished.
The Aggie senior and reigning U.S. amateur champion flirted with setting an amateur course record before finishing sixteenth overall.
Only a handful of NBA players have suited up for all three Texas teams. One of them happens to be seven-foot-four Houston Rockets center Boban Marjanović.
Now 63, the college basketball coaching wunderkind turned cautionary tale is leading Tarleton State's transition to Division I.
A 3–1 start to the MLB season could mean nothing, but it's still the best the Texas Rangers have managed since 2013.
Eight storylines for Texan fans to follow, from Iowa's superstar guard to South Carolina's dominance to Kim Mulkey's return to Texas.
Mavs great Dirk Nowitzki, along with four San Antonio Spurs—Gregg Popovich, Becky Hammon, Tony Parker, and Pau Gasol—headline the 2023 class.
A potential all-Texas grudge match between the Cougars and Longhorns could determine who goes to the NCAA Tournament's Final Four.
How a renowned football state became a college basketball hotbed, with five top-25 teams looking to make noise in the NCAA tournament.
The Nazareth Swiftettes have won 25 state championships in less than fifty years—and they just hung another banner for 2023.
After Chris Beard’s firing, fans assumed the season was over. Then the remaining coaches and the roster took control of their destiny.
Texas Tech suspended the men’s basketball coach after Adams used “unacceptable and racially insensitive” language with a player.
They can and they will. NCAA conference realignment is making bizarre matchups like SMU versus Oregon the norm.
Kelvin Sampson and projected top-ten NBA draft pick Jarace Walker have the Cougars back at No. 1 and eyeing another Final Four run.
Sanctions against last year's team banned Duncanville from the 2023 state tournament. What'd the Panthers do? Aim for a national championship.
The announcement of an official date for Texas and Oklahoma’s move to the SEC signaled the end of Texas college football as we know it.
David Morring of Dallas’s Lerma is one of the creative minds behind the “He Gets Us” campaign, which targets “spiritually open skeptics.”
An Arlington native says the Dallas Cowboys won’t win another championship until the team restores her grandmother’s bluebonnet patch.
The former Channelview High quarterback, who will lead the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII, ran “like frickin’ Larry Csonka.”
The NBA guard can search for the Earth’s edge in Big Bend and bone up on JFK conspiracy theories when he’s not getting buckets in Dallas.
The Dallas Stars left winger is on pace to set new franchise scoring records—and he’s inspiring a generation of new hockey fans along the way.
A writer looks back on his 2018 cover story on Myrtis Dightman Sr., “the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo,” who broke the sport’s color line.
With WWE in San Antonio for the Royal Rumble, we look at the history of a particularly Texan contribution to the world of scripted combat.
After Sunday’s loss, “America’s Team” is now 0–7 in NFL Division Round games since 1996, and 0–3 with Dak Prescott as quarterback.
While the state racing commission jousts with a new federal oversight body, business is cratering at Texas racetracks.
The Hall of Fame bull rider is the subject of an upcoming documentary and a Hollywood biopic—but if you ask him he’s “just a cowboy.”
The Spurs electrified a once sleepy city, paved the way for the Mavs’ and Rockets’ success, and won a few games along the way.
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.
The most strikeouts ever. The most no-hitters ever. With those records, Nolan Ryan could afford to take it easy in retirement. But he never left the game behind.
With the city consolidating its school district, Wichita Falls High—and the six-time state champion Coyotes—will be no more.
Once a symbol of Houston’s wealth and ambition, the now-empty stadium no longer represents much of anything.
It’s been almost thirty years since America’s Team last played in the Super Bowl, yet fans remain hooked on Jerry Jones’s soap opera.
From Staubach to Mahomes, Darrell Royal to Coach Pop, Lee Trevino to Simone Biles, here are sixteen figures who have defined Texas sports.