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January 9, 2013
Dallas Cowboys’ Twitter Smack Backfires
Scoreboard! @DallasStars won Twitter Tuesday with their response to @DallasCowboys’ accidental smack-tweet, which also dissed the Rangers.
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January 8, 2013
10 Hilariously Incorrect Predictions About Texas A&M
Anybody (including many Aggies) who said they expected Texas A&M's first season in the Southeastern Conference to go so well is lying. But it's still funny to look back at all the naysayers.
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January 8, 2013
Breaking: Johnny Football is a College Student
A&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.
Sports
January 7, 2013
Bearkats Fall in Frisco
The University of Texas is still the state's last college football team to win a national championship, as Sam Houston State loses the FCS title to North Dakota State for the second straight year.
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January 7, 2013
Are the Houston Texans a “Tomato Can?”
Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy says the New England Patriots, which hosts Houston on Sunday, is “the first team in NFL history to get back-to-back byes before advancing to the conference championship game.”
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January 4, 2013
VIDEO: That Time There Was a One-Point Safety in a UT-A&M Game
How rare was last night's one-point safety by Oregon against Kansas State? It's only happened once before in NCAA history: when UT did it against A&M eight years ago.
Sports
January 4, 2013
Our Question For UT Fans: Aggies or Sooners?
Friday's Cotton Bowl gives Longhorns fans a chance to decide which team they hate more: the University of Oklahoma, or Texas A&M.
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January 3, 2013
Six Thoughts About the Cotton Bowl
Kansas St. and Oregon who? Arlington's the center of our college football universe, as Texas A&M plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Friday.
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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.
Sports
January 2, 2013
Are the Houston Texans Doomed?
The Texans' month-long dive from top team in the AFC to number three seed with no bye week has fans and sports scribes talking like the franchise didn't even make the playoffs.
Sports
January 1, 2013
Friday Night Tykes
I. The HawksPreteen football players are usually described by other preteen football players with one of three words: “nice,” “funny,” or, the highest possible compliment, “awesome.” Celdon Manning, a running back with the Allen Hawks, is the rare athlete who makes his teammates reach for the Scholastic Children’s Thesaurus.“Celdon is
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December 3, 2012
VIDEO: Mary Hardin Baylor’s Crazy Touchdown
Watch what senior quarterback LiDarral Bailey had to do to lead the Belton-based school over Wesley College in the NCAA Divison 3 quarterfinals.
Sports
December 1, 2012
Ghost Riders
The tough road of a cyclist who insisted on racing clean during the era of Lance Armstrong and doping.
November 9, 2012
Texas Business Report: The Rockets Get Into the ‘Moneyball’ Game
The basketball team's general manager plans to hire two statistical analysts to help build a winning team around Jeremy Lin.
Sports
November 6, 2012
Texan Tweens Turning Heads In Adult Endurance Athletics
Meet the two preteen sisters from Alvin who compete against, and beat, adult runners.
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October 31, 2012
Why Mack Brown Won’t Lose His Job
Because DeLoss Dodds, the University of Texas's athletic director, has a long memory.
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September 30, 2012
F for Fantasy
Down with hypothetical football! Three cheers for the real thing!
Sports
September 30, 2012
Turnover!
Two decades ago, a barbarian from Arkansas named Jerry Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys and rebooted the franchise from the ground up. Inside the wild first days of the most hostile takeover the NFL has ever known.
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August 16, 2012
A 297-Pound Twelve-Year-Old Called Too Big to Play Football
Eljiah Earnheart's battle with a Mesquite Pee Wee football association makes national headlines.
Sports
July 31, 2012
The Negotiation
Every year, hundreds of Texas high schoolers are aggressively recruited by the nation’s top college football programs. It’s a dream come true, but some kids must go through the bewildering process alone. And according to the rules of the NCAA, there aren’t many places they can turn to for help.
Sports
July 31, 2012
Shelly Roper-McCaslin, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Recruiter
Roper-McCaslin, who lives in Austin, has worked with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders for 23 years as a cheerleader, a choreographer, and the lead recruiter.Growing up, my dad took my brother and me to just about every sporting event in Dallas, from Rangers baseball to Mavericks basketball. But it was the Cowboys football
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July 26, 2012
Ricky Williams’ Latest Weirdness
How closely is the former UT running back's foundation linked to a cult-like New Age group called Access Consciousness?
Sports
July 13, 2012
The New Uniforms of the New Aggies
Texas A&M and ADIDAS unveiled the Aggies's brand-new, ready-for-the SEC football uniforms on Thursday.
July 10, 2012
Academy Versus Academi
The private security firm once known as Blackwater changed its name (for the second time) to Academi last year. Katy-based Academy Sports and Outdoors has cried foul, filing a federal lawsuit.
Sports
July 5, 2012
Meet Roger Federer’s Former Coach
Peter Lundgren, Roger Federer's longtime coach, now lives and works in Houston.
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June 19, 2012
Carroll Shelby’s Body Still in Dallas Morgue
The wife and children of famed auto designer Carroll Shelby are fighting over control of his remains more than a month after his death.
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May 31, 2012
Checking in with Samir Patel, Five-Time Scripps National Spelling Bee Contestant
Samir, now an 18-year-old college student, weighs in on this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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May 29, 2012
San Antonio Mayor Defends City Against Big, Mean Bully Charles Barkley
The basketball star repeatedly slammed San Antonio, driving Mayor Julián Castro to film a short video about the virtues of the Alamo City.
May 17, 2012
School Blows Whistle on Spurs Fan’s Matt Bonner Haircut
A middle schooler’s playoff tribute to his fellow redhead on the San Antonio Spurs has been deemed a "distraction" by the Judson ISD.
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April 30, 2012
Buyer Beware
Dear Jim Crane, new owner of the Houston Astros: Please don’t screw things up as badly as the last guy did.
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April 24, 2012
Assault Charges Filed Against Pilar and Deion Sanders
The former Cowboys star live-tweets about his estranged wife's alleged assault in front of their two sons.
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April 24, 2012
UT Chancellor KOs Sun Bowl Boxing Match
A middleweight championship bout will not happen in El Paso because of "high security concerns," but some claim this was a racially motivated decision.
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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.
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April 17, 2012
Meet Cassandro: The Openly Gay, Cross-Dressing Luchador
The El Paso Times profiles the 41-year-old "exotico," a 24-year veteran of the lucha libre circuit.
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March 31, 2012
James Buescher’s Home Office
The NASCAR driver gives us a glimpse of his life away from the racetrack.
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March 28, 2012
Fightin’ Words: Tiger Woods’ Former Swing Coach Versus Tiger Woods’ Agent
Woods' Dallas-based former swing coach Hank Haney is making the TV rounds for his new book, The Big Miss.
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March 19, 2012
Why UT Women’s Hoops Coach Gail Goestenkoers Resigned
The University of Texas women's basketball coach, who won big while at Duke, ends her time in Austin with only one NCAA tournament win in five years.
Sports
March 8, 2012
Journalist Covering Juárez Soccer Questions “Femicide” Narrative
Robert Andrew Powell, the author of This Love is Not for Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez, criticizes the "femicide business" and claims that activists, academics, and journalists profit from furthering the narrative.
Sports
March 4, 2012
A Bittersweet End for Beren Academy
The Beren Stars fell to the Abilene Christian Panthers, 46-42, in Saturday night's TAPPS 2A final, but people are still talking about how the Houston Orthodox Jewish day school got there.
Sports
March 1, 2012
Woman Hopes to Become Oldest Cheerleader in NFL History
Sharon Simmons, a 55-year-old grandmother from Carrollton, plans on trying out to become a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader this May.
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February 28, 2012
Terrell Owens Faces Foreclosure on Two Dallas Condos
The former Dallas Cowboy is delinquent on payments on two Dallas condos, which could go up for auction in March.
Sports
February 27, 2012
Sabbath Conflict for Jewish HS Basketball Team’s Tournament Game
The Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools has refused to let Beren Academy, an Orthodox Jewish day school, reschedule its semifinal playoff game from Friday night, which falls during the Jewish Sabbath.
Food & Drink
February 24, 2012
Win the Weekend: Cars Will Soon Be Driving Us and Other News to Know
A UT study on the traffic intersections of the future, the Perry gravy train is back on the track, and the Spurs lose a game on purpose.
Sports
February 20, 2012
Will A&M Elect Its First Female Yell Leader?
As Texas A&M moves to the SEC, change is afoot at the university, but not everyone is supportive of this particular proposal.
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February 19, 2012
Is America’s Best College Hockey Player From Texas?
Dallas native (and Stars prospect) Austin Smith leads the nation in goals, and he has a chance to win the Hobey Baker Award, college hockey’s Heisman.
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February 16, 2012
5 Things to Know About the TCU Drug Bust
Fifteen TCU students, including four members of Gary Patterson's Horned Frogs football team, were among eighteen people arrested on drug dealing charges.
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February 12, 2012
New York Takes the Goods from Texas. Again.
Before "Linsanity" hit, the New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin played for the Houston Rockets for fifteen days. But does the team regret cutting basketball's latest sensation?
News & Politics
February 8, 2012
Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler Super Bowl Ad: Texas-Born
Homegrown film director David Gordon Green and three writers who studied at the Michener Center made up the creative team behind "It's Halftime in America" commercial.
Sports
February 7, 2012
Texas Tech Has Lost Its Chess Queen
Knight Raiders coach Susan Polgar is leaving for Missouri's Webster University. And she's taking the team with her.
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February 7, 2012
The Backlash Against Roland Martin for His Tweets about David Beckham’s Underwear Ad
GLAAD calls on CNN to fire the Houston native and A&M graduate, saying his tweets were "advocating violence against gay people."