Sports
June 24, 2022
Arch Manning Might Be Good Enough to Save Texas Football From Itself
No team does less with more quite like the Longhorns do, but even UT shouldn’t be able to spoil the next great Manning quarterback.
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Vital analysis and news unpacking the world of Texas sports
Sports
June 22, 2022
This Nolan Ryan Documentary Is a Love Story (and a Home Run)
'Facing Nolan' has all the high heat and bench-clearing brawls that MLB fans expect. But deep down, the film is about a beautiful marriage.
Sports
June 21, 2022
Have Racket, Will Travel: Seven Top Texas Tennis Resorts
From luxury spas to grueling drills, our state offers something for players of every persuasion.
Sports
June 21, 2022
Kayak Polo Is the Most Joyful, Adrenaline-Fueled, Raucous Sport You’ve Never Tried
Marco who? This is the ultimate water game.
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Sports
June 16, 2022
Meet the “Not Smart” Texans Who’ve Run a Marathon in All Fifty States
From chronic injuries to botched courses, members of the Texas-based 50 States Marathon Club go the distance to go the distance.
Sports
June 13, 2022
At 88, Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Is Still Bluffing. Or Is He?
The Texas gambler has been winning at poker for seventy years—long enough to become an icon and watch an outlaw’s game become an industry.
Sports
June 8, 2022
Texas Softball Looks to Beat the Odds One More Time
Their coach’s obscene gesture helped turn around their season, and now the Longhorns are two wins away from NCAA softball glory.
Best Thing In Texas
June 3, 2022
Texas’s Run of National Spelling Bee Dominance Continues
Harini Logan claimed the top spot last night, making her the seventh Texan spelling bee champ in the last ten years. T-E-X-A-S!
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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.”
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Sports
May 18, 2022
Luka Dončić and the Mavericks Are Ready for Their Close-up
For Dallas fans with "Cowboys fatigue," the Mavs' NBA playoff run to the Western Conference finals is a welcome antidote.
Best Thing In Texas
May 16, 2022
How ’Bout Them Mavs?
An all-time-great game seven offers a hint of how high Luka Dončić and the Dallas Mavericks can fly in the 2022 NBA playoffs.
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Sports
May 10, 2022
Austin FC and Los Verdes Preserve Latinidad in the Gentrified Capital
In a city famous for its transplants, Austin’s Major League Soccer team has created a space where longtime residents can feel at home.
Sports
May 6, 2022
Why Are the Spurs Playing Footsie With Austin?
The team's request to play more "home" games away from the AT&T Center raised familiar fears that San Antonio could lose its NBA franchise.
Sports
May 2, 2022
How an Insurance Salesman Wound Up Playing Goalie Against the Dallas Stars
“By the way, what’s the score?” asked NHL emergency backup goalie Thomas Hodges just before taking the ice.
Sports
May 2, 2022
A Day at the Races in Presidio
The quiet border town hosts amateur drag races at the Presidio International Raceway, featuring anything from souped-up muscle cars to pickup trucks.
Sports
April 29, 2022
After a Paralyzing Accident, This Texan Gets Back in the Race
Chris Morris broke his back during motocross practice, but that didn’t stop him from finding a new source of adrenaline and drive.
Sports
April 22, 2022
SMU Turned Eric Dickerson’s Gold Trans Am Into a Recruiting Image
Long a symbol of SMU football’s 1980s rule-breaking, the flashy car has become an edgy marketing strategy, and Dickerson loves it.
Sports
April 19, 2022
Will the Longhorns “Chase Money” in 2022, or Will They Chase Wins?
Amid an otherwise stellar off-season for UT football, a team leader’s public criticism has raised familiar questions about the program.
Sports
April 15, 2022
The 1950s Louisiana Law That Stalled Racial Progress in Texas Baseball
A decade after Jackie Robinson integrated MLB, Black Texas League players found themselves banned from competing at road games in Shreveport.
Sports
April 11, 2022
Scottie Scheffler Stays Hotter Than a Fur Coat in Marfa
The 25-year-old UT grad has won four of his last six PGA Tour events—and Sunday’s win wasn’t any old victory, it was the Masters.
Sports
April 7, 2022
Did the Rangers Splurge on Free Agents to Boost Their “Entertainment District”?
A former MLB front-office insider breaks down the business and baseball reasons behind the Texas Rangers' record-breaking off-season spending.
Sports
April 6, 2022
The Dream of an All-Texas MLB Rivalry Remains Distant
Even after a historic free-agency binge, the Texas Rangers have a long way to go before they catch up with the Houston Astros.
Sports
April 6, 2022
H-Town United: An Unlikely Soccer Power Rises in Texas
At Elsik High School, students from Honduras, Senegal, Houston, and most places in between form the best boys soccer team you've never heard of.
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Best Thing In Texas
April 4, 2022
We Loved Every Second of This Spurs Fan’s Epic Jumbotron Lip-synch
San Antonio’s Briana Saldaña brought her A-game (with a little help from Kelly Clarkson).
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Sports
April 1, 2022
As WrestleMania 38 Kicks Off, the Undertaker Reflects on His Texas Roots
From playing hoops at Texas Wesleyan to dropping Tombstone pile drivers at Jerry World, Mark Calaway recalls how he rose to WWE superstardom.
Film & TV
March 31, 2022
The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Reality Show Ends Its Run on CMT
‘Making the Team’ was the cable channel’s longest-running reality program. After sixteen seasons, why did it decide to pull the plug?
Sports
March 29, 2022
How a 25-Year-Old from Dallas County Became the World’s Best Golfer
Scottie Scheffler was winless in his first three years on the PGA Tour. Then he won three of his last five events and rocketed to the number one ranking.
Sports
March 25, 2022
TM Recommends: Take Me Out to the Sandlot
Texas baseball is back. Plus: pickles so good they transport you back to childhood.
Sports
March 25, 2022
Texas Women’s Basketball Is Already What Longhorns Football Wants to Be
Head coach Vic Schaefer is building a program that looks capable of making Final Fours for years to come. Maybe even this year?
Sports
March 24, 2022
Mark Adams, the Anti–Coach K, Has a Chance to Retire the Duke Legend
After a career spent coaching at tiny West Texas colleges, Adams will lead Texas Tech against one of NCAA basketball's most storied programs.
Sports
March 23, 2022
Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith Sets Her Sights on WNBA Stardom
After a disappointing second-round March Madness exit, the two-time All-American and projected number one draft pick still has something to prove.
Sports
March 16, 2022
Can Texas Salvage Its Season with a March Madness Run?
Chris Beard’s Longhorns have been the most disappointing team in NCAA basketball, but all will be forgotten if they make the Sweet Sixteen.
Books
March 15, 2022
‘The Great Nowitzki’ Does Justice to Dirk’s Greatness
German writer Thomas Pletzinger has written a definitive biography of the seven-footer who brought a title to Dallas and a new era to the NBA.
Sports
March 7, 2022
How Baylor Great Brittney Griner Became a Political Prisoner in Russia
Over the weekend, news broke that the WNBA star, one of the best basketball players Texas has ever produced, has been in custody for weeks.
Sports
March 4, 2022
Secrets of the Texas NBA Shot Clock Operators
The timekeepers for the Spurs, Rockets, and Mavs open up about one of the most overlooked and pressure-packed jobs in sports.
Sports
February 28, 2022
The One-Question Interview: Thomas Pletzinger
Texas Monthly talks with Pletzinger about his biography of Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki and how jazz helped make Nowitzki great.
Sports
February 22, 2022
Jerry Jones Can’t Hide From the Cowboys Voyeurism Scandal
The owner of the NFL’s most valuable franchise is no stranger to controversy. But this time, Jones and his organization have never looked worse.
Sports
February 18, 2022
Hey, Texas, We Have a Bobsled Team!
The state is no winter sports juggernaut, but we still sent three Olympians to compete in Beijing this month—and two will go for gold this weekend.
Sports
February 18, 2022
The Lost Soul of the Dallas Cowboys
The drama that’s swept up Jerry Jones’s former right-hand man says a lot about the distorted values of America’s Team.
Sports
February 15, 2022
Gregg Popovich Closes In on Another NBA Milestone
With four more victories, the San Antonio Spurs coach will set a new NBA record for regular-season wins—but his legacy is greater than that.
Best Thing In Texas
February 11, 2022
An NFL Star Took a Grieving Pflugerville Girl to the Father-Daughter Dance
Philadelphia Eagles safety Anthony Harris flew to Austin to help lift the spirits of eleven-year-old Audrey Soape on a difficult day.
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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
February 10, 2022
Joe Burrow’s Clutch Legend Was Born in Texas
Before leading the Cincinnati Bengals to the Super Bowl, the former LSU quarterback arrived on the national scene by icing the Longhorns in 2019.
Sports
February 9, 2022
Matthew Stafford’s HS Teammates Never Doubted He’d Play in the Super Bowl
The Los Angeles Rams quarterback was the “comeback king” of Highland Park’s 2005 run to the Texas state championship.
Sports
February 8, 2022
The Passion of Eric Dickerson
With his ex-team in the Super Bowl and a new memoir on bookshelves, the Hall of Fame running back from Sealy, Texas, is back in the limelight.
Sports
February 8, 2022
Do the Texans Even Deserve New Head Coach Lovie Smith?
Houston's hapless NFL franchise hired the right man for what seem like the wrong reasons—and it's lucky Smith accepted the job.
Sports
February 8, 2022
Sumo Is Getting Big in Texas
Fighters in one of the state’s newest sumo clubs, in Dallas, want the sport to keep growing—without losing the traditions that define it.
Sports
February 3, 2022
This Event Turns Houston HS Football Dreams Into College Scholarships
Since 2009, the Greater Houston Senior Football Showcase has helped 1,400 local athletes play at the next level while pursuing college degrees.
Sports
February 1, 2022
Chris Beard Did the One Thing Texas Tech Fans Cannot Forgive: Leave for UT
And when the new Longhorns coach steps on the court for his first game back in Lubbock, the Red Raiders faithful will surely let him hear it.
Sports
January 28, 2022
A Requiem for Swatson and Moe, the Mosquito Mascot Kings of Texas Minor League Baseball
With the Sugar Land Skeeters set to become the Space Cowboys, what will become of the mascots for the Houston Astros' AAA squad?
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