So Long, Longhorn Network
The Longhorn Network will go off the air next July. But the University of Texas’s pursuit of its own channel changed college sports forever.
The Longhorn Network will go off the air next July. But the University of Texas’s pursuit of its own channel changed college sports forever.
By Joe Levin
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.
By Joe Levin
With the city consolidating its school district, Wichita Falls High—and the six-time state champion Coyotes—will be no more.
By Joe Levin
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.
By Joe Levin
Before leading the Cincinnati Bengals to the Super Bowl, the former LSU quarterback arrived on the national scene by icing the Longhorns in 2019.
By Joe Levin
In his last game before retirement, Dodge led the Chaparrals to a third straight state championship with a win over Denton Guyer High School.
By Joe Levin
Good luck finding a Texan who’s lived a more complete football life than Westlake High School coach Todd Dodge. Now in his final season before retirement, the six-time state champion is looking to add one more trophy to his mantel.
By Joe Levin
In interviews with dozens of football coaches, athletic department officials, university administrators, and current and former Longhorn players, we found that the athletes were largely left to navigate the turmoil by themselves.
By Joe Levin and Ivan Maisel
Texas Monthly has learned that the report, to be released Tuesday morning, attempts to offer a nuanced history of the school’s alma mater, which some have criticized for its origins in a minstrel show.
By Joe Levin and Ivan Maisel
In 1990, Longhorn student athletes marched through campus united against racism. Their movement continues through players still calling for change today.
By Joe Levin
Student athletes wrote a letter urging officials to change the tune, which was first performed in a minstrel show.
By Joe Levin
A new biography of ‘The Tyler Rose’ demonstrates that the legendary running back’s insistence that he wasn’t a transformative racial figure was too modest by half.
By Joe Levin
Asher Price’s book about the legendary UT running back is full of surprises.
By Joe Levin
Twenty years on, the band is Texas’s most subliminally recognizable export.
By Joe Levin
“We’re definitely seeing a race to the bottom in terms of the dehumanization of immigrants,” the lawyer said.
By Joe Levin and Carlos Sanchez
We watched a host of graduation speeches from the state’s hundreds of universities, and these are the ones we found most inspiring.
By Joe Levin
Along with Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili, he brought unprecedented NBA success to the Alamo City.
By Joe Levin
This is the first time since 1905 that the Longhorns and Sooners are meeting twice in a year. And it's going to be a big one.
By Joe Levin
Things aren’t so easy in San Antonio after all. Replacing a legend might just be the trickiest thing to pull off in all of sports.
By Joe Levin
Three-pointers can send you to the championship. All you have to do is make them.
By Joe Levin
Yes, the game was miraculous. But that defensive burst might have depleted the Rockets' tank.
By Joe Levin
The unlikely story of how, after years of bumpy starts, hometown hero Gerald Green made his way back to Houston.
By Joe Levin
Forget MVP. Harden's future depends on how he fares in the playoffs.
By Joe Levin