Fifteen Questions About Texas College Football This Season
All twelve FBS teams in Texas play this week. Here’s what we’re wondering about, from UT and A&M to UT San Antonio and Texas State.
Baylor
Sports
June 23, 2021
Scott Drew on What’s Next After Baylor Basketball’s NCAA Win
The Bears head coach reflects on bringing a title to Waco and keeping faith front and center in the Baptist university’s hoops program.
Sports
April 26, 2021
Kim Mulkey Made Texas Fall in Love With Women’s College Hoops
After 21 years in Waco, the coach who led Baylor to three NCAA titles is headed to her home state of Louisiana to take over at LSU.
Sports
December 30, 2019
UTSA’s ‘Tracy Rule’ Is a Watershed College Football Moment
The university has implemented a measure that prohibits athletes who’ve committed sexual violence from playing sports there.
Sports
December 16, 2019
The Moments That Defined Texas Sports in 2019
This year saw no shortage of impactful sports news, from Dirk Nowitzki’s retirement to Art Briles's return.
Sports
November 14, 2019
10 Questions About Baylor, the Best Team in Texas (For Now)
Are the college football powers that be underestimating the 9–0 Bears ahead of Saturday’s game against Oklahoma in Waco?
Sports
September 20, 2019
Art Briles Is Coaching High School Football in Texas. What’s His Endgame?
It’s unclear whether the disgraced coach will return to the national stage, but he has a foot back in the door at Mount Vernon.
Sports
April 4, 2019
A Handy Guide to Rooting For (or Against) Baylor Women’s Basketball
The Lady Bears are back in the Women’s Final Four for the first time since 2012.
News & Politics
December 13, 2018
Former Baylor Frat Leader Banned by UT Dallas After Generous Plea Deal for Sexual Assault Case
Jacob Walter Anderson has been kicked off of campus and will not be allowed to attend his graduation ceremony.
News & Politics
December 11, 2018
Plea Deal Allows Former Baylor Frat Leader Accused of Rape to Avoid Jail Time
Jacob Walter Anderson, charged with raping and choking a fellow student, will pay a $400 fine as part of the deal.
Chat
August 23, 2017
Baylor’s New President Turns to Faith
Returning to the place where she began her career, Linda Livingstone looks to repair the university’s reputation.
Politics & Policy
November 11, 2016
#IWalkWithNatasha Shows Solidarity For Baylor Student
After being targeted for her race, Baylor students rally around to show support.
Sports
September 19, 2016
Let’s Talk About That Rice/Baylor Halftime Performance
Supporters of Rice’s Marching Owl Band say that its performance mocking Baylor’s rape scandal was powerful—but let’s look at it a little more closely.
Sports
August 10, 2016
Art Briles Spotted on the Sidelines of Several NFL Training Camps
The former Baylor coach, relieved of his duties after recommendations from a law firm hired to investigate his program’s sexual assault scandal, has been busy traveling lately.
Texas History
June 13, 2016
Bane of the Baptists
Brann becomes a casualty in his own war with the Baptists. Texas Collection of Baylor University“In the year of our Lord, 1891, I became pregnant with an idea. Being at the time chief editorial writer on the Houston Post, I felt dreadfully mortified, as nothing
Arts & Entertainment
November 18, 2015
The Checklist
A look at what to read, hear, and watch this month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Sports
August 22, 2015
Details About Sam Ukwuachu’s Final Days at Boise State Based on Notes From the School’s Assistant Athletic Director
When trying to determine what exactly Chris Petersen told Art Briles, assistant Boise State Athletic Director Marc Paul’s vivid description of Sam Ukwuachu’s troubled final days at the university fills in some gaps.
Sports
August 21, 2015
Sam Ukwuachu Sentenced To Ten Years of Probation For Second-Degree Sexual Assault
The sentencing phase of the trial began immediately after Ukwuachu was found guilty Thursday night, and reached its conclusion Friday afternoon.
The Daily Post
December 8, 2014
Why Aren’t TCU and Baylor in the College Football Playoff?
Texas teams—and the Big 12—aren’t going to be competing for a National Championship.
News & Politics
October 21, 2014
The Creation of Baylor
Never has the Waco university been so big, so rich, so athletically powerful, or so committed to becoming the country’s first elite Protestant university. What does its ambition mean for its identity?
Sports
October 9, 2014
BEARS AND FROGS, OH MY!
Seven reasons why the TCU-Baylor rivalry is the state's best.
Sports
September 25, 2014
Hindsight is +20: Looking Ahead (and Back) at College Football’s Early Gambling Lines (UPDATE)
Last year, Baylor was an eight-point underdog against the University of Texas prior to the season. Which lines will completely change this year?
Sports
August 20, 2014
The State’s Next Heisman Winner?
A conversation with quarterback Bryce Petty of the defending Big 12 champion Baylor Bears.
Sports
June 10, 2014
Subterranean Homesick Briles
Not only has Art Briles made Baylor’s football program successful, he’s made it hip.
The Culture
December 5, 2013
Why You Should Quit Making Fun of Baylor
Because the Bears are still the best college football team in Texas.
The Daily Post
November 4, 2013
Baylor Sexual Misconduct Policy to Remain Unchanged
Despite the Student Senate voting to remove the language "homosexual acts" from its policy, Baylor Student Body President Wesley Hodges vetoed the resolution.
Sports
September 20, 2013
Anybody (Nick Saban) Want to (Nick Saban) Talk About (Nick Saban) UT (Nick Saban) and Kansas State (Nick Saban)?
The Longhorns need to beat the Wildcats for the first time in five meetings, but the game's been overshadowed by more questions about Mack Brown's future.
Sports
August 29, 2013
A&M Will Make It Two Straight Over ‘Bama, But Could UT Have the Better Season?
College football predictions—some more serious than others—heading into the first weekend.
Sports
April 1, 2013
RGIII Has Brittney’s Back After Baylor’s Devastating Loss to Louisville
Baylor's Heisman-winning former quarterback Robert Griffin III wasn't shy with his opinions after Sunday's Louisville-Baylor women's hoops game, a chippy, controversial contest that ended Baylor's season.
Sports
January 21, 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 21, 2013
The Five Most Memorable Sports Stories of 2012
Guess what's number one (hint: look at the picture).
Sports
January 21, 2013
Baylor Basketball Commits “Major Violations” of NCAA Rules
A recruiting scandal dating back to Brittney Griner's courtship takes the air out of the glorious seasons posted by the women's and men's teams.
Sports
January 21, 2013
40-0: Baylor’s Women are the NCAA Champions
The undefeated Lady Bears, led by head coach Kim Mulkey, beat Notre Dame 80-61, a win that keeps the NCAA women's basketball championship trophy in Texas.
Sports
January 21, 2013
How to Practice for Brittney Griner
It takes a broom, a kayak paddle, or a six-foot-ten Aggie yell leader for rival teams to prepare for playing against Baylor Bear Brittney Griner, who just became the second woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game.
Sports
January 21, 2013
It’s Baylor’s Moment
Lengthy features in Sports Illustrated and the New York Times celebrate the Bears’ unprecedented sports success and its implications for the university at large.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Five Most Memorable Sports Stories of 2011
The end of a rivalry, the beginning of a franchise affair, and championships won (and lost) made 2011 a year to remember.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Brittney Griner
Houston
Sports
January 20, 2013
Dead Men Walking
Coach Tom Penders and Houston’s Moment of March Madness in Spokane.
Sports
January 18, 2013
NFL Playoffs: Let’s Root for the Placekickers
All four remaining NFL teams have their share of Texas college football favorites, but--sorry Red Raiders--you can't seriously expect us to root for San Francisco or New England, right?
Sports
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.
Politics & Policy
January 9, 2012
Ken Starr Would Vote for a Mormon
Baylor University President Ken Starr took to the op-ed pages of the Washington Post asking, "Can I vote for a Mormon?"
Politics & Policy
September 7, 2011
Baylor: “will assert legal remedies if necessary”
(This post is a revision that includes corrections from a previous draft.) Regarding the situation with Texas A&M and the future of the Big Twelve Conference, I have spoken with persons familiar with the situation at Baylor, who prefer to remain anonymous. This is what I have learned. 1. The
The Horse's Mouth
August 31, 2008
Breaking Into Showbiz
NAME: Angela Kinsey | AGE: 37 | HOMETOWN: Archer City | QUALIFICATIONS: Plays uptight accountant Angela Martin on The Office / Won a Daytime Emmy for The Office: Accountants webisodes• Be prepared to be very patient. When I got to L.A., I was like, “Okay, let’s do this.” I sort
Business
July 31, 1998
The Biggest Ranches
No matter who’s in charge, the King Ranch still rules: It’s number one on our list of the state’s top twenty spreads.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1977
Have Conscience, Will Travel
Leon Jaworski is cleaning up again.