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November 21, 2023
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.
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September 1, 2023
The Oilers’ Iconic Baby Blue Is Back in Houston—At Least for the Cougars
The University of Houston is reclaiming the “Love Ya Blue” colors made famous by Earl Campbell and Warren Moon for the Cougars’ Big 12 debut.
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August 30, 2023
What the Texas Big 12 Football Coaches’ Favorite Musicians Tell Us About Them
Sark bangs Tupac, the Baylor and TCU coaches pump themselves up with Dave Matthews Band, and guess who loves Post Malone?
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August 8, 2023
How the Big 12 Survived the Conference-Realignment Feeding Frenzy
It was kill or be killed between the Big 12 and the Pac-12. Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark struck first, and the rest is history.
Sports
July 19, 2023
Welcome to the Best Time of Year to Have Faith in UT and Texas A&M Football!
Glossy recruiting classes, promising quarterbacks, unmatched spending power—enjoy it now before they start underachieving.
Sports
March 9, 2023
How Rodney Terry and Texas Basketball Saved Their Season
After Chris Beard’s firing, fans assumed the season was over. Then the remaining coaches and the roster took control of their destiny.
Sports
March 6, 2023
Mark Adams’s Unforgivable Comments Wrap Up Tech’s Nightmare Season
Texas Tech suspended the men’s basketball coach after Adams used “unacceptable and racially insensitive” language with a player.
Sports
February 24, 2023
A College Basketball Dynasty Grows in Houston
Kelvin Sampson and projected top-ten NBA draft pick Jarace Walker have the Cougars back at No. 1 and eyeing another Final Four run.
Sports
February 16, 2023
The Big 12 Doomsday Clock Is Ticking
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.
Sports
December 29, 2022
Managing the Transfer Portal Was Key to TCU Football’s Dream Season
First-year head coach Sonny Dykes put as much effort into retaining TCU’s existing talent as he did recruiting new players.
Sports
December 2, 2022
Heart Surgery, Foot Injuries, a Demotion to Backup—Max Duggan Overcame Them All
Undefeated TCU wouldn’t be playing for a Big 12 championship and a national semifinal berth without gritty senior quarterback Max Duggan.
Sports
October 5, 2022
Sonny Dykes Has TCU Football Back in the Mix for a Big 12 Title
With a high-powered offense and a 4–0 start, why can’t the Horned Frogs bag their first conference title since 2014?
Sports
September 1, 2022
Can Houston Football Figure Out a Way to Fill Seats?
The Cougars are nationally ranked and receive millions in university support—so why does UH consistently play in a half-empty home stadium?
Sports
July 7, 2022
NCAA Conference Realignment Got You Down? Blame Texas.
How UT sparked the chain reaction that killed traditional rivalries and created a college sports landscape dominated by super conferences.
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
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.
Sports
January 11, 2022
Chris Beard, Who? Mark Adams Has Texas Tech Playing Like World-beaters
The number nineteen Red Raiders are among the biggest surprises in NCAA basketball, with hopes of springing another upset Tuesday against Baylor.
Sports
January 6, 2022
That Was Quick: How Baylor Climbed Right Back to the Top of College Hoops
After losing the top three scorers from last year's title team, the Bears are 14–0, ranked No. 1, and eyeing another NCAA championship run.
Sports
December 15, 2021
Can Quinn Ewers Haul UT Football Out of the Gutter?
The quarterback transfer, originally from Southlake, has the talent, pedigree, and mullet to make the next few years special for Longhorn fans.
Sports
December 7, 2021
The Lone Star State College Football Report Card
Grading the season performances and outcomes for all twelve FBS programs in Texas. You already know who's getting an F.
Sports
November 23, 2021
Texas Longhorns Football Is in Free Fall, and It Still Hasn’t Hit Rock Bottom
Clumsy administrators. Meddling boosters. Blown double-digit leads. A six-game losing streak. And a home loss to lowly Kansas. What's next?
Sports
October 19, 2021
“Negative Thoughts” and the Texas Longhorns’ Latest Unraveling
Head coach Steve Sarkisian diagnosed his team's weakness after Saturday's loss to Oklahoma State. Now he has to repair it.
Sports
September 14, 2021
Houston Should Have Been Invited to the Big 12 Decades Ago
The Cougars' move is great news for UH fans, but it shouldn't have required UT taking a sledgehammer to the conference to make it happen.
Sports
September 1, 2021
Texan Deuce Vaughn Is Kansas State’s Big 12 Wild Card
The sophomore running back from Round Rock talks explains how Texas high school football prepared him for a breakout freshman campaign.
Sports
August 17, 2021
Losing Our Religion: Texas’s College Football Identity Crisis
With UT headed to the SEC and the Big 12 on life support, the state stands to lose its century-old football culture.
Sports
December 29, 2020
Can the Texas Longhorns Still Be a National Football Powerhouse?
The Longhorns' disappointing 6–3 season closes against Colorado in tonight's Alamo Bowl; but is the program's future any brighter?
Sports
August 31, 2018
Can the Longhorns Go 12-0 This Year? Yes, Really.
A college football analyst explains why his model shows it's going to be a great season for UT.
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.
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Sports
October 9, 2014
BEARS AND FROGS, OH MY!
Seven reasons why the TCU-Baylor rivalry is the state's best.
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
November 7, 2013
A&M Hopes to Play UT Again . . . But Only in a Bowl Game
Would new Longhorns AD Steve Patterson be willing to revive the rivalry? College Station says it's in no hurry.
Sports
October 1, 2013
10 People Who Could Be The Next University of Texas Athletic Director
With DeLoss Dodds reportedly announcing his retirement Tuesday afternoon, it's time to speculate about the Longhorns job that's actually more important than head football coach.
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
EXCLUSIVE: Texas, Texas A&M to Resume Football Rivalry in 2015 (April Fools!)
No Fooling? The Longhorns and the Aggies have signed a ten-year deal with ESPN's SEC Network and the Longhorn Network to play football once again.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Aggie Butterfly Effect: What if A&M Had Stayed?
Does Texas A&M’s Cotton Bowl dominance of Oklahoma mean the Aggies would have had an even better season had they stayed in the Big 12? No.
Sports
January 21, 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.
Sports
January 21, 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.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Aggies’ Stunning Win Dominated College Football News
The Aggies own the college football weekend, upsetting top-ranked Alabama. Plus: UT's DKR tribute, Tommy Tuberville's ill temper, and the latest UT-A&M conspiracy theory.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Aggies Up, Longhorns Down?
UT may still have the better team, but Texas A&M is doing better than expected in the SEC.
Sports
January 21, 2013
UT and A&M Resume Hostilities This Weekend
If you thought the rivalry between the University of Texas and Texas A&M was currently on ice, you are correct. Tonight in College Station, the two schools face off in, you guessed it, hockey.
Sports
January 21, 2013
A&M Billboard Near Austin Gets a UT Makeover
The rivalry continues off the field: A "This is SEC Country" billboard in North Austin was defaced with University of Texas colors over the weekend.
Sports
January 21, 2013
A&M and Texas State Make History While Losing
The universities both lost big games, but they celebrated new football eras.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Florida State to Join Big 12?
Rumor has it that UT, Texas Tech, and TCU fans might end up seeing Florida State on the Big 12 conference schedule.
Sports
January 21, 2013
SEC to Aggie Band and Other Students: Seat’s Taken
Texas A&M's new conference bans students from sitting behind the visiting team's bench.
Sports
January 20, 2013
The Little 10
I’ll give the new conference a fifty-fifty chance of lasting four years.
Sports
January 10, 2013
The Aggie Butterfly Effect: What if A&M Had Stayed?
Does Texas A&M’s Cotton Bowl dominance of Oklahoma mean the Aggies would have had an even better season had they stayed in the Big 12? No.
Sports
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.
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.
Sports
October 31, 2011
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Later this month, one of the great long-standing traditions in college athletics—the annual Thanksgiving game between the University of Texas and Texas A&M—will come to an end. The rivalry between these two schools has lasted so long, and fostered such ferocious passion on both sides, that most people probably
Sports
October 31, 2011
Farmers Flight!
Texas A&M’s announcement that it was bolting the Big 12 for the SEC signaled the end of a passionate rivalry with the University of Texas that has defined the two schools for more than a century. But what does the end of Aggies versus Longhorns mean for the rest of