Sports
April 11, 2024
Did Chip Gaines’s Social Media Crusade Keep Scott Drew at Baylor?
After the Magnolia star spent Wednesday in a holy war with University of Kentucky basketball fans, Baylor’s coach decided to stay put.
Coaches
Sports
March 1, 2024
Following Kim Mulkey at Baylor Was a Daunting Test. Nicki Collen Passed With Flying Colors.
“I guess I’m fearless,” said women’s basketball coach Nicki Collen, who has the 22–6 Bears ranked number 21 in the nation.
Sports
February 2, 2024
New Conference? No Problem for the Houston Cougars
The 19–2 Houston Cougars have looked outstanding in their debut season in the Big 12. Now bring on Kansas!
Sports
February 1, 2024
The GOAT of Texas High School Football Coaches Is Back
After a two-year retirement, seven-time state championship head coach Todd Dodge took over at Lovejoy High School, in the Dallas suburbs.
Sports
January 2, 2024
The Texas Longhorns’ Winning Culture Is Built to Last Beyond This Season
After bowing out of this season’s national semifinals, the Texas Longhorns expect sustained success under head coach Steve Sarkisian.
Sports
December 22, 2023
Some Coaches Called Texas State a “Career-Killer.” G.J. Kinne Made It His Calling Card.
In his first year in San Marcos, Kinne has led the Bobcats to a 7–5 record and the school’s first-ever appearance in a postseason bowl game.
Sports
December 4, 2023
You Can Say It Now: The Texas Longhorns Are Back
With a Big 12 championship and a spot in the College Football Playoff, head coach Steve Sarkisian has built a winning culture in Austin.
Sports
November 28, 2023
Can Mike Elko Bring Stability to Texas A&M Football?
Few programs can recruit or raise money as well as the Aggies. This week, A&M hired Elko to coach the team to its championship potential.
Sports
November 14, 2023
What Else Could Texas A&M Afford With Jimbo Fisher’s Buyout Money?
The $77 million the university will pay Jimbo Fisher to not coach football could fund 1,666 full-tuition scholarships—or buy 17 billion Goldfish crackers.
Sports
November 13, 2023
Texas A&M Had to Fire Jimbo Fisher, Even With a $77 Million Buyout
At a program that covets football greatness—and whose donors will pay almost anything to attain it—firing Jimbo Fisher was an easy call.
Sports
October 24, 2023
A High School Football Fairy Tale Unfolds in Southeast Texas
Thanks to second-year coach Trent Miller and five-star senior quarterback DJ Lagway, 8–0 Willis High School has become an “addict” for winning.
Best Thing in Texas
August 14, 2023
The Top Moments From a Very Texas Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
After a night of hilarious and emotional speeches, Becky Hammon, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, and Gregg Popovich are all Hall of Famers.
Sports
August 11, 2023
Gary Blair, From South Oak Cliff to Texas A&M to the Hall of Fame
The architect of the Aggies’ 2011 NCAA title and one of the greatest coaches in women’s basketball history enters the Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Sports
July 28, 2023
A Texas High School Baseball Team’s Secret Recipe for State Championships
A roster with only thirteen players? Three-sport athletes who refuse to specialize? It’s all part of the plan at Magnolia West.
Sports
July 12, 2023
Who Wouldn’t Want to Coach Victor Wembanyama for the Next Five Years?
Gregg Popovich, the oldest head coach in NBA history, just signed a contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs. Wembanyama is why.
Sports
April 14, 2023
The Undertold Story of Jackie Robinson’s College Hoops Coaching Days
Before he began his pro baseball career, Jackie Robinson spent a season on the hardwood for Austin HBCU Samuel Huston College.
Sports
April 7, 2023
Another, Quieter Comeback for Billy Gillispie
Now 63, the college basketball coaching wunderkind turned cautionary tale is leading Tarleton State's transition to Division I.
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 9, 2023
Texas Football Coaches Recall Jalen Hurts’s High School Dominance
The former Channelview High quarterback, who will lead the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII, ran “like frickin’ Larry Csonka.”
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
Sixteen of the Most Influential Texas Sports Icons of the Past 50 Years
From Staubach to Mahomes, Darrell Royal to Coach Pop, Lee Trevino to Simone Biles, here are sixteen figures who have defined Texas sports.
Sports
January 10, 2023
What Was the Point of Firing Lovie Smith?
The Houston Texans have sacked their fourth head coach in three years. Perhaps that means the franchise’s woes run far deeper than its on-field leader.
Sports
January 6, 2023
In Firing Chris Beard, the University of Texas Showed Its Values
The school’s response to Beard’s arrest on domestic violence charges brought a swift end to the basketball coach’s brief tenure.
Best Thing in Texas
December 12, 2022
The Best Things in Texas 2023: The Best NBA Coach Ever
Gregg Popovich, of the San Antonio Spurs, became the winningest coach in NBA history, but that’s just one of several eye-popping facts from his extraordinary career.
Sports
November 16, 2022
Most Sports Figures Were “Paranoid Assholes” to This Writer. Mike Leach was “Fabulous.”
Author S. C. Gwynne calls his 2009 profile of the pirate-obsessed former Texas Tech coach part of the “golden era” of his journalism career.
Sports
November 15, 2022
Did Texas Blow Its Chance at TCU Coach Sonny Dykes in 2020?
After the Horned Frogs beat UT Saturday, reports that the Longhorns passed on Dykes for Steve Sarkisian left Texas fans wondering, “What if?”
Sports
July 15, 2022
The State’s Winningest HS Football Coach Might Forget All His Victories
Dementia forced Phil Danaher off the sidelines. Now the legendary coach at Corpus Christi’s Calallen High School faces life after football.
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.
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 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
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.
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
December 20, 2021
A Storybook Ending for Westlake Football Coach Todd Dodge’s Legendary Career
In his last game before retirement, Dodge led the Chaparrals to a third straight state championship with a win over Denton Guyer High School.
Sports
December 6, 2021
A Masterpiece Season for Baylor Football and Coach Dave Aranda
After last year’s 2–7 campaign, the Big 12 champions are sitting pretty thanks to their coach’s low-key, high-character style.
Sports
November 9, 2021
Can New Texas Tech Coach Joey McGuire Build a Winner in Lubbock?
The Red Raiders’ hire is beloved by former players at Baylor and Cedar Hill High School and is known as one of the top recruiters in Texas.
Sports
August 27, 2021
Coach Gary Joseph Has the Katy Tigers Eyeing Back-to-back State Titles
With Joseph in charge, Katy has won more than 90 percent of its games and five state championships over the past seventeen seasons.
Sports
April 5, 2021
Chris Beard Could Have Had a Statue in Lubbock, but He Chose UT Instead
Leaving a near-perfect situation at Texas Tech is an enormous risk for the once-beloved basketball coach, but Beard just might be good enough to succeed where other Longhorns coaches fell short.
Sports
January 7, 2021
What Was the Point of UT Hiring Steve Sarkisian to Replace Head Football Coach Tom Herman?
Six questions to ponder about the Longhorns' coaching switcheroo, while we wait for Sarkisian to arrive in Austin.
Sports
August 27, 2018
Are Coaches’ Football Salaries Worth It?
The salaries of Texas college football coaches don’t always seem to make a lot of sense.
Sports
February 1, 2016
An Investigation Finds An Ugly Side To The Plano East Baseball Program
An ISD investigation into the Plano East baseball program turned up racial and gay slurs, concussions, a fight club, and more.
Sports
August 31, 1996
Darrell Royal
What is Darrell Royal’s code name, and what does his middle initial stand for?
Sports
March 1, 1996
Shoot a Basketball
With high school basketball playoffs just around the bend, our thoughts turned to the mechanics of the game—and so we called head boys coach Robert Hughes of Dunbar High School in Fort Worth, whose lifetime record of 1,082-192 makes him the fourth-winningest coach in the country. A two-time All-American at
Sports
December 1, 1991
“I Have Made Their Lives Miserable”
Young girls who want to win an Olympic gymnastics medal have to pay the price, and Bela Karolyi makes sure that they don’t get off cheap.
Sports
December 1, 1985
Professor of Football
Okay, now, listen up. This story is about Bill Yeoman, a really good football coach. Read it or run three laps after practice.