Sports
January 2, 2019
Did We Just Witness the Biggest Longhorn Victory of All Time?
And, yes, we understand that they've won a National Championship.
College Football
Sports
September 12, 2018
The Aggies Knock Off the Longhorns as Nation’s Most Valuable College Football Program
Not bad for a couple of .500 ball clubs!
The Texanist
September 9, 2018
The Texanist: How Do I Tell the World’s Worst Football Fan to Shut Up?
A San Antonio man is tired of the grouchy guy two rows behind him.
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.
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
August 11, 2018
Houston’s Ed Oliver is the Best Player in College Football
Keep an eye on him, college football fans.
The Texanist
June 9, 2018
The Texanist: Am I a Traitor If I Root for a Rival Texas Team When It Plays out of State?
A Baylor Bears fan is conflicted about what he should do if TCU goes to a bowl game.
Sports
December 20, 2017
A Very Texas Guide to 2017 College Bowl Games
So what if there are no Texas teams playing past December? Here's what to watch for in the eleven bowl games played in Texas and/or involving Texans.
Sports
December 1, 2017
Texas A&M Football Makes a Splashy Hire With Jimbo Fisher
The Aggies win the headlines. The rest remains to be seen.
Sports
December 6, 2016
Temple University’s Matt Rhule Hired to Be Baylor’s Head Football Coach
Maybe a total outsider is exactly what the program needs.
Sports
May 5, 2016
An Aggie Coach Tweeted Away Part Of The 2017 Recruiting Class
Stay off Twitter, everybody.
Sports
February 23, 2016
Mack Brown Will Be Assessing The Viability Of A UTRGV Football Program
Will UTRGV's football program remain undefeated?
Sports
November 6, 2015
Our Texas Football Icon Bracket Opens Monday
Aikman, Staubach Campbell, Irvin, Watt: Who’s the greatest Texas football player of all time?
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.
Sports
August 20, 2015
Silence at Baylor
A much-talked-about football player at Baylor University—whom coaches “expect back” this fall—is currently on trial for the sexual assault of a fellow student. Questions now swirl around what the program knew and when they knew it.
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.
Sports
November 20, 2014
Is Texas A&M Really Trying to Duck UT in a Possible Bowl Game?
Talk of reprising the ol' A&M-Texas rivalry in a bowl game has led to reports that the Aggies might be avoiding the Longhorns in such a scenario.
Sports
October 20, 2014
A&M Fans Went Through the Five Stages of Grief on Saturday
How else do you react to a 59-0 thumping?
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
August 6, 2014
Can Steve Patterson Fill This Stadium?
It was just last year—amid spectacular losses and dramatic resignations—that the University of Texas saw its sports program go up in flames. As the new athletics director knows, a return to glory now rides on one person: him.
Sports
May 9, 2014
The Eyes of East Texas Are Upon Him
UT fans meet Charlie Strong.
The Daily Post
April 3, 2014
Texas Athletic Director Steve Patterson Is Cool With Abandoning The Three-Year-Rule For College Football Players To Enter The NFL
Patterson's desire to take the UT brand to China and Dubai may have grabbed the headlines, but the bigger deal could be that he's comfortable dropping the three-year-rule that requires college football players to wait to enter the NFL Draft.
Sports
December 5, 2013
A Season in Hell
You know, when you’re surveying the struggles of Longhorn nation from Joe Jamail’s skybox, things don’t look so bad.
Sports
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 8, 2013
The Most Exceptional Long-Snapper Plays for Texas
Nate Boyer is a failed actor, former humanitarian aid worker, Iraq War veteran, and, now, the starting long-snapper for the Texas Longhorns. Someone get this man a movie deal!
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
September 29, 2013
College Football Coach Who’s Not Mack Brown Loses His Job
With both USC and UT on the decline eight years after their BCS championship game, the firing of Trojans coach Lane Kiffin inspired lots of talk about Mack Brown and the Longhorns. And it also got tongues wagging in College Station.
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
August 15, 2013
Preview: Who Is Johnny Football?
An excerpt from S.C. Gwynne's September cover story on Johnny Manziel, which will officially hit newsstands (and the web) on August 21. (Illustrations by Nathan Fox. Color by Jeromy Cox.)
Sports
August 13, 2013
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…
Why we put Johnny Manziel on the cover as a superhero.
Sports
August 9, 2013
Who Is Johnny Football?
Johnny Manziel seemed like a superhero, the Manziel of Steel, able to leap tall linemen in a single bound. Is he something else?
Sports
June 19, 2013
How Johnny Football Almost Didn’t Play for Texas A&M
UPDATED: In an exclusive interview with S.C. Gwynne, Johnny Manziel confirmed that Texas A&M suspended him last summer. His successful appeal changed college football history.
Sports
June 18, 2013
Johnny Manziel’s Life, Your Entertainment
The latest Johnny Football social media non-story, in which the Aggies' Heisman Trophy winner disses College Station in a tweet (and then deletes it).
Sports
June 2, 2013
How Close Did UT Really Come to Beating Alabama in 2010?
Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News looks back on "the precise moment when UT transformed from a college football superpower into a bumbling, inept program."
Sports
April 12, 2013
Jack Pardee, 1936-2013: A Remembrance
Mickey Herskowitz covered the Texas A&M "Junction Boy" and former Houston Gamblers, University of Houston and Houston Oilers coach at nearly every stop.
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
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
March 27, 2013
@JManziel2 Has Left the Building
Texas A&M's Heisman Trophy-winning QB Johnny Manziel decides to live in public just a little less, telling ESPN.com that he's giving up on Twitter.
Sports
March 21, 2013
The Mike Leach Family Tree Keeps Growing: Hal Mumme to SMU
The sometimes controversial "Air Raid" offense guru, who has coached everywhere from Copperas Cove High School to (most recently) DII McMurry in Abilene, joins June Jones' staff as assistant head coach and passing game coordinator.
Sports
March 4, 2013
VIDEO: Johnny Manziel’s ESPN Sunday Conversation
A&M spring practice started Saturday, and The Longhorn Network ESPN was there. The reigning Heisman Trophy winner sat down with Kirk Herbstreit on SportsCenter.
Sports
March 4, 2013
QBs and Pass Catchers Report
The University of Texas, which started its spring practice even earlier than baseball played spring training games, let fans get a look at next year's team over the weekend.
Sports
February 25, 2013
WATCH: Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion
A&M, SEC, BCS...WWE? The Aggies head coach was the guest of honor when pro wrestling came to Reed Arena Sunday, much to the chagrin of Big Show.
Sports
February 13, 2013
DeLoss Dodds Reads Texas Monthly, Backs Mack Brown, Picks On Missouri
Remember when "Longhorns, Inc." was on the cover of Texas Monthly? So do UT athletic directors DeLoss Dodds and Chris Plonsky.
Sports
February 12, 2013
Mike Sherman Got the Aggies Halfway There: A&M’s 2010 Recruiting Class Top-Ranked In Hindsight
Texas A&M already won last week's in-state recruiting title. Now Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples looks back at 2010.
Sports
February 6, 2013
Mack Brown Isn’t Interested in “Eye Candy”
Mack Brown is still too genial for trash-talk, but the Longhorns coach managed to slip in a little SEC dig as he sang the praises of his small recruiting class.
Sports
February 6, 2013
The New Way to Recruit Against the Aggies
Last year: telling potential A&M recruits the team would not do well in the SEC. This year: telling potential A&M recruits the team's so good there isn't playing time.