Sports
January 20, 2013
The Old Bowl Game
I wish I were in the land of Cotton (Bowl).
College Football
Sports
January 20, 2013
Untitled Mike Flynt Project
A veteran Hollywood screenwriter couldn’t have come up with a better narrative arc: Seeking redemption, 59-year-old reenrolls at university he was once asked to leave, tries out for football team, makes it, becomes one of oldest-ever players in NCAA history. Or at least that’s how the hero wants it to
Sports
January 16, 2013
Could the NFL Draft Be a 1-2 Aggies Sweep?
ESPN guru Mel Kiper Jr.’s first NFL draft projection of 2013 has Texas A&M offensive tackle Luke Joeckel as the top pick, followed immediately by Aggies defensive end Damontre Moore.
Sports
January 15, 2013
Texas: It’s Where College Football Players Come From
An ESPN analysis of "recruiting migration" trends among Top 20 college football teams found one thing never changes: Texas had the most players in both 1940 and 2010.
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 8, 2013
Breaking: Johnny Football is a College Student
A&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.
Sports
January 7, 2013
Bearkats Fall in Frisco
The University of Texas is still the state's last college football team to win a national championship, as Sam Houston State loses the FCS title to North Dakota State for the second straight year.
Sports
January 4, 2013
VIDEO: That Time There Was a One-Point Safety in a UT-A&M Game
How rare was last night's one-point safety by Oregon against Kansas State? It's only happened once before in NCAA history: when UT did it against A&M eight years ago.
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
January 3, 2013
Six Thoughts About the Cotton Bowl
Kansas St. and Oregon who? Arlington's the center of our college football universe, as Texas A&M plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Friday.
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.
Sports
December 3, 2012
VIDEO: Mary Hardin Baylor’s Crazy Touchdown
Watch what senior quarterback LiDarral Bailey had to do to lead the Belton-based school over Wesley College in the NCAA Divison 3 quarterfinals.
Sports
July 13, 2012
The New Uniforms of the New Aggies
Texas A&M and ADIDAS unveiled the Aggies's brand-new, ready-for-the SEC football uniforms on Thursday.
Sports
February 16, 2012
5 Things to Know About the TCU Drug Bust
Fifteen TCU students, including four members of Gary Patterson's Horned Frogs football team, were among eighteen people arrested on drug dealing charges.
Texas History
February 1, 2012
ESPN Writer: LBJ Was Not Much of a College Football Recruiter
On National Signing Day, Ivan Maisel recalls LBJ's failed attempt to get Joe Washington to play for Darrell Royal at the University of Texas.
Sports
December 1, 2011
The Texas Quarterback Boom Continues
Robert Griffin III, who led Baylor to its best season in decades and won the Heisman Trophy, is the latest stick of dynamite in the Texas quarterback boom.
Sports
November 29, 2011
A&M Athletics Employee Calls University President Loftin a “Putz”
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re the Chief Financial Officer of Texas A&M’s athletic department . . . until they do.
Sports
November 14, 2011
“Cougar High” is now about the University of Houston’s BCS ranking
ESPN “Game Day” puts Saturday’s Univeristy of Houston–Southern Methodist University game on the national stage as undefeated Cougars inch toward their first-ever BCS bowl.
Sports
November 9, 2011
Texas Tech’s Adam James Speaks For the First Time Since Leach’s Firing
On the eve of his last home game as a Red Raider, Adam James talks to selected media, though not about Mike Leach.
Sports
November 2, 2011
UTEP Football Coach Wants to “shoot white Horned Owls” in Houston
Mike Price tries to fire up his team at practice for this weekend's Rice game with fake arrest and hunting jokes.
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
Sports
August 31, 2011
20 Reasons to Love College Football
How Gary Patterson turned TCU into a powerhouse—one shouting fit at a time. Why Mack Brown’s vaunted Longhorns faltered—and how he plans to bring them back. What it’s like to build a team from scratch—in San Antonio. Plus: game-day delicacies, mascots who kill, throwback jerseys, the greatest coaches ever, and
Sports
October 31, 2010
The Eyes of Texas Are Upon Them
And the question on everyone’s mind is: Does TCU deserve a shot at the BCS title game?
Sports
October 31, 2010
Snap Decisions
Your unofficial playbook for watching college football in Texas during the weekend of October 23.
Sports
September 30, 2010
Snap Decisions
Your unofficial playbook for watching college football in Texas during the weekend of October 16.
Sports
August 21, 2009
Mike Leach Is Thinking . . .
And you would be too if you were an itinerant Rollerblader with a passion for pirates who’d reinvented the game of college football, brought joy to Lubbock, beaten UT, and narrowly missed a shot at a national championship. And what you’d be thinking is, “Gangway!”
Sports
February 1, 2006
Perfect 10
The reviews of the Vince Young show are in—and, of course, they’re all raves. Gary Cartwright and Bud Shrake argue that the Texas quarterback is the best ever but wonder if his throwing motion is an obstacle to NFL greatness. Plus: Mack vs. “Delbert.”
Sports
August 31, 2005
The Eyes of Texas Are Upon Him
And why wouldn’t they be? As the head coach of the UT football team, Mack Brown is responsible for the way millions of Texans feel every day.
Sports
October 1, 2000
Get With the Program
Two-four-six-eight, who do we appreciate? San Antonio businessman Jack DeVere, whose collection of Texas football memorabilia evokes a simpler, more innocent time.
Sports
August 31, 1996
Darrell Royal
What is Darrell Royal’s code name, and what does his middle initial stand for?
Sports
April 30, 1994
Seasons to Remember
The end of the Southwest Conference was predictable, but for eighty years it gave Texas fans a brand of football that was anything but.
Sports
October 1, 1990
To the Brilliant Victor
Southwest Conference trophies, commemorating long-forgotten triumphs, are still winners.
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.
Sports
September 1, 1983
Passing the Bucks
Football recruiting makes the NCAA see red, but SMU sees orange.
Sports
September 30, 1977
The Rites of Autumn
You don’t have to be crazy to attend Texas-OU Weekend, but it helps.
Sports
August 31, 1974
The Decline and Fall of the Southwest Conference
When was the last time you went to an SMU-Baylor game?