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June 6, 2014
Could The NFL Bring Football To San Antonio?
ESPN thinks the time is right for a developmental league for the NFL, and any list of prospective homes for that league's teams would have to include the Alamo City.
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June 5, 2014
There Is an Epic Rap Song About Johnny Manziel and the Cleveland Browns Already
Just one?
Sports
May 15, 2014
Get to Know the A&M Rookie Quarterback the Cowboys Have on Their Roster
Dustin Vaughan from West Texas A&M impressed the hell out of everybody with the viral hit YouTube video that showed off his skills.
Sports
May 9, 2014
The Best Quarterback on the Board For the Texans in the Second Round of the Draft Is David Carr’s Little Brother
How psyched are you right now, Texans fans?
Sports
May 7, 2014
What Does The Draft Have In Store For Johnny Football And The Houston Texans?
The most intriguing quarterback prospect to come out of Texas in years has a big day ahead of him, and his local team has the very first pick.
The Culture
March 30, 2014
Bum Phillips Inspires an Opera
Texas football and opera might seem like an unlikely union, but the world of opera has never been short on brash men of destiny.
The Daily Post
March 24, 2014
Mark Cuban Thinks That The NFL Is Going To Implode
The Maverick NBA owner issued some cautionary words for the people who run America's most popular sports entertainment.
Sports
February 12, 2014
Not Just Semi-Opinionated
The legendary Dan Jenkins has been covering sports since the forties. Things have not improved.
Sports
February 10, 2014
Texas-Raised SEC Football Star Becomes the Biggest NFL Draft Story in Years by Coming Out
Michael Sam, the SEC's reigning defensive player of the year and sack leader went from promising prospect to Jackie Robinson overnight—a transition that says a few things worth saying about the places he came from.
Sports
January 21, 2014
If NFL Fans Had a Problem With Richard Sherman, What Will They Think of Johnny Manziel?
Johnny Football, Future Role Model?
Sports
January 7, 2014
Jameis Winston’s Future Is in . . . Texas?
The Florida State quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner, and MVP of last night's BCS Championship Game has a standing offer from a team in Texas. But it's not what you think.
Sports
December 9, 2013
Meet the Next Head Coach of the Houston Texans
The Texans fired Gary Kubiak on Friday, after the team's two-win season put them in the driver's seat for the first overall pick in next year's draft. And owner Bob McNair has very specific ideas about what he wants from the next head coach.
Sports
October 28, 2013
Dez Bryant’s Sunday Afternoon Meltdown, in GIF Form
The talented Cowboys receiver made two incredible touchdown catches, blew up at his teammates multiple times on the sidelines, and got called a "spoiled child" on television by Fox announcer Brian Billick in Dallas' last-second loss to the Detroit Lions. It was kind of a mixed-bag of a day for
Sports
October 22, 2013
What’s Bud Adams’s Legacy In Texas?
Bud Adams, the 90-year-old founder of the Houston Oilers, died yesterday. Will he be remembered as the man who first brought professional football to Houston, or the man who moved it to Tennessee?
Sports
October 17, 2013
What Would A Vince Young-Led Houston Texans Team Look Like?
When the former Longhorns star is actively tweeting to the team that they need to give him a call—and Houston rapper Slim Thug is offering to pick him up and drive him to the facilities—it's fair to wonder whether or not Vince Young could actually help the Houston Texans.
Sports
October 7, 2013
Houston And Cowboys Both Lose Because Of Interceptions, Twitter Freaks Out
What do a career day for Tony Romo and a career-crusher for Matt Schaub have in common? Twitter thinks they both suck.
Sports
October 4, 2013
“Spinal Cord Injuries Are No Longer a Hidden Topic”
Twelve years after a high school football injury left him paralyzed, San Marcos's Chris Canales and his father, Eddie, help out others in similar situations with their organization, Gridiron Heroes.
Sports
October 2, 2013
Are The Cowboys Better Than The Texans?
With both Texas NFL teams sitting at .500, it's hard to say who's better—but only one team has fans burning jerseys in the parking lot after games right now.
The Culture
September 9, 2013
Book ‘Em Horns: Between the Lines of UT’s “Campus Watch”
More minutiae from the University of Texas at Austin's infamously comical police blotter, including memories from longtime author Darrell Halstead and the story of a student who "made" Campus Watch.
Politics & Policy
March 12, 2013
A Gentleman and a Scholar
On Tuesday, the Texas Legislature took a few moments to swoon over RGIII.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Dallas Cowboys’ Twitter Smack Backfires
Scoreboard! @DallasStars won Twitter Tuesday with their response to @DallasCowboys’ accidental smack-tweet, which also dissed the Rangers.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Book ’Em Horns, Take Two
With OU weekend and another Longhorns home game now behind us (sigh), it's time to check in once again with Campus Watch, the University of Texas police department's blotter.
Sports
January 21, 2013
No Wins, No Glory Hole
Cowboys fan and Grantland writer Bryan Curtis ponders Jerry Jones as the contemporary version of the Texas oilman while wondering if the team will ever hit a gusher.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Book ’Em Horns
Highlights from two football weekend's worth of UT Campus Watch, the University of Texas police department's blotter.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Old Navy Gives the Houston Texans Its First Championship
Old Navy confused the Houston Texans with the American Football League-era Houston Oilers, proclaiming the team to be the "1961 AFC Champions."
Sports
January 21, 2013
UTEP Prez Says Miners Can Take Oklahoma
At last weeks UT system Board of Regents meeting, University of Texas at El Paso president Diana Natalicio told UT-Austin president Bill Powers that the Miners plan to soften up OU on Saturday.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Carthage to Boast Largest High School Stadium Jumbotron
Carthage ISD is putting the finishing touches on a $750,000 scoreboard for its high school stadium, complete with a record-setting 1,200-square-foot video screen.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Samantha Ketcham Headed to Runoff in Yell Leader Election
UPDATED: After recalculating the vote, it has been determined that Ketcham is out of the race and the school will not have its first female yell leader.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Cowboys Fan Goes Berserk After Season-Ending Loss to Giants
Derek Gene Woodrow, of South Carolina, attacked his nephew with a frying pan and an umbrella for refusing to turn off the depressing post-game broadcast.
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Frito Pie Goes Global
The French chef who invented the foie gras burger may be introducing Frito pie to his homeland.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Bryan Curtis
The special correspondent on talking to former-football-star-turned-politician Craig James, understanding the “Real Street” rhetoric, and making predictions about sports.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Hail Mary
Craig James—former star football player, onetime ESPN commentator, eternal antagonist of Texas Tech fans everywhere—is polling at about 4 percent in this year's Senate race. Does he really want your vote? Or just your sympathy?
Sports
January 21, 2013
Gary Patterson Is Still Yelling at His Players
Who cares if TCU went to the Rose Bowl last season and shocked the world? If the extremely intense coach of the Horned Frogs is going to keep his thrilling roll going, he’s got to keep! these! kids! focused!
Sports
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Skip Hollandsworth
The executive editor on attending TCU, following the Horned Frogs, and why Gary Patterson may be the best college football coach in Texas.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Because San Antonio Is a Football Town! Well, Almost.
Starting a major college program from scratch in a city that’s never had one of its own is a tricky business. Good thing the UTSA Roadrunners hired a national champion to help them kick off.
Sports
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Jason Cohen
The senior writer on catching an institution in transition, fixing the BCS, and going to UTSA’s first football game.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Broadcasting the Super Bowl
Stephanie Druley on broadcasting the Super Bowl.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Snap Decisions
Your unofficial playbook for watching college football in Texas during the weekend of October 9.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Snap Decisions
Your unofficial playbook for watching college football in Texas this weekend.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Pass It On
Bryan Curtis talks about the Texas quarterback trend, 7-on-7s, and the next Colt McCoy.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Arms Race
We used to be known for running backs, but all of a sudden, we’re famous for producing some of the country’s best passers, from Drew Brees to Colt McCoy. What turned our high school football programs into quarterback factories?
Sports
January 20, 2013
Leveling the Field
How coach Gary Patterson turned TCU Into a football powerhouse.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Legends of the Fall
Texas football heroes Darrell Royal, Doak Walker, Sammy Baugh, and John David Crow are off the field, but they’re still having a ball.
Sports
January 20, 2013
The Family That Played Together
Ty and Koy Detmer were South Texas high school football heroes. Now they’re NFL quarterbacks. They owe it all to their father, a coaching whiz everybody calls Sonny.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Tony Romo Is the Greatest Cowboys Quarterback Since…
Die-hard fans of America’s Team are debating that very question as we speak—and also wondering if the kid from Wisconsin with the buxom distraction can take them to the Super Bowl any faster than, say, Gary Hogeboom did.
Sports
January 20, 2013
The Little 10
I’ll give the new conference a fifty-fifty chance of lasting four years.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Fan Fare
A Texas football magazine that scores.
Sports
January 20, 2013
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Hot hurdling in Giddings, super six-man football in Gordon: Ten towns that got game.
Sports
January 20, 2013
The Real Troy Aikman
His dreams. His fears. The truth about his love life. A candid chat with Texas’ most misunderstood sports hero.
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?