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.
Texas Longhorns
Sports
February 1, 2022
Chris Beard Did the One Thing Texas Tech Fans Cannot Forgive: Leave for UT
And when the new Longhorns coach steps on the court for his first game back in Lubbock, the Red Raiders faithful will surely let him hear it.
Sports
January 25, 2022
Why Does UT’s $34 Million Head Coach Need a “Special Assistant”?
Ex-TCU coach Gary Patterson's move to Austin is a script only the deep-pocketed and dysfunctional Longhorns could write.
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
November 18, 2021
The Guy Who Asked Steve Sarkisian That Endless Question Explains Himself
Terry Middleton of ‘Horns Illustrated’ tried to be positive during Monday’s Longhorns press conference. He didn’t know he’d get dragged for it.
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Sports
November 17, 2021
Get Ready for the Best College Hoops Season in Texas History
With six top-25 teams among the state's men's and women's programs, there's never been a better time to be a basketball fan in Texas.
The Texanist
September 7, 2021
The Texanist: Now That the Longhorn-Aggie Rivalry Is Back, Can UT and A&M Alums Stay Friends?
Two Texas buddies stationed at an Air Force base in Qatar wonder if their bond can survive the SEC’s recent expansion.
Sports
June 28, 2021
The Longhorns’ Wild College World Series Run Comes to an End
Texas lost a heartbreaker in the NCAA semifinals Saturday night, but Coach David Pierce's team had a season to remember.
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
March 23, 2021
2021 March Madness: Can Three Texas Teams Make the Women’s Final Four?
Texas, Texas A&M, and Baylor are still alive—and in separate regions—with a chance to make the national semifinals in San Antonio.
Sports
March 19, 2021
Meet All Seven Texas Teams in the 2021 Men’s NCAA Tournament
Can Baylor beat Gonzaga? Can UT or Houston make the Final Four? Will Abilene Christian or North Texas spring an upset?
Sports
January 26, 2021
The Heck With Football, Texas Is a College Basketball State Now
With powerhouse teams in men’s and women’s hoops, maybe basketball is no longer just a way to pass time between fall and spring football.
Sports
December 30, 2020
The Best and Worst Things in Texas College Football This Season
From Tom Herman to Houston Baptist to the Rose Bowl in North Texas, here's everything that made the 2020 season surprising and ridiculous.
Sports
December 16, 2019
The Moments That Defined Texas Sports in 2019
This year saw no shortage of impactful sports news, from Dirk Nowitzki’s retirement to Art Briles's return.
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Dan Solomon
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Sports
December 6, 2019
Put Texas and Texas A&M in the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl, You Cowards
Two 7-5 teams renewing a rivalry that’s never really coming back is what this season deserves.
Books
October 21, 2019
Why Earl Campbell Matters
A new biography of ‘The Tyler Rose’ demonstrates that the legendary running back’s insistence that he wasn’t a transformative racial figure was too modest by half.
Sports
August 20, 2019
What This Lifelong Longhorns Fan Learned From the New Earl Campbell Biography
Asher Price’s book about the legendary UT running back is full of surprises.
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.
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
March 12, 2018
Texas Takes Over March Madness
With seven Texas teams in the field of 68 and the Final Four's location in San Antonio, this March Madness has a certain Texas flavor.
Sports
July 26, 2016
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Baseball, an old and idiosyncratic game, loses and old and idiosyncratic field.
Sports
September 25, 2015
Extra Points: The Week In Texas Football
They’re making crazy extra points in Midland, missing them in Austin, and needing them desperately in Dallas.
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Dan Solomon
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Sports
April 3, 2015
Shaka Smart Signed on to Coach the Texas Longhorns Basketball Team
Meet the Longhorns’s erudite, innovative, and fatherly new hoops coach.
Sports
November 24, 2014
Is Robert Griffin III The Next Vince Young?
The two iconic quarterbacks who played their college ball in Texas have a few things in common—not the least of which is the way that they've been treated by their coaches.
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Dan Solomon
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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.
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Dan Solomon
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Sports
September 29, 2014
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Met with Charlie Strong in Austin to Talk “Core Values” this Weekend
As the NFL attempts to clean up its image, the first college coach they met with was the no-nonsense new head of the Longhorns.
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Dan Solomon
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Eat My Words
September 3, 2014
A Sign of Pride
Just when you thought you'd seen it all, here's a donut shaped like the hook 'em horns sign.
The Daily Post
January 17, 2014
Texas Business Report: Don’t Mess With (the University of) Texas
UT, which is notoriously protective of its Longhorns brand, is cracking down on retailers selling merchandise that riffs on the name of its new head football coach, Charlie Strong.
Sports
January 6, 2014
Texas’ New Football Coach Is Black So Guess What That Means
According to various pundits, he's "not a hip hop coach," but that won't stop them from comparing him to Arsenio Hall.
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Dan Solomon
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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
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.
Bum Steers
January 20, 2013
The 2011 Bum Steer Awards
It was a year of appalling analogies, bare-naked Badu, collapsing Cowboys, dim-witted Daughters of the Republic of Texas, egregious Ethics Commission, felonious fishermen (not to mention frisky firefighters), G-rated (not) guards, hilarious headlines, imperial incumbents, jackass judges (as always!), klutzy kat rescuers, legendarily lame and losing Longhorns, mind-boggling menus, noncompliant
The Culture
January 20, 2013
The 2005 Bum Steer Awards
It was a year of: Alamo amour, bollixed Bush, cheeseburger chagrin, dissed Davy, egregious ethics, film flops, guileful gynecologists, hibiscus hullabaloo, in-flight idiocy, jiggling Janet, konservative kross-dressers, laughable liposuction, microphone mishaps, numskull name-nabbing, opinionated obits, pot parfaits, Qaeda qualms, reckless Rather, streaking solons, tasteless Tecate, UT users, vulgar veeps, Wicca
Feature
January 20, 2013
2005 Bum Steer Awards
Better close off the balcony too Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, of Houston, requested that a corridor in her Washington, D.C., office building be closed off for eight hours so that she could meet privately with singer Michael Jackson.4—6 minutes to high cholesterol An eighteen-wheeler overturned on Houston’s Loop 610, spilling