Lubbock is familiar with weather events that incur strong winds, like tornadoes and haboobs. It gets 100-plus-degree heat, ice storms, floods and everything in between. One weather phenomenon the Hub City doesn’t experience, though, is the hurricane. Yet, despite being more than 500 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Lubbock
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.
Once widely hunted in Texas, the beloved game birds have been dwindling in number in recent decades. But a West Texas hunter and professor believes he’s found a way to save them.
After Texas Tech researchers discovered that windstorms may be spreading antibiotic-resistant bacteria from local feedlots, public health experts stood up and took notice. So did the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.
Quanah Parker, Stonewall Jackson . . . and Hal Mumme?! Why S.C. Gwynne took a break from historical epics to tell the story of the Texas coach who changed football.
After Facebook removed a number of Kendall Jones's photos of herself posing with animals that she hunted, she responded by posting photos of herself with some living, breathing, adorable little critters.
Kendall Jones is a Texas Tech cheerleader who became the flashpoint of Internet controversy this week for posting numerous pictures of herself with felled African creatures. Is the controversy fair?
Looks like San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro may be heading to Washington, and Texas Senator Robert Duncan is bound for Texas Tech. What does that mean for local politics?
Texas Tech takes all of four days to pick the head coach everybody wanted: 33 year-old former Red Raiders quarterback & Texas A&M offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury.
Now that Johnny Football is officially Johnny Heisman, what’s in store for Texas A&M and its star quarterback? Besides the Cotton Bowl and tonight's Letterman Top 10, that is.
Guns up! Texas Tech's red-headed Yosemite Sam-doppelganger is one step away from winning the Capitol One Mascot Challenge. And he's joined the “Gangnam Style” craze.
The Pac-12 Conference is investigating charges of abusive player treatment made against the former Texas Tech and current Washington State coach. Leach denies the allegations.
The Aggies own the college football weekend, upsetting top-ranked Alabama. Plus: UT's DKR tribute, Tommy Tuberville's ill temper, and the latest UT-A&M conspiracy theory.
New reports that Tech would rather cancel a road game against Texas State than let it be aired on the ESPN-owned, University of Texas-branded cable network shows that some teams are still smarting from wounded egos.
Houston Bellaire wide receiver Devin Lauderdale and three friends were supposed to attend the Red Raiders spring football game, but clearly didn't know the way to Lubbock.
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?
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!”
If Texas Tech fires Leach, there will be a mushroom cloud over Lubbock for thousands of miles and a likely revolt of Tech fans, alums, and former players.
Depending on your point of view, the firing of Mike Leach, Texas Tech’s controversial football coach, was about the state of football (the sport has gone soft), concussions (they are a potentially life-threatening condition), or celebrity meddling (Craig James was a helicopter dad). But is it possible that Leach has
