LSU may have won the national championship, but we’d rather focus on arguing over which college football team was the best in Texas.
Texas Tech
The show has traveled to the likes of Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech.
This year saw no shortage of impactful sports news, from Dirk Nowitzki’s retirement to Art Briles's return.
Coaches have a lot of discretion, and Wells decided not to use it.
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.
The NCAA men’s championship went to Virginia on Monday night in an overtime thriller, but the Red Raiders proved they have what it takes.
The first Texas team to make the men’s Final Four since 2003 is easy to like.
The underachieving former Texas Tech leader is somehow now the head coach of an NFL team.
The group chat among Texas Tech students is only the most recent example of the consequences of offensive digital behavior.
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.
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.
Katharine Hayhoe has made it her life’s mission to proclaim the truth about climate change. Can she get the skeptics to listen?
Last year, Baylor was an eight-point underdog against the University of Texas prior to the season. Which lines will completely change this year?
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?
The diving play of his life from Devon Conley preserved a 7th inning lead and, ultimately, a trip to Omaha.
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?
College football predictions—some more serious than others—heading into the first weekend.
Texas Tech’s new head coach is disarmingly young, stylish, and hip. He also seems to have the Midas touch.
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls.
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.
The rise and rise and fall and fall of former UTEP, Texas A&M, Kentucky, and Texas Tech basketball coach Billy Gillispie.
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.
In his latest Internet campaign video, the candidate for U.S. Senate is "interviewed" by his daughter about Leach, whom he calls a "bully"
The state's highest court denied Mike Leach's appeal of his wrongful termination lawsuit against Texas Tech.
The Texas Tech professor and climate change evangelist has received hundreds of vicious emails since Newt Gingrich pulled her chapter from his book.
The former SMU star and longtime ESPN analyst officially announced his intent to run on Monday, but the media's been discussing it for a week.
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?
In the post-Washington game, former attorney general Alberto Gonzales has fared worse than any other member of the Bush administration. Why?
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 no one to blame but himself?
A year of altered antlers, bawdy broadcasters, comedian corrections, dining detectives, emancipated emus, fossilized felines, gullible Gore, hemline harassment, insatiable igniters, jazzed-up jewelry, Kay’s kennelwear, lottery loonies, metric madness, numerous nudes, 007 oenophiles, poultry protesters, questionable quizzes, revengeful revenuers, Spam slingers, tie tirades, unallowed uniforms, variant videotapers, warning! water, x-humed x-mascots, yanked Yvonne, and zodiac zombies.
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?
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls.
Knight Raiders coach Susan Polgar is leaving for Missouri's Webster University. And she's taking the team with her.
The Texas Tech atmospheric climate scientist who wrote a chapter on climate change for Newt Gingrich's forthcoming book was shocked to learn the GOP hopeful had scrapped her contribution.
The football coach at Abilene’s McMurry University, and pal to Mike Leach, had a few less-than-Christian words for Craig James and his son, Adam.
On the eve of his last home game as a Red Raider, Adam James talks to selected media, though not about Mike Leach.
