Sports
January 21, 2013
Mack Brown Doesn’t Like the Longhorn Network Either
"I didn't ask for it," the UT football coach said before adding that the ESPN channel gives opposing coaches too much information on his football program.
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Sports
January 21, 2013
Mack Brown: I’m Not Going Anywhere
Saturday's loss to Oklahoma had nearly every columnist in Texas speculating about the Longhorns football coach's future, but he dismissed such talk this afternoon.
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
UT and A&M Resume Hostilities This Weekend
If you thought the rivalry between the University of Texas and Texas A&M was currently on ice, you are correct. Tonight in College Station, the two schools face off in, you guessed it, hockey.
January 21, 2013
‘Playboy’ Honors SMU, UT, and TCU
Playboy's annual list of "Top 10 Party Schools" is out, with SMU scoring number one for "Best Nightlife." Former champion UT is still in the top ten, along with TCU.
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
A&M Billboard Near Austin Gets a UT Makeover
The rivalry continues off the field: A "This is SEC Country" billboard in North Austin was defaced with University of Texas colors over the weekend.
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
You Can Stop Tweeting About Destinee Hooker’s Name Now
The San Antonio-native's star performance for the silver medal-winning U.S. Olympics volleyball team was accompanied by two weeks of cheap Twitter jokes.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Earl Campbell’s Third Act
Sports Illustrated catches up with the former Houston Oilers running back, painting an affecting portrait of the Tyler Rose, who overcame substance abuse addiction in 2009.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Aggieland Smacks Back at Will Muschamp
College Station Mayor Nancy Berry responds to a dig by the University of Florida head coach (and former UT defensive coordinator) with a bit of YouTube comedy.
Film & TV
January 21, 2013
Barbara Walters: LBJ Would Have Loved ‘Pubic Affairs’ Typo
The unfortunate typo on the commencement programs for the LBJ School of Public Affairs was discussed on The View Tuesday.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Ron Paul’s U.S. Tour Hits Texas
The Republican presidential candidate's campaign stop at the University of Texas had the vibe of an Austin rock festival.
January 21, 2013
Supreme Court to Hear Case on UT Admissions Policy
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Fisher v. Texas, a case that could limit or eliminate using race as a college admissions factor.
Sports
January 21, 2013
SEC to Aggie Band and Other Students: Seat’s Taken
Texas A&M's new conference bans students from sitting behind the visiting team's bench.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Rick Perry and Mark Cuban Are Both More Popular than Jerry Jones
But Tim Tebow is more popular than all of them. Public Policy Polling released the last part of its January Texas voter survey.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Five Most Memorable Sports Stories of 2011
The end of a rivalry, the beginning of a franchise affair, and championships won (and lost) made 2011 a year to remember.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
UT College Republicans President’s Twitter Scandal Continues
Cassie Wright stays under the radar, but the media continues chattering about the offensive tweet.
Texas History
January 21, 2013
The Most Trusted Freshman in America
Long before Walter Cronkite was the voice of the news, he was just a kid from Houston at the University of Texas, chasing girls, acting in school plays, and drinking cheap beer. Yet Douglas Brinkley, whose new biography of Cronkite will be released this month, argues that it was in
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?
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.
January 14, 2013
Wanted: Sugar Daddy To Pay Tuition
Texas co-eds are seeking additional daddies to pay down debt
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 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 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
October 31, 2012
Why Mack Brown Won’t Lose His Job
Because DeLoss Dodds, the University of Texas's athletic director, has a long memory.
Business
October 19, 2012
Texas Business Report: Bumpy Skies for Southwest Airlines?
Southwest Airlines announced it will slash spending by at least $100 million after the airline's third-quarter numbers were lackluster.
Bum Steers
May 21, 2012
LBJ School “Mortified” Over “Pubic Affairs” Typo
Due to a proofreading error, the program for Saturday's commencement ceremony at UT's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs left out a crucial "L.”
May 16, 2012
Perry Says Bill Powers on “Wrong Side”
In San Antonio and then again in Austin, the governor addressed the controversy over the University of Texas at Austin president's position on tuition.
Behind the Lines
March 31, 2012
General Admission
Will Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin help the U.S. Supreme Court decide affirmative action once and for all? Not likely, which is why it's time to let public universities make their own decision about which students to accept.
Sports
March 19, 2012
Why UT Women’s Hoops Coach Gail Goestenkoers Resigned
The University of Texas women's basketball coach, who won big while at Duke, ends her time in Austin with only one NCAA tournament win in five years.
News & Politics
February 8, 2012
Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler Super Bowl Ad: Texas-Born
Homegrown film director David Gordon Green and three writers who studied at the Michener Center made up the creative team behind "It's Halftime in America" commercial.
The Culture
January 31, 2012
Goodbye To Y’all That
Is the Texas twang disappearing? Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin's Texas English Project pretty much say: "Yup."
Health
January 11, 2012
Ironically, Obese Texas is a Leader in Weight Loss Research
Two new studies from Texas researchers focus on shedding the pounds and keeping them off.
December 9, 2011
UT Law Dean Asked to Resign
As a compensation scandal unfolds, the University of Texas Law Dean, Larry Seger, resigned at the request of university President Bill Powers.
Politics & Policy
December 7, 2011
The University of Texas Registers .XXX Domain Names
On Tuesday dot-XXX domain names went on sale, prompting major universities, sports teams, and politicians to purchase URLs to protect their public image.
Sports
December 4, 2011
The Texas Football Coaching Carousel
Texas A&M head coach Mike Sherman marches on as gossip swirls about University of Texas’s Mack Brown’s departure and University of Houston’s Kevin Sumlin’s future.
Sports
November 27, 2011
UT and A&M: Sports Rivals, Academic Friends
Texas A&M’s athletic department may be leaving behind the University of Texas, but they remain linked through academics.
November 17, 2011
Bum Steer of the Week: Literally
University of Texas fans are fuming about the photo of a “Horns Down” Longhorn that the Alcalde put up on its website.
Politics & Policy
November 17, 2011
New UT College Republicans President Continues Offensive Tweeting Tradition
Cassandra Wright is the second University of Texas College Republicans President in just over a month to get into hot water for a tweet about President Obama.
Politics & Policy
November 16, 2011
UT Student’s Tweet: It’s “Tempting” To Shoot President Obama
Lauren E. Pierce, the president of the College Republicans at the University of Texas, tweeted about the White House shooting suspect Oscar Ramiro Ortego-Hernandez and lands on the national political media's radar.
Sports
November 9, 2011
The Longhorn Network to Stream Programming Online
The hard-to-view University of Texas/ESPN network makes its programming available online this weekend.
Sports
August 31, 2011
SECession?
Texas A&M is fixin' to get out of the Big 12. Good news for Texas?
Sports
August 31, 2011
Because Mack Brown Has Something to Prove
Admit it, non-orangebloods. You took some pleasure in the collapse of the vaunted UT program last season. Well, guess what? Now it’s time for the empire to strike back.
Politics & Policy
August 14, 2011
Perry, politics, and football [updated]
Texas A&M’s move to the Southeast Conference is not just about football. It is also about politics. It is a way for Perry to validate himself as a southerner. In one bold move–and don’t think for a moment that Perry didn’t orchestrate this–Perry has used A&M to leverage himself into
Politics & Policy
March 31, 2011
Old College Try
Rick Perry's quiet war on higher ed.
Letter From Austin
March 31, 2010
Fear Less
Can new research predict which soldiers will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder—and which won’t?
Sports
February 1, 2010
Playing the Field
How the state's top two players made their college choices.
Politics & Policy
December 12, 2008
Taking a chancellor
The search for a successor to Mark Yudof as UT chancellor has become a heated high-stakes political battle. The two top choices are former state senator John Montford, who has served as chancellor of the Texas Tech system and more recently has been an executive with AT&T, and Dr. Francisco