Sports
March 25, 2022
Texas Women’s Basketball Is Already What Longhorns Football Wants to Be
Head coach Vic Schaefer is building a program that looks capable of making Final Fours for years to come. Maybe even this year?
Women's Basketball
Sports
March 23, 2022
Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith Sets Her Sights on WNBA Stardom
After a disappointing second-round March Madness exit, the two-time All-American and projected number one draft pick still has something to prove.
Sports
March 7, 2022
How Baylor Great Brittney Griner Became a Political Prisoner in Russia
Over the weekend, news broke that the WNBA star, one of the best basketball players Texas has ever produced, has been in custody for weeks.
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.
Sports
May 14, 2021
In the WNBA’s Early Days, Houston’s Comets Came Around Every Year
As the WNBA begins its twenty-fifth season, the league’s first dynasty still resonates in Texas and throughout the world of women’s basketball.
Sports
April 26, 2021
Kim Mulkey Made Texas Fall in Love With Women’s College Hoops
After 21 years in Waco, the coach who led Baylor to three NCAA titles is headed to her home state of Louisiana to take over at LSU.
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
November 12, 2020
Becky Hammon on the Spurs, the WNBA, and the Mural of Her Face in San Antonio
The NBA’s first female assistant coach is the star of a new 60-second documentary.
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Sports
April 4, 2019
A Handy Guide to Rooting For (or Against) Baylor Women’s Basketball
The Lady Bears are back in the Women’s Final Four for the first time since 2012.
Sports
March 30, 2016
Prairie View A&M Fired Its Women’s Basketball Coach For Suspending Two Players Who Were Dating
The latest front in Title IX?
Sports
November 10, 2014
Texas, Let’s Get to Know Flower Mound High School’s Lauren Cox, the Top Women’s Basketball Prospect in the Country
The six-foot-four junior has already made a fan of LeBron James.
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Dan Solomon
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The Daily Post
April 8, 2014
Brittney Griner’s Memoir Drops Today
The former Waco basketball star now adds "author" to her list of impressive accomplishments.
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Dan Solomon
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Sports
March 11, 2013
Hoop Queens
Half a century ago, the women’s basketball team at Wayland Baptist College set an extraordinary record that may never be broken: the longest winning streak in sports history.
Editor's Letter
March 11, 2013
Editor’s Letter
In March 2003 the best-selling female band in American history touched the third rail of country music. A decade later, the Dixie Chicks belong mostly to history, and the recent recording of two separate albums by the former bandmates underscores the fact that the Chicks, as Chicks, are more or less
Sports
January 21, 2013
40-0: Baylor’s Women are the NCAA Champions
The undefeated Lady Bears, led by head coach Kim Mulkey, beat Notre Dame 80-61, a win that keeps the NCAA women's basketball championship trophy in Texas.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Jody Conradt
“Kids used to be so excited just to have an opportunity to play. Now I see more of a mentality of entitlement: ‘I’m a tremendous athlete, so you owe me this.”
Sports
February 1, 2005
Marsha Sharp
“A lot of people are perfect fits for universities. I’m a perfect fit for Texas Tech. I understand West Texas. I am West Texas.”