Sports
March 26, 2024
Brittney Griner Makes Us Proud to Be Texan
From her greatness on the court to the hardships she has overcome away from basketball, Brittney Griner has earned every bit of her fame.
Women's Basketball
Sports
March 21, 2024
Which Texas Team Will Make the Deepest March Madness Run?
A Texan college basketball fan’s ultimate guide to all eleven Texas teams competing in the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments.
Sports
March 1, 2024
Following Kim Mulkey at Baylor Was a Daunting Test. Nicki Collen Passed With Flying Colors.
“I guess I’m fearless,” said women’s basketball coach Nicki Collen, who has the 22–6 Bears ranked number 21 in the nation.
Sports
January 25, 2024
TCU Women’s Basketball Turned a Nightmare Scenario Into a Fairy Tale
Last week, an injury-depleted TCU squad held open tryouts to replenish its roster. This week, it returned with four new walk-ons and a win.
Sports
November 14, 2023
The Pioneering, Barnstorming Women’s Basketball Stars of the Texas Cowgirls
The Texas Cowgirls weren’t all from the state, but the groundbreaking women’s pro team promoted itself with loads of Texas mystique.
Sports
August 11, 2023
Gary Blair, From South Oak Cliff to Texas A&M to the Hall of Fame
The architect of the Aggies’ 2011 NCAA title and one of the greatest coaches in women’s basketball history enters the Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Sports
July 14, 2023
A Tall German Emerges as Hoops Superstar in Dallas. Sound Familiar?
Dallas Wings forward and WNBA All-Star Satou Sabally is having the best year of her career—and starting to give us Dirk Nowitzki flashbacks.
Sports
March 31, 2023
The Caitlin Clark Show Comes to Dallas for the Women’s Final Four
Eight storylines for Texan fans to follow, from Iowa's superstar guard to South Carolina's dominance to Kim Mulkey's return to Texas.
Sports
March 10, 2023
This Panhandle School Is the Tiniest Girls Basketball Powerhouse in Texas
The Nazareth Swiftettes have won 25 state championships in less than fifty years—and they just hung another banner for 2023.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.”