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The student section during Texas' game against Kentucky on Nov. 23, 2024.

What once was: The old student ticket experience

Nicholas Kingman, General Sports Reporter December 3, 2024

For Longhorns of a previous generation, having difficulty getting into Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium for Texas football home games seems foreign, as the former ticketing system, the Longhorns...

Athletic director of the University of Texas at Austin Chris Del Conte at the Orange vs. White football game on April 20, 2024.

From the ranch to the football field: Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte’s journey to serve others through sports

Lauren Hightower, Senior Sports Reporter December 2, 2024

For Texas athletic director and 2024 Austinite of the Year Chris Del Conte, it all comes back to the lessons he learned and the people he met on a 147-acre ranch in Taos, New Mexico.  Del Conte...

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Athletic director Chris Del Conte answers students’ questions at Longhorn Foundation dinner event

Lauren Hightower , Senior Sports Reporter November 13, 2024

Longhorn Foundation student members lined up outside Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Tuesday, waiting to be let into the Myers-Dodds Legacy Club for a free dinner and the chance to meet Chris...

Former Texas quarterback Colt McCoy during the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 2024. McCoy was the starting quarterback during Texas' last championship game against Alabama in 2010, but was injured in the first quarter.

2024 Hall of Honor class celebrated in Friday night ceremony

Isa Almeida, Senior Sports Reporter September 25, 2024

Twelve former Longhorn athletes and coaches were inducted into the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor on Sept. 20. The inductees were recognized at a ceremony held on Friday night at the LBJ Auditorium and...

Ryan Crouser during the Spring 2013 Texas Relays.

Longhorns rack up medals at 2024 Paris Olympics

Nicholas Kingman, General Sports Reporter August 13, 2024

The motto of “What Starts Here, Changes The World” is plastered all around the Forty Acres. Whether it be in academia or athletics, Longhorns will excel in their respective fields.  Thirty former...

The team fueling Texas Athletics’ success

The team fueling Texas Athletics’ success

Alistair Manliguez, General Sports Reporter July 22, 2024

When the Texas Athletics performance nutrition team promoted a nutrition consultant in 2012, they couldn’t have expected the amount of growth it has seen since. “I started full-time in 2012 and...

A marker displaying the Longhorn and Big 12 logos on the field during Texas' spring game on April 20, 2024.

Revamped, reinvented Longhorn Network looks toward future in SEC

Ben Wells, General Sports Reporter July 8, 2024

With Texas officially making its move into the Southeastern Conference on July 1, the Longhorn Network will look very different to comply with a series of rules and bylaws set forth by the SEC itself.  While...

What athletes being paid may mean for Texas Athletics

What athletes being paid may mean for Texas Athletics

Henry Hipschman, General Sports Reporter July 1, 2024

On May 23, the NCAA and the Power Five conferences came to a historic settlement, allowing students to be paid by their universities for the first time in college sports history.  This settlement came...

Longhorns and the SEC: A complicated, 30-year relationship between Texas, its rivals, college football’s best conference

Longhorns and the SEC: A complicated, 30-year relationship between Texas, its rivals, college football’s best conference

Nicholas Kingman, General Sports Reporter June 24, 2024

Longtime Texas head coach and three-time national champion Darrell K Royal said many quotes during his coaching career. But, one of his most notable is “football doesn’t build character, it eliminates...

Head baseball coach David Pierce talks to hitting and pitching development coach Chris Gordon in the dugout during Texas' regional tournament game against Louisiana on May 31, 2024.

Texas baseball fires head coach David Pierce, doing ‘best thing for program’

Katie Borchetta, Associate Sports Editor June 24, 2024

As it transitions to a difficult SEC baseball conference, Texas baseball will be without a prominent piece of its previous rosters, head coach David Pierce. It was announced Monday that Texas fired...

Quarterback Quinn Ewers holds up the 2023 Football Big 12 Championship trophy during the postgame celebration after the Longhorns won the game against Oklahoma State on Dec. 1, 2023.

Leaving Big 12: A Longhorn history of success in the conference

Henry Hipschman, General Sports Reporter June 10, 2024

Since 1996, the University of Texas has called the Big 12 Conference its home for everything and all things related to athletics. For nearly 28 years, the Longhorns have proven themselves a staple of the...

Athletic director of the University of Texas at Austin Chris Del Conte at the Orange vs. White football game on April 20, 2024.

Longhorns awarded Learfield Directors’ Cup, marking dominance at national level

Meaghan English, Senior Sports Reporter June 10, 2024

With the return of the Learfield Directors’ Cup to Texas soil, the Longhorns have been awarded as the top collegiate athletics program for the third time in four years.  Led by the strength of the...

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