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The Daily Texan

Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

The Daily Texan

Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

The Daily Texan

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It’s more than just a game for some fans

Sameer Bhuchar June 6, 2011

For much of the world, modern professional sports are often points of social and cultural contention. For the athletes, there is a greater sense of camaraderie, the feeling that practice pays off. But...

Inexperienced Horns eliminated early once again

Sara Beth Purdy June 6, 2011

The Longhorns were happy with their regular season performance. They only lost eight games, defeated many top ranked opponents and earned the third overall seed in the postseason, which meant they would...

Texas falls to Kent State

Jon Parrett June 5, 2011

Texas scored three runs in the ninth inning but they weren’t enough to complete a comeback against Kent State, and the Longhorns fell 7-5 in their second game of the Austin regional. Taylor Jungmann...

Texas survives Princeton in tourney opener

Trey Scott June 4, 2011

  A win is a win, but the Longhorns sure hope that the 5-3 squeaker they pulled out against Princeton ends up being their closest call of this regional tournament. When Corey Knebel clinched...

Texas on road to redemption

Trey Scott June 3, 2011

It has been exactly 356 days since June 12, 2010, the day a promising baseball season came to a painful end. That hot day, the scoreboard at Disch-Falk read: Texas 1, TCU 4. The upstart Horned Frogs...

Season over for Longhorns

Nick Cremona June 3, 2011

There was no squeaking into the next stage of postseason play this time. The Longhorns were not able to mount a comeback in the final round of the NCAA Championship and failed to qualify for the...

Horns enter 16 into NCAA Championships

Sameer Bhuchar June 3, 2011

The Texas women’s track and field squad had a successful NCAA Championship qualification week as it advanced a best-in-the-nation 16 entries in 11 events to the championship meet beginning next...

Horns confident with Stafford for game against Princeton

Trey Scott June 3, 2011

Stafford is ready In explaining how he created his pitching rotation for this weekend, head coach Augie Garrido did his best Joe Namath, predicting that his Longhorns would take care of business...

Goodwin shining for men’s track team

Sameer Bhuchar June 3, 2011

Since earning second place at the Big 12 Championship meet in mid-May, the Texas men’s track and field team qualified nine entries for the NCAA Championships June 8. Among the qualifiers was...

Stafford’s performance key to Horns’ opening round

Trey Scott June 2, 2011

Sam Stafford will get the ball for Texas’ first game in the Austin Regional, Friday night against Princeton. The question is, which Stafford will show up? Good Stafford has control of his...

Texas looks to carry momentum into regionals

Trey Scott June 2, 2011

Right now, the Longhorns are on a roll. They finished the regular season with a share of the Big 12 Championship, won the final series against Texas A&M and put together a fine showing at the...

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Texas exits NCAA regionals early

Chris Hummer May 24, 2011

The path through regionals could not have set up better for the Longhorns. They were the No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament and had drawn a regional match-up at home. Houston and Texas State were on...

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