The Latin word “interfectum” sandblasted on the UT Tower shooting memorial will likely be changed to “interfecti,” according to Erica Saenz, the associate vice president of diversity...
They stood in the Main Mall, looking up at the Tower, stretching 307 feet into the clear blue sky. The flags were lowered to half-staff.
Fifty years earlier, they were avoiding the tower in every way...
John Economidy, editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan, gathered staff members at 9 a.m. on Aug. 1, 1966 for an impromptu meeting to plan the next day’s newspaper. Like many summer days, news was dull.
“What...
He scooted back carefully, dragging his feet across the black sand, focusing his Nikon camera on the polished face.
Alfred McAlister studied the camera’s screen, making sure the entire 6-foot...
HOUSTON – James Banks and Jarrett Allen received a gift.
NBA superstar Kevin Durant, who left his footprint at Texas during his freshman year in 2006-2007, gave Banks and Allen each a pair of...
The Longhorns made a splash at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.
Thirty-nine swimmers from the men’s and women’s swimming teams traveled to Omaha — 26 from the men’s side, 13...
The year was 1988, and a former University of Arkansas–Little Rock women’s basketball player had just started as the women’s basketball coach at Vilonia High School in Arkansas.
At...
A few nights ago, Eddie Reese lay in bed at 3 a.m., unable to sleep.
This isn’t abnormal. Sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night, and if he can’t doze off again, he’ll pick...
Abby Smith crumpled on a couch at the Richard Mithoff track and soccer field house the morning of Jan. 15, 2016. The National Women’s Soccer League draft was about to start.
“I literally...
I laid in bed Tuesday at 3 a.m., tossing and turning and thinking.
I had to write this missive and turn it in 17 hours. But I didn’t know who to thank, to praise, to compliment. I didn’t...
Texas Tech defeated Texas, 48-45, on a rainy Thanksgiving evening at Darrell K Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium.
The loss drops Texas to 4-7, 3-5 in the Big 12. Here are five thoughts on the game:
Injuries,...
After the Eggo chocolate chip waffles in the morning and occasionally pasta with pesto in the afternoon, Lee Perkins jumps into his red Toyota Corolla and lets the metamorphosis unfold. His eclectic playlist...
Skyler Howard’s drive is inspired by his mother’s work ethic.
Diedre Kelly worked multiple jobs while Howard grew up. She lost sleep so that both of them could have a better living.
“That...
Texas annihilated Kansas, 59-20, Saturday night at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. The offense exploded after it imploded against Iowa State last week and was shut out.
Heard again...
Texas ended its regular season with a dominant 3-0 win against Montana on Friday. But its fate – and seed – was already determined a week earlier after consecutive losses to Baylor and Oklahoma....
Of course Texas won.
Everything the Longhorns went through this season — five losses, four ties, a tough Big 12 schedule and a more daunting nonconference schedule — built to a 3-0 win ...
In August 2012, 10 freshmen took the field as head coach Angela Kelly’s first recruiting class.
On Friday night, fans can see how far the 10 – now seniors — have come.
The Longhorns...
Texas would have been a lock for the No. 2 seed in the Big 12 with a win Sunday.
A win over Baylor would have given the Longhorns 16 points in conference play, and no team could have caught them. Even...
Angela Kelly said the same thing during Texas’ difficult nonconference schedule.
Texas’ head coach constantly articulated that the Longhorns’ difficult schedule — they faced...
Joe Hubener played quarterback in high school. But he really didn’t.
Before he became Kansas State’s starting quarterback because starter Jesse Ertz suffered a season-ending injury, before...
Entering Sunday’s match against TCU, Alexa Adams remained euphoric from her performance Friday night against Iowa State.
The freshman forward scored two goals in Friday’s match. She fired...
The time hit 0:00 Friday night, and junior goalkeeper Cara Connatser jogged onto the pitch and made a beeline for freshman forward Alexa Adams.
Connatser didn’t just hug the Adams —...
The Longhorns’ season is consistently inconsistent through 11 games.
They have a 4-3-4 record, they’ve had great wins — upsetting UCLA — and bad losses — a 2-0 defeat at...
Baker Mayfield grew up 20 miles from The University of Texas.
Mayfield blossomed into a quarterback phenom in the Longhorns’ backyard. Now, the lifelong Sooners fan and the one-time Texas Tech...
The Longhorns ended another 110-minute competition in a tie.
Texas and Oklahoma State battled Sunday afternoon at Cowgirl Soccer Complex. Each ended with a zero on the scoreboard, adding another tie...
Head coaches overlooked Josh Doctson. Now he overwhelms defensive coordinators. Doctson’s story is the tale of an athlete no one wanted, but is now the one everybody wishes they had.
TCU’s...
The Longhorns appeared to be back last week against California. Then they weren’t.
Saturday was the same story. Texas was poised to upset Oklahoma State. Then it didn’t.
The Longhorns...
The Mountaineers’ clinic opened at 6 p.m. Friday.
Texas entered the clinic with confidence and in good spirits. The Longhorns felt sick to their stomachs and demoralized when the clinic closed...
Comparisons to Brandon Weeden aren’t necessarily viewed as compliments.
The former Oklahoma State quarterback is viewed as a bust since he entered the NFL as a first-round pick in 2012. Regardless,...
Angela Kelly talks about the Longhorns’ need to capitalize on missed opportunities ad nauseam.
Texas’ head coach can’t say much else about her rather unproductive offense.
The...
The gut punch came at the 110-minute mark.
That’s when Texas finished its game with Arkansas-Little Rock 0-0 at Mike A. Myers Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
The pain wasn’t caused by a...
Before the Golden Bears suit up for practice, he’s there. After practice, when it’s time to read textbooks and solve math problems, he’s still there. He’s in the weight room before...
Before Texas broke through, the game went scoreless for 70 minutes.
But in less than a minute, the Longhorns scored the two goals that propelled them to a 2-1 win over the Wildcats at Mike A. Myers...
There was a lightning delay while Brad Paisley played at UFCU Disch-Falk Field across Interstate 35.
Maybe that’s why a crowd of less than 100 sat at Mike A. Myers Stadium and watched the...
Rice running back Austin Walter went two years without playing in a game. In Rice’s 56-16 drubbing of Wagner on Saturday, the redshirt freshman rushed for 107 yards on 12 carries and one touchdown....
When freshman forward Alexa Adams strolls onto the soccer field, the lean freshman forward comes off as quiet.
“But she’s not,” senior goalkeeper Abby Smith said.
Around her teammates,...
It took a little more than 48 hours and 111 miles for Texas to feel like a winner again.
Friday night, the UC-Santa Barbara Gauchos put a lasso on the Longhorns with a 2-0 upset.
Angela Kelly called...
In the first 383 minutes of the season, Texas could muster only one goal.
That lone goal came from their goalkeeper Abby Smith in the first game of the season. The player notorious for stopping goals...
The Gauchos put a lasso on the Longhorns on Friday night.
Under the bright lights of Harder Stadium, Texas head coach Angela Kelly's Longhorns lost 2–0 to the University of California-Santa...
Malik Zaire had the ball in his hands.
In his first collegiate start, the Notre Dame quarterback held it when kicker Kyle Brindza’s 32-yard field goal cleared the uprights and won the Music City...
Texas heads west this weekend, in hopes that its winning percentage goes north.
The Longhorns travel to California to face the University of California-Santa Barbara on Friday at 9 p.m. CDT. Next, they...
Life can be ironic.
Redshirt freshman forward Mikayla Flores wants to go to medical school. She wants to be an orthopedic surgeon. She wants to be one who fixes ACL tears. But this past year, she spent...
The only Texas player who has scored this season is goalie Abby Smith.
Her teammates remained scoreless this weekend, as Texas lost to No. 5 North Carolina on Friday night and tied with Ohio State on...
Mia Hamm was at Mike A. Meyers stadium Friday night, along with 2,200 other fans. She was there to watch her alma mater play and her former teammate, Texas head coach Angela Kelly.
Kelly attended North...
It’s been nearly four years since Texas head coach Angela Kelly came to Austin, about 14 years since North Carolina played in Austin and more than two decades since Kelly donned Carolina blue.
“It’s...
Head soccer coach Angela Kelly had seen it before. The ball 45 yards or more from the goal, a player gives it a moonbeam of a kick. The fans eye the floating ball, the players run to where it might land,...
Texas head coach Angela Kelly and her team walked off a damp Ellis Field in College Station in November.
Texas had just lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to Notre Dame, who rallied...
When the sun rose Tuesday morning, Texas had 114 players on its football roster. When the sun set — as the Longhorns were finishing up their fifth practice at Frank Denius fields — they were...
Fans scattered throughout Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Sunday morning.
From the silver metal bleachers, they watched the Longhorns' third practice of the season.
A chorus of 2,000...
Junior quarterback Tyrone Swoopes and redshirt freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard began the next chapter in their quarterback competition Friday at the Longhorn’s opening practice for the 2015 season.
“I...
As summer ends and fall begins, another round of Texas sports will start. Here are a couple of things to look forward to this fall:
Texas Football:
Head coach Charlie Strong sat dapper at Big 12...
Designated hitter Joey Gallo waltzed into the batter’s box in the bottom of the fourth inning.
The five-tool phenom had the bases loaded with one out, and the Round Rock Express was in need of...
On the artificial turf of West Ridge Middle School, more than 250 kids partake in football drills that teaches fundamentals.
One group learns the correct way to pitch the ball to a running back. Another...
Beginning September 12, beer and wine will be sold at football games at Darrell K Royal Texas-Memorial Stadium in all public and private areas.
“Fan safety and enjoyment remains our number...
UT President Greg Fenves launched an independent review to look into academic allegations against UT’s athletic program, according to an article in the Austin American-Statesman on Monday.
The...
Texas men's track and field team ended its season with a seventh-place finish in the NCAA Championships.
Junior thrower Ryan Crouser and senior thrower Clint Harris ended their indoor tenures at...
When the first rounds of competition ended Wednesday, Texas athletes set several personal records, one school record and had two All-American performances at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Senior...
A story from The Chronicle of Higher Education has prompted the University to launch an internal investigation into the claims that former Texas basketball player Martez Walker cheated on a math test yet...
Throughout each day at X Games Austin, people walked past a kiddie pool, curious as to what would take place.
Fifteen minutes before the start time of the X Games event, a crowd formed around the...
After four days of sweat-inducing heat, countless tricks and hundreds of fans a day, X Games Austin came to an end.
Thursday kicked off the first day of competition with Harley-Davidson Flat-Track...
Kickflips, high flying tricks on motorcycles and one BMX Big Air competition for the ages.
The third day of X Games was filled with thrills.
The day started with the Toyota Skateboard Park. Curren...
The blistering sun glared off the unprotected skin of thousands of fans, as they marveled at events that were on display on Day Two of the X Games.
Friday got underway with Jamie Bestwick vying for...
For the second time in history, X Games has come to Austin.
For the first time ever, though, there was a winner in the Harley-Davidson Flat-Track Racing event, a new event premiering this year....
It’s been 71 years in the making — the Longhorns are NCAA Doubles champions for the first time since 1944, when John Hickman and Felix Kelley won.
Senior All-Americans Lloyd Glasspool...
The 2014–2015 school year was a roller coaster year for Texas athletics. Fans saw shake-up at the top in men’s basketball, another national championship for men’s swimming and diving...
After seven rounds and 256 selections in the 2014 NFL draft, Texas had no names on the selection board.
But by the time Mr. Irrelevant — the name given to the last player drafted — was picked...
It took every ounce of patience Malcom Brown had — but by the end of the night, the former Texas defensive tackle had finally been drafted.
“It was just a great feeling,” said Brown,...
It isn’t easy for an athlete to stop competing, but that’s exactly what the former student-athletes who were members of a panel on concussions did out of concern for their health.
“There...
Isaiah Taylor has got until Sunday to figure out if he’s as ready for the NBA as Johnny Manziel was for the NFL. There’s no question in my mind: Taylor should stay for his junior year, further...
Coca-Cola versus Pepsi. Chocolate versus vanilla. And now: Swoopes versus Heard.
Whether junior Tyrone Swoopes or redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard should start at quarterback for Texas is a polarizing...
The Longhorns are Quidditch World Cup champions for the third-straight year.
Texas defeated Lone Star Quidditch club 120–90 to finish off a comeback and leave Quidditch World Cup 8 victorious.
The...
The Big 12 was something of a powerhouse in 2014.
The conference saw two teams reach the semifinals of the College World Series, three play in the quarterfinals and four ranked in the top 10 of...
It’s that time of year when the flowers begin to blossom, the temperature outside warms up, and spring practice commences for the Longhorns.
Head coach Charlie Strong’s first season...
Rick Barnes is fading fast.
Barnes has been Texas’ head coach for 17 seasons and, in that time, he has done very little to merit staying here longer. It’s time for there to be a new head...
Biggest signees for Texas:
Malik Jefferson was Texas’ most highlighted recruit as the nation’s top linebacker. But Jefferson wasn’t the only monumental recruit for head coach...
After a busy inaugural season, Charlie Strong will officially assemble his first recruiting class as Texas head coach Wednesday during the 2015 National Signing Day. His 2015 class already...
In their second weekend of the season, the Longhorns had impressive outings at the UW Invitational in Seattle and the Howie Ryan Invitational in Houston.
At the UW invitational, Texas produced...
Men's swimming and diving
Each year, the Texas men’s swimming and diving team quietly climbs their way to the top — and this year should be no different.
The Longhorns have comfortably...
Men's tennis
The men’s tennis team concluded fall individual competition with nine singles wins and four doubles wins at the Florida Invitational.
The Longhorns started off hot, finishing...
Softball
Texas softball will finish off its fall season Friday when it travels to San Marcos to take on Texas State. The Longhorns will look to continue their dominant play, as they have outscored opponents...
Texas softball played its final fall home scrimmage at McCombs field Thursday evening. What took place in the game was nothing short of a blowout, as Texas destroyed St. Edward’s, 17-2.
The game...
Men's swimming and diving
In a quad meet characterized by electric times and tight finishes — including one touch separated by one one-hundredth of a second — the men’s swimming...
Women’s swimming and diving preview
This weekend, the women’s swimming and diving team will fly to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to swim at the Canham Natatorium in its first intercollegiate competition...
Texas softball beat down the Incarnate Word Cardinals, 11-0, in its second fall game Sunday. The Longhorns jumped on the Cardinals early, as the Longhorns scored seven runs in the bottom of the first inning...
Texas’ softball campaign came to an end last season at the hands of Louisiana-Lafayette in a 10-1 routing during Regionals.
This season, the Longhorns are looking to bounce back.
“Losing...
Last season, Texas came within one game of advancing to the College World Series final, and it hasn’t been easy to forget.
“It took a little bit of time,” senior pitcher Parker...
