Once again, the Longhorns proved that no lead of theirs is safe.
Texas led No. 4 Kansas for all but 31 seconds of the game's first 35 minutes and led by as many as 11 points in the second half....
Texas and Kansas are going in two very different directions.
The Longhorns, losers of three straight and four of their last five games, are off to their worst start in Big 12 play under head coach Rick...
If Mack Brown wants to turn things around, he should take a page out of Jerritt Elliott’s playbook.
In 2009, both the Longhorns’ football and volleyball teams suffered crushing defeats in...
One day after Case McCoy and Jordan Hicks were reinstated to the Texas football team, an investigation into sexual assault allegations made against them Dec. 28 is not yet closed, according to a statement...
When Bryan Harsin was named Texas’ co-offensive coordinator and given play-calling responsibilities in 2011, Mack Brown knew who Harsin’s successor would be.
“I told Major [Applewhite],...
Junior linebacker Jordan Hicks and junior quarterback Case McCoy have been reinstated to the UT football team, head coach Mack Brown announced Sunday evening, capping off a week in which Hicks’ attorney,...
After that 42-14 beatdown Alabama put on Notre Dame in Monday's BCS National Championship, there's a lot of questions one could ask.
Have the Crimson Tide established itself as a true dynasty?...
9-4 isn't anything to brag about. But the way Texas played in its 2012 finale could help ensure that it's 2013 season will be.
The Longhorns entered this game with a new play-caller in Major Applewhite....
Quarterback Case McCoy and linebacker Jordan Hicks were suspended by head coach Mack Brown and ordered home Friday from the Valero Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, according to multiple reports.
The move came...
Sophomore point guard Myck Kabongo has been suspended for the entire season by the NCAA, Yahoo! Sports reported Wednesday night.
Kabongo has already missed the Longhorns' first 11 games of the year...
In what was easily their best performance of the year, the Longhorns dominated No. 23 North Carolina in a 85-67 victory Wednesday night at the Frank Erwin Center.
Texas led the entire way, taking a 6-0...
HOUSTON -- For 37 minutes, the Longhorns looked like they were going to finally pick up a win over a quality opponent.
They led UCLA by eight points, 61-53, with less than three minutes to play but...
HOUSTON -- For 37 minutes, the Longhorns looked like they were going to finally pick up a win over a quality opponent.
They led UCLA by eight points, 61-53, with less than three minutes to play but...
For a guy who was in high school this time last year, Peter Jinkens spent a lot of time in the Kansas State backfield over the weekend.
And he should be spending plenty of time as a starting linebacker...
He faced allegations that he received impermissible benefits to pay for out-of-state trips earlier this year. He came into this season with extremely high expectations but began the year on the bench while...
University of Texas president William Powers Jr. expressed his support for Longhorns head football coach Mack Brown on Thursday, ensuring everyone that his job security is not in question.
“Now...
With as many twists and turns as the Longhorns’ season took this year, they did what everyone expected them to do before the season began.
With a 5-4 record in conference play, Texas finished...
No matter how bad things were, no matter how many games the Longhorns lost, they always found a way to win on the recruiting trail.
But Texas may finally be reaping the consequences of a 21-17 record...
Texas has won three straight games since a pair of disappointing losses in Maui. Extending that winning streak to four games will be tough.
The Longhorns begin a difficult five-game stretch that includes...
By the Numbers
1.125: Texas’ assist-to-turnover ratio. For the first time all season, the Longhorns recorded more assists (18) than turnovers (16). Their turnover-to-assist ratio...
If you have ever shown up to a decent number of Texas home football games on time, you are familiar with John Steinbeck’s take on the Lone Star State. The Pulitzer Prize winner is known for saying...
The man behind center is always going to be the one under the most scrutiny, the one who gets the most credit for wins and the most blame for losses.
But it doesn’t matter if David Ash, Case McCoy...
The Longhorns will be in an unfamiliar spot this weekend when they play the role of spoiler.
Kansas State, out of the national championship picture because of a loss to Baylor in its last game, still...
Once again, the Longhorns weren’t great on offense. But they didn’t have to be.
Texas held Sam Houston State to 21 percent shooting from the floor in a 65-37 victory Tuesday night —...
After a disappointing showing at the Maui Invitational, the Longhorns return to the Erwin Center on Tuesday night to face Sam Houston State.
Texas took down Mississippi State, 69-55, in the tournament’s...
Mack Brown, however reluctantly, did the right thing. He made Case McCoy his starting quarterback.
The Longhorns’ longtime head football coach would not make it clear if David Ash was Texas’...
Just when the Longhorns looked like they had turned the corner, TCU rolled into Austin and stuffed them like a turkey.
The Longhorns disposed of Texas Tech and Iowa State with ease. They headed into the...
A little more than three weeks ago, Mike Davis made a bold prediction.
“I feel like we can still go to a BCS bowl,” the junior wide receiver said Oct. 29. “We’ve got hope. College...
Less than 24 hours after suffering an embarrassing loss to Division II Chaminade, the Longhorns played better. But it still wasn’t good enough.
In its second game at the Maui Invitational, Texas...
Having a Hex Rally without playing Texas A&M is going to be like Thanksgiving without the turkey.
You can’t have one without the other.
But Texas will do just that this week, facing TCU on...
Not much has changed for Texas since its season began.
The Longhorns are still without Myck Kabongo, the sophomore point guard who is still under investigation by the NCAA. They still do not know...
At this time last year and the year before, it would have been much easier to look at the season ahead than it is now.
Texas is 8-2 with hopes of a Cotton Bowl appearance and its first 10-win season since...
The Longhorns may not be in line to win any beauty pageants with their play, but after stuffing Coppin State 69-46 on Monday, the only statistic the team is concerned with is the two in the win column.
“We’ll...
After leading the way in the Longhorns' season opener, Sheldon McClellan picked up right where he left off, scoring a game-high 13 points in the first half of Texas' game against Coppin State on...
Everyone knew the Longhorns were running a play out of the wishbone in their first play from scrimmage. No one thought it would be a play like this.
With his unit backed up inside its 10-yard line, co-offensive...
It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t pretty. But Texas is 1-0.
Sheldon McClellan scored 18 of his game-high 20 points in the second half as the Longhorns squeaked past Fresno State, 55-53,in their season...
It wasn't easy. It wasn't pretty. But Texas is 1-0.
Sheldon McClellan scored 18 of his game-high 20 points in the second half as the Longhorns squeaked past Fresno State, 55-53, in their season...
Here’s to hoping that there aren’t too many Longhorns football players with 8 a.m. classes this semester. Because there doesn’t seem to be many morning people on this year’s squad.
Twice...
Rick Barnes and Sheldon McClellan have what some could call a love-hate relationship.
Barnes, the longtime Longhorns head coach, and McClellan, the team’s top returning scorer from last year’s...
The UT community paid tribute to legendary football coach Darrell K Royal, who died from complications of cardiovascular disease early Wednesday morning at an assisted living facility in Austin. Royal...
Texas A&M did a lot to distance itself from the Big 12 — and Texas especially — this past offseason. But it may all be for naught if the Longhorns and Aggies square off in the Cotton Bowl...
If you want to know why Texas has turned its season around, look no further than Carrington Byndom.
The 6-foot, 180-pound junior cornerback had struggled mightily this season, uncharacteristically missing...
The Longhorns, already without last year’s leading scorer, are preparing for the possibility of playing without sophomore point guard Myck Kabongo in next Friday’s season opener against Fresno...
6-2. This is familiar territory for Texas.
This time last year, the Longhorns had won six of their first eight games, exceeding the number of victories they accumulated the previous year, and checked...
What could Case McCoy have done differently to earn the start this week against Texas Tech?
Remember, this isn’t an NFL combine we’re talking about. It’s a season-altering road game...
As far as wins go, that’s about as bad as it gets.
Kansas, a team that had not beaten an FBS squad this year or a Big 12 team in two years, nearly beat Texas. The Jayhawks were the superior team...
It was four short weeks ago that Jaxon Shipley had not one, not two but three touchdown catches — a career-high and as many scoring snags as he had all of last year.
Not only has he not scored...
Ever since Jordan Hicks went down in the first half of the Longhorns’ win over Ole Miss more than a month ago, the Longhorn defense has been searching for a spark. The search ended with Josh Turner.
Texas...
Every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, a different show airs on the Longhorn Network featuring Texas football head coach Mack Brown.
And every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, he loses time he can’t...
Forget what you heard about Texas being a defense-minded, run-first, SEC-style team.
All the preseason hoopla pegged the Longhorns as a team that would lean on their defense, wait patiently for their...
The last time Garrett Gilbert had this good of a game, he was in high school.
The former Longhorns quarterback looked like the prolific passer he was at Lake Travis High School, throwing for 265 yards...
Perceptions change quickly in college football.
The Longhorns should be counting on that to be true for them this week.
After the debacle in Dallas that was Texas’ 63-21 loss to Oklahoma last weekend,...
If you didn’t already know he was hurt before he spoke to reporters this week, you would have thought the wrapping on his left wrist was decorative.
The last time David Ash’s non-throwing...
It’s been a month since linebacker Jordan Hicks went out with a hip injury. It’s been about that long since the Longhorns have been able to tackle anybody.
Hicks, a junior, has missed the...
Unacceptable. Inept. Disappointing.
These were some of the words the Longhorns used to describe their performance in a 63-21 loss to Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry on Saturday. But there might not...
If football reveals character, but doesn’t build it, then what does?
Is it, as a second grader, dragging your father to the track every day, determined to outrun all the fourth graders in the upcoming...
Texas sophomore point guard Myck Kabongo is being investigated by the NCAA for possibly receiving impermissible benefits from agent Rich Paul, Longhorns spokesman Scott McConnell confirmed to The Daily...
The last time Texas and Oklahoma each entered the Red River Rivalry with a loss was in 2007.
Colt McCoy’s 324 yards and two touchdowns weren’t enough to rally the Longhorns to a win as they...
The Longhorns had a chance this weekend to unequivocally prove they had finally made the transition from the hapless Big 12 cellar dweller of 2010 to national title contender.
They didn’t take advantage...
When Malcolm Brown went down last year with a turf toe injury, something he said had been nagging him since high school, Texas did just fine without him at first.
The Longhorns racked...
When asked earlier this year what his favorite rule change in Major League Baseball was, Elvis Andrus didn’t say it was instant replay. Or the designated hitter.
He didn’t say it was interleague...
Jordan Hicks played a crucial role in Texas’ 20-13 win over No. 5 Nebraska two years ago. Playing through an injured hamstring, the freshman linebacker made a team-high 11 tackles in the upset victory.
When...
They did it again.
A trip to Stillwater, Okla. would not have been complete without a thrilling comeback that left tens of thousands of Oklahoma State faithful heartbroken.
The Longhorns were trailing...
A day after his 21st birthday, Nathan Thornhill is the one helping pitching coach Skip Johnson unload a circular orange tarp from a golf car onto the Disch-Falk Field mound after Thursday’s practice.
It’s...
When Myck Kabongo was contemplating whether or not he should leave for the NBA after one year at Texas or return for his sophomore season, he enlisted the help of his teammates to make a decision.
“I...
It was a long day for David Ash the first time he faced Oklahoma State.
Making his first career start, Ash threw the ball 40 times — as many attempts as he had in his first five games combined....
What was expected to be a dominant defense was anything but in Texas’ win over Ole Miss two weekends ago.
The Longhorns gave up 31 points and 399 yards of offense (not including a 100-yard kickoff...
Rising junior Rachel Fox has confirmed that she will be transferring from Texas and intends to choose her future destination in the next few weeks.
Fox served as the team’s No. 2 pitcher behind...
Texas was supposed to be the outlier, the anomaly in the pass-first, pass-second, pass-third Big 12.
The Longhorns were meant to rely on their defense, spend most of their snaps on offense feeding their...
Texas gave up touchdowns of 48, 75 and 100 yards in the second half of its 66-31 win over Ole Miss Saturday night. The longhorns committed more penalties this weekend than it did in its previous two games...
No one complained when Malcolm Brown carried the ball just 41 times over the final six games of last season. A nagging turf toe injury kept him out of three of those games and rendered him in effective...
It was a wonderful Friday morning two weeks ago when Longhorns fans with AT&T U-Verse woke up to find out their cable provider had begun carrying the Longhorn Network.
It was announced that the Longhorn...
When he heard Texas A&M had retroactively claimed national titles from the 1919 and 1927 seasons, junior guard Mason Walters did what many people did when they heard the news — he laughed.
“Oh,...
The game between Texas and TCU originally scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 24 has been officially moved to Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22.
The Big 12 announced a 13-year television deal with ESPN and FOX through...
After David Ash completed only five passes out of 27 attempts for at least 10 yards in Texas’ season opener, his coaches promised they would let the sophomore take more shots downfield.
They wasted...
Like their offensive and defensive counterparts, the Longhorns’ special teams had moments of brilliance in their season opener while leaving much to be desired.
In his first career start as defensive...
Texas allowed Wyoming only one third-down conversion in 11 tries, but that one stood out like a sore thumb.
“When you give up an 80-yard pass, you can’t say your secondary played well,”...
Coming off of its most complete game of the season, Texas will now face its toughest opponent of the season thus far.
After losing consecutive games to Arkansas and North Carolina State, Texas rebounded...
Two years after Soccoro High School shortstop Omar Quintanilla signed up to play for Texas, Creekview High School catcher Taylor Teagarden did the same. They’ve been following each other around ever...
The Olympic athlete’s journey is a tough one.
Big league baseball players get 162 games a year, NBA players get 82 and an NFL regular season includes 16 games. An Olympian gets once chance every...
As much spotlight as prolific offenses get in college football now, it’s worth remembering that the teams with the country’s two best defenses last season squared off in the 2011 National Title...
The Longhorns played three games before Alex Okafor recorded his first sack last year. They played six before Jackson Jeffcoat got his first one.
Don’t expect them to wait this long this season....
The Aggies were scheduled to face Louisiana Tech Saturday but, because of potential safety threats due to Hurricane Isaac, the game has been postponed until Oct. 13. That day previously marked a bye week...
It was 237 long days between Texas’ Holiday Bowl win over Cal last December and the day, to no one’s surprise, when the Longhorns finally named David Ash their starting quarterback last week.
“I...
The next time John and Jordan Danks take the field together, it will be the first time they’ve done so since the 2003 5A state title game.
Once high school teammates, the Danks brothers are now...
This time last year, Carrington Byndom was coming off a nondescript freshman season that saw him contributing to special teams almost as much as in the secondary.
Quandre Diggs, who enrolled at Texas...
I’ll admit it — I was one of the seven people who picked West Virginia to win the Big 12 this year.
Thirty-two of the 41 people who submitted ballots for this year’s preseason Big 12...
The Longhorns have two great running backs returning and another prolific tailback prospect preparing for his freshman season. Their defense should be one of the best in the country.
But all anyone wants...
After losing all three of its starting pitchers from a year ago, Texas’ rotation has fluctuated over the course of the season.
But for the first time all year, the Longhorns will have a new Friday...
Everyone remembers the player that breaks the color barrier.
But what of the coach? The most famous African-American to defy a color barrier in the world of sports is the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Jackie...
For the second straight game, the Longhorns came back to beat A&M.
The only difference was that Tuesday’s win came against Prairie View A&M and it wasn’t nearly as dramatic as Texas’...
After a couple tough outings last month, it seemed like Corey Knebel couldn’t handle pitching more than an inning or two at a time.
But after throwing five great innings in the series finale win...
Texas saved its best game of the series for last.
For eight innings, it seemed like it wouldn’t be good enough, but thanks to a pair of outstanding efforts on the mound, the Longhorns had just enough...
The Longhorns’ football team is 13-12 over the last two years. The Texas men’s basketball team has won exactly one NCAA Tournament game in the last three. It’s been eight years since...
Not many players that lead their team in a rushing as a junior suddenly switch positions before their senior season. But that’s what Cody Johnson did.
Johnson rushed for a team-high 592 yards in...
The Longhorns squeaked out their third straight win Tuesday night after holding off outs in crucial moments at bat.
Texas racked up five hits in 12 two-out at-bats and scored its first three runs with...
Like the football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams before them, the Baylor baseball team is winning — and winning at a record pace.
The Bears swept Texas A&M this past...
John Curtiss and Hoby Milner both began the season as starting pitchers.
But after going a combined 1-4 in five starts, Curtiss and Milner moved to the bullpen, where they have been stellar this year....
Jayhawks starting pitcher Frank Duncan threw nine dominant innings, retiring 20 straight Longhorns hitters in the process, and No. 23 Texas (21-14, 9-4) lost its third series opener in four weeks, 7-2,...
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in an eight-part series about Longhorns hoping to be drafted into the NFL.
There was a lot to like about last season. Texas won three more games than it did the...
