Considering the fact that Texas did not bring back either of its three starting pitchers from last year, the Longhorns’ starting pitchers have done well this season.
They’ve done particularly...
When a team reels off three straight hits, it’s almost impossible to keep them from scoring.
But sophomore catcher Jacob Felts helped Texas do just that in the third inning of last night’s...
Texas has its fair share of great coaches.
Head football coach Mack Brown brought the Longhorns their first national title in more than three decades and, until a brief hiccup in 2010, made them a perennial...
Texas has an All-American closer, a third baseman that’s batting over .400 in his last 19 games and two starting pitchers who gave up one run between them in 14-and-two-thirds collective innings...
For the second straight game, Texas' starting pitcher was stellar. The Longhorns, unlike Friday night, did not let their starter's outing go to waste.
Freshman Parker French scattered five hits...
The Longhorns came close. But they weren't playing horseshoes or tossing hand grenades.
Sophomore right fielder Mark Payton, who drove in Texas' only run of the game in the second inning, came...
Coming off two straight tournament wins and with the nation’s top two golfers at their disposal, top-ranked Texas has a good chance to win their third straight tournament this weekend.
Senior Dylan...
Not many people had a better start to their college baseball career than Erich Weiss.
The third baseman from Brenham went on a ridiculous tear to begin his freshman season, getting hits in each of his...
The days of the Longhorns pitching staff carrying the team are over.
Each of the first four players in the Texas lineup came into this week with batting averages above .300 and all four of those batters...
A team’s leadoff batter has one crucial objective — get on base.
That’s why it’s no wonder that sophomore right fielder Mark Payton, who has reached base in each of the Longhorns’...
Coming into Thursday, it had been nearly a month between Nathan Thornhill’s last two wins — victories over Rice and California. But, thanks to an offense that went from nonexistent to lethargic...
Four years ago yesterday, Taylor Jungmann and Nathan Thornhill squared off in an epic pitcher’s duel.
Jungmann, a senior at Georgetown High School, and Thornhill, a sophomore at Cedar Park, each...
It’s been an up-and-down season for Texas.
The Longhorns swept a doubleheader against Duke on the first day of the season, but lost seven of their next nine games before a stretch that saw them...
Texas came into its latest three-game series with a 14-9 record. So did Cal. For the 34th time in school history, the Longhorns advanced to last year’s College World Series. So did Cal.
So it was...
Opposing pitchers have not had much luck against the Longhorns lately.
No. 18 Texas (15-9) scored in each of the first five innings, jumped out to an early 10-0 and never looked back, trouncing Cal (14-10),...
Through 23 games, junior pitcher Hoby Milner leads Texas in wins. And losses.
Milner began the season as the No. 2 starting pitcher behind sophomore Nathan Thornhill but struggled until he moved to the...
After Texas jumped out to a four-run, first-inning lead, it looked like the Longhorns would win easily. They won, but it wasn’t easy. Had it not been for juniors Hoby Milner and Jonathan Walsh, they...
Texas hasn’t had a tight end catch more than 16 passes or rack up 200 receiving yards in any of the past four seasons. Meanwhile, the Longhorns men’s swimming and diving squad — under...
It didn’t come easy, but the Longhorns won another series this past weekend.
No. 22 Texas (13-9, 5-1) took two of three games from Kansas State (13-10, 2-4), capping off the series with an 8-5 victory...
After his team’s sixth straight win Tuesday evening, head coach Augie Garrido joked that Bill James, the renowned baseball statistician, should write an article about how often a team scores when...
Billy Beane would be proud.
The Longhorns’ increasingly uncanny ability to get on base recently would certainly impress the Oakland Athletics general manager, who was played by Brad Pitt in “Moneyball.”...
Head Coach Augie Garrido was unsure of whether his team could play well away from home, especially in a place like Norman, Okla., home of the Oklahoma Sooners, his Longhorns’ first Big 12 foe of...
A game against Texas State – who owned the nation’s best ERA coming into this week and who strung a 57 2/3 consecutive scoreless inning streak together earlier this season – did not seem...
Following a bizarre catcher’s interference call by the home plate umpire, Ricky Jacquez found himself mired in a fifth-inning bases-loaded, two-out jam.
But the freshman pitcher, with a 2-2 count...
Texas’ offensive woes continued Sunday afternoon but, unlike their last game, the Longhorns couldn’t produce the extra-inning runs to pull out a win.
Sophomore pitcher Nathan Thornhill threw...
Last Tuesday, six different Texas pitchers combined to throw a three-hit shutout in one of the Longhorns’ most dominating pitching performances of the season.
A week later, they nearly topped it....
Texas didn’t get swept this past weekend like it did by Stanford earlier this season, but the remainder of the Houston College Classic did not go particularly well for the Longhorns.
They took down...
It’s hard to lose when you don’t let the other team score.
The Longhorns found this out in a 2-0 win over Houston Baptist Tuesday night, their first victory since opening day. Texas ended...
Thankfully for Texas, the season is a long one.
The Longhorns, 2-5 through their first seven games, are off to their worst start in nearly 70 years, when World War II was near its end and gasoline cost...
Texas traveled to Palo Alto, Calif., looking for an opportunity to bounce back from consecutive losses. Instead, the Longhorns were swept.
Texas (2-5) lost each of its three games to No. 2 Stanford (7-0),...
A few months ago, Jordan Etier’s baseball career was over.
The former Westlake star and two-year starter at Texas was booted off the baseball team following an arrest for marijuana possession and...
For the second consecutive game, uncharacteristic defensive miscues kept Texas from winning.
The Longhorns committed errors in the third and fifth innings that each led to multiple runs as No. 12 Texas...
When the Longhorns fell behind Saturday night, they responded immediately and picked up their first comeback win of the season.
But when Duke put Texas in an early 3-0 hole on Sunday afternoon, the Longhorns...
After blanking Duke in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, Texas got off to a sloppy start in Game 2.
Junior pitcher Hoby Milner induced three straight groundouts in the first inning but...
Omaha — the Mecca of college baseball, the site of the College World Series and the expected destination for Longhorn baseball teams every year.
Behind pitchers like Taylor Jungmann and Cole Green,...
The Daily Texan: How will your team adjust to losing Sam Stafford and Cohl Walla for the year?
Augie Garrido: We have two of our star players from last year that will be out for the season. This is always...
Texas’ leading hitter last season can’t recall what his batting average was in 2011.
“I don’t really remember. I’m not sure, but I think it ended up somewhere in the .340s,”...
For a while, C.J. Hinojosa had no idea where he would play baseball.
The highly touted Klein Collins High School shortstop decided to graduate from a high school a semester early to either enroll at Texas...
Sam Stafford’s shoulder has proven to be quite problematic.
The senior southpaw was drafted by the New York Yankees in the second round of last June’s MLB draft, but could not come to an agreement...
Junior outfielder Cohl Walla has torn his ACL and will miss this upcoming season.
The injury took place during a collision in the outfield during a practice last week.
Walla played in 50 games last season,...
LSU was considered the nation’s best team for the majority of this past season.
The Tigers fell to Alabama in the national title game but still had a much better season than Texas, who capped off...
When Stacy Searels first set foot on the field at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, he was in awe.
“What a beautiful place,” Searels thought. “Tommy Nobis played here.”
Searels,...
Only half an inning had been played before the fans at Disch-Falk Field rose in a standing ovation.
It had been nearly 30 years since Roger Clemens took to the mound in a Longhorns uniform but the...
Roger Clemens won 25 games on the mound for Texas between the 1982 and 1983 seasons. This weekend, he’ll try to win one from the Disch-Falk Field dugout.
Saturday marks Fan Appreciation Day for...
Better late than never.
The axiom held true last Thursday when it was announced that the Longhorns had reinstated Jordan Etier — who was arrested last October and charged with possession of...
J’Covan Brown was practically unstoppable last weekend against Missouri. The junior guard drilled his first three shots from beyond the arc, giving him nine points before 12 minutes had been played.
Even...
When shortstop Brandon Loy was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the fifth round of the 2011 MLB Draft, the Longhorns lost half of their starting middle infield. After Jordan Etier was arrested and charged...
Originally posted on Jan. 3, 2012
Coaches throw the word “consistency” around so much it has a kind of numbing effect. But that’s what Texas needs to develop over the offseason.
There...
It’s hard not obsess over a team’s quarterback, especially at Texas. The guy behind center for the Longhorns will always be under a microscope.
That’s about the only certainty surrounding...
Just like it had all season long, the Texas defense bailed out the offense.
As the Longhorns offense struggled to get into a rhythm, going three-and-out on four consecutive first-half possessions, the...
Texas and Cal both bring 7-5 records into this year’s Holiday Bowl. But what separates the Longhorns and Golden Bears is how they got there.
After lopsided wins over Kansas and Texas Tech, Texas...
Ever since Garrett Gilbert was ousted as Texas’ starting quarterback, Case McCoy and David Ash have treated the job like a hot potato. So it’s only fitting that both will see significant playing...
Sophomore wide receiver Darius White announced his decision to transfer Tuesday, becoming another in a long line of former Longhorns that have left the football program this year.
White was an all-state...
All season long, Texas has talked about the “brick by brick” approach it’s taken to rebuilding the football program. After going 7-5, the Longhorns aren’t laying the bricks as quickly...
During the week before Texas played Baylor, rumors swirled about Longhorns head football coach Mack Brown announcing his retirement following his team’s regular season finale this past Saturday....
For the first time in two seasons, Texas is not only going to a bowl game but bringing an All-American with them. Junior defensive end Alex Okafor was named to the AFCA All-American team Monday, making...
Texas is headed to San Diego to face California in the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl on Dec. 28.
After wrapping up the regular season with a 48-24 loss to Baylor Saturday, the Longhorns are set to...
Here are three observations from Saturday’s loss to Baylor.
Griffin made case to win Heisman, Vaccaro hopes he wins it
With Alabama’s Trent Richardson and Stanford’s Andrew Luck not...
Beating a team as good as Baylor is hard enough without beating yourself like Texas did Saturday.
The Longhorns committed half a dozen turnovers and twice as many penalties. Justin Tucker, the reliable...
It was an ugly day when Texas traveled to the Cotton Bowl this October. Landry Jones had 300 yards and three touchdowns before halftime as the Sooners put a 55-spot on the Longhorns.
But since then, the...
The 439 rushing yards Texas racked up against Kansas seemed impossible to top, but the Longhorns did so in their very next game by running for 441 on Texas Tech.
But Texas hasn’t even rushed for...
Texas A&M will make the transition to the SEC with a new head football coach.
Mike Sherman was fired Thursday, a week after the Aggies wrapped up their regular season with a 27-25 loss to the Longhorns....
Back in January, the nation’s leading scorer strolled into the Frank Erwin Center from Connecticut.
He handed Texas a heartbreaking one-point overtime loss and went on to lead the Huskies to their...
Editor's note: updated 11/27/11 at 10:45 p.m.
It only took them 11 games, but the Longhorns finally found a quarterback.
Garrett Gilbert started just two contests. David Ash lasted five games as...
The rivalry between Texas and Texas A&M is truly a tradition unlike any other.
The first Masters tournament was played in 1934, 40 years after the Longhorns and Aggies began playing each other. But...
Just as Texas’ quarterback situation began to stabilize and the Longhorns found their offensive identity, they ran into Missouri and Kansas State.
The Texas offense has put up just 16 points over...
Texas playing Texas A&M on Thanksgiving used to be as sure as death and taxes.
But one of college football’s oldest rivalries became one of conference realignment’s most notable casualties...
For the second straight week, Texas held an explosive offense to 17 points. And for the second straight week, 17 points was enough to win.
With the Longhorns’ offense struggling, the defense did...
Like this season, this year’s senior class has had its ups and downs.
Texas will celebrate Senior Night this weekend, recognizing 26 players who have spent four years playing football at the 40...
He stands at 6-foot-5 and 226 pounds. He can hurt a defense with his arm as much as he can with his feet. He will try to run around defenders but doesn’t mind going through them. Remind you of anyone?
The...
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Garrett Gilbert sat down with The Daily Texan for an exclusive interview, discussing his time at Texas, high expectations and his future at Southern Methodist University.
The Daily Texas: What do you...
February 7, 2008: “I am here to announce my commitment to the University of Texas ... I’m very excited about this opportunity. I feel very blessed ... It’s been my dream ever since I...
Without their top two rushers, the Longhorns needed a big day out of Fozzy Whittaker. On the fourth play from scrimmage, David Ash pitched the ball to the senior tailback, whose knee awkwardly buckled...
In one short year, the Longhorns’ offensive line has gone from a glaring weakness to a
definitive strength.
Like most of the team, it went through many changes. Texas hired Georgia’s Stacy...
Jackson Jeffocat’s dad was right. The sacks came and they came in bunches.
Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end and current San Jose State defensive line coach Jim Jeffocat was confident his son...
Texas was without its leading rusher and its receiver, Malcolm Brown and Jaxon Shipley, last weekend but still managed to blow out Texas Tech and amass a season-high 595 yards, 439 on the ground. Brown...
The Longhorns used to take winning six games for granted. They never talked much about being bowl eligible.
Ten wins used to be the benchmark Texas strived toward and reached nine years in a row....
Here are three observations from Texas’ victory over Texas Tech.
NCAA president pays visit to Austin
NCAA president Mark Emmert came to Austin to watch the first half of Texas’ 52-20 win...
After the game, he signed more autographs than the number of passes he threw during the contest.
But David Ash made the most of them. The freshman quarterback attempted just seven passes, completing four...
When he lost his shoe while scoring against UCLA, it seemed like an isolated incident. But when it happened again when Texas faced Iowa State and a third time on a touchdown run against Kansas, it became...
Texas isn’t playing Kansas anymore.
The Jayhawks ran 36 offensive plays against the Longhorns last week. It took Texas Tech a little more than a quarter to run 40 plays when it upset Oklahoma two...
When David Ash was offered a scholarship to play football at the University of Texas, he didn’t hesitate to make a decision.
“We were in Coach [Mack] Brown’s office, and our whole family...
In one of the more dramatic World Series in baseball history, the Texas Rangers were denied their first-ever championship by the St. Louis Cardinals. The seven-game series provided both epic entertainment...
In honor of Veterans Recognition week, two F-18 Hornets will fly over Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday. But they won’t be the only things flying around this weekend.
Texas Tech...
Here are three observations from Texas’ blowout of Kansas.
Marquise Goodwin is back
Even before playing Oklahoma State, head coach Mack Brown said his offense needed to get Marquise Goodwin more...
Texas defensive coordinator Manny Diaz sent the second-team defense in for Kansas’ final drive. His starters took the field instead.
“We kind of all snuck back on the field,” said freshman...
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It didn’t really matter who played quarterback. Not the way the Longhorns ran the ball and played defense.
Texas outrushed Kansas 441 to -2, racked up 35...
Plenty of things may scare you this Halloween weekend. Kansas’ defense should not be one of them.
Any way you look at it, the Jayhawks are just plain bad. They’re the only team that gives...
Texas might as well have wanted posters around its stadium asking for a productive pass-catching tight end.
Ever since D.J. Grant erupted for three touchdowns against UCLA, the Longhorns’ tight...
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Davis bested Kansas safety in high school
Texas has always had its fair share of the nation’s best high school football players. And the Dallas area has always been one of the state’s richest...
The Longhorns used their last two tournaments to become the nation’s No. 1 ranked team. Now they’re using this week’s tourney to keep that coveted spot atop the rankings.
Texas is well...
Kansas’ defense is about as bad as it gets. The Jayhawks have the country’s second-worst pass defense, the second-worst rush defense and are dead last in total defense, giving up more than...
The Texas Rangers just won’t go away. Derek Holland wouldn’t let them.
After Texas and St. Louis split two nail-biters, the Cardinals seemed to take control of the World Series with a convincing...
Get more production from the heart of the lineup
The players who occupy the No. 2 through No. 4 spots in the Rangers lineup — Elvis Andrus, Josh Hamilton and Michael Young — went a combined...
Despite a 12-for-15 showing at UCLA and not throwing an interception in 53 pass attempts this season, Case McCoy did not take a snap against Oklahoma State. The sophomore quarterback was understandably...
Everyone expected change. But not this much.
Mack Brown hired six new coaches for a reason. He wanted to shake things up and through half of the regular season, his wish has come true. The Longhorns were...
It’s pretty simple. Run for 200 yards. Get the win.
Under Mack Brown, Texas was a perfect 70-0 when topping the 200-yard mark on the ground. But Oklahoma State made it 70-1 by handing the Longhorns...
Texas obviously did many things did wrong against Oklahoma. But maybe the Longhorns’ first mistake was made before the game even started when the team did a walkthrough at the Cotton Bowl the Friday...
