Editor’s note: A 30 column is a chance for departing senior staffers to say farewell and reflect on their time spent in The Daily Texan’s basement office. The term comes from the old typesetting...
Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series about the racial integration of Texas’ men’s basketball team. Part one, which was published Wednesday, told the story of the first...
Editor’s Note: This is part one in a two-part series about the racial integration of Texas’ men’s basketball team. Part two, which will be published Thursday, will tell the story of Larry...
Shaka Smart’s to-do list got a little shorter Saturday night.
After weeks of speculation surrounding sophomore guard Isaiah Taylor’s future plans, Taylor announced late Saturday that...
Texas freshman forward Myles Turner announced via Twitter early Monday that he will be declaring for the 2015 NBA Draft.
Turner tweeted his farewell along with a link to a YouTube video that gave a...
Update: Head basketball coach Rick Barnes and Texas agreed to "part ways", according to a press release issued Sunday morning.
"I leave this job with no regrets," Barnes...
Over the past 11 months, much has changed within the Texas football program.
After the departure of Mack Brown, Charlie Strong came into Austin with his own staff and has worked to change the...
Texas athletics sent out a full-blast email to students Wednesday asking them for a favor.
The email, with the subject line of “Burnt Orange Blowout,” asked students and faculty to...
When Charlie Strong upset West Virginia at the helm of Louisville in 2011, his players hoisted him up and sent him crowd surfing in the locker room to celebrate the win.
It was one of his first signature...
With three games left in the season, Texas is facing the same fate it did at this point four years ago.
With a 4-5 record, the Longhorns must win two of their next three games to become bowl eligible...
With less than 15 minutes remaining in the Red River Rivalry, Texas found itself down 31-13 to the Sooners.
Although they would come up short in the end, the Longhorns staged a fourth quarter comeback...
Outside of the 15th Street Church of Christ in Temple, there is an old bush with a small hole in the middle.
Every Sunday, before church, a young David Ash started his morning by hiding his football...
Given all the changes new head coach Charlie Strong has made since arriving in Austin, not much remains from the Mack Brown-era at Texas.
However, one thing that has remained constant despite all the...
If Texas was looking for an opportunity to flip its season’s momentum, it had one Saturday night.
After last week’s loss to BYU left a damp, dark mood around the program, the Longhorns found...
Going into the season, many believed Texas’ strong suit would be its running backs.
Last year, senior Malcolm Brown and junior Johnathan Gray amassed a combined 1,612 rushing yards and 13 touchdowns....
Three weeks ago, many people thought Charlie Strong had changed Texas football.
But Saturday’s devastating 41-7 loss against BYU proved Strong hasn’t changed much at all.
Before...
It has been all bad news for the Longhorns since they routed North Texas, 38-7, last Saturday.
Senior center Dominic Espinosa is most likely out for the season after breaking his ankle against the Mean...
A fire ravaged the North Carolina home of former Texas football coach Mack Brown last week, according to multiple reports.
David Vance, Avery County, North Carolina Fire Marshall, told the...
Seven years ago, Bill Little, special assistant to the head football coach for communication, made a promise to then-athletic director DeLoss Dodds and head football coach Mack Brown.
The longtime sports...
In the past 12 months, Texas has been buzzing with changes.
Longtime Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds retired while Steve Patterson came in to fill his large shoes. On the football field, Texas hired...
It’s no secret that Texas is considered more of a football school than a basketball school.
But, while the Longhorns have produced many NFL stars, they have also started the careers of multiple...
Last spring break, in a last-minute decision, mechanical engineering senior Steve Guillen packed a backpack, grabbed his helmet and biked 738 miles east to Destin, Fla. He had no plans and no set accommodations,...
A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday that scholarship players of the Northwestern University football team are employees of the University and have the ability to form...
Even with effort and aggressiveness on the offensive board, Texas wasn’t able to secure a date in the Sweet 16 despite winning its opening game in the NCAA Tournament.
The Longhorns took on Michigan...
After missing the NCAA tournament last season for the first time under head coach Rick Barnes, No. 7-seeded Texas is set to face No. 10-seeded Arizona State in the Midwest region of the tournament Thursday...
Tarale Murry thought he gave up a dream to come to Texas.
Murry, a junior guard walk-on on the Longhorns’ basketball team, was a four-time varsity letter winner at Lehman High School in Kyle....
Before they make their return in the NCAA Tournament, the Longhorns will make one stop in Kansas City, Mo., over the weekend for the Phillips 66 Big 12 Tournament.
Three-seed Texas (22-9, 11-7 Big 12)...
For the fourth time in his career, Texas head coach Rick Barnes has been named the Big 12 Coach of the Year.
Barnes, who also earned the award in 1999, 2003, and 2008, now ties Kansas coach Bill Self...
No matter what it did, the road woes kept appearing for Texas all season. And on Saturday, they appeared one more time for the Longhorns’ season finale.
Texas (22-9, 11-7 Big 12) took on Texas...
Almost five months ago, Texas entered its season selected to finish eighth in the Big 12. Now, with one week to go in the regular season, the Longhorns have a chance to finish tied for second in the...
Not even beer could bring excitement to a lethargic matchup at the Frank Erwin Center on Wednesday night.
In the first game at which alcoholic beverages were served at a home Texas basketball showcase,...
With three games left in the regular season, No. 24 Texas looks to hold on to its spot near the top of the Big 12.
That goal starts Saturday, when the Longhorns (21-7, 10-5 Big 12) travel north...
A left-handed layup high off the glass by freshman point guard Isaiah Taylor put Texas ahead by 3 points with 43 seconds left in Wednesday’s game. But it was a one-handed block by sophomore center...
After two impressive wins against conference opponents, Texas fell victim to the strength of the Big 12 on Tuesday night.
At the Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa, No. 19 Texas (20-6, 9-4 Big 12) had trouble...
The Frank Erwin Center will play host Saturday to a matchup that has turned into one of Texas’ biggest Big 12 contests in the last half of the season.
West Virginia (15-10, 7-5 Big 12), which...
After the seven-game winning streak that put it in the rankings, Texas rolls back into action Tuesday, looking to prevent the start of a losing streak.
The Longhorns face a determined Oklahoma...
After seven straight wins, Texas has moved from the hunter to the hunted.
The Longhorns (18-4, 7-2 Big 12) sit in second place in the Big 12, despite starting 0-2 in conference play. Texas produced...
FORT WORTH — Three days after shocking reigning Big 12 champion Kansas, Texas had trouble pulling away from lowly TCU.
The Longhorns (18-4, 7-2 Big 12) played down to the Horned Frogs (9-12, 0-12...
Texas fans witnessed a sight they haven’t seen in quite some time Saturday at the Frank Erwin Center.
In front of an electrifying, sold-out crowd, the No. 25 Longhorns overpowered No. 6 Kansas,...
UT’s first football team in 1893 didn’t have a coach.
Some aspects of the game were different then: Field goals were worth more points than touchdowns, and it was played almost exclusively...
Texas ranked 18th in Baseball America preseason top 25
Although the Longhorns have struggled in the past couple of years, Baseball America doesn’t believe it will remain that way. Baseball ranked...
There are not many similarities between Mack Brown and Charlie Strong. They’ve both won football games — a total of 281 between the two as head coaches — and they’ve both won national...
Since leaving Texas for a career in the NFL, Vince Young has had trouble both on and off the field. Now, nine years after winning a national championship for Texas, Young has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Attorney...
The Longhorns produced their third consecutive sweep Sunday as they defeated Arkansas 7-0.
Highlighted by junior Jacoby Lewis and senior Sudanwa Sitaram at the No. 3 spot, Texas clinched the doubles...
Texas’ newest football coaching staff became official Wednesday evening when head coach Charlie Strong formally announced the assistants who will work alongside him during his first year with the...
It hasn’t been long since Charlie Strong arrived in Austin, but he has yet to waste any time making his own mark on the Texas coaching staff.
Strong, who was officially announced as Texas’...
At a specially called meeting Monday morning, the UT System Board of Regents unanimously approved new football head coach Charlie Strong’s five-year contract and authorized President William Powers...
Charlie Strong has many important tasks now that he is the head football coach at Texas, but one of his largest will be recruiting.
Texas has always been a popular destination for high school...
Coaching Experience
Strong has 31 years of coaching experience at the collegiate level. The former Central Arkansas safety started his coaching career at Florida as a graduate assistant and has since...
