Nathan Han, Associate Managing Editor
• May 9, 2022
I’ve joked way too many times about finally leaving the Texan, but now that it’s actually time, I know I’m going to miss it, all because of the people.
Phoebe, thanks for a semester of getting...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 23 Double Coverage flipbook.
The Daily Texan spoke with Landon Reinhardt, football beat reporter at The Kansas State Collegian, ahead...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the November 5 flipbook.
Even after three straight losses and a middling 4–4 record, there’s no shortage of news when it comes to Texas football....
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 19 Double Coverage flipbook.
In Texas’ second drive of last Saturday’s loss to Kansas, Casey Thompson led the Longhorns down the...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 12 Double Coverage flipbook.
The Daily Texan spoke with Nathan Swaffar, sports editor of The Kansan, Kansas’s student newspaper,...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 5 Double Coverage flipbook.
1. Oklahoma
Freshman quarterback Caleb Williams shined yet again in the No. 4 Sooners’ 52-21 rout...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the October 29 Double Coverage flipbook.
Jaylan Ford and Alfred Collins are the next generation of Texas defenders.
In a college football world...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the October 15 Double Coverage flipbook.
The Daily Texan spoke with Dean Ruhl, sports editor at The O’Colly, Oklahoma State’s student newspaper,...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the October 8 Double Coverage flipbook.
Jake Majors channeled his inner Michael Jordan after a humiliating blowout loss to Arkansas in Week...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 19 flipbook.
Since Jordan Whittington’s father passed away in October, the Texas wide receiver said returning to football has been...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 16 flipbook.
Keondre Coburn hasn’t had this bad of a losing streak since middle school. The senior defensive tackle said his worst...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the October 1 Double Coverage flipbook.
The Daily Texan spoke with Colin Post, football beat writer and sports editor for TCU’s student newspaper...
With Friday’s game against Kansas State hanging in the balance, the Texas defense came up clutch twice on its own fourth-and-short stops to pitch a shutout in the second half.
In Saturday’s matchup of two 4–6 teams battling for bowl eligibility, Texas couldn’t come back from a 21-7 first half deficit and lost their sixth game in a row, 31-23.
Thirty minutes after the devastating 57-56 loss to Kansas, Casey Thompson came into Saturday’s postgame press conference with his shoulder pads still on and a lot on his mind.
“Obviously, I think...
Largely due to the struggles of the offensive line, Sarkisian failed his first major tests of his time at the helm of the football program in losses to Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor and most recently, Iowa State.
In its icy white uniforms, Texas will play Iowa State in front of a sold-out Jack Trice Stadium to try and end a three-game losing streak.
The 4–4 Longhorns take on the 5–3 Cyclones in Ames, Iowa,...
As the clock struck zero on Saturday’s loss to Baylor, Kai Money raced towards the southwest McLane Stadium tunnel to get his fellow teammates back onto the field in Waco as the Longhorn band played...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the October 5th flipbook.
Casey Thompson certainly understands just how important offensive lines are.
The redshirt junior quarterback took...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 24 Double Coverage flipbook.
Ever since Xavier Worthy first stepped foot on the Forty Acres, his teammates have been raving about...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 17 Double Coverage flipbook.
The Daily Texan spoke with Pavithr Goli, football beat writer at The Rice Thresher, Rice’s school...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 10 Double Coverage flipbook.
Luke Brockermeyer waited patiently for three years for a chance to play at Texas.
When the middle...
If the Red River Showdown loss was a collapse of epic proportions, this Saturday’s loss to the Cowboys was a mild comeback — the kind that slowly snuck up on Texas after it held a comfortable lead for most of the game.
Texas brought a new quarterback, a new head coach and a new “All Gas, No Brakes” culture to Saturday’s Red River Showdown. But it was the same old story.
At the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, the No....
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 27 flipbook.
In the second quarter of Texas’ 58-0 win over Rice, quarterback Casey Thompson actually called sophomore running...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 17 flipbook.
Trust the process.
That’s been Casey Thompson’s mindset when he sat patiently behind Sam Ehlinger for three years.
The...
Forget about the questionable officiating. Forget about the lifeless Texas passing attack and forget about an all-too-close TCU comeback scare at the end of the game.
Instead, let’s just appreciate...
The Texas offensive line was good.
And that made all the difference Saturday against Texas Tech.
After struggling in their first three games, especially in pass protection, the big men up front...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 14 flipbook.
Yes, Steve Sarkisian is only two games into his tenure as Texas football head coach. Yes, he inherited an imperfect...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the September 13 flipbook.
Texas’s 38-18 win against Louisiana this Saturday will go down in record books and Wikipedia pages as a clean, drama-filled...
Riding high off a 38-18 win over Louisiana in Week 1, Texas traveled into a hostile Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and came out worse for wear as fans chanted “S-E-C” in the blowout loss.
Editor's note: This story first appeared as part of the September 3 Double Coverage flipbook.
The Daily Texan spoke with Zachary Nagy, sports editor of Louisiana-Lafayette’s The Vermilion ahead of...
Will Stone remembers the moment he committed to Texas pretty well.
The high school senior kicker said he had just finished kicking practice in June when he received a call from special teams coordinator...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the August 31 flipbook.
Steve Sarkisian said there’s just a “vibe” about campus these past few weeks that’s different than when Texas first hired...
In his first game as Texas head football coach, Sarkisian’s offense scored touchdowns on grueling drive after drive despite a struggling offensive line.
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the August 25 flipbook.
The Longhorn football faithful are used to seeing senior kicker Cameron Dicker hit game-winning field goals ever since...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the August 23 flipbook.
Bijan Robinson said last year’s West Virginia game was the first time he truly felt comfortable on the field.
On...
Welcome to the first edition of the Texan Tuesday Football Talk, where The Daily Texan’s football beat reporters Matthew Boncosky and Nathan Han discuss, of course, Longhorn football.
Nathan Han:...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the July 26 flipbook.
With the 2021 Olympics already underway, several current and former Longhorns have made their mark in Tokyo.
Chief among...
The 2021 MLB Draft will feature several key pieces to Texas’ College World Series squad coming off the board, and many of them will likely opt to enter the professional ranks and end their Longhorn career.
Texas’...
In 2019, Longhorn head coach Howard Joffe knew his incoming class of 2020 recruits could make or break the future of the Texas women’s tennis program.
Anna and Bianca Turati, part of his first key...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the June 22 flipbook.
In May 2020, Axios data suggested former Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger could have potentially earned $962,000 off of his...
Jake Ehlinger, a sophomore linebacker and business major at The University of Texas and a former standout at Westlake High School, died Thursday. He was 20.
The Austin Police Department announced that...
TW: Discussions of death
Sophomore linebacker Jake Ehlinger was found dead near campus Thursday afternoon, according to Austin Police Department officials.
APD said they found Ehlinger in the 1200...
Matt Coleman has played his last minute as a Longhorn.
The senior point guard announced Thursday he would turn professional and forgo his extra year of eligibility at Texas granted to all NCAA athletes...
The Daily Texan spoke to The Daily Toreador's men’s basketball beat writer Ryan Mainville about what the new Texas head coach will bring to the table on the court and the recruiting trail.
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the March 23 issue of The Daily Texan.
Heading into the 2020-2021 season, the Texas men’s basketball team was returning every single player from the year...
If the Texas basketball season was a movie, winning the Big 12 tournament would have been the Longhorns’ happy ending in a rollercoaster season of ups and downs.
Instead, the season ended on the...
With 16.8 seconds left and Texas down one point, there was no doubt in the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri, about who was shooting the final shot.
Matt Coleman. Otherwise known to Texas fans...
Jase Febres looked like his old self for the first time in more than a year on Tuesday night.
It’s been a long time coming for the senior guard, who injured his left knee on Feb. 8, 2020 and underwent...
Texas took care of business Sunday.
Missed windmill dunk aside, the Texas men’s basketball team capitalized on a hot shooting night and took down TCU 76-64 in Fort Worth, ending the season on...
Texas started off March on the right note.
Head coach Shaka Smart dialed up full-court pressure early in Ames, Iowa, and his defense didn’t disappoint, holding Iowa State scoreless for six minutes...
Baylor’s recent struggles after multiple postponements due to COVID-19 are a stark reminder to Longhorn fans just how devastating time away from the court can be for a college basketball team.
The...
The Texas offense was anything but pretty in Saturday’s game against Texas Tech.
For the first nine minutes of the second half, the Longhorns didn’t score a field goal until a rare 3-point...
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in The Daily Texan's February 23 print edition.
Last Thursday, when several Texas teams returned to practice for the first day after the winter storms,...
Saturday’s down-to-the-wire loss was a reminder of just how fickle clutch offense can be.
In the first game against West Virginia on Jan. 9, redshirt junior guard Andrew Jones drained a game-winning...
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in The Daily Texan's February 9 print edition.
Texas women’s tennis seemed poised to make program history late Sunday night at the ITA National...
With 43 seconds left in Tuesday night’s game, senior guard Matt Coleman missed an easy breakaway dunk that would have put the Longhorns up by six. Then, Kansas State senior guard Mike McGuirl drained...
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in The Daily Texan's February 2 print edition.
After a layoff of almost 11 months, it’s official: Opening day is less than three weeks away for...
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in The Daily Texan's February 2 print edition.
Shaka Smart set the tone right out of the gate Monday in his first media availability since returning...
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in The Daily Texan's February 2 print edition.
Heading into the 2020-21 season, the loss of two of the best players in college tennis lingered over...
Brock Cunningham was speechless when asked why No. 6 Texas struggled against Oklahoma State’s 2-3 zone in Saturday’s 75-67 double overtime loss.
The Longhorns shot just 5-of-35 from three-point...
Heading into Tuesday’s game against No. 24 Oklahoma, the fifth-ranked Longhorns were as short-handed as it gets: The team only had the minimum eight players available.
Then, three Longhorns...
You won’t ever miss Kamaka Hepa’s energy from the Texas bench.
“You should see him at practice,” junior Courtney Ramey said. “Sometimes I tell him to shut up, like, ‘Come...
Heading into the college basketball season, there was a clear narrative for Texas: the Longhorns were returning every single player on last year’s squad and adding five-star recruit and freshman...
Texas men’s basketball head coach Shaka Smart tested positive for COVID-19, Texas Athletics announced in a press release Monday.
“I tested positive for COVID and am in isolation away from...
Donovan Williams has played through pain almost his entire basketball career.
The sophomore guard’s left knee issues first began during his junior year of high school. But Williams played through...
There are a variety of explanations for Texas’ outstanding performance in tight games this season — maturity, experience, grit, belief. Whatever the reason, Texas has come in clutch in close...
There weren’t any fans allowed in the stands at the Frank Erwin Center on Tuesday night to watch the highest ranked Texas team in head coach Shaka Smart’s tenure take on the Iowa State Cyclones.
But...
Heading into Saturday’s game against No. 3 Kansas, there were a lot of questions for an upstart Texas basketball team. Could the Longhorns generate reliable offense against top defenses? Did Texas...
Five minutes into the second half of Texas’ game against Oklahoma State on Sunday, it seemed as if the Longhorns’ offense had gone dormant. The Cowboy’s 2-3 zone had given Texas fits,...
Before the season, Texas head coach Shaka Smart and his coaching staff made deflections a point of emphasis.
“Deflections is a number we make a big deal out of,” Smart said in a preseason...
Fans at the Frank Erwin Center got their first small taste of freshman forward Greg Brown’s potential Wednesday night.
Texas State kept within striking distance of Texas for much of the night...
It seemed like the Longhorns were bound for another clutch finish. With two and a half minutes left in their game against Villanova on Sunday, junior guard Courtney Ramey buried a 3-pointer to even the...
The Longhorns have held the all-time record advantage over every team they’ve played so far this season — that is until they face Kansas State on Saturday.
Texas is 10–10 all time...
Matt Coleman did it again.
After his heroics against Oklahoma last year, the senior guard hit another game-winning shot to lift Texas to a gritty 69-67 win over No. 14 North Carolina to win the...
The Longhorns put the clamps on the Hoosiers on Tuesday afternoon and didn’t let them go all game in their 66-44 win over Indiana in the second round of the 2020 Maui Invitational.
Texas played...
Texas unleashed its three-guard lineup in redshirt junior guard Andrew Jones’ season debut, but it was junior guard Courtney Ramey who made the game-winning layup to give the Longhorns a close 78-76...
The Texas men’s basketball team touched down in Asheville, North Carolina on Saturday and practiced Sunday morning in preparation for the 2020 Maui Invitational.
While North Carolina is...
Editor's note: This story was originally published in the Nov. 24 issue of the The Daily Texan. Read about the results of the game against UT-Rio Grande Valley here.
The 14-day quarantine...
It didn’t take long for Texas to be tested this season. Redshirt junior guard Andrew Jones, who head coach Shaka Smart called the team’s best scorer, sat out of Wednesday night’s home...
Before the Big 12 lost four of its members and shrunk to a 10-team conference in 2011, Iowa State and Texas had only played seven times, with the Longhorns undefeated despite the fact that the Cyclones...
When the Texas basketball team rattled off an electric five-game winning streak to save its NCAA tournament bid last season, redshirt junior guard Andrew Jones said the trio of him, senior guard Matt Coleman...
On paper, there’s no way to go but up for the Texas men’s basketball team. Every single player on last year’s squad will return this season, with the addition of Greg Brown, a five-star...
After the great Big 12 exodus of 2012 when Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri and Texas A&M left the conference, West Virginia took the opportunity to join the Big 12.
It didn’t take long for the...
In his six years as offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State from 2013-2018, Mike Yurcich’s Cowboys went 5–1 against the Longhorns, putting up totals of 30, 38 and 49 in three different games.
The...
The Texas football team will play Baylor this week, a squad it has dominated historically yet struggled to beat in the past decade.
The Longhorns are 78–27–4 against Baylor, but only 5–5...
The Red River Showdown needs no introduction.
Since 1900, the year of the first matchup between Texas and Oklahoma, the Longhorns and Sooners have met 115 times. In 1929, the teams agreed to play their...
When TCU joined the Big 12 conference in 2012, no one expected the Horned Frogs to compete for Big 12 titles, but they have been a thorn in the Longhorns’ side.
“It’s a team that quite...
One thing about Saturday’s matchup between Texas and Texas Tech is clear: When the Longhorns and Red Raiders meet on the football field, there’s going to be a lot of scoring.
Texas Tech...
Since the men’s basketball team returned to campus and to voluntary offseason workouts in July, head coach Shaka Smart said he’s been limiting close contact and live 5-on-5 practice.
The...
Sixteen years after James Thomas played his last game as a Longhorn, he decided to go back to school and get his degree.
The former Texas basketball center reached out to an academic adviser in the...
The NCAA’s Division I Council set a Nov. 25 start date for the college basketball season Wednesday, the NCAA announced in a statement.
In Wednesday’s meeting, the council also voted to start...
The last time the Texas football team played UT-El Paso, Charlie Strong was in his final year as head coach, Shane Buechele was set to make his second start at quarterback as a true freshman and the Longhorns...
After Ryan Monsevalles worked with the Texas baseball team as a student video manager, the experience opened up a world of opportunities, including a job with the Toronto Blue Jays. But when he returned...
All fall sport athletes will receive an additional year of eligibility regardless of whether they play this school year or decline to participate due to health concerns, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors...
When the coronavirus pandemic forced UT to shut down in March, club sports were in full swing. The handball team had just hosted their collegiate national tournament on campus, and both the men and women’s...
At the start of the spring 2019 season, women’s tennis head coach Howard Joffe began looking ahead to the next season. Joffe knew his recruiting class for the 2020-21 season would be crucial for...
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