As I write this column on Thursday (yesterday), the sports office of The Daily Texan, as I’ve known it for the last four years, has remained relatively unchanged. The red couch with pillows bursting...
The Daily Texan sat down with associate professor Ben Carrington to discuss a variety of topics, including UT’s slow integration process to the Rooney Rule, to what the University athletic department...
Do something, anything other than watch the first 20 minutes of the NFL Draft.
Surf YouTube, start whatever research paper you’ve neglected for the semester, figure out your summer plans, but just...
Follow Keenan Robinson on Twitter and you can really pick the Texas linebacker’s brain.
He’s a realist.
“U better believe it’s gone bro,” Robinson (@KeenanRobinson1) tweeted...
Texas has had most of this semester to rest up, but it’s time to get back into the swing of things for the Longhorns.
Texas will host Texas State in the fourth game of its spring schedule....
Texas took a step back, then two steps forward.
After announcing that guard Sterling Gibbs planned to transfer following the spring semester, the Longhorns inked two big names in high school basketball...
Baylor’s men’s and women’s basketball programs are currently under investigation regarding a series of more than 1,200 impermissible texts and calls to potential recruits.
According...
He’s had his shot to wow me, but after yesterday’s exciting finish at the Masters, I’ll just admit it: Yes, golf is exciting without Tiger Woods, and no one proved that more than the...
If the NBA season were to end today, every Texas team would have a spot in the Western Conference playoffs. The tried-and-true San Antonio Spurs, young Houston Rockets and reigning champion Dallas Mavericks...
It’s official. J’Covan Brown will forgo his senior year and enter the 2012 NBA Draft. “There were a lot of reasons to come back to school next year, most importantly getting my degree...
It’s official. J’Covan Brown will forgo his senior year and enter the 2012 NBA Draft.
"There were a lot of reasons to come back to school next year, most importantly getting my degree...
If Rick Barnes’ salary determined how his team would perform, the Longhorns may have had a spot in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament, rather than a first round bow out to Cincinnati.
Barnes...
Two Big 12 teams faced top-level basketball programs in the Elite 8 round of the NCAA tournament this weekend. Second-seed Kansas and third-seed Baylor entered as technical underdogs in their match ups...
A die-hard Longhorn fan and a friend of mine recently complained about the “awful athletic year” Texas is having. If you are a Texas sports fan, you’ve had a few reasons to sulk this...
Texas (20-13) earned the 11th seed in the NCAA tournament and will face No. 6 Cincinnati (24-10) in the first round.
Riding a roller coaster of a season, the Longhorns were never a sure thing to make...
J’Covan Brown came through when Texas needed him most.
With 36.3 seconds left in the game and the teams tied at 65, Brown split two Cyclone defenders and hit a shot in the lane while getting fouled....
Kansas forward Thomas Robinson led the Jayhawks with 25 points and 14 rebounds to a 73-63 win over the Longhorns on Saturday, effectively forcing Texas’ NCAA tournament hopes on the shoulders of...
Kansas forward Thomas Robinson led the Jayhawks with 25 points and 14 rebounds to a 73-63 win over the Longhorns on Satuday.
Kansas’ squad of pro-ready athletes put Texas away in the second half...
Freshman Sheldon McClellan netted 24 points and junior J’Covan Brown added 22 points and six assists to help Texas outlast the Sooners on senior night in the Frank Erwin Center.
Texas’ seniors...
The Longhorns are walking on pins and needles right now. That’s not good for a team still trying to prove that it’s tournament worthy, and Oklahoma (14-14, 4-12 Big 12) will try to be the edge...
For about 10 minutes after every game, Texas head coach Rick Barnes addresses the media and assesses his team’s performance. He could have saved himself a lot of time after losing to Baylor —...
Just when Texas looked like it had grown up, it played the final ten minutes of the second half like the same team that was 1-7 in games decided by six points or less coming into Monday.
The Longhorns...
In a game where the Longhorns came in with all the momentum — riding high on a four-game win streak and improved play by Texas’ supporting cast — they hit a wall against an inspired Oklahoma...
Somehow the Longhorns managed to beat the Longhorns in rowing this weekend.
The Texas rowing team took six of the top nine spots in the Fighting Nutria race on Lady Bird Lake Saturday morning against...
It’s not often an opposing player dominates a coach’s team and he can’t do anything but revel in awe of it.
“You think about the game [Alexis] Wangmene had, and that’s awesome,”...
Ricky Williams was Texas’ best football player of the last two decades, and arguably one of the best in school history. He ran for 7,206 yards and 72 touchdowns, won a Heisman Trophy and earned back-to-back...
When what you are doing isn’t working, it’s time to try something new, and the Longhorns learned that Monday night.
“It’s a play we have never run before,” Texas head coach...
Freshman guard Myck Kabongo drove the length of the floor with the ball and glided to the rim for what looked like a sure two points, but Clint Chapman wasn’t taking any chances. The 6-feet-10-inch,...
In their final year of Big 12 play, the Aggies were supposed to be one of the conference's best. More importantly, they were supposed to be better than the Longhorns.
That story hasn't played...
The Longhorns have lost so many close games lately, they must be due for one to go their way sooner or later, especially with the cellar-dwelling Red Raiders coming into town.
But even though Texas is...
Kendall Sanders caught two picks as a defensive back in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in early January. It’s hard to think a performance like that may jeopardize a player’s spot on a team,...
It was an all too familiar scene. Missouri had a 10-point lead with three minutes left, but the Longhorns still had some fight left in them. Texas clawed back into the game, but with five seconds left...
You can see it on head coach Rick Barnes’ and J’Covan Brown’s faces when they walk in for the post-game press conference. The frustration from another loss sets in and they may have private...
WACO — Texas mounted yet another furious second-half comeback against the Baylor Bears, but came up short against the size and length of the Bears.
Baylor’s Perry Jones III scored 22 and Quincy...
Texas’ key players played their most influential game against Iowa State Tuesday night, and it will take an even better effort tomorrow against the third ranked team in the country, Baylor, to avoid...
Freshmen Myck Kabongo and Julien Lewis finished with 13 and 12 points respectively to help the Longhorns pull off a sloppy 55-62 win against a scrappy Iowa State team.
“As long as we are making...
The No. 7 Baylor Bears began the season playing at a top-tier level. They won 17 games in a row and looked well on their way to being the outright frontrunner’s for the conference crown, until consecutive...
Despite playing well in doubles, the No. 21 Texas women’s tennis squad dropped this weekend’s matchup against No. 9 Virginia at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.
The...
Before last November, Joe Paterno’s legend was cemented. Now, remembering JoePa as the role model everyone hoped to becomes a little more difficult.
On the one hand, he devoted his life to the Penn...
The No. 19 Longhorns beat No. 39 Rice 5-2 by way of a doubles sweep and a strong singles outing on Friday
in Houston.
Texas quickly posted doubles victories and never looked back. Junior Alex Hilliard...
Clint Chapman had his best game of the season against one of the best teams in the conference Saturday afternoon, but even that wasn’t enough to help the Longhorns pull out the upset. And don’t...
As if things couldn’t get any tougher for the Longhorns, now they have to prepare for a battle against one of the most storied programs in college basketball, No. 7 Kansas.
Coming from a heartbreaking...
The learning curve for this Texas basketball team (12-5, 2-2 Big 12) is steep considering the light-years ahead the elite Big 12 teams are in terms of experience and size, and assistant coach Chris Ogden...
In light of the current state of political news around the country, allow me to extend this metaphor. The Texas basketball team is the Jon Huntsman of the Big 12 this year. Everyone wanted him to win,...
For the first half of the Holiday Bowl, it seemed like we would see much of the same Texas team we had all year: an all-world defense carrying a stalled offense. By the second half, that all changed.
David...
It was revenge for No. 6 North Carolina and a sad dose of reality for the Longhorns who were undersized and outmatched in Wednesday night’s 82-63 loss.
Led by Harrison Barnes’ 26 point 10...
Myck Kabongo turned in a career-high 18 point performance and the Longhorns overcame a poor first half to topple Temple 77-65 for their seventh straight win.
Down 34-31 at halftime, the Longhorns...
J'Covan Brown finally found his groove, as he turned in an 23 point performance to lead Texas to a 93-40 victory over Nicholls State Tuesday Night.
Brown's leading performance broke a five game...
The Texas freshmen have taken turns controlling games when they need to. Last night, it was Julien Lewis' turn.
Lewis scored 14 of his career-high 19 points in the second half to help Texas (7-2)...
So here we are. 7-5 and a trip to the Holiday Bowl. It feels good and underwhelming at the same time.
The bid is both a reflection of an accomplishment and a let down. All year, my columns have acknowledged...
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For about 15 minutes UT-Arlington kept the game interesting. That is, until Texas’ firepower became too much.
The Longhorns, a squad full of scoring threats,...
J’Covan Brown shot lights-out Saturday, scoring 22 points to lead the Longhorns past UCLA amid a power outage on the Bruins’ home floor, 69-59. Myck Kabongo added 13 points, eight rebounds...
Texas said its recipe for victory was controlling the game tempo and managing space in the half-court offense.
Tuesday night, Myck Kabongo was the chef.
Kabongo served up 16 points to go along with seven...
After a close call against Sam Houston State on Saturday, the Longhorns are looking to return to the offensive form that helped them win their first two games of the season.
To do that, junior guard...
Former Michigan coach handed keys to Arizona team
Arizona announced on Twitter on Tuesday that they hired former Michigan head coach, Rich Rodriguez, as the school’s new head coach. He signed a...
This rivalry has seen its fair share of just about everything over the last 118 years.
Like a pair of college students themselves, Texas and Texas A&M have been through ups and downs together, and...
The "You Pick' Em" contest is back at it this week. For those of you that are new to this here are the rules:
1. Pick a team you think will win each of the college football contests below.
2....
Over the course of nine games, we’ve seen three or four incarnations of this Texas football team.
It all started where it left off in 2010, with Garrett Gilbert at the helm and a team that knew...
Editor’s note: Missed our double coverage live chat? Here are a few highlights, but make sure to join us next Wednesday at 4 p.m. at bit.ly/dt_chat.
Sameer Bhuchar (Daily Texan):
I’m Sameer...
It came in bunches for Texas, but when it rained, it poured. And no, that isn’t a reference to the precipitation that fell yesterday in Austin.
J’Covan Brown scored a career-high 35 points...
In the same play that Texas almost lost its leader, it found him.
After sinking a three pointer in the waning minutes of the first half, junior guard J’Covan Brown fell to the floor and clutched...
The Texas men’s basketball team seems to go from one young team to another just about every season.
The same holds true this year as Texas enters the 2011-2012 season with a corps of six freshmen...
I had an entire column planned out for this week’s issue about how Texas’ “run-first” identity is an advantange in such a pass-happy conference like the Big 12. I was going to write...
The "You Pick' Em" contest is back at it this week. For those of you that are new to this here are the rules:
1. Pick a team you think will win each of the college football contests below.
2....
“Texas doesn’t rebuild, it reloads.”
Perhaps you’ve heard the saying before. OK, you’ve definitely heard this saying before. Even this publication is guilty of perpetuating...
Double Coverage Readers,
Here is your list of this week's picks. Remember to post your picks as a comment below as early as possible, as the time of submission counts towards settling the second tie...
Editor’s note: Missed our double coverage live chat? Here are a few highlights, but make sure to join us next Wednesday at 4 p.m. at bit.ly/dt_chat.
Double Coverage Editor Sameer Bhuchar:
Dear...
Double Coverage Readers,
Here is your list of this week's picks. Remember to post your picks as a comment below as early as possible, as the time of submission counts towards settling the second tie...
DALLAS — If it were all about maximizing revenue, the Big 12 as it had existed until two years ago may have been saved, said former Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe.
“If they had done what I...
Few people will ever be fortunate enough to walk through the tunnel and onto the manicured Cotton Bowl field. Even fewer are fortunate enough to do it on the day of the Red River Rivalry.
For the Texas...
Ok Double Coverage Readers, last week was a tough one for most our contestants, as well as our staff. The winner, Rahul Lanka, ended up with a solid 7-3 record, and with his victory he will not only be...
Editor’s note: Missed our double coverage live chat? Here are a few highlights, but make sure to join us next Wednesday at 4 p.m. at bit.ly/dt_chat.
Double Coverage Editor Sameer Bhuchar:
What...
The "Fan Pick 'Em" contest is back after Double Coverage had its own bye week last week along with the Longhorns.
Last contests' competitors had a tough time choosing winners, and the...
Last year’s Longhorn team would not have come back to beat BYU the way this year’s team did. Those are Mack Brown’s words, not mine.
After Texas’ grinding come-from-behind win...
Missed our live chat? We’ve got you covered. Make sure you join us next week at 4 p.m.
Double Coverage Editor Sameer Bhuchar:
Hey there, Double Coverage fans! We are excited about getting our...
Double Coverage readers,
I would like to first congratulate all who participated in last week’s “Fan Pick ‘Em” contest.
Everyone did exceptionally well, with many respondents...
The Big 12 is like a family. A big, dysfuntional, The Osbournes-meet-the-Jersey-Shore-meet-the-Kardashians type of family.
We can all agree that watching a reality show encompassing characters from all...
Hello Double Coverage readers!
As many of you have seen, the Double Coverage staff likes to test our football knowledge against each other by setting up a pool of staff picks. We take ten of the week’s...
Sameer:
Hello Double Coverage readers! We are pumped for our third live chat of the year! I’m Sameer Bhuchar, Double Coverage editor, and joining us are football beat writers, Austin Laymance...
As a primer for tomorrow’s game against Rice, our beat writers Austin Laymance and Christian Corona as well as Double Coverage editor Sameer Bhuchar participated in a live chat Wednesday to discuss...
The Big 12 is nearly 18 — about as old as the freshman class that stepped on to the Forty Acres this fall. If it were an incoming college student, it seems like it would flunk out before making it...
Missed our first live football chat? Fear not, here are some highlights.
Question from Jake15: Do you think Texas will use multiple QBs against Rice?
Double Coverage Editor Sameer Bhuchar: Great question.
Sports...
As a journalist, it is sometimes difficult to snag interviews from high profile athletes, but when Texas’ 2012 basketball recruit, Javan Felix, announced his commitment to the Longhorns two weeks...
Texas has been known for its reliable point guards in the last decade, and now the Longhorns are hoping their newest commitment can continue that trend.
St. Augustine High School senior and point...
It may be Mack Brown’s 14th season as Texas’ head coach, but a majority of his staff has barely been on the 40 Acres for more than a few months. Nonetheless, the players have warmed up to...
The same school that produced recent college greats such as Colt McCoy and Vince Young is currently without a quarterback to continue the tradition.
Texas coach Mack Brown made it very clear at...
Ryan Tannehill has been saying he is Texas A&M’s best option at quarterback even when he was third on the depth chart behind Jerrod Johnson and Stephen McGee. Now he’s got a chance to...
The Big 12 Media Days kicked off with a refresher course in the rules. The NCAA emphasized and clarified two new amendments to their “unsportsmanlike conduct” rule Monday that has some of...
Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe will, yet again, have a lot of explaining to do.
With Texas A&M and Oklahoma threatening to leave the Big 12 for the SEC because of potential recruiting conflicts...
It was the chance of a lifetime, an opportunity that only seems to emerge from big-budget Hollywood movies. Hundreds of hopeful ballplayers descended upon Round Rock to take a crack at being the newest...
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times — sports have this uncanny way of mimicking real life in some form
or fashion.
When Japan won the 2011 Women’s World...
Though the Big Ten has 12 members and the Big 12 has 10 this year, the conferences kept something consistent that makes sense — the Big 12/Big Ten Women’s Basketball Challenge will be back.
The...
When the Houston Rockets used the No. 1 pick in the 2002 draft on a tall man from China named Yao Ming, I forced my mom to drive me home in the middle of whatever errands we were running so I wouldn’t...
For a sport that brought in more than $4 billion dollars this season, it is hard to believe that there isn’t enough of it to go around.
But it is not how much money there is coming in; it...
The Longhorn Network announced it will exclusively carry two of Texas’ football games in the 2011 season.
The 24-hour all-access Longhorn channel, which launches on Aug. 26, will televise...
1. Young leads Texas over USC (Jan. 4, 2006)
Vince Young threw for 267 yards and ran for another 200 yards and three touchdowns, including an 8-yard game winner with 19 seconds left. His virtuoso...
The three Longhorns drafted into the NBA last week spent about as much time on the draft board as they did playing college ball. Tristan Thompson, Jordan Hamilton and Cory Joseph were all taken in the...
Tristan Thompson was never expected to stay in Texas long.
After his first year with the Longhorns, Thompson decided he was ready to take his talents to the NBA. However, if a singular look at his...
Watching my Facebook newsfeed Sunday night after the Mavericks capped off the championship run was equally as fun as watching the roller-coaster series itself. Though I decided to troll all the “Congrats...
For much of the world, modern professional sports are often points of social and cultural contention. For the athletes, there is a greater sense of camaraderie, the feeling that practice pays off. But...
