American tennis fans walked away Sunday afternoon disappointed that their nation lost the Davis Cup tie to Spain 3-1.
But thanks to Mike and Bob Bryan, they at least got their money’s worth.
The...
David Ferrer lost just one set all weekend. America had no chance.
The Spaniard embarrassed Austinite Andy Roddick on Friday in straight sets, then eliminated Mardy Fish and Team USA...
Mardy Fish will be the No. 1 singles player for the U.S. in this weekend’s Davis Cup, team captain Jim Courier announced during Friday’s draw.
Fish, the No. 8 player in the world, will...
Fans still don’t know if their cable providers will carry the upcoming Longhorn Network, but they now know who will be hosting it.
Lowell Galindo will serve as the main anchor, Kevin Dunn...
Andy Roddick pulled up from a sharp forehand during an open practice Wednesday afternoon, a shot that failed to clear the net, and turned to the group of a hundred-something spectators who had come...
Jordan Hamilton wants to tell his side of the story, once and for all.
Contrary to public opinion, the former Longhorn swingman does not blame Texas head coach Rick Barnes for him slipping to No....
Almost every year, Texas has a football recruit who fails to qualify for enrollment. Last year, it was Tevin Jackson, who was granted admission a few months ago by the NCAA Clearinghouse. In 2008, Antoine...
Make no doubt about it — Texas is a school that prides itself on the players it produces in its historic football and baseball programs.
But the likes of Earl Campbell, Ricky Williams, Bobby...
The day he got locked out, the best scorer in the world played knockout with middle schoolers. He even let them win a few games, too.
Oklahoma City Thunder star and former Longhorn Kevin Durant...
Nick Jordan gave the Longhorns their 18th football commitment for the 2012 recruiting class Monday.
“It feels great,” Jordan said. “There’s been more support than I could...
Texas picks up another commit for strong 2012 football class
Nick Jordan gave the Longhorns their 18th football commitment for the 2012 recruiting class Monday. The placekicker from Coppell High...
As it is with any doomed relationship, the ending of the Big 12 has been rocky, beginning with last summer’s disbanding and the culmination of ill will between schools staying and schools leaving....
With the 2011 season in the rearview mirror, it’s time to take a look at 10 returning players who could be in for a big year in 2012.
Hoby Milner, SP, Junior
A fringe starter and reliever...
When Cory Joseph announced that he would remain in the NBA Draft and forego his three remaining years at Texas, he left a lot of people scratching their heads.
“Hurts me to say this, but...
For the first time in school history, three Longhorns — Tristan Thompson, Jordan Hamilton and Cory Joseph — were selected in the first round of the NBA Draft.
Thompson...
How do you close the book on a season that looked like it might never end?
After all, the Longhorns slammed the door on elimination so many times you thought it was a made-for-the-movies team of...
Taylor Jungmann might not be coming back from Omaha with the national championship trophy he wanted, but the junior right-hander did pick up some hardware.
Jungmann was chosen as the recipient of...
All this time, Texas thought it was the team built on pitching.
North Carolina freshman Kent Emanuel took the Longhorns to school Monday, giving up just four hits and walking one batter in a complete-game...
When Texas A&M lost starting pitcher John Stilson in late May because of a torn labrum, the team was punished by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee. Despite tying Texas for the Big 12 Regular...
OMAHA, Neb. — Here they are again.
The Longhorns, who have spent all season under the gun, face a familiar opponent today in the College World Series: elimination.
“It’s...
Things sure looked good after two-and-a-half innings for Texas. The lead was 3-0, and Taylor Jungmann, who had yet to give up a hit, would be returning to the mound.
Five runs, four walks, three...
OMAHA, Neb. — A scary, new Taylor Jungmann came to life Saturday night at TD Ameritrade Park — one who could not locate his pitches, could not pitch with a lead, and, for the third straight...
OMAHA, Neb. — Florida came into Omaha much the way it entered its season — with hype.
The Gators took the field at TD Ameritrade Ballpark on Friday, shagging deep flies and hitting simulated...
There’s a new girl in town.
The sparkling TD Ameritrade Park, the latest gem of downtown Omaha, hosts the College World Series this year, the first time that the event hasn’t taken place...
Against a Florida team that averages almost 6.5 runs a game, Texas is going to need just about everybody to contribute offensively Saturday night. Here’s a look at some of the Longhorns that are...
When Texas head coach Augie Garrido announced he would be unveiling a new, unorthodox batting lineup before regional play began, a few Longhorns weren’t so sure what their coach was thinking.
A...
The last opponent Texas faced in 2005 — the year the Longhorns won their sixth national championship — was Florida.
Now the two schools square off again, this time in a prime-time opener...
Bottoms up.
That’s more than simply your cue to start celebrating Texas’ 34th trip to the College World Series and its second in three years. Rather, it’s a tip of the cap to one...
After the Longhorns put together a solid sixth-inning offense to score two runs and take a 4-2 lead on Arizona State, head coach Augie Garrido turned to the part of his team he’s relied on all...
The Longhorns have dug themselves into a hole again.
Eight hits and 7.1 solid innings of work from Taylor Jungmann were not enough to get past Arizona State in the first game of this Austin Super...
This weekend’s Super Regional has been a long time coming for freshman right-fielder Mark Payton.
Payton gave an early verbal commitment the summer after his sophomore year of high school....
The Longhorns practiced in 100-degree heat this morning, in preparation for their Super Regional against Arizona State. Texas and the Sun Devils will play a best-of-three series, beginning...
Sam Stafford and Brandon Loy received the fanfare of being selected in the higher rounds of day two of this year’s MLB First-Year Player Draft, but there were other Longhorns who came off the...
It has been quite a week for Sam Stafford.
On Friday, he started and won Texas’ opening game of the Austin Regional against Princeton. Monday, he again led a winning effort, throwing three...
Brandon Loy had just stepped out of the shower when he noticed that he had a phone call. The Detroit Tigers were on the other line to inform him that they had just drafted him in the fifth round.
“It’s...
Hello, Wisconsin.
The Milwaukee Brewers made Texas pitcher Taylor Jungmann their first pick of the MLB First-Year Player Draft, selecting the right-handed junior with the No. 12 overall spot.
“Being...
Tried and true, pitching and defense have been the backbone for this club all year.
On Monday against Kent State, it was the Longhorns’ lifeline.
Six different arms saw action against...
Dirk Nowitzki is a stone-cold killer.
Yeah, never thought I’d type that.
For the majority of his career, it has been difficult to take Dirk seriously. There are the silly aesthetics: the...
The Longhorns woke up Sunday morning needing two wins to keep their season alive. Thanks to the unlikeliest hero of them all, they went to bed Sunday night needing just one more to advance.
Against...
A win is a win, but the Longhorns sure hope that the 5-3 squeaker they pulled out against Princeton ends up being their closest call of this regional tournament.
When Corey Knebel clinched...
It has been exactly 356 days since June 12, 2010, the day a promising baseball season came to a painful end. That hot day, the scoreboard at Disch-Falk read: Texas 1, TCU 4. The upstart Horned Frogs...
Stafford is ready
In explaining how he created his pitching rotation for this weekend, head coach Augie Garrido did his best Joe Namath, predicting that his Longhorns would take care of business...
Sam Stafford will get the ball for Texas’ first game in the Austin Regional, Friday night against Princeton. The question is, which Stafford will show up?
Good Stafford has control of his...
Right now, the Longhorns are on a roll.
They finished the regular season with a share of the Big 12 Championship, won the final series against Texas A&M and put together a fine showing at the...
Two aces took the mound Thursday night in a game billed as the biggest of the season for both teams; for the conference and maybe for the landscape of college baseball.
The match-up — Taylor...
In his first ever start, Nathan Thornhill was perfect. Well, for five innings at least.
And if the gem the freshman pitched against the Panthers is any indication — four strikeouts with...
Funny thing is, Paul Montalbano actually thinks he’s best suited to be a pitcher.
“Oh yeah, I can still pitch, I can still throw it right past people — high 80s,” he said....
The Longhorns claim they just came out flat.
But how, against archrival Oklahoma? And how, with the chance to sweep the Sooners and claim sole possession of first place in the conference race?...
Texas moved one step closer Saturday to first place in the Big 12 with a 4-3 win over Oklahoma at Disch-Falk Field. The Longhorns took the first two games of the series, and will go for the sweep on...
It was an ominous start to Sam Stafford’s night on the mound.
The junior, just three days removed from his first loss of the year Saturday at Kansas, threw the first pitch of the game for...
A few weeks ago, Texas made a pitching swap. Sam Stafford, who had been mowing down batters on Tuesdays — 2-0, with 23 strikeouts in four contests — would take his act to Sundays, when his...
The Longhorns have picked up a commitment from Aledo High School running back Johnathan Gray, a five-star running back according the recruiting service Rivals.
The 5-foot-11-inch, 190-pound blue...
When Taylor Jungmann is at his best, he doesn’t need much offensive support — just one, two, maybe three runs.
The Longhorns’ bats provided much more than that Thursday night, cranking...
Swirling winds, wintry temperatures and possible thunderstorms await No. 7 Texas tonight in game one of its three-game series against the Jayhawks in Lawrence, Kan.
According to head coach Augie...
Cohl Walla can’t field fly balls, can’t run the base paths and can’t even practice. He hobbles when he jogs, limps when he walks and would fall over if he tried to sprint.
Walla,...
It took them longer than they may have liked, but the No. 6 Longhorns got just enough out of their offense in the weekend finale against Texas Tech, rallying back in the eighth inning to top the Red...
Starting pitching isn’t the problem. Closing a game out in the ninth isn’t, either. But if the No. 6 Longhorns have an Achilles’ heel, it’s that their pitching sometimes falls...
After a 5-7 season, Mack Brown really has no other choice than to shake things up.
After finishing up his offseason staff shuffle, Mack has said that all position battles are “wide open;”...
Augie Garrido admits that it’s sometimes hard to get his squad motivated for weekday games. A small crowd, a not-so-big opponent and a full day of classes don’t exactly inspire his Longhorns...
It should have been just about impossible for Taylor Jungmann to set the bar any higher for himself.
After all, Jungmann was already in the conversation as one of the best Texas pitchers ever, had...
After four innings of missed opportunities and sheer bad luck — a few robbed hits, two long balls that fell short at the warning track and a strong wind that kept just about everything in play...
Rodney Terry, an assistant basketball coach at Texas for the past nine years, has been named head men’s basketball coach at Fresno State. With Terry’s help, the Longhorns have...
The Longhorns entered Corpus Christi with payback on their minds Tuesday.
They would end up getting that and then some.
Sam Stafford pitched seven innings of no-hit baseball and the...
Texas plays Texas A&M Corpus Christi today in a rematch of a February loss, and there’s one thing for certain: There is no way the Longhorns are overlooking the Islanders again.
The...
The noon starting time was a bit earlier than the Longhorns are used to, but their bats didn’t take long to wake up.
In fact, Texas all but ended the game after just...
Brandon Loy might be the most important, the most skilled and the most selfless of any Texas baseball player.
But a box score won’t tell you that.
Neither...
After a season in which the Rangers made a complete transformation from American League bottom-feeder to league champion, there’s one question facing them as they head into an Opening...
When you’re on a two-game losing streak, you’ll take a win any way you can get it.
The No. 7 Longhorns (18-7) got one of the uglier variety Tuesday night, holding...
The No. 5 Longhorns entered this weekend’s series against Oklahoma State with some serious momentum, winners of 10 of their last 12 games and looking to win their second conference...
For just the second time in a month, the Longhorns won’t be playing in the comfy confines of UFCU Disch-Falk Field. And this time, they don’t get a trip to Hawaii.
Instead, Texas is...
For just the second time in a month, the Longhorns won’t be playing in the comfy confines of UFCU Disch-Falk Field. And this time, they don’t get a trip to Hawaii.
Instead, Texas is...
For just the second time in a month, the Longhorns won’t be playing in the comfy confines of UFCU Disch-Falk Field. And this time, they don’t get a trip to Hawaii.
Instead, Texas is...
For just the second time in a month, the Longhorns won’t be playing in the comfy confines of UFCU Disch-Falk Field. And this time, they don’t get a trip to Hawaii.
Instead, Texas is...
The Longhorns have a 15-5 record and boast a No. 5 national ranking, good enough to make them the highest-ranked Big 12 team. They’ve won 10 of their last 12, are coming off a conference-opening...
Tim Maitland did a Superman slide headfirst into home plate, arms outstretched and artificial turf pellets flying up all around him, to score the dramatic game-winning run in the bottom of the 14th...
It took them extra innings, but the Longhorns were able to pick up their second conference win of the season, a 4-3 nail-biter over Kansas State at Disch-Falk Field.
With the game tied heading into...
The fourth and final game of the weekend series against Brown started with a Bear groundout to third base and ended with a groundout to Texas pitcher Cole Green in the seventh inning, thanks to...
The Longhorns started the first inning out with a bang, scoring four runs to put the Brown Bears in an early deficit.
They would continue to play at such a high production, getting a season-high...
Tant Shepherd had had a rough night.
The senior was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts when he stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the 11th inning of a 5-5 game. He had two runners in scoring position,...
Senior Tant Shepherd had had a rough night.
He was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts when he stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the 11th inning of a 5-5 game. He had two runners in scoring position,...
Legendary head coach Augie Garrido has a basic set of expectations for tonight’s game against UTSA.
“Let’s not play like we did the last Tuesday,” Garrido said earlier in...
Series finales against top-10 teams are rarely this easy.
The sixth-ranked Longhorns (7-4) made a 4-2 win over No. 9 Stanford (6-5) look simple, playing the entirety of the game with a lead and...
After leading for eight innings, it looked like the Longhorns might blow it in the ninth.
What was once a 4-1 lead over No. 9 Stanford had shrunk to just a 4-3 advantage. After throwing 120 pitches,...
The season-opening series against unranked Maryland was a case study in consistency.
When the No. 6 Longhorns are at their best, sharp in the field and smart at the plate, they’re tough to...
Their weekend wasn’t perfect, but the No. 6 Longhorns (3-1) saved their best for last in a 16-0 defeat over Maryland (1-3), in the final game of the season-opening series Sunday afternoon at UFCU...
It’s been nine long months since Texas fell one game short of the College World Series in a loss to TCU at the Super Regionals.
This year’s Longhorns (1-0) did their part to ease the...
In head coach Augie Garrido’s utopia, the leadoff batter always finds a way to get on base. The next man up always lays a good sacrifice bunt, taking the out but advancing the runner to second....
Texas is losing its captain.
Radio broadcaster Keith Moreland, who captained the 1975 national championship baseball team and has been the voice of Texas baseball and football since 1996, will serve...
There were his two touchdowns in Pasadena against Alabama, the tide-turning kickoff return against Oklahoma, the 80-yard catch and run against Central Florida, the toe-dragging touchdown...
Texas football lost a pioneer Thursday with the passing of Emory Bellard, 83, after his battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Regarded as the father of the famed wishbone offense, Bellard found...
Tuesday provided mixed news out of the Longhorn football program.
Earlier in the week, Austin American-Statesman columnist Kirk Bohls wrote that Texas defensive backs coach Jerry Gray was a leading...
With the excitement of last week’s signing day fading, here’s a serious look at some of the new Longhorns who could make an immediate impact on the team:
<strong>Malcolm Brown...
Despite playing on a team depleted by injuries, former Texas star LaMarcus Aldridge has kept the Portland Trail Blazers afloat this year with his strong play.
His efforts, though, were not enough...
Andy Pettitte has finally called it quits. The 15-year veteran and winner of 240 games, who spent his career pitching for the New York Yankees, with a short stint as a Houston Astro, is set to announce...
When Bob Stoops snatched Adrian Peterson out of East Texas in 2004, it set in motion a precedent that Mack Brown couldn’t quite shirk: Stoops and Oklahoma owned Texas, not only on the gridiron,...
National signing day is all about donning ball caps and smiling for the camera, pens, papers and fax machines. It’s a day of speculation, projection, and proclamation that takes over ESPN airwaves...
Just a few minutes into Saturday’s game against New Mexico, and the Austin Toros were already down big.
Maybe it was the early noon start time, or maybe the Toros were tired from the beating...
One of the many songs on the warm-up playlist blasting inside the Frank Erwin Center before basketball games is J. Cole’s “Higher,” in which he croons, “Come here, I’m...
With a shot at next month’s ITA National Team Indoor Championships on the line, Texas looks to come up big in the third annual ITA Kick-Off Weekend in Tallahassee, Fla.
The No. 16 Longhorns...
A Heisman Trophy winner, a nine-year NBA veteran and a MLB Manager of the Year made for a star-studded Class of 2010 Texas Men’s Hall of Honor.
The induction ceremony, which took place at...
