While interviewing for a senior sports reporting position in my second semester with the Texan, I made a grave error in taking the phone call on speaker from my childhood bedroom.  When then-sports...

Despite Texas baseball spending back-to-back summers in Omaha in 2021 and 2022 for the College World Series, the Longhorns find themselves left out of D1 Baseball’s preseason Top 25.  While Kendall...

A thermostat, not a thermometer. That’s how Edgewater football coach Cameron Duke described 2023 Texas signee Cedric Baxter Jr. to the Orlando Sentinel. Baxter, who was named a five-star recruit and...

No. 21 Texas learned that it's hard to win without its top three skill players.  Left without the two-punch running back duo of junior Bijan Robinson and senior Roschon Johnson, who both opted out...

Two things needed to happen for Texas football to earn a Big 12 Championship berth. Step one: Beat Baylor. Texas took care of business on Friday. The Longhorns came from behind for the first time...

When it mattered most, No. 24 Texas football finished out a game strong.  For the past two seasons, head coach Steve Sarkisian’s Longhorns have notoriously struggled in the second half. This year,...

With only one week left in the regular season, football beat reporters Jordan Mitchell and Hunter Dworaczyk rank and relive their top ten favorite moments from the season.   10) Bijan Robinson’s...

It was Bijan Robinson’s world in Lawrence, Kansas on Saturday, and the Jayhawks were just living in it.  During Texas’ 55-14 beatdown of Kansas, the junior running back carried the ball 25 times...

Kansas head coach Lance Leipold is one of two Kansas coaches that have beaten Texas since the establishment of the Big 12 in 1994. In his first season as Kansas head coach in 2021, Leipold’s Jayhawks...

This Saturday, Texas has a chance to avenge that game from last season. Of all of the Longhorns’ seven losses last season, the 57–56 loss to 1–8 Kansas in overtime at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium...

Despite scoring all 10 of its points in the second half Saturday, No. 18 Texas couldn’t grasp victory, or even win the second half, against No. 4 TCU. Head coach Steve Sarkisian’s team has developed...

After last season, super senior defensive tackle Keondre Coburn nearly declared for the NFL draft.  Mentored by current Buffalo Bills first-round defensive tackle Ed Oliver at Westfield High School,...

Last Saturday’s 34-27 victory over No. 13 Kansas State on the road in Manhattan largely came down to Texas’ defense. Despite the secondary being a bit banged up with senior safety Anthony Cook playing...

In Texas’ gutted out 34-27 win in Manhattan, Kansas on Saturday, it became evident that the Longhorns had a penalty problem.  In what began as a clean game of football, the second half saw Bill Snyder...

Ahead of Texas’ matchup against No. 13 Kansas State, the Daily Texan spoke with Luke Lazarczyk, sports reporter at the school’s paper, The Collegian.   Daily Texan: After last week’s...

Head coach Steve Sarkisian is excited to make his third trip up to Manhattan, Kansas this Saturday. Sarkisian might have nightmares from the last time he visited Kansas State as USC’s quarterbacks...

Despite one-two-punch running back duo Bijan Robinson and Roschon Johnson carving through the Oklahoma State defense, penalties and route running confusion purged Texas on Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium. After...

This time last year, junior wide receiver Jordan Whittington fell out of love with football.  While Whittington is known for playing with contagious happiness in 2022, he struggled to keep a smile...

Head coach Steve Sarkisian recalled a moment from Saturday’s TCU-Oklahoma State matchup when asked about preparing for Cowboys quarterback Spencer Sanders ahead of Texas’ road trip to Stillwater this...

In today's episode of Texan Overtime, Associate Sports Editor Jordan Mitchell and Senior Sports Reporter Hunter Dworaczyk discuss the Oct. 8 Texas football game against Oklahoma.

In today's episode of Texan Overtime, Associate Sports Editor Jordan Mitchell and Senior Sports Reporter Hunter Dworaczyk discuss the Oct. 1 Texas football game against West Virginia.

In today's episode of Texan Overtime, Associate Sports Editor Jordan Mitchell and Senior Sports Reporter Hunter Dworaczyk discuss the Sept. 24 Texas football game against Texas Tech.

Without junior middle linebacker Jaylan Ford’s two clutch turnovers, Texas’ movie-like ending to its thrilling win over Iowa State would’ve been a different story.  Ford came into this season...

The Daily Texan sat down with Andrew Harrington, sports editor for the Iowa State Daily, to talk about what fans can expect from Iowa State ahead of Saturday’s Big 12 matchup. This conversation has been...

While Texas’ 49-0 win against Oklahoma at the Red River Showdown was cause for celebration on Saturday, head coach Steve Sarkisian was back in the film room the next day.  Sarkisian doesn’t let...

Redshirt freshman starting quarterback Quinn Ewers grew up glued to the TV watching the Longhorns play every Saturday. Hailing from Southlake, Texas — a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth and a manageable...

The Sooners didn’t gain an ounce of momentum in Texas’ 49-0 pounding of Oklahoma at the Red River Showdown. Head coach Steve Sarkisian told the press Monday that the Sooners like to score fast....

Sophomore tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders is much more than Texas’ security blanket, emerging as the Longhorns’ most prolific tight end since David Thomas, who played an integral role on the 2005 National...

Sophomore tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders is much more than Texas’ security blanket, emerging as the Longhorns’ most prolific tight end since David Thomas, who played an integral role on the 2005 National...

Head coach Steve Sarkisian said that the Red River Showdown is what college football is all about during his weekly press conference Monday.  Played at the Cotton Bowl — an iconic stadium wedged...

Head coach Steve Sarkisian’s Longhorns played a hard-nosed brand of football on both sides of the ball in Texas’ 38-20 win against West Virginia on Saturday night. While the defensive secondary...

The Daily Texan sat down with Zach Anderson, sports editor for The Daily Athenaeum, to talk about what fans can expect from West Virginia ahead of Saturday’s Big 12 matchup. The conversation has been...

To prepare for Saturday’s upcoming game against West Virginia, junior running back Bijan Robinson carried a football around campus on Monday.  Robinson had a dominant game at Jones AT&T Stadium...

The Longhorns quieted a rowdy sellout crowd of 60,975 at Jones AT&T Stadium through three-quarters of gameplay, but when tasked with putting the game away in the fourth quarter, No. 22 Texas couldn’t...

According to super senior right tackle Christian Jones, there is something special about this year’s offensive line. It’s not because in 2022 the line has only allowed three quarterback hits compared...

Texas football head coach Steve Sarkisian expects a raucous Red Raider welcome from Texas Tech fans this Saturday, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.  Sarkisian said Monday that playing in hostile...

Senior running back Roschon Johnson and junior running back Bijan Robinson were all over the field in Texas’ 41-20 thumping of UTSA.  With sophomore quarterback Hudson Card banged up and bruised...

No. 21 Texas’ Saturday matchup against UTSA could be a trap game. While UTSA’s 1-1 record doesn’t immediately send up red flares for Texas fans, the Roadrunners are a hard-nosed, experienced football...

When head coach Steve Sarkisian was asked Monday about how major upsets of Notre Dame and Texas A&M this weekend might impact his preparation for Saturday’s matchup against UTSA, he said that Texas...

Despite the noise surrounding the highly anticipated matchup between Texas and No. 1 Alabama, redshirt freshman quarterback Quinn Ewers looked comfortable against the Crimson Tide on Saturday. After...

Seven Longhorns remain from the recruiting class of 2018. During his first full season coaching, Tom Herman, former Texas head coach, hit the recruiting trail running. His 2018 class was ranked No....

Kelvin Banks Jr. was already good at football when he walked onto Ross Sterling Middle School’s campus.  Towering over his peers as a child, Texas’ freshman offensive tackle started playing football...

The unranked Longhorns will take on No. 1 Alabama on Saturday, but Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is no stranger to overcoming seemingly impossible odds. When Washington finished 0–12 in 2008, Sarkisian...

Sophomore tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders quickly emerged as redshirt freshman Quinn Ewers' favorite target during Texas’ 52-10 beatdown of Lousiana-Monroe.  Sanders accounted for nearly 38% of the...

The Daily Texan spoke with Jonah Bostick, football beat reporter at The Hawkeye, ahead of the Longhorns’ season opener against the Warhawks on Saturday.   Daily Texan: It seems like ULM was...

Texas football head coach Steve Sarkisian said he loves everything about the start of college football season. Sarkisian loves hitting the grass in football pads for the first time during training camp,...

It has always been redshirt freshman Quinn Ewers’ dream to play for the Longhorns. Growing up in Southlake, Texas — a manageable 3.5-hour drive up I-35 from campus — Ewers spent his fall afternoons...

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian tried addressing some of Texas football’s looming culture concerns with fall camp this year. After Monday’s scrimmage, the football team hosted an impromptu karaoke...

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the July 19, 2022 flipbook. Steve Rodriguez, recently hired hitting coach and recruiting coordinator, has always played with a chip on his shoulder.  His...

In a year filled with many ups and downs, Texas baseball managed to post a record of 47–22 with numerous standout performances from individual players. While Texas ended its run without a national championship...

For the first time in Texas baseball’s 119-year-old rivalry with Texas A&M, the two schools met in the College World Series on Sunday. With the Longhorns and Aggies losing their opening games,...

In Texas’ 11-1 victory over East Carolina in the Greenville Super Regional’s decisive final game, completing the top of the first inning took over five hours. Before the lengthy weather delay, Ivan...

After East Carolina scored five unanswered runs through three innings of baseball, the Longhorns looked dead in the water and on the brink of elimination. Fueled by three-hole hitter Bryson Worrell’s...

The only thing that stands between Texas baseball and its 38th trip to the College World Series is “The Jungle.”  With No. 9-seeded Texas’ sweep of the Austin Regional, the Longhorns will travel...

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the June 7, 2022 flipbook. Pitching coach Sean Allen admits that he usually takes offensive half-innings to go get water, use the restroom or talk to...

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the April 29, 2022 flipbook. Coming into this season, sophomore left-handed pitcher Lucas Gordon was just a bullpen guy. With three preseason All-American...

Tristan Stevens wants the ball in his hands during the biggest moments.  In Texas baseball’s 5-2 regional win against a red-hot Louisiana Tech team, the redshirt senior pitcher entered in the sixth...

Redshirt freshman pitcher Travis Sthele committed a balk in the third inning of the Big 12 Tournament Championship. From there, all of the wheels fell off the wagon for Texas, leading to an 8-1 thumping...

After Texas dropped Saturday’s first game to Oklahoma State, the Longhorns eventually topped the Cowboys with a meticulously-pieced together bullpen and a timely afternoon nap to advance to the Big 12...

During former Jayhawk Skyler Messinger’s senior day ceremony, Kansas coach Ritch Price sprinted from the away dugout, giving his player a warm embrace at home plate.  “I love that man,” Messinger...

Texas baseball made the trip down Highway 290 for the 2022 Shriners Children’s College Classic at Minute Maid Park this weekend, and the No. 1 Longhorns made the Major League ballpark its home-away-from-home...

A pivotal part of the baseball experience, walk-up songs should embody the player and strike fear into the opposing pitcher, while simultaneously being “hype.” A good walk-up song should kindle applause...

Editor's note: This article first appeared in the May 3, 2022 flipbook. Texas baseball fans might have noticed a new trend in the dugout: After each Longhorn home run, the batter dons a Texas football...

In No. 10 Texas baseball’s 8-6 loss against No. 8 Oklahoma State, head coach David Pierce said that his ball club “fought and clawed the entire game.” What started out as a pitching duel between...

It had been 777 days since redshirt senior outfielder Austin Todd homered. In Texas’ Sunday 13-4 win against Baylor for the series sweep, Todd played one of his best games at UFCU Disch-Falk Field,...

No. 10 Texas baseball went bear hunting in front of a sold-out crowd at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Friday in its 20-1 rout of Baylor.  Every Longhorn batter in the starting lineup recorded at least one...

In No. 10 Texas’ 14-2 loss to Air Force at UFCU Disch-Falk Field, redshirt freshman Lebarron Johnson Jr. was one of the few bright spots for the Longhorns. After the pitching duo of redshirt sophomore...

Editor's Note: The article first appeared in the April 8, 2022 flipbook. Redshirt senior Tristan Stevens remembers the last time TCU played Texas baseball at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.  Back in 2018,...

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 12, 2022 flipbook. On March 18, redshirt senior Murphy Stehly hit six RBIs and a home run, securing a 19-2 victory over Incarnate Word. Two days...

The 6,126 fans at UFCU Disch-Falk Field rose from their seats to sing Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” twice during Texas’ 13-2 steamroll of SFA. Redshirt junior infielder Ivan Melendez launched...

Trailing 7-1 in the seventh inning during the Sunday matchup against Oklahoma, No. 8 Texas baseball was in jeopardy of dropping its weekend series. With Chazz Martinez, the Sooners’ starting Sunday...

For No. 2 Texas baseball, the month of March has been a struggle. Despite the Longhorns kicking off their March campaign as the No. 1 team in the nation with dominating wins over Sam Houston, Tennessee...

It is hard to win at Rip Griffin Park. Known for being a “hitter’s paradise,” Texas Tech’s Dan Law Field has an uncharacteristically small outfield, with narrowed foul lines and wind that carries...

The Daily Texan spoke with Chris Williams, baseball beat writer for The Daily Toreador at Texas Tech University, ahead of the No. 2 Longhorns and No. 16 Red Raiders weekend series in Lubbock.   Chris...

In his first two seasons as a Longhorn, redshirt sophomore Justin Eckhardt endured a Tommy John surgery and a shortened COVID-19 season, making appearances on the mound just 11 times. In his first game...

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the March 1, 2022 flipbook. As a lifelong Longhorn fan, Marc Peña understands how special it is to be raised at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.  The Austinite...

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the Feb. 21, 2022 in the flipbook. Texas baseball had a record-breaking attendance of 21,580 fans for its opening weekend series against Rice. The previous...

This article first appeared in the Feb. 18, 2022 flipbook. It has been a turbulent offseason for Texas volleyball.   Following the loss against Nebraska in 2021’s regional final, the Longhorns...

After outscoring the Owls 22-1 through the first two games of the series, Texas baseball ran into some minor turbulence in their opening weekend sweep of Rice at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. In his first...

This article first appeared in the Feb. 14, 2022 flipbook. For Tristan Stevens, it was a no-brainer to come back to the Forty Acres after falling out of the 2021 MLB Draft. In his fourth year of...

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the Feb. 8, 2022 flipbook. An hour before No. 1 Texas baseball would play its alumni in the annual Alumni Game, facility workers chipped away at the hardened...

Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Jan. 21, 2022 flipbook. The 2022 season is fast approaching for Texas baseball, and a team of seasoned veterans with chips on their shoulders...

Editor's note: This article first appeared in the Jan. 18, 2022 flipbook. With the additions of assistant head coach Jordan Larson and former Kentucky outside hitter Madisen Skinner to the Texas volleyball...

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the October 29 flipbook. On a cool Saturday morning, Bailey Webster stood in the limelight of the Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, not as a current...

The Daily Texan spoke with Spencer Smith, volleyball beat writer at The Daily of The University of Washington ahead of Thursday’s NCAA Regional matchup in Austin between the No. 2 Longhorns and No. 15...

After one of the lowest Gregory Gymnasium attendances all season at Thursday night’s Sacred Heart vs. Texas match, head coach Jerritt Elliott got his wish for a sold out venue in Texas volleyball’s...

Despite Texas volleyball’s greatness in the previous 20 years, head coach Jerritt Elliott said it’s  been hard rallying students behind his championship endeavors.  “Historically, we have not...

The No. 2 Texas Longhorns are Big 12 champions for the fifth consecutive year. In a dominant showing at the United Supermarkets Arena, Texas kept Texas Tech to a .111 hitting percentage in their 3-0...

Texas volleyball head coach Jerritt Elliott often claims that domination at the serve and pass game is the cornerstone of their success. On Saturday, Texas’ lack of prowess at serving handed them...