Sports
January 31, 2013
Breaking: Johnny Football is a College Student
A&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.
College Football
Arts & Entertainment
January 23, 2013
Bum Steer: The Judge Who Facebooked Johnny Football’s Speeding Ticket
This is no way to revive The Battle of the Brazos: Ennis municipal court judge W. Lee Johnson, a Baylor alumnus, was publicly reprimanded for his none-too-subtle post about the A&M QB’s apparent moving violation.
Sports
January 22, 2013
The Dallas Stars’ Special Guest: “Manti Te’o’s Girlfriend”
The Stars' first game of the lockout-shortened NHL season was an announced sellout, but at least one seat in the American Airlines Center appeared "empty," as the team had a little fun with last week's biggest sports story.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Texas: It’s Where College Football Players Come From
An ESPN analysis of "recruiting migration" trends among Top 20 college football teams found one thing never changes: Texas had the most players in both 1940 and 2010.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Aggie Butterfly Effect: What if A&M Had Stayed?
Does Texas A&M’s Cotton Bowl dominance of Oklahoma mean the Aggies would have had an even better season had they stayed in the Big 12? No.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Breaking: Johnny Football is a College Student
A&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Bearkats Fall in Frisco
The University of Texas is still the state's last college football team to win a national championship, as Sam Houston State loses the FCS title to North Dakota State for the second straight year.
Sports
January 21, 2013
VIDEO: That Time There Was a One-Point Safety in a UT-A&M Game
How rare was last night's one-point safety by Oregon against Kansas State? It's only happened once before in NCAA history: when UT did it against A&M eight years ago.
Sports
January 21, 2013
10 Hilariously Incorrect Predictions About Texas A&M
Anybody (including many Aggies) who said they expected Texas A&M's first season in the Southeastern Conference to go so well is lying. But it's still funny to look back at all the naysayers.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Our Question For UT Fans: Aggies or Sooners?
Friday's Cotton Bowl gives Longhorns fans a chance to decide which team they hate more: the University of Oklahoma, or Texas A&M.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Six Thoughts About the Cotton Bowl
Kansas St. and Oregon who? Arlington's the center of our college football universe, as Texas A&M plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Friday.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Ranking the Texas Bowl Games So Far
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Five Most Memorable Sports Stories of 2012
Guess what's number one (hint: look at the picture).
Sports
January 21, 2013
“Air” Kingsbury Flies Back to Lubbock
Texas Tech takes all of four days to pick the head coach everybody wanted: 33 year-old former Red Raiders quarterback & Texas A&M offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury.
January 21, 2013
Five Questions: What’s Next for Johnny Heisman
Now that Johnny Football is officially Johnny Heisman, what’s in store for Texas A&M and its star quarterback? Besides the Cotton Bowl and tonight's Letterman Top 10, that is.
Sports
January 21, 2013
UT Prez: Mack Brown Will Remain Head Coach
"Put succinctly, Mack Brown is and will remain the Longhorns’ head football coach," University of Texas at Austin president Bill Powers wrote in a blog post Thursday.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Johnny Football’s Going to Win Heisman
Update: The Stiff Arm Trophy website calls it for the Texas A&M QB, its earliest ever projection. The Tyler/Kerrville native will take the home the Heisman Trophy Saturday.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Raider Red: The Best Mascot in the Country?
Guns up! Texas Tech's red-headed Yosemite Sam-doppelganger is one step away from winning the Capitol One Mascot Challenge. And he's joined the “Gangnam Style” craze.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Meet Johnny Football
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel finally speaks, UT-TCU, the Cotton Bowl, UTSA-Texas State and other highlights from the college football week that was.
Sports
January 21, 2013
DKR Honored by Willie, Mack Brown
Texas and the University of Texas said goodbye to Longhorns coaching legend Darrell K. Royal at a public memorial service at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Book ’Em Horns: November Edition
The latest, greatest crimes from Campus Watch, the University of Texas police department's blotter.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Will Mike Leach Walk the Plank in Pullman?
The Pac-12 Conference is investigating charges of abusive player treatment made against the former Texas Tech and current Washington State coach. Leach denies the allegations.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Aggies’ Stunning Win Dominated College Football News
The Aggies own the college football weekend, upsetting top-ranked Alabama. Plus: UT's DKR tribute, Tommy Tuberville's ill temper, and the latest UT-A&M conspiracy theory.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Darrell K. Royal, 1924-2012
The best college football coach the state has ever seen died early Wednesday morning at the age of 88. Memories & tributes from the Texas Monthly archives and around the state and country.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Mack Brown Doesn’t Like the Longhorn Network Either
"I didn't ask for it," the UT football coach said before adding that the ESPN channel gives opposing coaches too much information on his football program.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Mack Brown: I’m Not Going Anywhere
Saturday's loss to Oklahoma had nearly every columnist in Texas speculating about the Longhorns football coach's future, but he dismissed such talk this afternoon.
Sports
January 21, 2013
NCAA Smacks Texas Southern With Five Years Probation
And as a "double repeat violator" going back two decades, the Tigers may be considered the most lawless college sports program since SMU.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Aggies Up, Longhorns Down?
UT may still have the better team, but Texas A&M is doing better than expected in the SEC.
Sports
January 21, 2013
A&M Billboard Near Austin Gets a UT Makeover
The rivalry continues off the field: A "This is SEC Country" billboard in North Austin was defaced with University of Texas colors over the weekend.
Sports
January 21, 2013
A&M and Texas State Make History While Losing
The universities both lost big games, but they celebrated new football eras.
January 21, 2013
SMU Football Players Accuse Prostitute of Theft
Three SMU athletes claim a woman stole over $3,000 in electronics from their home after one of them didn't pay her for sexual acts.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
The Meeting of Two Mascots
Just before Texas A&M officially joined the SEC, Reveille VIII and Bevo XIV bonded with each other (and their handlers) at a Williamson County ranch.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Earl Campbell’s Third Act
Sports Illustrated catches up with the former Houston Oilers running back, painting an affecting portrait of the Tyler Rose, who overcame substance abuse addiction in 2009.
Sports
January 21, 2013
College Football Realignment, The Second Circuit
It's 10 a.m. - do you know what conference your college football team is in? Now that the Big 12, SEC and Big East are all settled, here's a scorecard for the rest.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Wichita Falls’ Moment at the NFL Draft
Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were picked up yesterday, but day two of the draft belongs to Midwestern State offensive lineman Amini Silatolu.
January 21, 2013
Texas Tech Recruits From Houston Drive to Nacogdoches
Houston Bellaire wide receiver Devin Lauderdale and three friends were supposed to attend the Red Raiders spring football game, but clearly didn't know the way to Lubbock.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Craig James is Still Running Against Mike Leach
In his latest Internet campaign video, the candidate for U.S. Senate is "interviewed" by his daughter about Leach, whom he calls a "bully"
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Rick Perry and Mark Cuban Are Both More Popular than Jerry Jones
But Tim Tebow is more popular than all of them. Public Policy Polling released the last part of its January Texas voter survey.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Texas A&M to Denver Broncos: Hands off our 12th Man
After a skydiver flew over Denver's stadium with a flag reading "12th Man," an A&M vice president took to Twitter to defend the trademarked term.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Five Most Memorable Sports Stories of 2011
The end of a rivalry, the beginning of a franchise affair, and championships won (and lost) made 2011 a year to remember.
Sports
January 21, 2013
UH Head Coach Becomes Next Man to Take the Aggie Challenge
It’s finally official. Texas A&M hired Kevin Sumlin to lead the Aggies into the SEC.
Arts & Entertainment
January 21, 2013
Did Slim Thug Curse the Cougars?
Houston rappers Slim Thug, Bun B, and Paul Wall released a tribute to the Cougars before last week’s game. Let’s just say the song has fared better than the football team.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Heisman May Be Coming Back to Texas
The prediction polls are saying that Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III will win the Heisman Trophy on Saturday.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Snap Decisions
Your unofficial playbook for watching college football in Texas during the weekend of October 9.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Snap Decisions
Your unofficial playbook for watching college football in Texas this weekend.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Legends of the Fall
Texas football heroes Darrell Royal, Doak Walker, Sammy Baugh, and John David Crow are off the field, but they’re still having a ball.
Sports
January 20, 2013
The Old Bowl Game
I wish I were in the land of Cotton (Bowl).
Sports
January 20, 2013
Untitled Mike Flynt Project
A veteran Hollywood screenwriter couldn’t have come up with a better narrative arc: Seeking redemption, 59-year-old reenrolls at university he was once asked to leave, tries out for football team, makes it, becomes one of oldest-ever players in NCAA history. Or at least that’s how the hero wants it to
Sports
January 16, 2013
Could the NFL Draft Be a 1-2 Aggies Sweep?
ESPN guru Mel Kiper Jr.’s first NFL draft projection of 2013 has Texas A&M offensive tackle Luke Joeckel as the top pick, followed immediately by Aggies defensive end Damontre Moore.
Sports
January 15, 2013
Texas: It’s Where College Football Players Come From
An ESPN analysis of "recruiting migration" trends among Top 20 college football teams found one thing never changes: Texas had the most players in both 1940 and 2010.