On a Wednesday night in February at the H-E-B Center in Cedar Park, purple foam fingers swayed in the air during LOVB Austin’s third home game of the season. As the inaugural-season champions, the pressure was on for Austin to beat LOVB Atlanta. After a long rally, University of Texas alum Madisen Skinner scored a […]
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‘Our No. 1.’ Longhorns Remember Superfan Scott Wilson, Who Never Missed a Game.
President George H.W. Bush was fond of saying, “90 percent of life is just showing up.” If that’s true, Scott Wilson knew the meaning of life. Wilson, who died Friday at 74, showed up. A Texas Longhorn superfan, Wilson spent decades attending UT games. Every one of them for 25 years. Five hundred and ninety-four […]
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‘The Disdain is Palpable’: Longhorn-Aggie Game Reignites an Ancient Feud
After 13 long years, the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University are back where they belong: doing battle on Saturday. Yes, the Longhorns and Aggies are playing football again. The ancient in-state enemies are set to play, finally, at Kyle Field this weekend in College Station. It’s an important game. Texas is […]
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Austin Could Get a WNBA Team. A Texas Basketball Legend Is Prepping a Bid.
Austin could finally be getting a professional basketball team — and a Texas basketball legend named Fran Harris is doing her part to make it happen. The former Longhorn champion, WNBA champion, and South Oak Cliff High School graduate is raising money and gathering supporters to bid for a WNBA Austin team. The league currently […]
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Well, at Least the Longhorns Placed No. 5 in New Playoff Rankings
Sure the world is on fire, but let’s talk about what’s really important: football. The first College Football Playoff rankings are out, and the University of Texas Longhorns are in the thick of things. The Longhorns landed in the No. 5 spot, just behind the University of Oregon, Ohio State University, the University of Georgia, […]
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Dad McConaughey Not Mad at Longhorn Fans, Just Disappointed: ‘We’re Better Than That’
It was not a great weekend for the Longhorns. Texas lost to Georgia on Saturday, getting knocked off the top perch in college football, and some Longhorns fans acted like idiots during the process. After an admittedly terrible pass interference call against Texas, angry Longhorns fans began throwing bottles and trash onto the field. This […]
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It’s Gonna Be Hot as Balls for the Texas-OU Game
The top-ranked Texas Longhorns face the underdog Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. And for a game in October, it is going to be unseasonably hot. Temps are expected to hit 96 degrees in North Texas — that’s just a degree away from setting a record. And it’s bananas for this […]
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The Longhorns Are Now the Best Team in College Football
We told you: Texas football is back. After a great start, the Longhorns are now ranked number one in the country, according to a new poll. For the first time in 16 years, the University of Texas won the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press top 25 college football poll, edging out perennial powerhouse […]
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5 Ways Texas Politicians Have Made It Harder for College Students to Vote
It’s no secret that certain Texas politicians are on a mission to make voting as hard as possible. Gov. Greg Abbott was out in front of the pack back in 2013. Hours after the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder gutted parts of the Civil Rights Act, Texas’s then-attorney general was ready to […]
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Texas Football is Back. We Swear This Time.
University of Texas alum Gerald Goodridge was living in Oklahoma City in 2010 when disaster struck. During the undefeated Longhorns’ national title game against the University of Alabama, Texas quarterback Colt McCoy went down with an injury in the first quarter and never returned. It was a bad omen for the future. Texas lost the […]