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Heaven announces outfield fences to be moved back.
Latest in my series of posts to remember recently passed baseball greats. Today is about Harmon "Killer" Killebrew, who received his final call up last week. When examining history's great sluggers, you'd be hard pressed to find a hitter whose legacy suffered more from the excess of the steroid...
The National Championship on the Line Right Here
This one's for all the marbles. It all comes down to this. Winner takes all. To help tide us over until gametime and get through the workday, here are some videos of the runups and the final games of our athletic department's last three chances to take home a national championship with one more...
The Deadliest Warrior on Spike
The Deadliest Warrior is a new series on Spike and it's excellent guilty pleasure guy fare. Morning stars crashing into human replica gel-filled dummy heads, katanas slicing pig carcasses in half, and interesting, often ludicrous - occasionally hilarious - match-ups soberly presided over by...
RIP Noble Doss
Noble Doss has passed away at the age of 88. RIP and Hook 'em.
Russell Gaskamp Award Nominees
I coined this award ten years ago in honor of inaugural winner, Russell Gaskamp. Gaskamp was a highly recruited OL prospect from Oklahoma that came to Texas with great acclaim and then gathered dust like a Salt Lake City Planned Parenthood. In 1998 - then a fifth year senior - he was a struck by a...
The 2008 Team's Place in Texas History
As disappointing as this season's outcome was when you consider the whys regarding our not appearing in the Big 12 Championship Game, which therefore cost us an appearance in the National Championship Game, Longhorn fans will always look back on this year's squad as an overachieving group. And...
Week 8 Wrap-up
Ratings Update As always, both the All Teams and the Division I-A only ratings have been updated. And Texas' rating continues to get more and more absurd with the potential to get even more out of hand. In both sets of ratings, Texas has defeated the #2 and #5 teams in consecutive weeks. All...
Gameday reading for Arkansas
We have had some great information this week and two weeks ago when we were first slated to roast the pigs, so here is a recap for you. Arkansas at Texas 2:30 Kickoff Televised on ABC ABC Regional Coverage Map Also available on ESPN360.com if you don’t have a TV but do have a computer and the...
Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming
My father-in-law, Gary, is a true orange-blooded Texas Longhorn. He is the only child of two graduates of the University of Texas. He graduated from the pharmacy school the year of our last national championship (pre-Vince), married a Longhorn, and raised two daughters – both Texas graduates and...
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