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Mike Leach Once Called The Big 12 Commish In The Middle Of A Game To Complain About The Officiating
The year was 2007. It was a simpler time. Dan Beebe was in his first season as Big 12 Commissioner, and Mike Leach was still at Texas Tech, probably not even having met redshirt freshman Adam James. But he was already a crazy person....
Nick Saban's Agent Sure Seems To Be Shopping Him To Texas
When the AP first reported news of a January phone call between Texas administrators and Nick Saban's agent Jimmy Sexton, Saban said he didn't know anything about it, and that he's too old to start somewhere else. New documents indicate the call took place, and not only did Sexton tell UT officials ...
Ben Hartsock Does His Best MLB Ump Impression As Chris Long Is Ejected
Defensive end Chris Long was ejected from the game after throwing a punch during a Rams-Panthers scrum in the third quarter, and tight end Ben Hartsock made sure to let Long know with his best baseball ump impression: "You're outta here!"...
20 Minutes At Rucker Park
Nice piece by Flinder Boyd over at SB Nation Longform. ...
It's Almost Like This Is Some Kind Of Crazy Rivalry Or Something
Obviously, the sailor-mouthed dude with his face painted is going to get most of the play here, but don't sleep on the pirate to his left. ...
We Have A Fat Guy TD In The Red River Rivalry
Texas DT Chris Whaley did indeed rumble into the endzone after picking off Sooner quarterback Blake Bell....
The Fall Of Texas Track Coach Bev Kearney Required Awesome Hubris
Texas Monthly this week threw a Proustian 12,800 words at the sad, strange story of Bev Kearney, and if you manage to read the entire thing, because perhaps you've had a flight canceled or you're pulling a double shift in the parking garage tollbooth, you'll likely follow a winding trajectory in try...
Insane College Football Drive: 24 Plays, 90 Yards, Zero Points
So if you didn't catch Saturday's Colorado School of Mines-Western New Mexico game—I DVR'd it*—you missed out on one of the longest, strangest, and ultimately fruitless possessions in college football history....
Sir Bam Bam
There are 23 large iron lamps affixed to the ceiling. The tints of neon light they throw down into the indoor batting cage, a concrete room tucked deep into the guts of Yankee Stadium, vary according to when they were last smashed out by errant balls and replaced. Under these lights, largely out of ...
Here's The Worst Late Hit You'll See This Year In College Football
Hope you're proud, Longhorns fans....
Something Terrible Is About To Happen
There, in the upper-left-hand corner of the screen. Behind the goal and a step to the left. The videotape is probably a copy of a copy of a copy, as grainy as a Navajo sand painting. A hockey game. The camera pans too fast, too slow, chasing knots of players back and forth across the ice. Medium wid...
Cobra '79 T-Shirt
Via It's a Long Season check out this boss T-shirt by Chris Brennan. ...
Texas QB David Ash Throws Ball Away, Drills KSU Staffer In The Face
If anything encapsulates the Texas season thus far (and, in a way, Kansas State's) it's this play from early on in tonight's poopfest in Austin....
What Happened To Jai Alai?
Earlier this year at SB Nation’s Longform, the talented Michael Mooney asked: What Happened to Jai Alai:...
Rafael Nadal: Rockin' My Peers And Puttin' Suckas In Fear
Over at SB Nation Longform, Elizabeth Kaye has a terrific wrap-up of the U.S. Open:...
Ole Miss Fans Make Blowjob Faces Behind Longhorn Network Set
It's been a rough week for Longhorns fans. At least the pain of last week's blowout loss to BYU can be soothed by a nice home game broadcast on Texas's own personal ESPN network, right?...
Pride Of The City
Over at SB Nation Longform, Joe DePaolo has a strong piece on the annual baseball game between the NYPD and NYFD:...
<em>Sports Illustrated</em> Falls For Satire About Nick Saban Visiting Texas
What you see above is the story that went screaming out on the SI Wire at SI.com earlier today. Technically, it's true: Nick Saban is indeed visiting Texas this weekend—but only because Alabama's showdown with Texas A&M is still scheduled for Saturday in College Station. But that's not all SI.com is...
Why Football Is So Important In Alabama
I was in South Carolina last weekend, college football country. Clemson vs. Georgia was all anyone cared about unless you counted the local high school game and they cared even more about that. I went to a general store and found these vintage Bear Bryant bottles of Coke on the shelf. They sold frie...
Sketchy Reports: Gareth Bale To Be Sold For All The Money
According to a variety of dubious reports in unreliable foreign outlets, Tottenham Hotspur star Gareth Bale is actually, really, finally, supposedly about to be sold off to Real Madrid for (at present exchange rates) $145.81 million, with Spurs supposedly then buying up everyone this side of George ...