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Aggies Seem To Be Handling This Well
Texas A&M is down by a touchdown to the University of Louisiana at halftime. It seems their fans are a bit upset by this. ...
The Texas A&M Regent Who Called For Kevin Sumlin's Firing Spent $600K On A Bigass Tank
Remember Tony Buzbee, the lawyer on the Texas A&M Board of Regents who recently called for Kevin Sumlin to be fired? He just blew a “little over $600,000" on an M4 Sherman tank that was used during World War II....
USC Pretends Like It Didn't Lose The 2006 Rose Bowl
The 2005-06 USC Trojans were an unholy powerhouse that went on an 12-0 romp through college football only to be upended in the 2006 Rose Bowl by Vince Young and the Texas Longhorns. The Trojans later had to vacate all 12 wins from that season due to the Reggie Bush scandal, but, as Austin sports anc...
Kevin Sumlin's Wife Shares Racist Hate Mail Sent To Family
Texas A&M head football coach Kevin Sumlin’s wife, Charlene Sumlin, shared a piece of threatening hate mail sent to her husband tonight: ...
Urban Meyer Hits Tom Herman With The Classic Scoreboard Burn
With one week and one embarrassing loss in the books, it seems about right that college football fans already have to listen to some Texas coaches squirm and blame-shift....
An A&M Regent Is Already Calling For Kevin Sumlin's Head
Anthony Buzbee is a Houston attorney and a member of the Texas A&M Board of Regents. He is also apparently not much a fan of Aggies head coach Kevin Sumlin, and last night’s historic collapse against UCLA was the final straw:...
Whatever Could Go Wrong Went Right For Josh Rosen And UCLA
How do you even get the fake-spike play called and arranged with 40 seconds left, at the end of what could be a historic comeback, but just as easily could be a gut-punch of a narrow loss?...
Astros Play In Florida, Which No One Wanted
It didn’t look or feel much like a home game for the Astros. Before an announced crowd of 3,485 in St. Petersburg, Fla., each of whom had paid $10 for general admission, the Astros donned a first-time uniform combination: road gray pants and dark blue alternate tops usually worn for batting practice...
MLB Scrubs, Rewrites MLB.com Column Critical Of Rangers
An MLB.com column that chastised the Texas Rangers for their part in relocating this week’s series with the Houston Astros was extensively edited and rewritten after publication, seemingly to be less critical of the team. None of the changes are noted in the piece....
The Texas Rangers Don't Look Great Here
Until earlier today, the Astros and Rangers were scheduled to begin a three-game series tomorrow in Houston. However, since much of the city is now underwater due to catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Harvey, it was evident that MLB would need to find another locale. They did—and it’s the Tampa Ba...
Don't Run On Mike Trout
It sometimes feels almost cruel that the brilliance of Mike Trout is so often wasted on moments and games that seem wholly irrelevant, which is why it’s such a joy to finally see an at least semi-competitive Angels team in a season that’s shaping up as Trout’s best yet. (Time spent on the disabled l...
Rangers Manager Jeff Banister Takes Matters Into His Own Hands, Carries Pigeon Off Field
The Rangers and Angels were joined by a very special guest on the infield tonight: a pigeon, who hobbled around with a seemingly injured wing until someone was finally brave enough to step up to the plate and rescue the poor creature by himself. That would be Texas manager Jeff Banister, who scooped...
Texas A&M's Head Football Coach Applauds Cancellation Of "White Lives Matter" Rally
Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp this week put the kibosh on a planned “White Lives Matter” event reportedly scheduled at the university by Preston Wiginton, a former A&M student and apparent white supremacist. That decision was met with praise today by A&M’s head football coach, Kevin Sumlin:...
Adrián Beltré Once Again Makes Dull Baseball Activity Fun, Uses Botched Pickoff Attempt For Nifty Spin Move
Adrián Beltré, baseball’s premier purveyor of jokes and joy, put his skills on display again Thursday night. With Beltré on second, White Sox pitcher Reynaldo López tried to pick him off—but the pickoff attempt got away from Tim Anderson covering second and rolled into the outfield, giving Beltré sp...
Joey Gallo Cares Naught For Anything But Sweet, Sweet Dingers
Because the home run is back and it’s cool again, it’s absolutely acceptable to kick off each blog morning with some massive moonshot by another young large boy with a build and a slugging percentage that would’ve fit right in 20 years ago—the most fun baseball era of my life, not for nothing. I do ...
Rougned Odor Executes Straight Steal Of Home On Run-Scoring Balk
Per the official scorer’s account of tonight’s Tigers-Rangers game, Rougned Odor did not steal home tonight. Technically, the Texas second baseman scored on a balk from Detroit pitcher Daniel Stumpf—because a player already aboard must advance one base on a balk, and he explicitly cannot be credited...
Old Man Bartolo Colón Pitched A Complete Game In 2017
Ancient baseball man Bartolo Colón started the 2017 baseball season with the Atlanta Braves, where he accrued a nightmarish 8.14 ERA in 10 starts before being released on July 4. It looked like the end for the beloved 44-year-old blobfish, even after an offseason spent toning his, umm, frame like a...
Joey Gallo's Dong Might Have Broken Statcast
Kids stumbling onto the center-field grass to grab a home run ball is a familiar sight in Arlington, but tonight, Joey Gallo denied any fan a potential souvenir. The tall, young slugger destroyed an Erasmo Ramírez pitch and banished the baseball to well beyond Greene’s Hill, all the way out to the o...
Midwestern Guy Wants You To Doubt Adrian Beltre Because He's Dominican
Fox Sports guy Doug Gottlieb has a big wet blanket for anyone excited about Adrian Beltre’s 3000th hit: Did you know that Beltre is Dominican??? Fucked up, but true....
Yu Darvish Is A Dodger
Just when baseball’s deadline day looked to be a lot of hype with little payoff, we got an after-the-buzzer Rose-bomb:...