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Mac Morgan dominates as Texas clubs Florida at WCWS
Mac Morgan allowed just one hit and top-seeded Texas had two big innings at the plate as the Longhorns beat Florida 10-0 in five innings in a Women's College World Series winner's bracket game in Oklahoma City.,The Longhorns, 2-0 in the WCWS for the first time since 2003, have allowed just two hits ...

Teagan Kavan powers No. 1 seed Texas past Stanford at WCWS
Teagan Kavan threw a one-hit shutout and top-seeded Texas defeated Stanford 4-0 in their first game of the Women's College World Series on Thursday in Oklahoma City.,Texas will face the winner between Oklahoma State and Florida on Saturday. Stanford will play the loser of that game in an elimination...

Former Texas standout QB Mike Cotten dies at 84
Former Texas standout Mike Cotten died Saturday after a brief illness, the university announced Sunday. He was 84.,Cotten went 17-4-1 as the starting quarterback between 1959-61 and also played defensive back during his Longhorns' career.,Cotten guided Texas to a 10-1 record and No. 3 final ranking ...

Former Texas F Dillon Mitchell commits to Cincinnati
Former Texas forward Dillon Mitchell has transferred to Cincinnati, according to reports.,Mitchell posted a picture of himself in a Bearcats uniform on his Instagram page.,Mitchell, a former five-star recruit, was a McDonald's All-American in high school.,The 6-foot-8 Mitchell reportedly also consid...

No. 1 WR Dakorien Moore decommits from LSU
Dakorien Moore, the No. 1-ranked receiver in the Class of 2025, announced he has decommitted from LSU.,The 247Sports composite also lists him as the No. 3 overall player in the class.,Moore, from Duncanville, Texas, made the announcement on social media Thursday night. He had been committed to coach...

Texas, Oklahoma earn top seeds in NCAA softball bracket
Texas received the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Division I Softball Championship when the selection committee revealed its 64-team field on Sunday.,Right behind Texas (47-7) is rival Oklahoma, the three-time reigning champion, as the No. 2 seed. The Sooners (49-6) beat the Longhorns 5-1 in the Big...

These are the holiday films certain NBA fanbases need to watch this season
Christmas is the ultimate overlap of entertainment and sports. The year’s blockbusters are typically reserved for release on Christmas Day, with a slew of big-budget and indie hits releasing all month. Christmas Day sees the league’s best rivalries matched up for primetime holiday viewing. ...

Bobby Petrino's return to Arkansas is further proof cancel culture doesn’t exist
Staying in coaching was never going to be a problem for Bobby Petrino. Once coaches reach a certain status, most can work for as long as they are willing to pack up suitcases and change homes every few years. But to be welcomed back onto the Arkansas campus, and likely paid a salary to again be a pa...

Another Juneteenth, and America still doesn't get it
For the third time on Monday, the United States of America will acknowledge Juneteenth as a federal holiday. President Joe Biden signed the declaration into law two days before the holiday in 2021. Now as America enters its third nationwide Juneteenth celebration — three years after George Floyd’s d...

The Alabama Crimson Tide are closing in on a one seed — and the worst fan ever
In this iteration of fans disgracing their teams, an Alabama Crimson Tide basketball supporter showed up at the SEC tournament on Saturday wearing a T-shirt with GOATS on the front, and “Killin’ our way through the SEC in ’23” on the back....

Dallas won't be hosting a Super Bowl any time soon
Jerry Jones championed the construction of Jerry World — AT&T Stadium — to host major sporting events far and wide, not simply for eight or nine Dallas Cowboys home games per year. His building hosted a Super Bowl in 2011 but weather problems in the Metroplex made that one a miserable experience. No...

Who had TCU as the first Texas program to (possibly) make the College Football Playoff?
I hate to give Texas credit for anything because the state already takes credit for everything. However, of all the supposed football-obsessed hubs, the Lone Star State tops them all. Mostly because of how unhealthy the population’s dedication to the sport is — I’m sure there are Texans who got wher...

A.J. Terrell's absence from the NFL Top 100 is inexcusable
The NFL Top 100 Players of 2022 list, a group compiled by the players themselves, included eight cornerbacks, who were ranked from 89th (Saints’ Marshon Lattimore) to ninth (Rams’ Jalen Ramsey). Every player mentioned is a tremendous talent, even Trevon Diggs (ranked 23rd). I just don’t think he’s w...

Bo knows kindness, too
Bo Jackson, the former MLB and NFL star considered by many to be one of the greatest athletes of all time, donated to help cover the funeral costs for the 19 children and two adults murdered at Robb Elementary School in after the Uvalde, Texas in May....

Upsets, Jell-O shots abound at College World Series
The College World Series has officially kicked off, and with one hell of an opening day. On Friday, the Oklahoma Sooners racked up eight runs in the first two innings against Texas A&M, including a three-run homer from catcher Jimmy Crooks. The Aggies just couldn’t catch up for the rest of the game ...

He gone
There’s truly no precedent for what occurred Wednesday during a Texas junior college baseball game, as Owen Woodward, a pitcher for Weatherford College, came charging off the mound after giving up a go-ahead home run and speared the longball hitter to the ground as he rounded third base. I can’t rem...

The Houston Texans are trying so hard to change their image that they’re donating to HBCUs
Hateful people run the same plays when they’re up against the wall. Misogynists tell us they have daughters. Homophobes claim they “love everyone” as God instructed. And racists surrounded themselves with people from the community they’ve discriminated against....

A breakdown of everything wrong with Hue Jackson’s statement defending his hiring of Art Briles
You know you shouldn’t have hired someone if you have to release a statement days after you hired them to explain why you hired them....

If Hue Jackson cared about HBCUs, he wouldn’t have hired Art Briles
Deion Sanders banned a Black reporter from covering his program. Eddie George had to be convinced by a white man to take a job at a Historically Black College and University. And now Hue Jackson — a man with an 11-44 record as an NFL head coach — has hired Art Briles, an alleged serial rape enabler,...

Grambling State hires disgraced Art Briles as coordinator
In a horrifying turn of events, Art Briles is going to be employed on a college campus come fall....