Big 12 Conference

A Net's Worth

Corralling The City’s Longhorns

Post Up To Shootout

Big 12 Conference Alive, if Not Well

​Call it the Pat 12. As in, no thanks to expansion, we'll stand. As in, the Big 12 -- all but buried by a lot of us dorks -- remains alive, like the muddy, bony, cob-webbed hand reaching up from the grave to snatch onto life. Again. Because it couldn't get assurances from Texas about a ... More >>

Thanks to Baylor's Cock-Block, Texas A&M May Wait Until 2013 to Join SEC

​The Southern Baptist Convention has over 16 million members. It also boasts a mission statement: As a convention of churches, our missional vision is to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every person in the world and to make disciples of all the nations. Perusing their web site this mor ... More >>

College Football Uniforms Are Outta Control: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​ 10. We've sorta become desensitized to Oregon's smorgasboard of uniforms with different helmets featuring gray, green, yellow and white and neon-green outlined numbers. Blame Phil Knight and Nike for those. But what about the rest of ya? The opening weekend of college football delivered some gr ... More >>

Craig James, Jerry LeVias Recruited to Help SMU Raise $3 Mil For Mustang Band Complex

For a split second in the second quarter, SMU was this close to tying up A&M, 20-20. Backup QB J.J. McDermott, subbed in after Kyle Padron tossed two picks in four pass attempts, had a man open with nothing but open field in front of him. But the pass sailed wide left, and in a blink it was 33-1 ... More >>

A&M to the SEC: Didn't We Just Have this Conversation?

​The grand ol' Southwest Conference lived to be 80. The Big 12 Conference may die a teenager.Only 17 and just a year removed from turmoil that left it with just 10 teams but supposedly unity and cohesion, the conference is again this morning reeling with the news that Texas A&M -- irked b ... More >>

Texas Showdown

Feeling Horny?

Whitt's End: 6.11.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *The Southwest Conference lived to be 80. The Big 12 won't see its 17th birthday. Favorite part of the squabble is Texas A&M threatening to go to the Southeastern Conference without Texas. Yeah ... More >>

Nebraska: Out. Big 12: Gone?

Bye-bye Big, um, Red?​Since 1994 we've enjoyed the Big 12 Conference. Offices based here. Alumni living here. Championship games played here. Savor it. Because, perhaps as early as Friday, it begins to crumble. With the Big 12 having slapped a Friday deadline on Nebraska to essentially comm ... More >>

It's the End of the Big 12 as We Know It

​R.I.P, Big 12? Certainly looks so, as the Pac 10 over the weekend empowered commissioner Larry Scott to proceed with plans for expansion. In other words, let the raiding of the Big 12 Conference commence. Last week, news surfaced of the Pac 10's plans, which center on adding Texas, Texas A&a ... More >>

NCAA Basketball Tournament: Let the Madness Commence!

Substitute me for Dickie V, and you're looking at my next three weeks.​It was pitch dark this morning when I woke up. Must be Spring. Spent an hour this morning sweating over a bracket. Must be March. If you want to come have a beer and talk hoops and maybe punch me in the face, I'll b ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Red Beer

​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn warped.My first wife's clan would gather at least once a year in the middle of nowhere, otherwise known as Columbus, Nebraska.Yes, first wife--for some reason my firm belief that life revolves around telev ... More >>

If They Can't Get People to Come to Victory Park, Well, There's Always Cattle

Photos by Kimberly ThorpeWhatever you do, do not look at the video board behind you.​On my commute to work this morning, I noticed something peculiar about Victory Park Plaza. Standing over the dull pavers, corralled Longhorns grazed on a bit of straw, while two men on horseback watched over. Turn ... More >>

All My Excess Lives in Texas

Fingers crossed, WE will duplicate this joy tonight. Right?So I'm watching the Channel 8 news Monday night at 6:29 and after a sparkling fill-in sportscast by Ted Madden he alerts viewers that: " ... in the game, Texas already trails, 1-0." To which anchor Gloria Campos valiantly responds, "A ... More >>

I-45 Showdown

The Mavs and the Rockets square off

Baylor, Texas Tech Are Raiding North Texas!

Courtesy Texas Tech UniversitySo says the Texas Tech athletics Web site this afternoon, as the Red Raiders make it official: Tech and Baylor are moving their next two games up to North Texas sooner than later. As in: This year, on November 28, the Red Raiders and Bears won't play in Waco, as schedul ... More >>

On National Signing Day, DISD Recognizes its Outbound Athletes

Patrick MichelsJames Madison High recruits watch game highlights on an overhead video screen.On this (overhyped?) National Letter of Intent Signing Day, high schoolers all over the country chose which school they'd be suiting up for next. For some, it was as simple as faxing in a signed letter (a mi ... More >>

OU Gotta Be Kidding: Oklahama to Face BYU at Jerryworld in '09?

That's what The Oklahoman is speculating this afternoon: OU and Brigham Young will kick off the 2009 college football season at Jerryworld in Arlington. And Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops didn't do much to stifle the speculation when asked for a comment today. Said Stoops, "Has that been released? A ... More >>

Don't Mess With Texas. Oh Crap, Too Late.

   I don't love Texas. I don't hate Oklahoma. But what transpired yesterday in the Big 12 is absolute bullshit.   I know life ain't fair, but college football should be. Or at least it should use common sense trying.   Let me apologize to Texas. I posted some of the bes ... More >>

Tex-cess. Welcome to The Austin Morning News.

All this? Because of one game a year in our zip code? Seems a tad much. Okay, we get it. Dallas’ Only Daily is hitching its downsized wagon to the Texas Longhorns. Again. I often accuse Dallas of being not a sports town, but a winners town. I have to say the same about our media. Mys ... More >>

You Betcha: Week 11

Picking Cotton

Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?

American Anthem

Olympic gymnasts flip out for audiences

Duck For Cover

Cotton Pickin’ Crazy

Over The Weekend: Turkey, Football, Shopping... Duh.

Fritz the Cat

The Biggest Loser

Heisman Hand-off

Don't Fence Them In

Hog...Wild?

Pat the Bunny

Yee-haw, Y'all!

Tex-cess

Everything's bigger in our state, especially the fan fakery

Air Apparent?

After three years of Tuna, it's time for a Leach

Out of Luck

Want a sure thing? Read Schutze's columns.

Clone Ranger

The old roundup may never be the same, thanks to Zech Dameron’s herd of genetically duplicate longhorns

The Back Page

I would tell you about the Big 12 tourney, but my stomach hurts

Leonard Bishop

Lincoln High

Buzz

Crimson-faced

A Sure Bet

For this bookie duo, March Madness means three weeks of overtime pay

Media Bias

All year, we tell you who's been naughty. Now, a list of those whose work is nice.

Best Radio DJ

Barry Switzer, "Football All the Way," Thursday at 6 p.m., KTCK-AM 1310

Vanity of the Bonfire

When tradition and death collide in Aggieland, tradition triumphs

Aggies lose again

AG's office makes the last call of the season

The eyes of Texas

An Aggie wonders whether we all should get to see the Longhorn playbook

Quarterback sneak

How Ron Kirk secretly pulled the strings in city's Big 12 deal