SMU Mustangs

Playboy Says SMU Has the Nation's Best Nightlife, is a "Never-Ending House Party"

At first blush, it would appear that Playboy's annual ranking of the country's best party schools is completely arbitrary. How else to explain the appearance of the University of Western Ontario in last year's top 10 or Plymouth State the year before? But no, this is science. "Our methodology?" Pla ... More >>

Why Did SMU Really Fire Steve Orsini?

You don't shoot the goose that laid the golden egg. You just don't -- not unless you really, really have to or the goose stops pooping out gold. Which is why SMU's firing of athletic director Steve Orsini yesterday was so perplexing, and why the non-explanation offered by school President Gerald Tur ... More >>

SMU Advances in the CBI While the Final Four Comes to SMU. Wait, What?

​Last night the SMU Mustangs quietly tip-toed into the semifinals of something called the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) with a seven-point win at Northern Iowa. It's not exactly March Madness - more like March Mediocrity - but considering the Mustangs and head coach Matt ... More >>

Wait, SMU Will Be Included in March's Madness?

​Never again let me criticize college football for rewarding 70 teams with bowl games. Because college basketball is now doing the same thing. And then some. This year - this week - March has increased, unprecedented Madness. Ohio State, Duke, Pittsburgh and Kansas are the No. 1 seeds as ... More >>

SMU Cheerleader > Texas A&M Cadet

My favorite part of the informative, entertaining "Pony Excess" ESPN documentary over the weekend was being reminded of the classic scene that unfolded at Texas A&M's Kyle Field on October 31, 1981. Led by Eric Dickerson and Craig James, the 5th-ranked Mustangs trounced a mediocre Aggies ... More >>

SMU and "Pony Excess": The Scars Remain

No one from the 1980s pay-for-play scandals remains at SMU, but the stigma - and the residue from the NCAA's Death Penalty - remain on the Hilltop. Those wounds may not be re-opened, but they'll certainly be re-visited Saturday night when ESPN presents its latest 30 for 30 documentary: "Pony Exces ... More >>

SMU Guard Gets Drafted By a Team That I Didn't Know Needed a Draft

​I saw the Harlem Globetrotters not long ago but I'll admit, I had no idea they had a "draft." You? The world's most famous basketball team yesterday drafted the "Club Trillion" founder, a college slam dunk champion, a husband-wife couple and - lookie here - a dude from SMU. That's right, SMU ... More >>

You Like That Giant Scoreboard at the Cotton Bowl? Good. SMU's Getting One Now.

​Apparently, one successful season a rebirth makes, as SMU sends word today that Gerald J. Ford Stadium's about to get quite the upgrade with the installation of a new video scoreboard designed and manufactured by South Dakota-based Daktronics -- the very same company responsible for that towering ... More >>

SMU Hoops Losing its Point Guard, and its Hope?

​If this Spring is any indication of where things are headed, SMU basketball's March Madness drought is likely to hit 18 years next season. That's because star point guard Paul McCoy - once thought of as the Mustangs' light at the end of the tunnel - is transferring from SMU. In his plac ... More >>

SMU Cornerback Gets His Bell Rung

​Last Sept. 12, SMU cornerback Derrius Bell suffered a concussion in a game at Alabama-Birmingham. Sidelined for three weeks, he returned against TCU and, on the game's first play, violently hit a Frog receiver after a reception. The tackle forced a fumble, and gave Bell another concussi ... More >>

Doc About Life After Death Penalty at SMU Gets Held Up. "In a Good Way."

Untitled from DLP Entertainment on Vimeo.A Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention yesterday to the trailer for a documentary called Article 19, about events leading up to and immediately following SMU's football program receiving the NCAA's death penalty in February 1987. I recalled having rea ... More >>

We're Six Months Away from Ponying Up, But, Still, SMU to ESPN ... Twice

​SMU just released the 2010 football schedule, and, clearly, the Christmas Miracle in Hawaii meant a little something-something when it came to the Worldwide Leader locking down dates. Because the season opens with a September 5 Sunday-afternoon showdown in Lubbock against Texas Tech -- the first ... More >>

"You Know, I Used to be a Cheerleader."

​Maybe you heard: George W. Bush stopped by Mustangs football practice this morning, where he told the team to "win one for Yom Kippur." Thanks to the SMU media relations department for this end-of-the-day keeper. 

SMU Basketball Leads the Nation ... in Tweets?

Matt Doherty hasn't done much to put SMU back on the college basketball map. He is, however, powering the Ponies to the top of the Twitterverse. SMU urges its coaches to connect to its community. Events. Fund-raisers. Handshakes. Blogs. But you get the feeling Doherty Tweets not because he has ... More >>

Despite Its Big-Time Coach, SMU Basketball Remains Small-Time

SMU Basketball = March Badness

New Crum Center. Same crummy results. In Matt Doherty's first season as SMU basketball coach back in 2006-07, the Mustangs started 9-1. A victory at Oklahoma would've likely propelled the Ponies into the Top 25. Instead, SMU was humbled in Norman by 27 points, and it's been all drastically ... More >>

A Calendar That Recalls When SMU Had a Golden Age of Football

A Friend of Unfair Park who attended SMU sends along this gift-giving suggestion for his fellow Mustangs (and, ya know, anyone else): the school's latest calendar, The Golden Age of Football: 1920s to 1960s, which, like plenty of other retro date-minders on the market, features reproductions of old ... More >>

Local Offensive Geniuses June Jones and Todd Dodge are Flunking Defense 101

June Cometh. And, Apparently, He Taketh Away.

SMU To Finally Retire "Dandy" Don Meredith's No. 17

SMU Begs Fans to Arrive to Football Games, Like, Before Kick-Off, M'kay?

You Betcha: Week 1

Pony Down

Quarterback Justin Willis rides a rocky road at SMU that detours into a demotion

June Jones Already Making Big Changes. Big, Weird Changes.

Pony Express to Ride Again, If Only For Charity Auction This Month

The Pony Express Rides Again. At Least, When It Comes to Unis.

You Gotta Pay to Play, Say SMU's President and Head Football Man

Pony Up. Or Pony High?

To Commemorate Memorial Day, SMU Basketball is Flying to … Africa?

Scooch a Bit SMU, You (May) Finally Have Company

Pony Up, Power Down

It’s March. So, By All Means, Commence With the Madness.

Steve Orsini Has SMU Buying Into Big-Time Sports

SMU's AD is crazy enough and savvy enough to produce happiness on the Hilltop

SMU and June Jones: They're Both Back From the Dead

Hoops Du Jour, With a Side of Pigskin

Beating A Dead Mustang

Like Zombies, SMU football Plays on Without a Pulse

SMU Has Had Its Phil

Guns Up 49, Pony Up 9

Only One More Shopping Day Till Football Season

Prince Peruna

Knocked off his high horse, Matt Doherty tries to whip SMU back into the race

Between His Rock and a Hard Place

Mustang Mania?

Life After Death?

Happy on the Hell-Top

Mess on Mockingbird

SMU Basketball! Live! In Austin?

Clean Up, Aisle Two!

SMU Wins!

Hapless on the Hilltop