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May 11, 2012
Texas-OU is Staying at the Cotton Bowl
If you build it dump $82 million into it, they will come. Mayor Mike Rawlings sends word today that it's a lock: The annual, traffic-snarling blood feud between the University of Texas and Oklahoma University known as the Red River Shootout will be played in the Cotton Bowl at least through 2020. ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
Texas and OU, Count Your Money: The Cotton Bowl's $25 Million Facelift is a Lock
The backdrop, the pageantry, the Fried Everything: There are plenty of reasons the folks at Texas and Oklahoma wouldn't mind keeping the schools' annual rivalry at the Cotton Bowl. But these are college football guys we're talking about, so you can't underestimate the Big R. The schools split $10 ... More >>
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January 5, 2012
Why can't Anglos Pronounce Spanish Words?
And why the love for UT?
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October 6, 2011
Old School Shootout
And why the love for UT?
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September 22, 2011
If Texas and OU Need More Seats to Stay at the Cotton Bowl, Well, There Is Room to Expand
It's been all of three years, almost to the day, since then-Mayor Tom Leppert and Tennell Atkins played a game of catch on the Cotton Bowl field to formally commemorate the end of $57 million worth of redos, $30 million of which was paid for out of the 2006 bond program with the State Fair of Tex ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Will This Conference Clustereff Be Good for College Football?
It's not a matter of if, but merely when. The Big 12 is kaput. When the Board of Regents at OU and Texas yesterday empowered their respective school presidents (David Boren and Williams Powers) to explore new conference affiliations, it officially signaled the beginning of the end for the I ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Rangers Closer to Raising AL West Pennant, Funds for Shannon Stone
Yep, the Angels somehow lost to this laughable outfit again last night -- Anaheim has given up the division by going 5-9 against the A's -- shoving the Rangers' lead in the AL West up to 3 with 15 remaining and trimming their magic number to 13. Nelson Cruz should be off the DL and ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
No Matter Where Texas and Oklahoma Wind Up, Texas-OU Will Survive in Dallas ... or Arlington
After a meeting last weekend of school power brokers -- including UT president William Powers and OU grand poobah David Boren -- it's clear that Texas-OU Weekend will survive regardless of where the Longhorns and Sooners wind up in this chaotic restructuring of conferences. According to a so ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
A&M to the SEC! Texas as an Independent?! The Big 12 and Texas-OU is Kaput?
As we speak I'm told University of Texas president Bill Powers and athletic director DeLoss Dodds are planning an informal lunch with state power brokers at Barton Creek Country Club in Austin to discuss the feasibility of the Longhorns becoming a football independent. Hell ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
As It Tries to Bolt the Big 12, The Joke's On Texas A&M (Again)
Jealous and impotent until the bitter end, the Aggies try to flee for the SEC.
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February 9, 2011
Super Bowl XLV Also Gave Us ... The Greatest Moment in Texas Football History?
I was flattered when the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee approached me late in 2009 to help construct and singularly author its prodigious Century in the Making project. What started with 250 of the greatest moments in Texas football history -- high school, college and pro -- ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Auburn 22, Oregon 19: My Top 10 Observer-ations
10. Cam Newton = Overrated. I take it back. He ain't better than Vince Young was at Texas. 9. Sure he's corny at times, but I love me some "Big Game" Brent Musburger. 8. Props to Auburn coach Gene Chizik for running a play to wind the clock down and set up a walk-off 19-yard field goal by We ... More >>
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January 3, 2011
TCU Finally Shuts Up the Big Ten Buffoons
So a bunch of us are sitting around on New Year's Day laughing at the empty seats at the Ticket City Bowl, gulping venison chili and combating our headaches with straight up hair o' the dawg. Suddenly, invited to our football-watching gala by a mutual friend, the Big Ten Buffoons show up. Th ... More >>
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October 4, 2010
OU 28, Texas 20: My Top 10 Observations
10. Pretty sure the Sooners and Longhorns are just mediocre football teams. But I'm certain Texas was absolutely gutted -- in emotion and field-position -- by nine penalties. 9. The Longhorns will lose Oct. 16 at Nebraska, giving Texas three consecutive losses for the first time since 1 ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Report: Week Two of The Shiner Rising Star Contest's Semi-Finals
Shiner Rising Star UpdateLove & War in Texas in Grapevine September 30, 2010Semi-Final Round, Week TwoAs was the case a few weeks ago, we weren't able to sit in as judge for the latest Shiner Rising Star happening--a shame, really. One of the two best bands from the first round of the entire ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Texas-OU has, with last week's shocking Longhorns loss, slid from a marquee game with national implications.
Shiner Rising Star UpdateLove & War in Texas in Grapevine September 30, 2010Semi-Final Round, Week TwoAs was the case a few weeks ago, we weren't able to sit in as judge for the latest Shiner Rising Star happening--a shame, really. One of the two best bands from the first round of the entire ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
The Top 5 Best Games in the History of Texas-OU
Here's hoping that Saturday's Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl is better than last year's yawny 16-13 Longhorns' victory. The memorable 45-35 game in 2008 was a little more like it. Still, with pedestrian quarterbacks Garrett Gilbert and Landry Jones and what I think are two medioc ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Texas Oh Jew: UT Student Government Wants 2011 Red River Shootout Moved Off Yom Kippur
I went to a bar mitzvah in Austin two weeks ago, where I received this yarmulke -- perfect for next year's Texas-OU game!A Texas Ex-girlfriend forwards along the link to a site called Move Texas vs. OU Weekend, which is a petition crafted by The University of Texas at Austin Student Government de ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
SI Cover Jinx: University of Texas?
Not sure I get all the hype over Texas this year. I know the Big 12 media picked Oklahoma to win the South, but Texas is ranked No. 4 by Sports Illustrated and - uh-oh - on the cover this week. Last time I checked UT lost a quarterback named Colt McCoy and a receiver called Jordan Shipley an ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Big 12 Football: OU over UT
The media hath spoken in regards to the 2010 Big 12 Conference football season and the winners are ... Oklahoma. And Nebraska. We'll get to the full pre-season predictions after the jump, but in picking OU over Texas in the South apparently the Big 12 media thinks Landry Jones will be a bett ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Six Flavors Blue Bell Should Never Release
It's National Ice Cream Month, which got us thinking about Texas' de facto state ice cream. Below is a list of flavors Blue Bell's R&D should strike from brainstorming sessions for fear of being force-fed ghost chili-infused Ben & Jerry's. Now comes with bits o' snake!Rattlesnake: Swe ... More >>
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July 5, 2010
Why We Love Sports in America
Happy Birthday, America. Like tonight's July 5th fireworks show in Dallas, it's better late than never. Right? Our country turned the ripe old age of 234 on Sunday. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, I tried to spend some time remembering how friggin' fortunate we are to ha ... More >>
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June 24, 2010
A Smaller, Weakened Big 12 Conference Means Football Fans Lose Big.
Happy Birthday, America. Like tonight's July 5th fireworks show in Dallas, it's better late than never. Right? Our country turned the ripe old age of 234 on Sunday. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, I tried to spend some time remembering how friggin' fortunate we are to ha ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
TCU = CWS. Chalk One Up for the Little Guys
Delicious development over the weekend as TCU's baseball team took two of three from Texas in Austin to earn its first ever trip to the College World Series. The Horned Frogs begin play in Omaha, Nebraska Saturday at 1 p.m. against Fresno State. TCU has a legit shot because of, if nothi ... More >>
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May 29, 2010
Dennis Hopper Always Did Love Dallas, Even If He Did Try To Piss On It a Time or Two
Upon hearing the news of Dennis Hopper's death from prostate cancer at the age of 74 this afternoon, I dug up a 1990 Daily Texan interview I did with the writer-director-actor upon his return to the USA Film Festival, where he was being feted as its Master Screen Artist. He spoke fondly of Texas ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
Do You Trust Jerry Jones in the NFL Draft?
A month from tonight - that's right, tonight - the NFL Draft will commence in prime for the first time. Currently with the 27th overall pick, what will your Dallas Cowboys do? A safety? Perhaps Southern Cal's Taylor Mays or Texas' Earl Thomas? An offensive lineman for when, not if, Flozell A ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
In the War of Attrition Waged by the Texas Attorney General Against Robert O'Donnell, There Were Unintended Consequences
A month from tonight - that's right, tonight - the NFL Draft will commence in prime for the first time. Currently with the 27th overall pick, what will your Dallas Cowboys do? A safety? Perhaps Southern Cal's Taylor Mays or Texas' Earl Thomas? An offensive lineman for when, not if, Flozell A ... More >>
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January 12, 2010
Super Bowl XLV: Century in the Making
In Texas, the old saying goes, there exist only two sports: Football. And spring football. God, after all, decreed Texas Stadium have a hole in its roof so he could look down upon his favorite team. Right? From the old wooden Fair Park Bowl through the Cotton Bowl, Texas Stadium and now the ... More >>
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January 8, 2010
Whitt's End: 1.8.10
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Texas Stadium's last breath will be taken as nothing more than some tween's mac-'n-cheese, push-'n-pulverize, real-life video game? As a whole, we suck. *Alabama > Texas. Toldja. ... More >>
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January 7, 2010
Tex-Cess. Why the Dallas Longhorns Aren't Quite Good Enough.
So, so very conflicted. As I didn't back in 2006, I still don't get Dallas' obsession with the University of Texas. I know there's tons of alumni and it's the big state university and lone star pride and yadda, yadda and more yadda. But it's Commerce Street, not Sixth Street. It's Reunion ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
BCS Playoffs: Quarterfinals/Semifinals
See, that's the problem with the current bowl system. Even though they're 12-0 and good enough to beat any team in the nation, a TCU team playing for nothing but a bag of Tostitos shows up unmotivated and loses, 17-10, in the Fiesta Bowl. If last night's game was a BCS quarterfinal, mind you ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
Super Bowl XLV to Bring Quite the Collection of Gridiron Greats to Woodrow Next Week
Tony Fay started working for the Dallas Mavericks in 1987 as the media relations intern; by the time he left in '99, he was director of communications -- which was no easy feat back then, given that was six months before Mark Cuban bought the then-struggling franchise just off a lockout season. T ... More >>
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December 28, 2009
BCS Playoffs: Round of 16
While we're trying to figure out Florida coach Urban Meyer (one day it's his health; the next he just doesn't want to cede control) and muster up interest in this afternoon's Independence Bowl (Texas A&M and Georgia are a combined 13-11), let's again daydream of a world void of ... More >>
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December 7, 2009
The Eyes of the BCS Critics Are Upon ... Texas
Ironic, isn't it, that last year Texas was a great, sympathetic team that got rejected, and this year the Longhorns are a good, criticized team that's getting the royal treatment? Colt McCoy lost the Heisman Trophy last Saturday night in Arlington. Does Texas still deserve a chance to w ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
Texas-OU Belongs in the Cotton Bowl, But Jerry Jones is Preparing to Lure the Game to You Know Where.
Ironic, isn't it, that last year Texas was a great, sympathetic team that got rejected, and this year the Longhorns are a good, criticized team that's getting the royal treatment? Colt McCoy lost the Heisman Trophy last Saturday night in Arlington. Does Texas still deserve a chance to w ... More >>
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October 19, 2009
Texas Fight 16, Boomer Sooner 13. Yuck.
A tie may be like kissing your sister, but what Texas pulled off Saturday in the Cotton Bowl was akin to drunken, relapse sex with your ex. Sloppy. Ugly. Guilty. But yet, in the end somehow satisfying. A combined 29 points. Eight turnovers. Key plays made by two different No. ... More >>
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October 19, 2009
Over The Weekend: Erykah Badu, The Cannabinoids and Shiny Toy Guns' Soundclash at Victory Plaza
The Cannabinoids feat. Erykah Badu and Shiny Toy GunsVictory PlazaOctober 16, 2009Better Than: a Texas-OU tennis match. Check out photos from the show here in our slideshow. Continuing the time-honored tradition of competition between Texas and Oklahoma, fans at Victory Plaza were treated once aga ... More >>
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October 18, 2009
Tailgating It at Texas-OU
Photos by Danny FulgencioA few shots before kick-off? Sure, why not.By 8 a.m. Saturday Oklahoma had pumped its trucks and minivans into Texas to clog Interstate 35 worse than a fat man's aorta. A normally 40-minute drive to Fair Park took well over two hours. It was a fine time to contemplate th ... More >>
News
October 15, 2009
Given Oklahoma’s two losses, Saturday’s showdown with Texas has lost some luster
Photos by Danny FulgencioA few shots before kick-off? Sure, why not.By 8 a.m. Saturday Oklahoma had pumped its trucks and minivans into Texas to clog Interstate 35 worse than a fat man's aorta. A normally 40-minute drive to Fair Park took well over two hours. It was a fine time to contemplate th ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
Texas to Get Revenge on OU for Last Year's Loss. Wait ... What?
Dear Oklahoma, I am indeed a bitch. Sincerely, Karma Last year the Oklahoma Sooners were whipped by the Texas Longhorns in their annual mid-October showdown in the Cotton Bowl. Both teams lost one game all season, yet somehow - inexplicably - it was Oklahoma, through a discombobulated nation ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
Only Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Could Build A Palace Big Enough To Match His Larger-Than-Life Persona
Dear Oklahoma, I am indeed a bitch. Sincerely, Karma Last year the Oklahoma Sooners were whipped by the Texas Longhorns in their annual mid-October showdown in the Cotton Bowl. Both teams lost one game all season, yet somehow - inexplicably - it was Oklahoma, through a discombobulated nation ... More >>
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January 10, 2008
Cotton Bowl: Goodbye, Dallas. Hello, Palace.
Like it or not, relocation is the right Cotton-pickin' decision.
Calendar
July 19, 2007
Country to the Bone
James Hand sings it straight
News
July 19, 2007
The Fab Fifty
Or, half a hundred folks with way better seats than you
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March 8, 2007
Cool Cotton
If anything, now is the time to embrace the Cotton Bowl
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October 5, 2006
Bleeding Orange and Red
Shropshire chronicles the Red River Shootout
News
May 26, 2005
Jailbait
Frank Rodriguez faces a lifetime on Texas� sex offender registry for having sex with a 16-year-old�who is now his wife. He�s not alone.
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December 11, 2003
Last Call
The career of Dallas sportswriter Jim Dent was skyrocketing, then booze and bad behavior caused a hard landing
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November 18, 1999
Dissed robes
On the prosecution-biased Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, justice isn't blind. It's dumb.
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