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Big 12 Conference Alive, if Not Well

By Richie Whitt
Sep 21, 2011

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...
Will This Conference Clustereff Be Good for College Football?

By Richie Whitt
Sep 20, 2011

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 Irving-based...
No Matter Where Texas and Oklahoma Wind Up, Texas-OU Will Survive in Dallas ... or Arlington

By Richie Whitt
Sep 13, 2011

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

By Richie Whitt
Sep 8, 2011

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...
A&M to the SEC! Texas as an Independent?! The Big 12 and Texas-OU is Kaput?

By Richie Whitt
Sep 7, 2011

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. Hello, Notre Dame of the South? The plan goes thusly:...
College Football Uniforms Are Outta Control: My Top 10 Observer-ations

By Richie Whitt
Sep 6, 2011

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 great games (see Baylor...
With A&M Gone, the Big 12 Might Set Its Sights on ... Dallas?

By Richie Whitt
Aug 30, 2011

The Aggies are a joke. After a 15-year marriage, they want a divorce. Greener pastures they say, failing to camouflage their hissy-fit jealousy of Texas. Their long-time spouse, the Big 12 Conference, shrugs and begins courting other attractive partners. And now, almost three weeks after we'd all deemed the Aggies...
Guess A&M Finally Listened to its Own Fight Song

By Richie Whitt
Aug 15, 2011

Like a lot of Aggie traditions, how is their nonsensical, yet sacred War Hymn going to sound in the SEC? Good bye to Texas University; So long to the orange and white Imagine the curious looks in Florida's Swamp when the Aggies, trailing 42-7 in the third quarter, start singing about about...
A&M to the SEC: Didn't We Just Have this Conversation?

By Richie Whitt
Aug 11, 2011

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...
With USC Out, Oklahoma Should Be 2004 National Champs

By Richie Whitt
Jun 7, 2011

When Ben Johnson was stripped of his 100-meter gold medal in the 1988 Olympics, it was awarded to second-place finisher Carl Lewis. When Carter High School was ripped of its 1988 Texas State 5A Football Championship, it was given to the team it beat in the title game -- Converse Judson...
Auburn 22, Oregon 19: My Top 10 Observer-ations

By Richie Whitt
Jan 11, 2011

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...
Auburn over Oregon in Tonight's BCS Title Game: My Top 10 Observer-ations

By Richie Whitt
Jan 10, 2011

A year ago I was correctly predicting Alabama over Texas in college football's national championship game. In tonight's Oregon-Auburn clash my heart says Ducks but my head says no way the Tigers don't prevail. Why? 10. Oregon usually wins with its speed, but no conference is faster and more athletic than the SEC. 9...
The College Football Weekend - 11.6.10: My Top 10 Observer-ations

By Richie Whitt
Nov 7, 2010

10. First play of the game in College Station, Oklahoma snapped the ball over quarterback Landry Jones' head and out of the end zone for safety. Iconic Aggie radio voice Dave South's peculiar call: "Touchback, Aggies!" What the what? 9. For a supposedly dumbass coach, LSU's Les Miles sure gets...
Down to Knoxy = Knoxy Goes Down!

By Richie Whitt
Oct 5, 2010

Fox Sports Southwest reporter Jim Knox seems a fine fella. His job on Texas Rangers games -- interviewing Boy Scout Troop #137, talking to face-painting Sally and whatnot -- seems almost impossible to make interesting. But if you've ever wanted to see Knox get his, well you're day has arrived. Courtesy...
Big 12 Football: OU over UT

By Richie Whitt
Jul 22, 2010

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...
After Last-Second Stay of Execution, the Big XII Lives to Play Another Day

By Richie Whitt
Jun 15, 2010

Who's the commissioner/savior/magician of the Big XII Conference, David Blaine? In a death-defying, last-second escape that would make the famed illusionist proud, Big XII commissioner Dan Beebe has somehow kept his league alive and, I think, well. Lured to stay put by the carrots of doubled TV revenues, Texas and Texas...
Nebraska: Out. Big 12: Gone?

By Richie Whitt
Jun 9, 2010

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 commit or quit, news comes from Omaha this...
It's the End of the Big 12 as We Know It

By Richie Whitt
Jun 7, 2010

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...
Tex-Cess. Why the Dallas Longhorns Aren't Quite Good Enough.

By Richie Whitt
Jan 7, 2010

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 Tower, not...
BCS Playoffs: Quarterfinals/Semifinals

By Richie Whitt
Jan 5, 2010

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...

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