Results tagged “football”

Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. This week: the Kansas Jayhawks.

Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. This week: the Baylor Bears.

• The BBC's coverage of Obama’s memorial address at Fort Hood on Tuesday. (This story is part of the BBC's extensive coverage of the tragedy.)
• Need a kidney? Make sure you tell your priest about your needs! It worked for this Dallas woman.


• Prison inmates found a stash of weed hidden in a delivery of prison-bound produce. This was after the fruit had already been searched by police officers/pot-sniffing dogs!

Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. This week: the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. This week: the Missouri Tigers.

Each Friday, we'll be offering up a sampling of Longhorn- and Big 12-related sports coverage making its way around the Web. This week: staggering defensive stats, BCS banter, and this week's line.

Each Friday, we'll be offering up a sampling of Longhorn- and Big 12-related sports coverage making its way around the Web. This week: defense, rushing, and coaching. All might be important this week.

Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. There's a lot to of material work with here: presenting the Oklahoma Sooners.

Sooner fans, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time.

• Tip on how to get along in life if you are a criminal: Do not fire your replica gun in a police officer’s face. He’ll just have to take you into custody.
• Ewwww, ick! It’s not even Halloween, yet a Houston man was found asleep inside a closet, with a corpse next to him! The corpse may have also been treated "in an offensive manner."
• Being a billionaire won’t keep you out of fights while you are in prison.

• Irony alert: Governor Perry was against Texas accepting the stimulus package, but the nonprofit group he founded will still receive a stimulus grant!
• Tip: Take the meth out of your pockets before screaming for help while fighting an invisible foe. Trust us on this one.
• There was an early -Monday taping of the Oprah show at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. Check out this photo-set!

Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. This week's Big 12 opponent: the Colorado Buffaloes.

Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. Picking on the little guy again, here are the UTEP Miners.

Each Friday, we'll be offering up a sampling of Longhorn- and Big 12-related sports coverage making its way around the Web. This week: the Q package reincarnated, some sports gambling, and a good old-fashioned brawl.

Five days later, the reverberations of Sergio Kindle's crushing tackle of quarterback Taylor Potts in the Longhorns' 34-24 win over Texas Tech are still being felt. In a four-second burst of speed and power, the 255-pound Kindle blasted past Marlon Winn in 10 steps and crashed into Potts, knocking the quarterback's helmet off, the ball from his hand, and dislodging his contact lens. Watching the play again and again (as Texas fans have done all week), you wonder how Potts was able to recover.

• This morning our friend’s Facebook page included 65 comments about these “cage dancers” who appeared at the Cowboys’ new stadium!
• Junk food at the new Cowboys’ $1.15 billion football arena just isn’t up to snuff.
• Ken Lay’s swanky high-rise Houston condo is on the market for $12.8 million. It has six elevators, two of them for “service.” No, lowly reporters are not allowed in to view the splendor.

Each Friday, we'll be offering up a sampling of Longhorn- and Big 12-related sports coverage making its way around the Web. This week: ESPN at UT, some zealous oddsmakers, and some contradictory reporting.

Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. This one's almost too easy: the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

Last Saturday, as Colt McCoy's passes floated in the thin Wyoming air and the senior quarterback was struggling through a first-half performance that was not up to his usual high standards, an old and feared monster reared its head: The Fickle Fan.

Here's the deal: Have you ever been in a room full of hardcore computer geeks? You know how they talk in a different language, even though they're still speaking English? You know how it's more confusing than if they were, say, speaking Aramaic? Well... That's kind of how I felt sitting in the living room surrounded by these hardcore football geeks. I mean, sure, I understand football, but this is different. This is work. Pencil-behind-the-ear, squinty-eyed, brain-straining work. Research. Analysis. Statistics. Psychology. Stacks of paper. Extensive Google searching. Limiting beer intake to maintain clarity...

Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. Say howdy to the Wyoming Cowboys.

Last week may have set a record for the number of college football stories that included the word "vomit". It had nothing to do with ESPN showing Kenny Chesney singing at nearly every commercial break, though: Swine flu is taking its toll on athletes across the country.

Each Friday, we'll be offering up a sampling of Longhorn- and Big 12-related sports coverage making its way around the Web. This week: Hell, this week is game week.

Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. There's certainly better material to work with later in the season (Oklahoma, A&M, Tech), but the University of Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks are up first

A little after 8 o'clock on Saturday, the Texas Longhorns will be cruising to a victory over outmatched University of Louisiana-Monroe. Colt McCoy and most of UT's other stars will be resting on the sidelines while subs and first-year players mop up in what is little more than an organized scrimmage. And as you consider leaving early to get a jump on the crowd at Rio Rita, you'll ask yourself, "I paid $65 for this?".

Each Friday, we'll be offering up a sampling of Longhorn- and Big 12-related sports coverage making its way around the Web. This week: Lots of watch-lists, lots of camp coverage, and lots of rankings.

College football is more than chest-painting, screaming fans and oversized young men crashing into each other at high speed. (Although those are two of its good points.) Look deeper and you'll discover personal, dramatic elements that rival any in pop culture, from Battlestar-Galactica-level intrigue to characters as deep and complicated as those on Mad Men.

Each Friday, we'll be offering up a sampling of Longhorn- and Big 12-related sports coverage making its way around the Web. This week: Big 12 media days, Aaron Ross' crib, Jordan Shipley, Colt McCoy, and more.

Although DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium now holds more than 100,000 people, it still can be tough to get a ticket for a Longhorn home football game. The secret to snagging great seats lies in knowing the ways of the stock market. Here's what you need to know to be the Buffett of the box seats, rather than the Madoff of the mezzanine.

With the beginning of football season finally in sight, fans looking to learn about what to expect are bombarded with a stream of lists and predictions. Too bad they're all bunk.