university of texasMany have wondered how University of Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds expected to retain defensive coordinator Will Muschamp when several attractive head coaching positions opened up this summer. Dodds answered today by offering the fiery coach a head coaching job of his own, as eventual successor to current Head Coach Mack Brown. "This is first and foremost about keeping Will at Texas," Brown said. "He's had several opportunities to interview for head coaching......

Shane Pope/flickrSince their unspeakably disappointing loss at Texas Tech on Saturday, the Texas Longhorns have certainly said all the right things to indicate that they are in the right frame of mind heading into the final three games of the regular season. On Saturday against Baylor, it should be clear right away if the team’s walk will in fact match its talk, or if the players are still nursing an emotional hangover. All week coaches......

Been looking to grab some face time with Mack Brown or new Longhorn defensive coordinator Will Muschamp? Here’s your chance. Brown and Muschamp, as well as offensive coordinator Greg Davis, will be speaking tomorrow afternoon at the Austin Sports Commission’s inaugural Texas Gridiron Kickoff to be held at the Hyatt Regency Austin. ESPN broadcaster Ron Franklin will be on hand to emcee and interview the coaches about the upcoming season. Local high school standouts will......

While the nation recovers from Super Tuesday, the University of Texas is gearing up for Super Wednesday, better known as National Signing Day....

Although Longhorn football folk hero Major Applewhite interviewed today for a vacant assistant coach position, it will be at least Thursday until any announcement is made. ...

In the wake of an all-conference season where he gained more than 1,600 yards, Texas running back Jamaal Charles announced today that he is skipping his senior season and entering the 2008 NFL draft....

#23 Texas (4-2) vs. Iowa State (1-5) Time: 11:30 am, Saturday, Oct. 13 Location: Jack Trice Stadium, Ames, Iowa TV: Fox Sports Southwest Radio: KVET (98.1 FM, 1300 AM) Last week's loss to Oklahoma left the Texas Longhorns in a historic hole, looking up from the bottom of the conference standings with an 0-2 league record for the first time in 50 years. Midway through the season, the Longhorns are out of the national......

#7 Texas (3-0) vs. Rice (0-3) Time: 6 pm, Saturday, Sept. 22 Location: Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium TV: Fox Sports Southwest Radio: KVET (98.1 FM, 1300 AM) There have been more than enough distractions to keep Texas coach Mack Brown occupied this week. Word that a sixth Longhorn had been arrested in the past four months set off allegations that the program is out of control. And even though they've won their first three......

#7 Texas (1-0) vs. #19 Texas Christian (1-0) Time: 6 pm, Saturday, Sept. 8 Location: Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium TV: Fox Sports Southwest Radio: KVET (98.1 FM, 1300 AM) For the past week, all signs have been pointing to "upset" in this game. Texas looked unsteady at times in its 21-13 win over Arkansas State, while TCU shut out Baylor, 27-0. While the Longhorns' performance in the opener was shaky, at least it was......

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#4 Texas (0-0) vs. Arkansas State (0-0) Time: 6 pm, Saturday, Sept. 1 Location: Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium TV: Fox Southwest Pay-Per-View Radio: KVET (98.1 FM, 1300 AM) Texas Coach Mack Brown has declared that his team's motto in 2007 is "Earn the Right." On Saturday, he'll get the chance to see which of his players will earn the right to play and make an impact this season as the Longhorns take on......

Mack Brown got a nice belated birthday gift this week as the UT Board of Regents unanimously approved a $200,000 raise for the Texas football coach. Brown, who turned 56 on Monday, had his salary go from $2.6 million to $2.8 million and received a two-year contract extension designed to keep him at Texas until 2016. The new amount includes a special $100,000 that he'll receive on Saturday, when the Longhorns open their season against......

This is the fifth of our Longhorn player profile series, leading up to the season-opening game on Sept. 1. Early in preseason fall workouts, Texas Coach Mack Brown evaluated the talent among his defensive backs, where as many as 10 players are competing for four starting spots. "In the secondary it has been interesting," Brown said. "The old ones aren’t going to give up. You really have five safeties that are fighting for work with......

This is the first in our Longhorn player profile series, leading up to the season-opening game on Sept. 1. The enduring images from Colt McCoy's first season as the starting quarterback of the Texas Longhorns are a study in contrasts. On one hand, there was the sight of him winging a school-record six touchdowns in a single game against Baylor and battling the snow and wind to put the Longhorns in position for a come-from-behind......

As temperatures climbed over the 100-degree mark for the third straight day on Tuesday, the Texas Longhorns are taking innovative measures to beat the heat. The Longhorns are one of a handful of college and pro teams using the CorTemp ingestible core body thermometer pill. Before practice, a player swallows a silicone-coated capsule the size of a large vitamin. Inside the capsule is a sensor that transmits core body temperature to a data recorder.......

In what's gotta be one of the worst ways ever to spend one's 18th birthday, UT freshman football player Andre Jones was arrested and thrown to Travis County Jail today. His bail is currently set at $40,000. Jones, who now faces felony charges of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, was delivered even more bad news in the form of a statement issued by Longhorn coach Mack Brown. From the Statesman Bevo Beat: “We are......

No one has had their fame stripped away from them in such short order as UT quarterback, Colt McCoy. The red-shirt freshman out of Tuscola, Texas had the enormously unfortunate job of replacing the most famous (and entertaining) Texas football athlete of the modern era--Vince Young. As that January 4th hangover started to wear off, Texas fans were uncertain as to who would replace VY during the preseason, McCoy or true freshman Jevan Snead.......

Cosmo Kramer is very sorry for being a washed up actor with no idea about how to handle a rambunctious stand-up audience. Oh, and he's not a racist. The supernannies are coming! The supernannies are coming! Coach Mack Brown has given Colt McCoy the green light to play this Friday against the Aggies. Peter Jackson will not be directing the movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel “The Hobbit” or a planned prequel to “The......

Here we go again. Another Texas Longhorn football player has been busted with the sticky icky and a weapon. Just months after running back sensation Ramonce Taylor was arrested, authorities arrested starting cornerback Tarell Brown early this morning on weed and weapons charges. UT alum and standout linebacker from a year ago, Aaron Harris, was also arrested. Mack Brown has been informed of the arrests but has yet to release a statement. The timing of......

Texas may be trotting out a freshman quarterback (Colt McCoy) for the first time in years, but the team is still extremely solid. The defensive line may be the best in the country, the wide receiving corps may be the deepest in school history and, despite the fact that another UT running back (Ramonce Taylor) had a run-in with the weed over the off-season, the tailback position is well staffed, as well. Fifth-year senior Selvin......

After reading all the blog-hype this summer and viewing whatever clips/pilots we could find on YouTube, we’ve got our picks for new shows that seem the most interesting/original/well-made/least lame. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, NBC, Monday @ 9pm. On September 18, you can see the pilot. We caught it in early August when it was on YouTube (before NBC took it down), but if you can’t wait a couple of weeks, Netflix has......

With the Third Choice in the 2006 NFL Draft, the Tennessee Titans select Vince Young from the University of Texas. As speculated, Vince will be joining his mentor, Steve McNair, to play for the Titans. Vince grew up in Houston watching McNair break into the NFL and eventually developed a friendship with him as he got into his college career. "It's a dream for a young guy like Vince to have an active supporter......

We just read on Diane Holloway's TV Blog that the Longhorns will be on Oprah (KVUE) . . . this afternoon at 4pm. Sorry for the late notice! Apparently Coach Mack Brown and some team members will be commenting on how they appreciate Matthew McConaughey, who is her guest today. And they will only be appearing in "video tributes", so if you're not a huge fan of MM it may not be worth hightailing......

Austin is Taradise! And Lance and Sheryl split Congrats to Adlai McMahon, winner of our giveaway contest for Bloc Party's documentary/concert DVD, God Bless Bloc Party! The SXSW Music Festival roster expanded to over 1,100 this week, including such esteemed acts as Morrissey and The Flaming Lips Austinist photographer Matt Wright captures yet another amazing night shot in Austin, as well as some sexy shots of last week's Box Magazine issue release party. The......

If you're a UT fan, you probably haven't gotten much done today. For the uninitiated, February 1 marks the first day that college football squads can accept signed letters of commitment from their top recruits. The events of today usually resonate two to three years down the line as the players mature and become starters for their chosen team. So with that said, it looks good so far for the Longhorns. Mack Brown may......

The Houston Chronicle reported this morning that Vince Young will leave for the NFL Draft: Texas junior quarterback Vince Young plans to enter the NFL draft and forgo his final year of college, a close family friend said today... Young finished with 467 all-purpose yards – 200 rushing and 267 passing – in what some are calling one of the greatest performances in college football history. He is the first player in NCAA history......

Wherein we admit that we only watched snippets of the game, and missed the glorious finish. Well, a new Project Runway was on, and it seemed every time we switched over to the game, Texas fumbled or lost the ball. So we decided, better not to jinx the game and watch it. We are so proud of our team! We always knew UT was the best, but now everyone does. We swear we saw......

You may remember last year was a bit sticky for the Horns vis-à-vis getting an invite to the BCS. There were issues surrounding who voted for whom and, of course, the very public politicking by Coach Mack Brown. His pleadings, and probably the fact that the Horns were a better team and a better draw, got the Horns into the Rose Bowl. The funny thing about winning is it changes everything. Now, instead of......

The Texas Longhorns defeated the Michigan Wolverines in thrilling fashion this January, winning their first-ever Rose Bowl and finishing the season ranked 4th in the nation. Dusty Mangum's field-goal as time expired capped off a gutsy performance by the Horns who were led by the brilliant play of double-threat Vince Young. The Horns won the Rose Bowl trophy, but now they are relying on fans' support to win yet another award, the ESPY Award......