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The Texas Leviathan: Why We Must Stomp the Aggies
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes famously described the plight of man in his natural state, uninformed and uncivilized. He said: “In such condition, there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation, nor use of the...
Do you have Conference Realignment Fatigue? Here's your cure.
After three weeks of posturing, bluffing, and begging by conference ADs, we're back to where we started one month ago -- in the same unstable, misnamed conference. Are you suffering from CRF? So are we. Just be patient and keep plenty of alcohol nearby. So how did things end up for the Big...
Report: Dodds to Meet with Vatican
A source has indicated that Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds is scheduled to be in Vatican City next week to discuss conference realignment issues and expanding the Big 12 should Oklahoma and Oklahoma State depart. The deal being negotiated centers around an austerity package in which Texas...
David Ash Is Your New American Idol -- Give Luck Its Due
Everyone who has ever played a team sport knows that you cannot sabermetric everything. There comes a time on every team where a player makes or breaks a reputation for reliability, capability, and inspiration. If the player steps up and makes a play – or achieves an unlikely result – then the...
The U Just Got Yahoo! Sportsed
Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports details the life of booster Nevin Shapiro and his quest to become the most rampant abuser of NCAA guidelines in college sports history. Barry Switzer is blushing. The Pony Express is in awe. Cecil Newton wished he had shopped around a bit more. The assumption...
Love (Of $$$) Will Tear Us Apart
I’m the fourth in a row in my family to have my name. The first one, a native of a small town in Central Texas, was a Longhorn. His son, my grandfather, was a military man and an Aggie. My father was also a military man, also an Aggie. I skipped the military and went to Texas, following a...
Vince Ricky: The Fall of the Sure Thing
The recent signings of a pair of all-time Longhorns to backup roles with NFL teams came with a strong sense of what might have been for two guys firmly etched on the Mt. Rushmore of Texas football. Less than two weeks after Vince Young closed a deal to be Mike Vick's backup in Philadelphia, Ricky...
Texas vs. Texas Tech Open Thread
If we can stop Jason Sasser we have a chance.
Why The Big East Is Alot Like Czechoslovakia
We are now roughly two thirds of the way through the long desert that is the College Football off season. Being that is the dead period in the sport the journalists who cover it full time, not to mention the army of blogger's, have to write about something. Easily the most popular meme of the past...
Who to root for this week in the top 25
Should have posted yesterday because Utah and TCU would love for Boise State to lose just so that they have more cushion in the BCS Standings, but the Broncos defeated San Jose State 33-16. The Utes have a perfect week to be off, because they are almost guaranteed to move up with #1 Texas playing...
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