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Fans inside Lloyd Noble Center stood after Saturday’s game to serenade Oklahoma women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale with a Red River rendition of “Happy Birthday to You.” The gesture — along with the Sooners’ convincing 69-56 win over rival Texas and having nearly a full week to prepare for next ...
The Tulsa 66ers snapped the Austin Toros’ five-game winning streak Saturday night with a 96-87 NBA D-League victory in Oklahoma.The Toros trailed by eight at halftime and did not regain the lead in the second half despite getting within three points with nine minutes left to play.The 66ers held the ...
UT women win five matchesThe Texas women’s tennis team notched four singles victories and a doubles win over a Top 10 pair Saturday in the Miami Spring Invite at Coral Gables, Fla.UT’s Breaunna Addison and Noel Scott produced an 8-3 victory over Texas A&M;’s seventh-ranked team of Stefania Hristov and ...
Olympic and world champions dotted the meet sheet at the Austin Grand Prix on Saturday at the University of Texas’ Jamail Swim Center, but no star shone as brightly as former Longhorn Ricky Berens. Berens, who has won two Olympic gold medals as part of the American 4x200-meter freestyle relay, ...
Texas lost another basketball game. I realize this should be filed under the dog-bites-man or Lance-tells-all-’er-some category, but this was a higher degree of loss. The unranked, unloved and undeniably underachieving Longhorn team fell 64-59 to fourth-ranked Kansas before 11,537 energized fans at the Erwin Center. They really almost won ...
When the games are reduced to what Rick Barnes refers to as winning time, his Longhorns always manage to lose. Lose their poise. Lose a lead. Lose the game. The Longhorns folded again on Saturday, blowing an 11-point second-half lead and losing to fourth-ranked Kansas 64-59 in front of 11,537 ...
Larry Gene Ashbrook changed my family’s life in September 1999. He barged into Fort Worth’s Wedgewood Baptist Church during a teen prayer service and began shooting. He killed seven people and then himself. One of the dead was Shawn C. Brown, 23, best friend to my daughter Laurie and her ...
Here are highlights of the weekly live chat by Statesman columnists Kirk Bohls and Cedric Golden:Question: What are your thoughts about why Mack Brown is so hesitant to hand over the reins to Major Applewhite with all the “co-this” and “co-that” going on?Golden: It’s just Mack wanting to make the ...
The real problemRick Barnes is in typical midseason form. He is throwing his players, both collectively and individually, under the bus. He is disparaging his team’s toughness (as usual) and saying that he wishes he could fire them all. He is giving no playing time to one of his more ...
Is the worm turning? Is Texas losing its recruiting stranglehold on the state? Are the dynamics of recruiting in the state changing before everyone’s eyes? The way things have gone the last few recruiting cycles, combined with the Longhorns’ on-field results, that might very well be the case. Yes, the ...
Through a marathon mea culpa that spanned two nights on TV, Lance Armstrong spoke almost dispassionately about lying and cheating, about arrogance and bullying, about lost honor, status, achievement and income. And then Oprah Winfrey asked the former international cycling star about the impact all of this has had on ...
Scoring came early and often in the Texas Stars’ back-and-forth 6-4 road win against the Chicago Wolves. The Stars opened the scoring with a pair of goals within the first three minutes of the game. Alex Chiasson slid one past Wolves goaltender Matt Climie, and 12 seconds later Austin Smith ...
David Smith scored 14 points, three of his teammates contributed at least 12 points and the LBJ Jaguars treated their home fans to a 65-39 victory over Travis on Friday night. The lopsided conquest improved LBJ’s record to 23-3. More importantly for an LBJ team that has won a district ...
Update 9:35 p.m. So Lance Armstrong has now gone to the High Priestess, Oprah Winfrey, and offered up his confession, shown over two nights in a dramatic TV event. That doesn’t mean the questions stop, though. Not hardly. Only minutes after Part II Friday night, doping experts and other sports ...
Nathan Adrian got the Austin Grand Prix off to a stunning and stirring start by taking down the 25-year-old University of Texas pool record of Matt Biondi in the men’s 100-meter freestyle. “That’s one of the most epic records we had at the pool,” said Ricky Berens, who finished a ...
State Comptroller Susan Combs has established a state trust fund of about $2 million for a MotoGP race scheduled in April at Circuit of the Americas in Southeast Austin, according to a letter signed Thursday. A nonprofit affiliated with the circuit in December applied for a little more — about ...
Rick Barnes cannot speak to the aspirations of players on somebody else’s team, but the Longhorns coach can admire the Kansas Jayhawks from a distance.The No. 4-ranked Jayhawks (15-1, 2-0 Big 12) arrive at the Erwin Center on Saturday with a lineup uncommon at the elite level of college basketball, ...
One of the most popular sporting events in the United States is coming to Austin in March, when the University of Texas will be a host school for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.As UT ramps up preparations for the tourney, more than 12,000 ticket packages have been sold or are ...
“I commend Lance Armstrong for courageously coming forward, but I am disappointed that he let down the sport and his fans.” — Former Los Angeles Lakers star Magic Johnson, via Twitter.“Sports is not life and death, but the work Lance Armstrong does for cancer research and cancer victims is.” — ...
America loves a good train wreck, especially in the sports world.But multiple train wrecks can have the opposite effect.By now, you’ve heard every Manti Te’o and Lance Armstrong joke under the sun. I admit to sharing a couple of them myself.But enough is enough.As the Te’o/Armstrong news cycle lumbers along, ...
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