cybertoad/flickrIt’s what Texas Coach Mack Brown said “we all want” after Saturday’s blowout win at Colorado. It’s what sports writers across the South have been talking about all week. It’s Texas-OU the way it should be, not only because of the teams’ Top-5 rankings, but because so far this season, both squads have met and exceeded even the loftiest of expectations. Unlike last year’s meeting when both teams arrived in Dallas following unexpected losses, the......

Trebz/flickrPrior to the season, Texas' matchup with Colorado looked concerning to Longhorn fans: The Buffaloes were a young, improving team coming off a bowl appearance, and the game was set to be played before a raucous nighttime crowd in Boulder. After the first month of the season, both teams have shown a bit of what they're made of, and fifth-ranked Texas (4-0) finds themselves a two-touchdown favorite in their Big 12 conference opener. The Longhorns......

Beleaguered former Texas running back Cedric Benson signed with the Cincinnati Bengals on Tuesday, just days after two Travis County grand juries declined to indict him on alcohol-related charges stemming from a pair of arrests earlier this summer. The Chicago Bears released Benson after his arrests, but he had not been offered work until the Bengals lost DeDe Dorsey to injury on Sunday. Benson will back up starter Chris Perry on Sunday when Cincinnati travels......

AlphaTangoBravo / Adam Baker/flickrSaturday's Texas-Rice game matches two teams hoping to restore a sense of normalcy after last week's hurricane. As Ike neared landfall, officials elected to postpone the Texas-Arkansas game, giving the Longhorns an unanticipated week off. Rice, whose campus sits in the middle of storm-ravaged Houston, played on the road last week and was delayed in returning home. Many in Houston are still waiting for power and water. If Saturday represents a return......

CoreBurn/flickrWith Hurricane Ike threatening the Texas coast and severe weather expected in the Austin area this weekend, University of Texas officials have postponed Saturday's Texas-Arkansas football game. The game will be played on Saturday, Sept. 27, a date that both schools had open on their schedules. No time has been announced yet. The rescheduled game is now on the same weekend as the Austin City Limits Music Festival, creating a challenge for out-of-town fans to......

AlphaTangoBravo / Adam Baker / flickrIn response to their team's less-than-mediocre performance in 2007’s home opener against Arkansas State, Longhorn coaches continually stressed the importance of finishing off opponents throughout training camp this season. And to that end, the team left little to chance in this year’s opener, steamrolling Florida Atlantic and their overly loquacious head coach, 52-10, last Saturday. More of the same is to be expected this week when the Longhorns face the......

This is the last in a four-part series previewing the upcoming college football season for the Longhorns and teams across the Big 12. Part One: Longhorn Offense Part Two: Longhorn Defense Part Three: Big 12 A few weeks ago, this was just another ho-hum opener. Then Florida Atlantic Coach Howard Schnellenberger popped off about Texas not being tough, then UT added some spice by announcing they were bringing back Vince Young to retire his jersey,......

The Texas Longhorns put their seven-game winning streak on the line tonight at Kansas State in a matchup of two of the Big 12's top men's basketball teams....

The home stretch of the basketball season begins in a big way tonight for the Texas Longhorns, who host the fourth-ranked Kansas Jayhawks in a nationally televised game (ESPN, 8 pm)....

Photo by StuSeeger on flickr#13 Texas (9-2) vs. Texas A&M (6-5) Time: 2:30 pm, Friday, Nov. 23 Location: College Station, Texas; Kyle Field TV: ABC Radio: KVET (98.1 FM, 1300 AM) Maybe it is true that good things come to those who wait. After back-to-back losses to open conference play, the Texas Longhorns have waited -- through nail-biting finishes and devastating injuries -- and now stand on the verge of what is most definitely a......

unattributed press photoSo there’s this band. They’re called Battles, and they’re getting pretty damn big pretty damn fast. The reason for this burgeoning bigness is at least three-fold: their critically-adored debut album Mirrored, the YouTube sensation known as the “Atlas” video (watch it after the jump), and, not least of all, their ferociously energetic live show. While there's no doubting that their music can be a bit challenging, and isn’t for the faint of heart,......

Photo by Ken Mau on flickr#15 Texas (8-2) vs. Texas Tech (7-3) Time: 2:30 pm, Saturday, Nov. 10 Location: Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium TV: ABC Radio: KVET (98.1 FM, 1300 AM) Critics complained early in the season that the Texas Longhorns had no "identity". Were they a passing team that threw it all over the field? A run-first team that ground you into the dirt? A blitzing, hard-hitting defense? Over the last two games,......

#14 Texas (7-2) vs. Oklahoma State (5-3) Time: 2:30 pm, Saturday, Nov. 3 Location: Boone Pickens Stadium, Stillwater, Oklahoma TV: ABC Radio: KVET (98.1 FM, 1300 AM) With three games remaining in the regular season, the Texas Longhorns are as much as a mystery as they were before the season started. Currently ranked No. 14 in the country with games remaining against unranked teams (Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M), the Longhorns seem......

#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 (4-0) vs. Kansas State (2-1) Time: 2:30 pm, Saturday, Sept. 29 Location: Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium TV: KVUE (ABC) Radio: KVET (98.1 FM, 1300 AM) As the Kansas State Wildcats come to town this week, the Texas Longhorns insist they don't have revenge on their minds, but it would be easy to allow them that sentiment. When the two teams met last year in Manhattan, Kansas, Texas was on top of the......

This is the fourth in our Longhorn player profile series, leading up to the season-opening game on Sept. 1. Defensive linemen—particularly defensive tackles—are typically seen as hulking behemoths whose sole interest is flattening the player in front of them. The Texas Longhorns, however, boast a pair of honor roll students at that position, one who loves to cook and one who got married in July, then shaved his head. This isn't to imply that seniors......

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......

Update: Saturday's scrimmage has been canceled because of heavy rains and forecasts of more in the Austin area. However, the autograph session is still slated to begin at 11 a.m. at the Moncrief-Neuhaus Athletic Center. More details at the Texas football website. The Texas Longhorns will run through a final preseason scrimmage on Saturday morning, then hold their annual Fan Appreciation Day. The scrimmage, which is open to the public, begins at 7:30 a.m.......

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.......

Is it a coincidence that one day after The University of Texas is named #1 Party School In The Nation, the school offers a campaign aimed at tackling drunk and inappropriate fan behavior? Because, in a few days when the defending National Champion Texas Longhorns take the field to defend their title against North Texas, you, your buddies and that obnoxious frat boy behind you will be asked to be a little nicer when a)......

*Update: The seller ended this listing early because the item is no longer available for sale. Tim, you sly dog, you.* An unidentified member of the Texas Longhorns' National Championship team has put his championship ring on Ebay. The bidding apparently started at about $7,200 and is now at $10,599. The auction ends in about 60 hours, so start rolling your loose change and head on over to Cheapo with your old cds. [from......

A piece of birdshot in Harry Whittington's heart caused a mild heart attack yesterday; he's in stable condition. The Austin Lawyer was shot in a hunting accident this weekend by his friend Dick Cheney. The Texas Longhorns were honored at the White House yesterday. Governor Rick Perry is posing a fitness challenge to Texans; the Texas Round-Up is a program being implemented to help Texans make healthier lifestyle choices. More locally, Mayor Will Wynn......

This is the time of year for which number crunchers live. They compare the national champions to previous years' champs. They take a step back. They try and get a sense of historical context for what transpired over the previous five months. Well, the good folks over at College Football News have come out with a ranking of the Greatest College Football Seasons of all time. The formula takes into consideration the following components:......

The excellent sports columnist for the Houston Chronicle, Richard Justice, wrote a great piece today that shines a light on what is right with Longhorn baseball and what is wrong with Houston Astros baseball. The column details how the Astros had a chance two years ago to sign now national champion Drew Stubbs from Atlanta, Texas. Stubbs and his father asked for a specific contract, and not an unreasonable one at that, from any......

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......

As coach Augie Garrido said in his post-game press conference, when a few people in the dugout asked why he was allowing his injured first baseman Chance Wheeless to stay in the game and bat in the ninth inning, he responded, "For Chris'sake, the kid wants to be a hero." And on an 0-1 count, the slugger's dream came true. He belted a fastball deep into the right field stands to beat the Baylor......

The Texas Longhorns baseball team staved off a ninth inning rally from the Ole Miss Rebels to advance to the College World Series in Omaha for the fourth year in a row. With the game tied 3-3 in the sixth inning, senior Will Crouch hit a lead-off solo home run, sparking a two-run inning. The Rebels struck back in the eighth with a sacrifice fly, cutting the lead to one, but in the bottom......