As controversial as his offseason was, Johnny Manziel promises to be just as exciting, and those on the 40 Acres should learn to appreciate him for the incredibly talented and wondrously entertaining player he is.

Did you feel that? That kidney shot, that dagger to the heart, that excruciating experience that was watching the Spurs fall to the Heat in this year’s NBA Finals? When Tony Parker hit that wild turnaround over LeBron James to seal a Game 1 win, the shot clock seemingly stuck at 0.1 seconds for an eternity, it became the Spurs’ series to lose. After responding to the Game 2 loss with a 36-point shellacking of the Heat in Game 3, it seemed like they were well on their way to locking up their fifth NBA championship.

Like the last couple squads before them, Texas was expected to go to the Women’s College World Series. Unlike those previous teams, they did.

Rick Barnes has made a habit of losing players before they graduate. It’s a habit that, with a change to his recruiting philosophy, he’s hoping to break.

Daily Texan Sports Editor Christian Corona presents his mock NFL draft.

Guards Demarcus Croaker, Isaiah Taylor and Kendal Yancy signed letters of intent on Thursday to play at Texas next season.

He showed why Texas was the worst rushing defense in the Big 12 during conference play last season. They didn’t have him. 

You couldn’t tell Augie Garrido was leading a team in danger of missing the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row by his demeanor after Texas’ 6-1 sleep-inducing win.

Myck Kabongo played 45 games, averaged 10.8 points and 5.3 assists per game while shooting 40 percent from the floor during his Texas career. 

After pushing only four runs across in three games against Oklahoma last week, two of them losses, Texas had that many runs by the end of the second inning.

They were known as great defensive coordinators at Texas, but now Will Muschamp and Gene Chizik have both been accused of being involved in a wide-ranging scandal at Auburn.

It seems to happen every year. A handful of skill position players impress at Texas’ annual spring game and are practically never heard from again.

Texas sophomore guard Sheldon McClellan plans to transfer, a Texas spokesman confirmed to The Daily Texan on Wednesday.

After one of Texas’ media availabilities two Novembers ago, I rode down a Belmont Hall elevator with one of the fastest men on campus — Marquise Goodwin.

After Florida breezed through its Austin regional this weekend, the Gators will face fellow Sunshine State squad Florida Gulf Coast, the first No. 15 seed to ever reach the Sweet 16, at Cowboys Stadium next Friday.

The Longhorns are pitching too well for them to be 12-8, winless in conference play and on the road.

By accepting an invitation to the CBI, the Longhorns can give a team that’s younger than any other in the country some much-needed seasoning and allow sophomore point guard Myck Kabongo one final opportunity to show NBA scouts what he can do.

It may not be a matter of if Texas will play Texas A&M again, but when. 

There is no incentive for participaing in the NIT or CBI

More than 100,000 fans flock to most Longhorns football games but, at least for now, aren’t allowed to have alcohol at Darrell K Royal Texas-Memorial Stadium.

The Longhorns faltered once again on the road, controlling most of the first half during last weekend’s game in Stillwater before Oklahoma State pulled away and beat Texas, 78-65, on Saturday. 

The cover letter of my application for the recent opening in the Texas football program, director of player personnel. 

With four regular-season games left, Texas has a 12-15 record and no chance of earning an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament.

The Academy handed out the Oscars on Sunday, but award season isn’t quite over.

Texas loses another lopsided game to Kansas State, falls to 12-15 on the season.

A pair of letters obtained by The Daily Texan highlight an enduring friction between Bev Kearney, the former women’s track and field coach who resigned in January, and Bubba Thornton, men’s track and field coach.

Texas scored 15 points, the fewest in school history in a first half during Big 12 play.  

A crowd of 16,300 raucous Jayhawks fans create deafening noise, an atmosphere that the Longhorns struggled in during their blowout loss to Kansas on Saturday. The Jayhawks have won 104 of their last 106 home games.

Texas hit .263 as a team last year. The last time the Longhorns posted a team batting average that low, Tommy Harmon was a college freshman.

With Myck Kabongo and Jonathan Holmes back on the court, Texas pummels Iowa with seconds left in regulation.

Felix commits eight turnovers in last game before Kabongo’s debut as Texas falls to OSU.

Texas may have officially closed out another recruiting cycle yesterday, but the story isn’t over for the class of 2013. Here’s a quick look at Mack Brown’s group of 15.

Longhorns await the arival of Tyrone Swoops as UT's possible next Vince Young. After a stellar junior year, Swoops's performance his senior season left some room for improvement.

Don’t look now, but Texas has won two of its last three games.

Texas bounces back from 26-point loss to Kansas State by beating Horned Frogs by 13 at home. The Longhorns will face West Virginia on Monday.

On the Longhorns’ road to redemption, several series will prove key. We’ve outlined three big ones here. 

UT men's basketball team continue to trudge through a rough season after their latest game against Kansas State ended in defeat. Hopefully better results will come when they face TCU this Saturday.

Texas’ baseball and softball teams didn’t go out the way they wanted to last year. 

With their first win in Big 12 play under their belt, the Longhorns have a chance to do something they haven’t done in a month and a half — win two games in a row. 

Mack Brown better make the most of the nine days between now and Signing Day and be glad that he’ll have a wealth of starters returning next season. 

Once again, the Longhorns proved that no lead of theirs is safe.

Mack Brown has shown what it takes to win a national title, but Elliot has proven he knows how to bounce back.  

Applewhite now calling plays in Bryan Harsin’s absence, Larry Porter named Texas’ running backs coach.

After that 42-14 beatdown Alabama put on Notre Dame in Monday's BCS National Championship, there's a lot of questions one could ask.

Quarterback Case McCoy and linebacker Jordan Hicks were suspended by head coach Mack Brown and ordered home Friday from the Valero Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, according to multiple reports.

In what was easily their best performance of the year, the Longhorns dominated No. 23 North Carolina in a 85-67 victory Wednesday night at the Frank Erwin Center.

Despite leading UCLA by eight points with less than three minutes to play, Texas fell to 5-4 on the season after falling to the Bruins, 65-63.

He faced allegations that he received impermissible benefits to pay for out-of-state trips earlier this year. He came into this season with extremely high expectations but began the year on the bench while the NCAA investigated those allegations.

With as many twists and turns as the Longhorns’ season took this year, they did what everyone expected them to do before the season began.

Texas has won three straight games since a pair of disappointing losses in Maui. Extending that winning streak to four games will be tough.

The Longhorns must be in a disillusioned state of mind if they think that 8-4 is progress.

The Longhorns will be in an unfamiliar spot this weekend when they play the role of spoiler.

After a disappointing showing at the Maui Invitational, the Longhorns return to the Erwin Center on Tuesday night to face Sam Houston State.

Just when the Longhorns looked like they had turned the corner, TCU rolled into Austin and stuffed them like a turkey.

Less than 24 hours after suffering an embarrassing loss to Division II Chaminade, the Longhorns played better. But it still wasn’t good enough.

Not much has changed for Texas since its season began.

The Longhorns may not be in line to win any beauty pageants with their play, but after stuffing Coppin State 69-46 on Monday, the only statistic the team is concerned with is the two in the win column.  

Everyone knew the Longhorns were running a play out of the wishbone in their first play from scrimmage.

It wasn't easy. It wasn't pretty. But Texas is 1-0.

Rick Barnes and Sheldon McClellan have what some could call a love-hate relationship.

Texas A&M did a lot to distance itself from the Big 12 — and Texas especially — this past offseason.

Should Kabongo be suspended, freshman Javan Felix would have a good chance to start in the Longhorns’ first game at point guard.

What could Case McCoy have done differently to earn the start this week against Texas Tech?

It was four short weeks ago that Jaxon Shipley had not one, not two but three touchdown catches — a career-high and as many scoring snags as he had all of last year.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, a different show airs on the Longhorn Network featuring Texas football head coach Mack Brown.

The last time Garrett Gilbert had this good of a game, he was in high school.

If you didn’t already know he was hurt before he spoke to reporters this week, you would have thought the wrapping on his left wrist was decorative.  

Unacceptable. Inept. Disappointing.

Texas sophomore point guard Myck Kabongo is being investigated by the NCAA for possibly receiving impermissible benefits from agent Rich Paul.

The Longhorns had a chance this weekend to unequivocally prove they had finally made the transition from the hapless Big 12 cellar dweller of 2010 to national title contender.

When asked earlier this year what his favorite rule change in Major League Baseball was, Elvis Andrus didn’t say it was instant replay.

A trip to Stillwater, Okla. would not have been complete without a thrilling comeback that left tens of thousands of Oklahoma State faithful heartbroken.

When Myck Kabongo was contemplating whether or not he should leave for the NBA after one year at Texas or return for his sophomore season, he enlisted the help of his teammates to make a decision.

Texas must play better defensively this weekend for sustaned scores and victory against upcoming teams.

Texas was supposed to be the outlier, the anomaly in the pass-first, pass-second, pass-third Big 12.

It wasn’t an injury that limited Brown’s playing time last weekend. It was purely personnel and play-calling decisions.

When he heard Texas A&M had retroactively claimed national titles from the 1919 and 1927 seasons, junior guard Mason Walters did what many people did when they heard the news — he laughed.

After David Ash completed only five passes out of 27 attempts for at least 10 yards in Texas’ season opener, his coaches promised they would let the sophomore take more shots downfield.

Texas allowed Wyoming only one third-down conversion in 11 tries, but that one stood out like a sore thumb.

Winning a World Series is certainly a more daunting task than capturing a College World Series crown.

Longhorns may need more than just a three-headed rushing attack and a stout defense to end up in a BCS Bowl this year.

The Aggies will now play 12 Saturdays in a row without a week off.

Once high school teammates, the Danks brothers are now in the same clubhouse once again

Don't be surprised if WVU quarterback Geno Smith leads the Mountaineers to their third straight conference title.

After losing all three of its starting pitchers from a year ago, Texas’ rotation has fluctuated over the course of the season.

For the second straight game, the Longhorns came back to beat A&M.

For eight innings, the Longhorns had just enough time to engineer some dramatic late-game heroics.

Not many players that lead their team in a rushing as a junior suddenly switch positions before their senior season.

Like the football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams before them, the Baylor baseball team is winning.

Jayhawks starting pitcher threw nine dominant innings, retiring 20 straight Longhorns hitters in the process.

The Longhorns’ starting pitchers have done well this season, with Texas winning four of its last five.

Head baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest skipper in Division I history, is arguably the best coach on the 40 Acres.

The Longhorns, unlike Friday night, did not let their starter's outing go to waste.

With the nation’s top two golfers at their disposal, top-ranked Texas has a good chance to win their third straight tournament. 

The days of the Longhorns pitching staff carrying the team are over.

Coming into Thursday, it had been nearly a month between Nathan Thornhill's last two wins. 

It's been an up and down sesason for Texas.

Opposing pitchers have not had much luck against the Longhorns lately.

After Texas jumped out to a four-run, first-inning lead, it looked like the Longhorns would win easily.

Facing a team with a near sweep of victories, Longhorns scrape by to victory in extra innings.

The Texas pitching staff did not surrender a hit until the fifth inning or a run until the seventh.

  A game against Texas State didn't seem like the best way to revive Texas' offense.

Texas’ couldn’t produce the extra-inning runs to pull out a win unlike their last game.

The Houston College Classic did not go particularly well for the Longhorns.

The Longhorns are off to their worst start in nearly 70 years, when World War II was near its end.

Etier himself might have a little more of a hop in his step.

When the Longhorns fell behind Saturday night, they responded immediately and picked up their first comeback win of the season.

Texas is a relatively inexperienced squad but knows what it takes to get to Omaha.

This young team has high hopes for their performance at the College World Series in Omaha.

Several in line to replace him, but Longhorns without best players for now

On Signing Day, it was the Longhorns that beat out LSU when they gained four-star defensive end Torshiro Davis.

Half an inning was played before the fans at Disch-Falk Field rose in a standing ovation.

 Despite troubled past, Etier did not deserve the boot.

When shortstop Brandon Loy was drafted, the Longhorns lost half of their starting middle infield.

As big of a deal as the quarterback may seem, it won’t matter as much when Texas brings in one of the best running backs in high school football history.

Texas and Cal both bring 7-5 records into this year’s Holiday Bowl, but got there in very different ways.

Darius White: I really just need a fresh start.

Rumors swirled about Mack Brown anouncing his retirement Saturday at season end.

After wrapping up the regular season with a 48-24 loss to Baylor Saturday, the Longhorns are set to make their fifth Holiday Bowl appearance.

Beating a team as good as Baylor is hard enough without beating yourself like Texas did Saturday.

For the first time all season, the quarterback position is more stable than the one at running back.  

The Longhorns are hoping J’Covan Brown can provide the same spark Kemba Walker did for Uconn last season.

The rivalry between Texas and Texas A&M is truly a tradition unlike any other.

Whether it be A&M’s leaving the Big 12 or Texas’ Longhorn Network, the Lone Star Showdown participants always find reasons to loathe each other.

It will be tough to make the seniors’ last home game a win with Kansas State rolling into Austin, not just because of their history against Texas.

This week's live chat centers around injuries and player potential for the rest of the season.

Gilbert finds himself in a situation deemed impossible — benched, hurt and on his way out of town.

One of the biggest reasons for the transformation up front has been the new leadership Searels has provided. 

Texas was without its leading rusher and its receiver last weekend but still managed to blow out Texas Tech.

NCAA president visits Austin, the defensive ends come up big again and more notes from on high at the football stadium.

Texas is running a run-first offense successfully for the first time since Vince Young played in burnt orange.

Ash’s job was made easier Saturday when Texas amassed 441 rushing yards & ran the ball on 72 of its 93 offensive plays.

The Big 12 has many great passing offenses and the Red Raiders are near the top again.

The defense turned in its best performance of the season, stuffing Kansas for -2 rushing yards and just 46 yards overall.

If Texas sticks with David Ash it will need to improve the downfield passing game to keep the Jayhawks’ defense from stacking the box.

 The Texan's football writers discussed the upcoming game against Kansas in this week's double coverage live chat.

The Longhorns used their last two men's golf tournaments to become the nation’s No. 1 ranked team.

The Texas Rangers just won’t go away. Derek Holland wouldn’t let them.

Despite a 12-for-15 showing at UCLA, Case McCoy did not take a snap against Oklahoma State. 

Oklahoma State made it 70-1 by handing the Longhorns a 38-26 loss Saturday.

Despite giving up only five sacks in its four games, the Longhorns offensive line allowed the Sooners to rack up eight. 

While Oklahoma crushed Texas, 55-17, Saturday, Oklahoma State was busy pounding Kansas, 70-28.

Oklahoma pounded No. 11 Texas, 55-17, at the Cotton Bowl on Saturday.

Texas and Oklahoma have identical records but obtained them in very different ways.

Gilbert was 7-7 as the Longhorns starter and threw for 3,301 yards, 13 touchdowns and 23 interceptions while at Texas.

David Ash was one of many Longhorn freshmen to turn in fantastic performances, throwing for his first two career touchdown passes.

The Longhorns open conference play this weekend against Iowa State, a team that beat them on their home turf last season.

 There was still an “or” between Case McCoy’s and David Ash’s names on the depth chart that was released Monday.

Junior safety Nolan Brewster is leaving the football team due to complaints of concussion-like symptoms.

If McCoy’s performance against BYU earned him the starting quarterback job, his play against UCLA helped him keep it.

DJ Grant: Football is what I love and want to do so there was nothing that was going to stop me from coming back.

The last time Texas played at the Rose Bowl, they had a McCoy starting at quarterback. After some recent depth chart shuffling, when the Longhorns return to Pasadena, they’ll still have a McCoy taking the first snap.

Hicks did not start at all in 2010 but has been relied on much more this season, starting at outside linebacker from day one.

The Longhorns will take the field with six new starters, three on offense, two on defense, and one on special teams.

Gilbert was pulled early in the second quarter against BYU in favor of McCoy and freshman quarterback Ash.

"You don't win and lose games based on how many yards you give up." — Emmanuel Acho

Texas will face stiffer competition at the line of scrimmage this weekend when it squares off against BYU. Brown: This'll be a street fight.

After originally opting to redshirt this season, Marquise Goodwin is coming back to play football for the Longhorns.

Jaxon Shipley made the most of his college debut, hauling in 2 passes for 54 yards, including an acrobatic 36-yard touchdown catch while running for 25 yards.

Mack Brown: We’re going to play the guy that gives us the best chance to win. Period. After the season we had last year, it’s about winning.

A strong offensive line, a veteran group of linebackers and a freakishly athletic defensive line can only take you so far.

Texas was 0-5 when its opponent ran for more yards. Defensive coordinator Manny Diaz stressed the importance of stoppinng the run.

Alex Okafor and Keanu Reeves might have more in common than you might think.

It has been a while since McCoy and Shipley hooked up for a touchdown on the 40 Acres. But at last Friday’s scrimmage, it happened again.

It’s usually not a good thing when your best wide receiver is a sophomore, but there’s no need to worry with Mike Davis at the Longhorns’ disposal.

Robinson’s showing against Rice was indicative of how he would perform for the rest of the season, but not of how his team would play.

All that’s left for Round Rock to do before the postseason rolls around is make sure it builds some momentum.

The Longhorns begin fall camp Friday, less than a month before their season opener against Rice on Sept. 3.

Young’s days in Tennessee are over, and he gets a fresh start in Philadelphia.

Texas and OU will still play in Dallas each October, but the team that triumphs won’t be guaranteed a shot at the conference title.

In the midst of an 11-game win streak, the Rangers are showing that last year’s AL pennant was no fluke.

Two days after shortstop Derek Jeter picked up his 3,000th hit, his teammate Robinson Cano won the Home Run Derby.

The NFL isn’t the only one going through a lockout. The NBA lockout is now a week old, making it much younger than its NFL cousin.

Rangers manager Ron Washington will lead the American League at this year’s All-Star game, where the American League will try to redeem themselves after having their 14-game winning streak snapped by the National League.

Watching three former players being picked in the NBA Draft’s first round can be both exciting and troubling.

The last time Texas won a national championship, they beat Colorado by 67 along the way. But four years before that, it was the Buffaloes that came out on top and denied the Longhorns a chance at the title.

While there might be a shortage of experience on this Longhorn squad, it won’t be short on talent.

A suprise to many fans of the University of Texas men's basketball team, Cory Joseph has decided to join the NBA.

Texas A&M paved its way to the College World Series without John Stilson, the dependable No. 1 pitcher.

A lot can change when a minor league organization switches affiliations. For the Round Rock Express, it means impressive attendance figures and newfound postseason aspirations.