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With three seconds left in the final showdown between Texas and Texas A&M, the game was on Justin Tucker’s foot.
Texas was down 25-24.
Tucker made the field goal — and Texas football history.
The Round Rock Express bounced back from yet another one-run loss with a 4-2 win in their series opener against the Omaha Storm Chasers.
The Express were finally able to scratch a win against the Storm Chasers this season after being swept in last week’s four game series at Werner Park in Papillion, Neb.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The leaders of at least four states plan a visit to the only place where a beef product known as “pink slime” is still made to support its embattled manufacturer, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry will visit the one Beef Products Inc. plant that’s still in operation to combat misconceptions and misinformation about the company and its “lean, finely textured beef” product, company spokesman Rich Jochum said.
Jonathan Walsh was born to be a baseball player.
At 6-3, 220 pounds, Walsh is the perfect blend of power and speed that can intimidate pitchers in the batter’s box and make incredible plays in the outfield.
A Travis county judge ruled today in favor of the University of Texas in a lawsuit against ESPN involving the privacy of the school's conference realignment documents from 2010.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Storms shuffled through parts of the south-central United States again Tuesday, bringing more heavy rain and thunder so loud some people in Oklahoma mistook it for an earthquake.
Forecasters said the slow-moving storm system that socked the region Monday could cause more flash floods, hail, strong winds and possibly tornadoes in a corridor stretching from Texas east to Louisiana and as far north as Missouri.
AT&T Cotton Bowl, Jan. 6th, 8 p.m. EST, FOX
No. 8 Kansas State @ No. 6 Arkansas
The first two rounds of the tournament saw five upsets — leaving three Big 10 teams in the dust. Nebraska, the No. 2 overall seed with one of the largest volleyball fan bases in the country, fell to Kansas State in five sets. Ohio State defeated No. 14 seed Tennessee and will now face No. 3 seed Illinois in the Sweet 16.
Michigan upset No. 11 seed Stanford and will now take on Florida, who upset No. 6 seed Northern Iowa.
On Thanksgiving night, Texas kicker Justin Tucker added his name to Longhorn football lore with a career-defining kick that sent Texas A&M packing to the Southeastern Conference with one final loss. Let’s take a look at where Tucker’s field goal ranks amongst other crucial kicks in the Mack Brown Era.
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Editor’s Note: These are the top three lessons we learned from the 2011 Lone Star Showdown.
1: Horns getting their kicks
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Penn State to accept bowl bid despite school scandal
Interim head coach Tom Bradley announced this week that the Nittany Lions will accept a bowl invitation despite recent turmoil surrounding the school.
Several bowl officials feel as if the Nittany Lions’ postseason appeal has declined greatly amid recent allegations of sexual abuse taking place on school grounds.
A student organization left most other schools in the dust after doing better than ever at an international car racing competition this year.
Support for keeping Joe Paterno in his job coaching Penn State football is eroding among the board of trustees, threatening to end the 84-year-old coach’s career amid a child sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant and one-time heir apparent.
A person familiar with the trustees’ discussions and who used the term “eroding” said it was unclear what the consequences for Paterno will be and that a decision could be rendered before the board meets on Friday.
The Longhorns used to take winning six games for granted. They never talked much about being bowl eligible.
AUSTIN — For several years, Texas lacked a power back who could pound defenses into submission. Now the Longhorns seem to have them everywhere.
Freshman Joe Bergeron ran for 191 yards and scored three touchdowns Saturday, leading a 52-20 rout of Texas Tech that saw Texas rush for more than 400 yards for the second week in a row.
No. 9 Oklahoma at No. 8 Kansas State:
Saturday 2:30 p.m. | TV: ESPN
Turner Gill knows what it means to be successful.
Gill was a three-year starter at Nebraska, leading the team to a 28-2 record in his time there, along with three Big 8 championships to boot.
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Texas obviously did many things did wrong against Oklahoma. But maybe the Longhorns’ first mistake was made before the game even started when the team did a walkthrough at the Cotton Bowl the Friday before the game.
“We thought so many young players had never been the Cotton Bowl that we should walk through and let them see it,” said head coach Mack Brown. “It’s probably something we’ll never
do again.
Mack Brown knows how to get the Longhorns to forget about the Oklahoma game and move on.
He’s never lost a game following the Red River Rivalry in his 13-plus years at Texas. Brown said he learned early on the difficulties of coaching before and after the OU game.
So what’s his secret?
DALLAS — If it were all about maximizing revenue, the Big 12 as it had existed until two years ago may have been saved, said former Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe.
“If they had done what I had advocated for two years ago, then I don’t think any of the institutions, including Nebraska or Colorado would have had any reason to cite the reasons they did to leave,” Beebe said.
Texas may have improved since last season, but so has the Big 12.
The Longhorns open conference play this weekend against Iowa State, a team that beat them on their home turf last season. Texas and Iowa State are two of seven unbeaten teams in the conference as the Big 12 has posted a collective 26-2 record in non-conference play.
Those two losses were to a 4-0 Georgia Tech squad that pounded Kansas, 66-24, and to a 3-1 Arizona State team that beat notched an overtime win over Missouri earlier this year.
