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Streaming from the dugout, teammates raced towards Jordan Etier and moments later a massive pile of humanity engulfed him at first base, celebrating Etier’s game winning at bat against Texas A&M last Sunday.
It wasn’t the at bat itself that was so special — just a simple ground ball at the first baseman, and barely far enough up the line to score the runner from third.
For professional women, mothers and college students, putting down that BlackBerry, ditching the cellphone and distancing from a laptop for a few hours can be a challenge.
“Playing games” is one of those hopelessly ambiguous terms that all daters use but rarely ever know how to define. Like love itself, it’s just one of those things that you know once you see it. It’s the chase, the courting and the mind games that make dating a mess, but whether we like it or not, playing games makes flirting all the more fun, too.
Exhibition with Vanderbilt
With an open weekend and an extra pocketed day of competition, Texas took on Vanderbilt in a one-day dual event two weekends ago. Not only was this an extra opportunity to compete against another top team, but it was a chance to preview the course where the upcoming NCAA Championships will take place at the end of May.
Reality TV star turned one-woman-brand Lauren Conrad signed copies of her new book, “The Fame Game,” at BookPeople Thursday night. Conrad sat down with The Daily Texan to discuss the book, a spin-off from her first trilogy, “L.A. Candy.”
Conrad also spoke on the lessons she’s learned from being an intern at Teen Vogue on MTV’s reality show “The Hills,” and on building her own brand as a New York Times best-selling author, fashion designer and blogger.
Victoria Lucas was in disheartened disbelief. After four years of unwavering dedication, the final indoor season of her collegiate career had been stopped unexpectedly short.
“Watching the live results, I was just sitting there really upset and I thought, ‘This isn’t worth it — to not be happy.’”
When flight and linear system dynamics meet with an unexpectedly vibrant tenor voice, the world gets Brandon Steele: a fifth-year aerospace engineer major with a zealous passion for singing.
Steele will perform in Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus Friday and again with the University’s Undergraduate Opera Ensemble in May.
Words can hurt as much as sticks and stones, as many people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender can attest.
Students gathered Monday to discuss the power of language during “Word! Your Language Matters,” a workshop hosted by the student organizations Voices Against Violence, Queer Student Alliance and the Gender and Sexuality Center Leadership Council.
After more than 100 years of intense, competitive matchups, the Longhorns and Aggies will square off on the tennis courts for one final Lone Star Showdown on Saturday.
The game will also be a family reunion of sorts for one Longhorns tennis player.
Late October of last year, four radio-television-film students, David Bukstein and Ali Haji, Morgan Young and Bao Troung, had set out on their respective projects: whether it was a documentary on their family or a choir group or the human rights campaign. Their pre-production set into motion, their lens focused on their subjects, their editing formed a story. It was something they were relatively used to — except that there was another camera on them.
When students can’t find the words to express themselves in a Facebook status update or text message, an iPhone application created by a UT alumna could be the solution.
Founder and CEO of Blurtt Jeanette Cajide, a 1998 UT alumna, launched the iPhone application Blurtt in March. The Blurtt application combines text with an image that allows people to create their own meme or share their thoughts through a picture to share on social networks.
Fear not Monica fans. The ‘90s contemporary R&B diva still has the singing chops to compete with her fellow songstresses. Two years since her 2010 release, Still Standing, Monica returns with New Life, a soulful comeback that retains the singer’s R&B regality while exploring themes of maturity and companionship.
With two months until the class of 2016 begins arriving on campus to register for their freshman classes, University officials announced Monday a significant shift toward focus on academics for undergraduate orientation this summer.
University President William Powers Jr. said the increasing emphasis on academics will include making sure students know different pathways to graduation, to reduce the number of students who take more than four years to graduate. No specific programs have been finalized.
When Mark Rogers’s math students struggled to memorize the quadratic formula, he knew it was time to get creative, so he turned to his personal passion: music.
“It’s so difficult for students to remember [that formula], and I thought, ‘Certainly someone’s made a song about that,’” he said. “When I saw their faces and how happy that made them, they all learned it. It was amazing.”
In the game of baseball, momentum can be a fickle thing.
That was never more evident in Saturday’s game, where Texas was dominated by California 12-2 only a day after defeating they defeated the Bears 13-3.
“This is the classic example of the power of momentum,” said head coach Augie Garrido. “That’s the beauty of it. That’s what we talked about – momentum from pitch to pitch, and that’s what we battled for. Overnight’s a long time compared to between innings.”
NEW YORK — Dozens of police officers cleared the park where the Occupy movement was born six months ago and made several arrests after hundreds of protesters returned in an anniversary observance and defiantly resisted calls to clear out.
Following their 2007 debut, Sumthin 2 Hate, G-Side, a duo consisting of members Stephen “ST 2 Lettaz” Harris and Yung “David Williams” Clova, are hoping to bring something new and refreshing to hip-hop. Their production is eclectic: Some songs are filled with laid-back, spellbinding chord progressions, while others ooze with Dirty South energy and abrasiveness. Harris and Clova compliment each other well with their contrasting delivery.
After prominent usage of the word “retarded” in the popular movie “Tropic Thunder,” the disabled community has strongly increased its efforts to end use of the word, Jim Patton, faculty adviser for Best Buddies UT, said.
After four days at the Big 12 Championships in Columbia, Mo., the Longhorns returned home to Austin with a second place finish to Texas A&M.
Head coach Kim Brackin had hoped for better. And so had the team.
“As a whole, I’m a bit disappointed,” Brackin said. “Whenever you don’t meet one of your goals it’s disappointing, but I feel really good about where we are right now in terms of moving forward.”
Mark Long, a video game designer, co-authored the graphic novel The Silence of Our Friends. The book spans Long’s childhood, covering his memory of the civil rights struggles taking place in Houston Texas. I met with Mr. Long during his book signing at the new Guzu Gallery space in Austin.
When mother of two Tina Leonard sits down at her computer in her home office, she weaves lavish tales of whirlwind romances and passionate nights of lovemaking.
At midnight, students from all UT colleges began a two-week political race that happens only once a year — the campus-wide general elections begin today.
It is difficult to dismiss a show like “I Just Want My Pants Back,” but it is even harder to praise it. The show, which premiered on MTV Feb. 2, is an ensemble comedy revolving around the lives and loves of four slightly witty, slightly convoluted 20-somethings.
In just one week, point guard Jeremy Lin went from the end of the Knicks bench to the main event at Madison Square Garden.
After the final buzzer sounded in the Knicks' game against the Los Angeles Lakers, the MSG crowd broke out an “MVP” chant. This time, the reaction wasn’t for Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant. Instead, it was the perfect ending to Jeremy Lin’s dream week.
