The Texas Football Coaching Carousel
Texas A&M head coach Mike Sherman marches on as gossip swirls about University of Texas’s Mack Brown’s departure and University of Houston’s Kevin Sumlin’s future. SHERMAN’S MARCHLast week, as all...
View ArticleSix Thoughts About the Cotton Bowl
Kansas St. and Oregon who? Arlington’s the center of our college football universe, as Texas A&M plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Friday. Some news, notes and random weirdness heading into...
View ArticleUH Head Coach Becomes Next Man to Take the Aggie Challenge
When the Cougars’ perfect season ended with a loss to Southern Miss in the December 3 Conference USA championship game, people began whispering that University of Houston football coach Kevin Sumlin...
View ArticleAggieland Smacks Back at Will Muschamp
Last month, University of Florida head football coach Will Muschamp dished out both a little sugar and a little salt when talking about the Gators’ road opener at Texas A&M, which will also be the...
View ArticleThe Aggies’ Stunning Win Dominated College Football News
The top story in Texas college football this past weekend was the top story in college football, period: Texas A&M’s wildly entertaining, often-dominant upset of top-ranked defending national...
View ArticleFive Questions: What’s Next for Johnny Heisman
Now that Johnny “Johnny Football” Manziel is officially “Johnny Heisman,” what’s in store for Texas A&M and its star quarterback? Besides the Cotton Bowl and tonight’s Letterman Top 10, that is. In...
View Article“Air” Kingsbury Flies Back to Lubbock
“Is Kliff Kingsbury’s phone on?” asked the Texas Monthly Twitter Saturday when news of Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville’s departure for the University of Cincinnati broke.It hardly took a Nostradamus...
View ArticleThe Five Most Memorable Sports Stories of 2012
It couldn’t have been easier to pick the most memorable Texas sports story of the year. In fact, Texas A&M could win the national championship next season, and there’d still be something sui...
View ArticleSix Thoughts About the Cotton Bowl
Kansas St. and Oregon who? Arlington’s the center of our college football universe, as Texas A&M plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Friday. Some news, notes and random weirdness heading into...
View ArticleAggies Beating UT, 32-14 (in Recruiting)
This week, it becomes official: Texas A&M will beat the University of Texas in the only football contest that the two schools currently engage in–recruiting.As Sports Illustrated national college...
View ArticleThe New Way to Recruit Against the Aggies
Brent Zwerneman of the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News checks in with a Signing Day update that shows how quickly things have changed for Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin. Sumlin...
View ArticleWATCH: Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion
Have you heard the one about the seven-foot tall wrestler who can’t tell a decent Aggie joke?Sunday, World Wrestling Entertainment came to College Station’s Reed Arena, with Kevin Sumlin as the guest...
View ArticleWho Is Johnny Football?
The kid was a full-blown sports prodigy almost from the time he could walk. He was driving golf balls at the age of two, beating adults when he was ten. In youth baseball he hit so many home runs that...
View ArticlePreview: Who Is Johnny Football?
The kid was a full-blown sports prodigy almost from the time he could walk. He was driving golf balls at the age of two, beating adults when he was ten. In youth baseball he hit so many home runs that...
View ArticleCollege Football Coach Who’s Not Mack Brown Loses His Job
There’s not much similarity between beleaguered University of Texas football coach Mack Brown and now-former University of Southern California coach Lane Kiffin, who was fired early Sunday morning.For...
View ArticleA&M Fans Went Through the Five Stages of Grief on Saturday
There’ve been a lot of good days to be a Texas A&M football fan the past few years, but Saturday was not one of them. There’s no good reason to relive the full details of the 59-0 shellacking the...
View ArticleThe 2016 Bum Steer Awards
The Great Texas Meltdown of 2015 started slowly. In fact, things were looking mighty good for perennial favorites the Dallas Cowboys when they made the playoffs last January, and they could have gone...
View ArticleTexas A&M Football Makes a Splashy Hire With Jimbo Fisher
After racking up five disappointing losses this season, Texas A&M fired head coach Kevin Sumlin. It was the end of an era. Not necessarily a great one for the university—Sumlin’s 11-2 record and...
View ArticleEveryone Johnny Manziel Blames in His Interview With Shannon Sharpe
For most of the past several years, you would have had to be hanging out with some hardcore Aggies to hear Johnny Manziel’s name dropped in casual conversation. Over the past six months, though, the...
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