It was years ago, back in 1992 after an insignificant basketball game, and Gary Blair’s dominant Stephen F. Austin women’s basketball team had just thrashed Vic Schaefer’s overmatched Sam Houston State team. Insignificant being a very relative term. The two coaching rivals, who’d both prefer a 2-by-4 against their heads over losing at anything, had…
Even in a shortened season, Texas pitcher Miranda Elish was dominant. The right-handed flamethrower from Crown Point, Ind., was named Softball America’s national player of the year on Wednesday. Elish was the Longhorns’ best overall threat on a team that went 24-3 in the shortened season and finished No. 1 in Softball America’s final poll….
Miranda Elish & Janae Jefferson were also named 2020 Softball America Shortened Season All-Americans. Source: Daily Texas Online
Photo by Bryan Lynn/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Plus: Speculation over whether or not we’ll have a college football season in 2020, and what it might look like Despite suffering injuries during her sophomore and junior seasons for the Texas Longhorns, forward Joyner Holmes produced a stellar career while on the Forty Acres. Now, as…
The Dallas Wings have a chance to load up in the forthcoming WNBA draft on April 17. They have four first-round picks and two in the second, a cache of artillery to do just about anything they want. At least one of those picks might be used to scoop up Texas ex Joyner Holmes, according…
247Sports The Longhorns handed out a couple of new offers today for the 2022 recruiting class. Two new Texas offers were extended today for the class of 2022, with one being an out of state blue chip defender and the other an in-state speedster whose stock is starting to take off. Four star Bishop Gorman…
Important news happening in and around Texas Athletics compiled by Vice President and Athletics Director Chris Del Conte. Source: Daily Texas Online
Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports The head coach and his Longhorns are trying to maintain perspective while still taking care of business. Nothing about this is normal. Not Texas Longhorns head coach Tom Herman and not for his players, who are scattered around the country as they transition to online classes for the remainder of the…
12. The race to the bottom: What is going on at Iowa State? In the last column I was pretty positive on Iowa State. But in what seemed like a few hours, their 2020-2021 outlook completely changed. The Cyclones lost Tyrese Haliburton, which was expected, then lost Terrence Lewis, Zion Griffin and Caleb Grill. ISU…
Gregory L. Fenves always liked to loosen his tie and shed the formalities whenever he came east of San Jacinto Boulevard. Fenves admitted up front in June 2015 that “athletics is the one area of the university that I’m not as familiar with.” But he became one of the most athletic-savvy presidents in modern University…