Big 12 Conference

Warning: The Aggies Have Drones & Are Prepared To Use Them

All you teasippers out there, be on the lookout. Cougars, keep your head on a swivel. Baylor Bears, pray to your God. The Aggies have drones, and they're launching them. As far as we know, the drones are unarmed. As far as we know. We are not saying you should ease up on your surveillance, but t ... More >>

Cougars Stage Reunion With the Aggies, Then Lose

The arena was crowded. The fans were loud. Two old foes prepared to face off on the court. Close your eyes and you could almost swear you were back in the 1980s and the Southwest Conference still existed. Such was Hofheinz Pavilion on Saturday night as the Houston Cougars hosted the Texas A&M Aggie ... More >>

Football! This Weekend's Best Bets, Helping NBA Stars With Their Finances

To exactly nobody's surprise, the Rockets and James Harden agreed on Wednesday afternoon to a five year, $80 million contract extension, making Harden the first maximum contract player that Daryl Morey has inked to a deal in his tenure as Rockets general manager, and sending a clear message that Har ... More >>

Aggies Invite the Rest of the SEC to Begin Kicking Their Asses Immediately (w/ VIDEO)

Nature fascinates me. Specifically, I love the Discovery Channel-style shows that give a detailed breakdown of a vicious animal predator stalking its target before going in for the kill. Life is Darwinian, and it gets no more Darwinian than that. Literal survival of the fittest. But I have a soft s ... More >>

The School That Holds The Record For First-Day License-Plate Sales In Texas Is...Ole Miss?

MyPlates.com, the private company that offers Texans vanity plates of all types, sells a lot of school plates. Plates for th eUniversity of South Carolina just went on sale (and no, you can't get COCKLUVR even if you're a rabid Gamecock fan). They've been doing it for a while now, and have compile ... More >>

The Aggies Are Full of S*#!% About Tech Fans

Texas A&M athletic director Bill Byrne was highly upset with Texas Tech fans this weekend: ​The horrendous and extensive vandalism took place outside what is no doubt Lubbock's finest hotel as the Aggies visited to play Texas Tech. Terrible. Except Tech has done its own investigation, and dis ... More >>

Legislation Being Introduced to Preserve UT and A&M Rivalry Game

Could the UT/A&M rivalry be legislated into continued existence?​Texas has a long-standing tradition of creating odd laws to fit nearly every circumstance. Hell, we have an official song for our state flower. But one has to wonder if State Senator Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands) may be taking ... More >>

Texas A&M Students Rally in Support of Wildfire Relief with Towels

​Say what you want about the Aggies, they are a dedicated bunch of fans. How many people do you know willing to stand for every football game for an entire season? Now, A&M students have directed some of that passion at raising money to aid victims and firefighters impacted by the massive ... More >>

Texas A&M and SEC Make It Official

​Finally putting an end to unrelenting speculation, rumor and hand-wringing from colleges, media and sports radio, the Southeastern Conference formally accepted Texas A&M University into its conference Sunday, ending A&M's tenure in the Big 12 and leaving the future of that conference very muc ... More >>

Texas A&M Athletics: No Longer a Bridesmaid to UT?

​Maybe, just maybe, Texas A&M is about to stop being the University of Texas-Austin's bitch. On Thursday, the Texas A&M Board of Regents will meet in a closed-door, informational confab, according to a San Antonio Express-News report, to discuss the Longhorn Network, a 24-hour-a-day channel ... More >>

Rick Perry, Aggie Football Hero

The closest Rick Perry ever got to playing football at Texas A&M was being a cheerleader -- sorry, a "yell leader," as the Aggies call them, because it's so much manlier. But once he started giving tax breaks to EA Sports to attract them to Texas, he's now a QB with a tight spiral and the ability ... More >>

Aggies More Financially Successful Than Longhorns, Cougars, According to Study

​Looks like the tea sippers need to work a little harder and/or become a bit more driven to best the Aggies. PayScale recently published a study that breaks down earned income for college graduates. The 2010-11 survey, which is supported by 2010 United States Census data, is broken into two ... More >>

Looking Back at This Weekend's Houston College Classic

John RoyalRice's Michael Ratterree slides across the plate to score a run yesterday against Baylor​The 11th Houston College Classic was played at Minute Maid Park this weekend, and though it's only March, it's probably safe to say that the best baseball to be played in Minute Maid Park this se ... More >>

CityCentre Shows Off Aggie-Longhorn Gridiron

Over/under on the time before the UT end zone is defaced: 1.2 hours after the game​When the University of Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies get together each year, there is a feeling of true holiday spirit that fills the air. Sure, that spirit is hatred, but it definitely fills the air. Th ... More >>

Aggies Try Again To Fight In-State Tuition For Children Of Illegal Aliens

The Aggie group's Facebook logo​They've had the vote delayed by a bout of common sense, they've had the bill vetoed, but they're not giving up -- members of the Texas A&M student senate are poised to vote again on denying in-state tuition to the children of illegal aliens. Proponents of the b ... More >>

Rice Sudents Had A Great Sexual Year, Apparently

Rice gets it on​Today in Self-Serving "Studies," we have what is no doubt highly sophisticated and peer-approved from the people who make Trojan condoms.They're put their annual report on "sexual health" on America's college campuses, looking at such things as condom availability, health center ho ... More >>

Rice-Baylor: Lightning Dulls Owls' Thunder

Photo by John Royal A nearly empty Rice Stadium as the rain descended​The Rice Owl fans must have sniffed something in the air. There can really be no other explanation.The score was only 7-3, Baylor over Rice, when the football game was delayed due to lightning in the area. It wasn't raini ... More >>

Rice Hopes To Keep Momentum Against North Texas

Owls take on Mean Green, or whatever North Texas is calling itself these days​The Rice Owls played a hell of a football game last Saturday. They played a game that nobody, except for themselves, thought they were capable of playing. They shut down the Texas Longhorn running game, and they even sho ... More >>

UT-Notre Dame Football Series: It's Coming, Longhorns

Fear the leprechaun. Fear it!!!​It's not often that the University of Texas steps up to play major college football programs -- they seem to prefer the Sam Houston States and UL-Monroes of the world for their out-of-conference schedule -- but that may be changing.Rumors are flying that the Longhor ... More >>

Game Time: College Football: The New Pendergast Realignment Strength-O-Meter!

Yo, Nebraska​In the third season of The Sopranos, just after Tony's nephew Christopher becomes a "made guy," there's a scene where shortly after getting his stripes officially, Chrissy is in the pizza parlor wearing a brand new $1,000 suit with one of a handful of Soprano family lackeys in tow. A ... More >>

How Texas and Alabama Match Up... Musically

​ For once, Rocks Off is grateful for this sinus-splitting headache (thanks, Mike Stinson!), because it gives us something to focus on besides the fact that we are crawling out of our skin waiting for kickoff tonight. At this point, sports pundits have analyzed the Longhorns and Crimson Tide to wi ... More >>

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Texas A&M's President Goes Out In A Blaze Of Bad Headlines, Great Official Statements

God bless the Aggies. Who else could hire a new president amidst much fanfare (She's Hispanic, y'all!!) and then fire her 18 months later?Although we're not quite sure why she got fired. Sure, as we showed last week via an Open Records Act request, she was given a not-so-hot job review, but hey, tha ... More >>

The Real Reason Perry Wants To Secede: Football

Governor Rick Perry has been pressing for Texas to secede from the nation. He might bitch about high taxes, but I think we all know the real reason he's pushing this idiotic movement.  How else can the Texas Longhorns win a national championship?Sure, the Longhorns helped to devise the Big 12 g ... More >>

What We Lose, And What We Gain, If Texas Secedes

Rick Perry, our governor, has taken a steep dive off the sanity cliff with his preachin'-to-the-Rush-choir talk of seceding from the United States.This may be hard to imagine, but we think Perry might not have thought the whole thing through so well. And not just because he's presented the image of ... More >>

Longhorns Sue For BCS Title; Coach Brown: "We're Texas, Damn It"

Austin -- Following last night's Florida Gators victory over the Oklahoma Sooners in the BCS Title Game, the Texas Longhorns football team held a press conference outside of the main entrance to Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium. Head Coach Mack Brown, reading from a prepared statement, st ... More >>

Longhorns Sue For BCS Title; Coach Brown: "We're Texas, Damn It"

Austin -- Following last night's Florida Gators victory over the Oklahoma Sooners in the BCS Title Game, the Texas Longhorns football team held a press conference outside of the main entrance to Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium. Head Coach Mack Brown, reading from a prepared statement, st ... More >>

Longhorns Can't Brag About Buckeye Victory

I want to thank The Ohio State Buckeyes. Sure, they lost to the Texas Longhorns, but because the Longhorns needed a bad spot by the referees to help get the victory, I'm pretty damn sure that the country has been saved from listening to Longhorn fans bitch about not playing for the BCS Title. Beca ... More >>

Longhorns Can't Brag About Buckeye Victory

I want to thank The Ohio State Buckeyes. Sure, they lost to the Texas Longhorns, but because the Longhorns needed a bad spot by the referees to help get the victory, I'm pretty damn sure that the country has been saved from listening to Longhorn fans bitch about not playing for the BCS Title. Beca ... More >>

Bowling for UT, TCU, UH and Rice

I'm sure the Longhorns and their fans are still pissed they didn't win the Big 12 and aren't playing for the national title. But screw Longhorns fans. I think I can speak for many college football fans who are pissed the Horns are playing in the Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State. Ohio effing Sta ... More >>

Whine All You Want, Longhorn Fans

Let the whining commence. You know, that whining about the Texas Longhorns being screwed by The Man. It all started on Friday when Richard Justice talked about how the Horns were forced to run up the score on the Aggies in order to prevent the injustice of Oklahoma being ranked in front of the ... More >>

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