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Trail Of Slime: Tommy Tuberville Bolts Texas Tech For Cincinnati, Skips Out On Dinner Tab

This past Saturday night at the Heisman Trophy presentation ceremony in New York, ESPN host Chris Fowler was interviewing Notre Dame senior linebacker and Heisman finalist Manti Te'o about his mostly amazing, sometimes tragic senior season. Ever the positive thinker, Te'o at one point in the convers ... 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 >>

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Football! This Weekend's Best Bets

It's an SEC kinda week​Time for another round of college and NFL friendly wagers. Are my selection techniques the most textbook, orthodox methods in the world? No. I mean, if I hosted a handicapping show and gave out six games and chose those games because they gave me convenient fodder to ta ... 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 >>

Top 5 Worst Big 12 Football Games of 2011 (With Suggested Alternatives)

If only Kansas' basketball season started in September.​Compared to the best Big 12 gridiron match-ups of 2011, these stink bombs make us want to reschedule our college-football recordings to international cricket. Texas Tech is on here because year after year, they have proven that they are ... More >>

UH Holding Out for More Tier One Funds, Blocking Legislative Deal

Coogs pushing hard in Austin.​The University of Houston is the last holdout in a vote to set the funding distribution method out of a voter-backed endowment devoted to ramping up the number of nationally ranked universities in Texas. The University of Texas and Texas A&M University are the st ... More >>

Oh, Joy: Another "Affirmative Action" Bake Sale, This Time at Texas Tech

Watch out -- that kid looks sorta Hispanic.​The Texas Tech group called the Young Conservatives of Texas -- yes, they're the ones who protested a campus sculpture because it allegedly included lesbians and commies -- have had yet another bright idea. Well, a bright idea that's getting pretty ... More >>

Cougar Football Is All Over Now

The Cougar season is all over now​The Houston Cougars spoke about the importance of having a good game on Saturday. Not only would a victory over Texas Tech guarantee a bowl game for the Coogs, but it would allow the seniors to go out on a high note.So of course, in a season that has turned ... More >>

Texas Tech's "Silent Treatment": Oooooh, Be Scared, Longhorns

Texas Tech, innovating again​As if the Texas Longhorns didn't have enough troubles, what with struggling to beat Rice and Wyoming to open the season, now they face their most severe challenge ever.They go to Lubbock this weekend to play Texas Tech, and the student government at Tech is asking stud ... More >>

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Sarah Palin: Libs Hate Her Because She's Beautiful, Not Like That Michelle Obama

The ugliness!! It BURNS!!!!​Texas Tech, that bastion of Americanism way out there in Lubbock, has done it again.This time they're not protesting a statue that allegedly features Commies and lesbians, nor are they linking tattoos to social deviance.This time, they're saying liberals hate Sarah Pali ... More >>

Richard Justice Hates (Hated?) The Coogs In A Disappearing Blog Item

Justice's post was here one day, gone the next​Let me get my bias out in the open. I'm a UH graduate. Class of 1988. Graduated with membership in the Honors College -- only then it was just the Honors Program. I've attended various UH sporting events from before I started at the school, to the pre ... More >>

Young Conservatives Protest A Texas Tech Sculpture Featuring Lesbians, Commies

Photo courtesy Texas TechDon't look!!! It'll make you hate America!!!​ You would think, what with a Kenyan-born Muslim frog-marching the country into socialism while killing your grandmother, that conservatives would have plenty of things on their plate to protest.But the Young Conservatives of Te ... More >>

UH, Rice Football Schedules Offer Some Intrigue, But Will They Attract Fans?

​Lost amidst the hoopla of the upcoming NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament was the release on Tuesday of the football schedules of the Houston Cougars and the Rice Owls. And knowing Cougar fans the way I do, I'm sure they're already starting to form their excuses for failing to sell out the stadiu ... More >>

More Tats = More Deviance?

Texas Tech studies body ink and social deviance.

More Tats, More Social Deviance, Texas Tech Reports

​Texas Tech's school of sociology will soon publish a study claiming a link between the number of tattoos a college student has and their level of social deviance, which is defined in the study as proclivities for binge drinking, promiscuity, frequent marijuana use and occasional use of other drug ... More >>

Game Time: The Week In Tweets

​Maybe I'm biased because I use it all the time, but I'm going to make the bold statement that Twitter has surpassed "fad" status and that it's here to stay. Even at this point, people who don't use Twitter recognize kinda sorta how it works, and even recognize a Tweet when they see it -- "it's go ... More >>

Late Night Scene: Coffee Groundz

​For such a small space, the Coffee Groundz has a United Nations-like ability to bring together a crowd of people who normally operate in different layers of the social stratosphere. The front of the bar is sparsely populated by midnight, with a few solo guys working on the laptops and a gay c ... More >>

UH vs. Texas Tech

A promising UH football team looks to repel the Red Raiders

UH Sells Out For Tech, Expects "Largest Crowd" In Stadium History

​UH announced this afternoon that Robertson Stadium is officially sold out for next Saturday's game against Texas Tech."This is tremendous and is a testament to our great fan base," director of athletics Mack Rhoades said. "This is only the fourth time in the history of the facility we will have a ... More >>

At Least One Football Team In Town Is Supposed To Be Good This Year (Hint: They Don't Get Paid)

​Most of Houston's football focus is going to the Houston Texans, who are once again striving to produce an actual winning season. But there are several other football teams in Houston, and today, one of those teams officially reports for preseason camp.The team in question is the Houston Cougars, ... More >>

Life On The Rodeo Road: Follow The Ten-Minute Rule

Photo by Paul KnightName: Luke ButterfieldAge: 24Hometown: Ponoka, Alberta    Event: Saddle Bronc RidingI got into rodeo because my family rodeos, my dad and mother. They have a feed lot up there [in Canada] so I've always been around cattle and livestock. I played hockey all through ... 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 >>

What the Hell. Go Texas Tech!

I hate the BCS. I hate the bowl games. I want there to be playoffs in major college football. I write this because, normally, I would be pulling for Oklahoma to defeat Texas Tech this weekend for the purpose of screwing up the BCS. But I can’t do that this time out. I just can’t. And ... More >>

Sorry, UH Cougars. You Need to Go Down.

Over the Weekend: Special Bikini Edition

Texas Tech, Say Hello to Number Two

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Texas College Football Report, Whining Aggie Edition

College Tuition In Texas Just Keeps Going Up

You Too Can Play Catch the Illegal Immigrant

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Dissecting the Dirty Dozen

Bring It On

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Swoopes: Hardwoods Homie

A Comets star helps redefine Houston basketball

Love of the Game

A Valentine's weekend for college baseball fans

The Houston Shuffle

A historic bar game attracts world masters

Bot Love

Schoolkids go techno

Money Talks

Mattress Mac's bowl was a joke everywhere but Houston

He Likes Beer

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Skid Row Scholars

Recovering alcoholics find financial aid in a unique Texas Tech program

Following the Money