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Introducing the SB Nation Conference Re-draft Project
While Barking Carnival still flies an independent banner -- Bill Little at the helm of the Dreamwagon chasing unicorns into a burnt orange sunset -- we are technically a member of the SB Nation tribe and that union will become official once we all exchange spiritual vows on the banks of the...
2010 Academic All Big 12 Basketball Team
Congratulations to the five Longhorns basketball players that made the Academic All Big 12 team. This is the second straight year we've led the conference in academic honors after placing six guys on last year's squad. Mind you, our 2008 squad had a 3.29 team GPA. I don't think the ZBT intramural...
It's Official: Christian Scott and Brandon Collins done for the year
Christian Scott and Brandon Collins won't be playing this year because the NCAA says they haven't made enough progress towards their degrees. Mack Brown released a statement last night confirming the news. “We’re disappointed for Brandon and Christian that they won’t be able to...
Overheard on the Longhorn internets
In the past this has been reserved for something stupid a Texas fan says on a Texas site. But this time we have a guest. Most UT students today couldn’t crack the top 80th percentile at the middle and upper-middle class suburban schools that produce the great majority of Tech students, but they...
Longhorn Update: Basketball, Nigerian Recruiting, Coprophilia, Sooner Cheatin'
If you're ever in doubt about what to do with an extra football scholarship, find a West African. Chris O. leaves Texas as a 4 time Academic All Big 12 selection, sports two undergraduate degrees, and holds the single season reception record for a UT running back (46). You have to love the work...
Go Gatah!
It's true: no one does it quite like Corch Urban Meyers or Percy Harvey. They deserve our gradulations and are superb to any other college football team. Good stuff from Florida Congresswoman Corinne Brown. I think she really finds her stride after a rough start. I personally dig the club...
UT President Powers: Athletics In Trouble Thanks to 10% Rule
University of Texas William Powers Jr. painted a bleak picture Wednesday in front of the Texas Legislature when it came to admissions for the Austin campus. Powers testified before the Texas Senate Higher Education Committee that the law that guarantees admission to a student graduating in the top...
Witness live bitterness.
Texas Tech! Norman, Oklahoma! Does anyone have any cyanide!? Instead of listening to the talking heads ramble on about how great West Virginia Kansas Missouri Rutgers Texas Tech is, I've elected to spend this 15 minutes watching Cops. They just busted a guy with crack in his pocket in Florida. He...
Missouri owes all their success to Texas
Not really. But yeah they do. Sort of. Kirk Bohls wrote about Missouri's 'permanence' on the college football map in today's Statesman. This quote caught my eye: "The Big 12's tougher entrance requirements (that) Texas insisted upon really helped Missouri because they leveled the playing field with...
National Communists Against Academics
When the Swedes gave Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, satirist Tom Lehrer said that he could no longer perform. "It was at that moment that satire died," Lehrer said. "There was nothing more to say after that." Where am I going with this? Well the NCAA has appointed OU athletic...
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