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...except for tomorrow, of course, when UT comes to town to attempt to avenge their defeat in the College Classic at Minute Maid last week. Last year's closer, Cole St. Clair, is rumored as the starter, and tickets are going fast: we even found people trying to sell them on Craigslist!

Texas schools came out of Saturday's college basketball action with a collective 3-2 record, spread across two different conferences. (Big XII and Conference USA)

Texas A & M has scheduled an 11 a.m. press conference today to announce that Houston Texans offensive coordinator Mike Sherman will be the next head coach. Sherman is returning to A & M where he was the offensive line coach from 1989-1993 and 1995-96. Sherman replaces Dennis Franchione who resigned after a 38-30 A & M upset win over rival Texas Longhorns. This is Mike Sherman's first college head coaching job, but he...

It's an annual rite of fall, the one time each year that people in Houston care about Rice football. Yes,tonight in Austin, the number 8 ranked Texas Longhorns will play the Rice Owls in what promises to be a blowout football game. Longhorn fans and alumni from across the city will descend on the sports bars in droves, ready to feast on the blood of the Owls, who are just happy for the national tv...

College hoops heavyweights visit Houston as the University of Texas Longhorns take on the LSU Tigers this Sunday at Toyota Center in a rematch of a 2006 Elite Eight pairing. The 9th ranked Tigers pull into town fresh off their Texas A&M victory. The Aggies were bested as they visited the Tigers at home on Tuesday. LSU was led by a newly svelte, think skinny Shaq, Glenn "Big Baby" Davis who posted a double-double with...

Another school fight between Katrina evacuees and locals broke out at Westfield High School this morning; one student called it a "riot" HFD workers rescued a city employee who fell into a hole at a southeast Houston sewer lift station this afternoon Lewis P. "Bud" McFadin, a former player and coach for the Texas Longhorns and Houston Oilers, died in a Victoria hospital Monday at age 77 Looking for cheap gas? Head to Yale and...

• Most of us weren't surprised that the No. 2 Texas Longhorns beat the Colorado Buffaloes in the Big 12 Championship game at Reliant Stadium on Saturday. What was a surprise was the score: 70-3. The decisive victory gives the 'Horns their first Big 12 title since 1996 and gives them a chance to earn their first undisputed national championship since 1969. But at this point, the 'Horns might want to think less about flashing...

In the natural world, longhorns and buffalo are distant cousins. In college football, they're very, very, very distant. Since the Big 12 Championship game is all that stands between the Texas Longhorns and a change for all the marbles, in the end, they will be even farther. The 'Horns line up against a Colorado Buffaloes team representing the Big 12 North Division for a second straight year. Unfortunately for the Buffs, who's on the opposing...