Colt McCoy passed for 282 yards and four touchdowns and No. 10 Texas spoiled the biggest sports party in years in this city with a 42-13 win over Texas El-Paso on Saturday night.Quan Cosby caught eight passes for 154 yards and a score for the Longhorns (2-0), who built a big first-half lead, then put the game away with McCoy's 15-yard TD strike to Jordan Shipley early in the fourth quarter. Moments later, Rod Muckelroy returned a fumble 26 yards for a touchdown. more >>
STILLWATER, Okla. – Dez Bryant had 236 yards receiving and scored four touchdowns and Kendall Hunter rushed for 210 yards and two touchdowns as Oklahoma State held off Houston 56-37 on Saturday night. Oklahoma State (2-0) never before had a 200-yard rusher and receiver in the same game, not even in the four seasons in the 1980s that star wideout Hart Lee Dykes played with running backs Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders. more >>
Texas-El Paso has played a lot of football in the shadows of the Franklin Mountains, tucked away in a far-flung corner of a football-crazy state. more >>
DALLAS – There were a lot of long faces in Aggieland after new coach Mike Sherman and unranked Texas A&M lost their season opener 18-14 to Arkansas State last week. more >>
LUBBOCK – Graham Harrell threw for 536 yards and two touchdowns and also ran for another score to lead No. 12 Texas Tech past Eastern Washington 49-24 on Saturday night. The pass-happy offense of Texas Tech was in midseason form against an overmatched opponent. Harrell was 43-of-58 with an interception. more >>
Beau Trahan and Casey Horny have more in common than a friendship. They played high school football in the Advocate area before attending and graduating from the University of Texas, they worked as graduate assistant coaches at their alma mater before continuing their coaching careers elsewhere, their wives are preparing to be doctors and they like to brag about their young daughters. more >>
HOUSTON – There’s no easy position in football, but playing the secondary in Conference USA can be a form of torture. “It’s a different kind of conference because everyone is passing all the time,” Houston cornerback Brandon Brinkley said. “You always have to be alert and ready to defend the pass. There are going to be more touchdowns scored than in other leagues, but we’re also getting more chances to make plays.” more >>
AUSTIN – Colt McCoy sat in a chair, surrounded by reporters peppering him with questions about the upcoming football season, when a number popped into his head. more >>
Memorial grad Brittney Morris was named to the University of Texas Longhorn Cheerleading White Squad. Morris was co-head cheerleader for Memorial in the 2007-2008 school year and was also a member of the 2006 UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship Squad. more >>
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The spread offense has been a boon to the Big 12, helping teams like Missouri and Kansas transition from also-rans to national title contenders. more >>
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Nebraska’s Joe Ganz wasn’t highly recruited out of high school, told he was too small to play quarterback on the college level. more >>
NEW YORK – Billy Packer didn’t sound like a man who found out his 34-year run as part of the Final Four broadcast had ended. On Monday, CBS announced that Clark Kellogg would replace Packer after 27 years as the network’s lead college basketball analyst. Including his earlier years at NBC, Packer had done every Final Four since 1975, an unparalleled run for a national sports championship. more >>
EUFAULA, Okla. (AP) – Jamelle Holieway, the starting quarterback on Oklahoma’s 1985 national championship team, was jailed Friday because of outstanding traffic warrants. more >>
