August 2009
6 posts
ALetter to Darrel Royal on His 85th →
If you’re interested at all in the history and tradition of Texas football, this is a great read from Burnt Orange Nation. It’s a telling and touching look at what the game used to be and how it was played under Darrel Royal.
From BON:
One of my favorite things about running this website is the many wonderful people it has allowed me to meet. I recently had the opportunity to visit...
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Back in Bla... Orange.
I’m back to posting. I’m not going to have much time to put much here, so I’ll start with something simple and hope the routine works its way into my daily schedule.
Football season is only one short, hot month away. So for the next 31 days or so I’ll be putting up my favorite Texas pictures and videos to help pass the time just a little bit.
It’s all I can do. This...
July 2009
1 post
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Chokelahoma →
Hilariously, if you type the url www.chokelahoma.com into your browser and hit enter, you are redirected to the actual Sooner Sports site. They have officially embraced the moniker Chokelahoma. It is who they are.
As I understand it, it’s common practice to buy domains that may be unflattering to your organization or could provide your adversaries a valuable outlet to mock you.
Like I...
June 2009
1 post
Hiatus
Tragically I haven’t had the time to post anything of anything in a long time.
I need more time than I have to make this what I really want it to be.
By the time football season rolls around I may find myself with the ability to push this lil baby, but don’t count on it, what with work and wedding planning and everything else going on I just don’t see it happening.
But at some...
April 2009
2 posts
Morning Hook Up 4.6
Sadly, I haven’t had a chance to watch the Spring Game yet. ESPNU was supposed to be showing it in my area, but when game time came an incredibly boring UCSD baseball game played instead.
The list of reasons I hate ESPN just keeps getting longer.
Anyway, that’s what all the news is about. And while I feverishly search the interwebs for some sort of copy of the game, I feel like...
Morning Hook Up 4.1
No April Fool’s jokes, I promise. We’re more mature than that here, right?
Texas Baseball Beats Oral Roberts on Walk-off Balk-run Houston Chronicle
Trey Mclean: The Secondary University Co-op: In the Stands
Sexy Dexy Returning For Senior Year Barking Carnival
March 2009
20 posts
Afternoon Hook Up 3.31
Texas is now in it’s last week of Spring Practice.
The only big ticket news is that Mack said if the season were to begin today, Vondrell McGee would be the starting tailback. While this may not mean anything since Johnson is hurt and we’ll probably be switching tailbacks in all sorts of various situations, it’s something.
Here’s the rest:
Tracking Mack: March 30...
Morning Hook Up 3.30
Not a lot of new news. Which I guess means it doesn’t technically qualify as “news”.
So let’s just call them stories.
Here are some stories about Texas from the last couple days that you may or may not have already heard.
Cody Johnson Weight/Injury Update (Somewhat old news) 40 Acres Sports
Texas to Sell the Grass From DKR for $20 a Slice Barking Carnival
Horns...
Morning Hook Up 3.26
Not a lot going on in Austin outside of Spring Practice and Pro Day.
Outside of the talk that the Bears are giving Melton a serious look, there isn’t much out there.
But here it is:
Texas DE’s Are Faster Than OU Safeties at Pro Day Barking Carnival
Longhorn Staff Not Worried About Cody Johnsons Weight ESPN
Texas Has Seniors Hoping to Go Pro Not Named Orakpo Austin-American...
Morning Hook Up 3.25
Spring practice has resumed, giving us only a small sliver of news to parse through.
DJ Grant sprained his ankle and is hurt, as are all tight ends wearing orange born in the years between 1987 and 1991.
And Texas Pro Day is today. Who besides Orakpo is going to earn some skrilla? If I had to pick one player I hoped would really impress the scouts it would be Quan Cosby.
Anyway, here’s...
Top Programs Game →
Can you name the top 26 winningest college football programs?
FULL DISCLOSURE: Our humble writer only got 22.
The Afternoon Hook Up 3.24
I missed a couple days there and I’m sorry about that. It’s just, with the having to catch up on work I neglected during the first two days of the tournament and the spiraling into ever deeper depression and anger due to the way our basketball season ended, things got pretty weird around here.
I won’t bother detailing the way’s in which our basketball team was jobbed and...
How to Poop on Dook's Parade
UT Sports Photo
I was working out this morning and talking to a trainer who’s a huge college basketball guy (he is both huge and a college basketball guy). He played up here in the east and so he’s a big east nut and a little biased to say the least, but he knows his stuff. I asked him innocuously if Texas had a chance to win today. He just laughed for what I thought was a little...
Morning Hook Up 3.21
Lots of basketball news again today, but the big story for football fans is Reggie Wilson’s commitment to Texas. He’s the 20th overall prospect country-wide, regardless of position. So it’s obviously a huge pick up. And it’s looking like Texas could field some nasty defenses in the near future.
Anyway, that’s been lost in the shuffle a little bit what with Texas...
Texas v. Duke
Can Texas beat the University of New Jersey at Durham? ( polls)
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NCAA Tourney Thoughts: Day 1
AJ Abrams runs around. A lot. I’ve never really appreciated it much in the past, maybe I wasn’t watching close enough. The kid runs around, through or under screen after screen. You could see his work ethic on the face of that poor Minnesota-ite (if I don’t know how to say that you’re from a certain state off the top of my head, you need to move from said state) that had to...
Morning Hook Up 3.2
All the Texas news out there today is about basketball and rightfully so, Texas advanced past Minnesota in the least frustrating to watch game I’ve seen all year by Barnes squad.
Around the country, Lawson’s big toe is still all the rage. The aggies looked better than I wanted them to. Then again, they were playing BYU. Clemson blew my bracket, or rather Michigan did. That guy that...
The Poll of Boldness
Who’s gonna win the NCAA tournament? ( Online surveys)
Morning Hook Up
I picked a great week to start a blog about Texas football, right?
March Madness is in full swing, and the real tournament has yet to start (there’s still about an hour to tip-off).
So no matter how hard I scour the media landscape for any sign of college football life it seems as if all literate sports fans are talking basketball and Ty Lawson’s toe.
Maybe I should rethink my...
Help
What should this blog be named? ( polls)
This site needs a name. And naming things has always been a weak point of mine. When my fiancee and I got a small girl puppy the only name I could come up with was Steve.
Anyway, take a vote, and if you have better ideas drop ‘em off in the comments.
“We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.”
– Darrell K. Royal
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