Category Archives: Texas Football

Longhorns vs El Paso

Posted on September 6, 2008 | Comments Off on Longhorns vs El Paso

The El Paso Miners are not a good football team, but when Texas teams play Goliath, i.e. the Longhorns, they sometimes surprise themselves and win. They play hard, anyhow. So while I expect Texas to win, it might be close. Definitely closer than last week against Florida International. Again, Burnt Orange Nation’s forum is the best place to visit if you like to follow Longhorn fan commentary, with an occasional troll.

UPDATE:  No, winning by 42-13 is not very close, but still closer than the 54-10 last week. Should nevertheless be respectable enough for the Top Ten. I got bored after the first half and stopping watching. I’m sure next week’s game with Arkansas will not be boring, because it is bound to be tougher. 

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Longhorns vs Owls

Posted on August 30, 2008 | Comments Off on Longhorns vs Owls

Not the Rice Owls, they come later in the season. But the Florida Atlantic University Owls, champs of the Sun Belt Conference in 2007. Should be interesting, this first game of the Horns’ season which starts at six local time. The Owls’ coach thinks the Horns are soft. He may be right; we’re going to find out. Game’s here in town, so we had to get pay-per-view, or go sit in the nosebleed section for the same price. Nicer at home. Looks like rain, anyhow. Burnt Orange Nation’s forum is a good way to follow it.

UPDATE:  Good Horns win at 52-10. Sure didn’t look soft to me, at over 500 yards of total offense. Colt is running better, passes better, too. Has good receivers in Shipley, Cosby, etc. Vondrell McGee running well. Could be an interesting season. Hope Charlie Tanner’s ankle is okay.

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Horns a question mark

Posted on July 30, 2008 | Comments Off on Horns a question mark

Oklahoma seems to be the favorite of the betting line, both to win the Big Twelve South this year and, less so, the Big Twelve itself. The Longhorns may not even be up in the pre-season Top Ten–which will be released soon The daily’s Kirk Bohl’s says what the Horns do this year depends on whether Coach Mack Brown keeps the growl he acquired before last season’s Holiday Bowl win. We might be able to bet on Burnt Orange Nation coming up with an optimistic prediction when they get around to it.

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Colt McCoy on the Amazon

Posted on June 12, 2008 | Comments Off on Colt McCoy on the Amazon

No, the Longhorns QB was not putting up books in bubblewrap for early shipment on free delivery.

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Sorry, Ced

Posted on June 10, 2008 | Comments Off on Sorry, Ced

Two alcohol-related arrests in five weeks for former Longhorns star running back Cedric Benson was too much for the Chicago Bears who cut him from the team today.

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Devil’s Hollow snares Benson

Posted on May 5, 2008 | Comments Off on Devil’s Hollow snares Benson

The Chicago Bears already were down on RB Cedric Benson for a pitiful average of 3.4 yards per carry–a product of chronic injuries since leaving Texas in 2005 as its only running back to gain a thousand yards in four consecutive seasons. Now his pro career is in doubt after his third arrest (but first pepper-spraying) since 2002. This time it was at Lake Travis’ hard-partyin’, drunk-on-the-water Devil’s Hollow (Cove)–charged with boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest.

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Col. E.M. House

Posted on April 29, 2008 | Comments Off on Col. E.M. House

There isn’t often cause these days to recall the time when men’s collars still turned up instead of down. Nor Edward House, of Galveston, who President Woodrow Wilson referred to as his "second personality." But it all came together this morning, for the old kingmaker of Texas gubernatorial politics, as workers began to cover the colonel’s old horse pasture with Astro Turf. It was the latest facelift for the field that, in 1937, became House Park, a celebrated Austin stadium for the Friday Night Lights of high school football.

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