Stoops, Brown: Pac-16 would have been good, but Big 12 still strong

IRVING – Texas coach Mack Brown and Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops both took their teams to the Rose Bowl during the last decade. Between the two, they took their teams to the Holiday Bowl five times. There were tense moments in early June when it looked as if Brown, Stoops and most everyone else in [...]

Big 12 media day notes: Tech QBs a rare sight

IRVING – Former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach had not taken a quarterback to Big 12 Conference media days in several years. Then Tuesday, Tech coach Tommy Tuberville showed up with two – Taylor Potts and Steven Sheffield. The seniors are competing to be the starter, and Tuberville said Tuesday was just another level of [...]

Tuberville at “perfect place” with job at Tech, in Big 12

IRVING – The state in which Tommy Tuberville grew up is now Southeastern Conference country, and Tuberville’s resume is noteworthy in large part for the SEC jobs he held. That he could have landed another SEC gig, perhaps just by waiting a few days, gives Tuberville no twinge of regret. Less than a week after [...]

Big 12 adjusts to Tech coaching change

IRVING – Tommy Tuberville got reprimanded by the Big 12 Conference even before he’s coached his first game in the league. Maybe it comes with his new job. If anyone was going to deviate from the talking points of the Big 12 – or dare to suggest the league had a shaky future, as Tuberville [...]

Selling Tech basketball, part 3: Texas Tech plans to draw crowds back to United Spirit Arena

Note: This is the final in a three-part series about attendance at Texas Tech men’s basketball games. The first story, which ran Sunday, can be read here. The second story, which ran Monday, can be read here. Jordan Kvanli rarely missed a men’s basketball game during his first semester at Texas Tech in spring 2004, [...]

Selling Tech basketball, part 2: Creative scheduling

Note: This is the second in a three-part series about attendance at Texas Tech men’s basketball games. The first part, which ran Sunday, can be read here. The third story will be published Tuesday. As the Texas Tech bus pulled up to the arena in Wichita, Kan., on Dec. 19, 2009, Darko Cohadarevic stood up [...]

Selling Tech basketball, part 1: PSLiminated

Note: This is the first in a three-part series about attendance at Texas Tech men’s basketball games. The second and third parts will run Monday and Tuesday in the A-J and on lubbockonline.com. Texas Tech was the No. 23-ranked team in the country and boasted its best record in six years when it closed the [...]

Former Tech QB Tolliver wins third Tahoe celebrity golf title

ASSOCIATED PRESS STATELINE, Nev. — Billy Joe Tolliver won his third title at the American Century Championship, setting a record with 84 points in the modified Stableford system at the celebrity tournament. The former NFL quarterback eagled the last hole at Edgewood Tahoe and had two birdies in his final round. He finished 19 points [...]

Baseball»

Losing last-place Nebraska and Colorado means little for Big 12 baseball (7)

Ritch Price was on a recruiting trip in Arizona last week, right in the heart of Arizona State baseball country, unsure of what the future held for Kansas baseball. Driving between fields to watch players compete, he turned to local sports talk radio, and, of course, the dominant topic was what seemed, at the time, [...]

Football»

Stoops, Brown: Pac-16 would have been good, but Big 12 still strong (22)

IRVING – Texas coach Mack Brown and Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops both took their teams to the Rose Bowl during the last decade. Between the two, they took their teams to the Holiday Bowl five times. There were tense moments in early June when it looked as if Brown, Stoops and most everyone else in [...]

Men's Basketball»

Selling Tech basketball, part 3: Texas Tech plans to draw crowds back to United Spirit Arena (71)

Note: This is the final in a three-part series about attendance at Texas Tech men’s basketball games. The first story, which ran Sunday, can be read here. The second story, which ran Monday, can be read here. Jordan Kvanli rarely missed a men’s basketball game during his first semester at Texas Tech in spring 2004, [...]

Women's Basketball»

Did Curry’s warning fall on deaf ears? (38)

Two weeks before Baylor star Brittney Griner threw the punch in Lubbock that went viral on the Internet, Texas Tech women’s basketball coach Kristy Curry warned the Big 12 Conference about concerns she had regarding Griner and the officiating crew. According to a string of e-mails obtained by the Avalanche-Journal through the Texas Public Information [...]

Big 12 Baseball/Softball Standings

  Conference Overall
Baseball W L W L
Texas 21 3 41 8
Texas Tech 12 9 26 22
Kansas State 11 9 32 15
Oklahoma 12 10 35 13
Kansas 10 10-1 25 19-1
Texas A&M 9 11-1 30 18-1
Oklahoma State 8 13 28 20
Baylor 7 12 25 20
Missouri 7 13 24 22
Nebraska 7 14 23 24
  Conference Overall
Softball W L W L
Texas 14 2 41 12
Oklahoma 13 3 40 10
Oklahoma State 12 6 43 13
Texas A&M 12 6 41 13
Missouri 11 7 44 10
Texas Tech 7 11 35 15
Nebraska 7 11 29 26
Baylor 6 12 27 24
Iowa State 4 14 26 28
Kansas 2 16 21 34

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