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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]