Tennis coach Petty has interim tag removed

BY JEFF WALKER l A-J SPORTS EDITOR
Todd Petty’s dream was to coach tennis at the Division I level. He received a taste of that during the 2008-09 season, but now he can whet his appetite.
Petty had the interim tag removed from his title on Thursday as Texas Tech officially named him the head coach of [...]

Leach shocked by Aggie outrage over draft comments

BY DON WILLIAMS l AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
Mike Leach signed his new contract two months ago and ended spring practice a week ago, yet the Texas Tech coach wandered into the headlines again this week in what’s supposed to be down time.
Leach said Wednesday he’s shocked that a comment he made about Texas A&M’s Stephen McGee stirred up [...]

Three Tech exes get minicamp invitations

BY DON WILLIAMS l AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
Former Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell, center Stephen Hamby and safety Daniel Charbonnet have accepted invitations to attend minicamps this weekend with NFL teams. However, none has any promises beyond that.
Harrell will leave Thursday for Cleveland, Hamby will leave Thursday for Washington, and Charbonnet will head out for Chicago.
“It’ll depend on [...]

Mercy rule completes Tigers’ sweep of Tech

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The final game of the series played out like the first two for Texas Tech.
Pitching faltered, hitting didn’t come up with enough and the Red Raiders suffered their first series sweep of the season, losing 15-2 at Missouri.
The game was stopped in the seventh inning due to the Big 12 Conference mercy [...]

Lady Raiders finish tied for 11th in Big 12

By Jeff Walker | A-J SPORTS EDITOR
With conditions arguably the worst they’ve been in the three-day tournament, the Texas Tech women’s golf team had their best day.
The Lady Raiders finished tied for 11th at the Big 12 Women’s Championship at the Rawls Course, but in terms of scores, Tech was in the middle of [...]

Cowboys make 12 picks on second day of NFL draft

By David Jimenez | ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
IRVING – There were no big-time players taken with high picks and no huge trades that made a big splash. It seemed like a pretty uneventful weekend for the Dallas Cowboys, who have a reputation for free-wheeling ways during the NFL draft.
Things were far from [...]

NFL draft has changed since Cavazos’ time

I can’t say for sure; I didn’t happen to be watching at that very moment. But I’m assuming when Southern Cal linebacker Clay Matthews went 26th overall in the NFL draft Saturday that Matthews’ highlights promptly went up on the TV screen, a panel of experts babbled about his strengths and weaknesses and how well [...]

Chargers land Vasquez, Cowboys take Williams

Tech up one spot at Big 12 Championship

By Don Williams | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
The last two years, the Texas Tech women’s golf team has finished at or near the top of the regular-season tournaments it’s hosted. This weekend, the Lady Raiders have languished at or near the bottom of the Big 12 Championship at the Rawls Course.
Tech moved up from [...]

Big inning dooms Red Raiders again

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Another big inning by the Missouri offense spelled doom for the Texas Tech baseball team once again.
The Tigers scored six runs in the bottom of the second inning off Tech starter AJ Ramos, and the Red Raiders could never recover as Missouri clinched the Big 12 Conference series with a 9-5 victory [...]