Big 12 well-represented in first regular-season poll

After going 11-1 to start the college football season – the best opening performance for the league in its 15-year history – the Big 12 Conference had three top-10 teams in the first regular-season poll released by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Texa…

Newest Red Raider weighs in on freshman guard

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I have a nice chat on Saturday with Hershey Robinson, Texas Tech’s newest basketball commit. Robinson is a former prep school teammate of Tech freshman Javarez Willis and talked to me a little…

Zuvanich: Big 12 had good start in some ways, not others

The Big 12 Conference can claim to have had its most successful start to a college football season. Eleven of the league’s teams won their opening games last week, with Kansas’ 6-3 loss to FCS member North Dakota State being the only blemish — and what a blemish it was. In every other season since [...]

Comedy hour with the new coach

After Texas Tech’s first Monday press conference last week, I mentioned that head coach Tommy Tuberville was not as entertaining as his predecessor. Mike Leach had a knack for keeping the press corps in stitches, whereas Tuberville was strictly busines…

Tech leads SMU 35-17 after three quarters

Tech leads SMU 35-17 after three quarters. Lyle Leong had a career day, setting personal bests for receptions and receiving yards in a single game. Taylor Potts was 22-of-33 passing for 226 yards and three touchdowns in the first half. Tech rushed 14 times for 40 yards. Cody Davis led the Tech defense with four [...]

Tech basketball sweetens its recruiting class

As a kid, Hershey Robinson was teased for his sweet-sounding name. As a teenager, he found the silver lining. “Now all the girls like it,” he said. All the coaches like Robinson, too. The small forward from Louisiana committed to Texas Tech on Saturday, joining Estacado point guard Kevin Wagner in the 2011 recruiting class. [...]

Tech preseason special — OSU quarterback came from pro baseball

At 26 years old, Oklahoma State’s Brandon Weeden will take over the starting quarterback job this season. The junior from Santa Fe was the first player chosen in the 2002 Major League Baseball draft by the New York Yankees in the second round. Weeden was a member of the New York-Penn League (Class A) All-Star [...]