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Garret Langlois explains how he dove into the exciting discovery that beavers had returned to the Llano Estacado after thousands of years.

From the First Four to the Final Four, the women's NCAA Tournament captivates sports fans for more than three weeks every year.

Mark Adams and Texas Tech University have reached a $4.1 settlement after the coach resigned after a controversial Bible reference he used toward a player.

The school said head coach Mark Adams had encouraged a player "to be more receptive to coaching and referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters."

Texas Tech men's basketball coach Mark Adams resigned on Wednesday following controversy over a biblical remark he made toward a player.

Texas Tech suspended the men’s basketball coach after Adams used “unacceptable and racially insensitive” language with a player.

Texas Tech has suspended coach Mark Adams over “an inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive comment” he made to a player.

Texas native and Red Raider graduate Arielle Ash led the first-ever all-female flyover at the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin said he's not sure a Texas Tech player uttered a slur against one of his but it "would obviously be a giant issue." Both players are Black.

Three area high school football players made their commitments to Division I schools official on Wednesday.

The big picture is laid out before No. 4 TCU, and the Horned Frogs have everything to play for.

Colt McCoy, a former Texas Longhorn quarterback great and current backup with the Arizona Cardinals, paid off a debt this week after losing a bet on the outcome of the Texas-Texas Tech football game last Saturday.

Texas Tech was fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the Big 12 Conference because fans stormed the field following an overtime victory against rival Texas. A video of the celebration shows one of those fans shoving a Longhorns player.

Texas Tech linebacker Bryce Ramirez has undergone a second surgery on his broken left leg and will remain hospitalized a few more days after sustaining the gruesome injury in a game against North Carolina State.

A jury has convicted a 25-year-old man of capital murder in the killing of former Texas Tech basketball star Andre Emmett.

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi unveiled its 2022-23 women's basketball schedule on Thursday.

With the Cowboys' wide receiving corps battling injuries to stay on the field, T.J. Vasher is making the most of the opportunity and turning heads at training camp.

How UT sparked the chain reaction that killed traditional rivalries and created a college sports landscape dominated by super conferences.

Less than two weeks after entering the transfer portal after a season at USC, Calallen graduate Ty Buchanan, announced he will transfer to Texas Tech.

Mike Krzyzewski would pass famed UCLA coach John Wooden for most Final Four appearances if No. 2 seed Duke can beat fourth-seeded Arkansas in the West Region final in San Francisco.

There are two Texas teams left in the NCAA March Madness tournament: Houston in the South...

Last season’s NCAA Tournament ultimately unfolded in familiar fashion.

Kansas earned a No. 1 seed for the 15th time on Sunday, second only to North Carolina for most in college hoops history, and will open the NCAA Tournament in the Midwest Region against the play-in winner between Texas Southern and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in Fort Worth, Texas.

Ochai Agbaji scored a career-high 37 points to help No. 5 Kansas avenge its only conference loss of the season with a 94-91 double overtime win over No. 13 Texas Tech. Agbaji outdueled Bryson Williams, who poured in 33 points for Tech. Kansas led by one in the second overtime when Williams banked in a 3-pointer.

The project first began attracting media attention around October 1976, at which time Robert Bruno said he hoped to be finished by 1980.

Students, many of whom go on to work in food science, train by spending as much time as possible in a meat locker studying beef carcasses.

Just when it seemed like the Texas football program had hit rock bottom, out came the shovels and the figurative hole was dug further.

LA JOYA — La Joya High senior left-handed pitcher JC Gutierrez realized a childhood dream by signing a national letter of intent to play college baseball at Texas Tech on Wednesday afternoon at La Joya High School. Texas Tech is a Division I school, in Lubbock, which competes in the Big 12 Conference. He helped lead La Joya to the District 31-6A championship last season with a 16-0 record during district competition. Texas Tech completed the 2021 season with a 39-17 overall record and 14-10 mark in Big 12 competition. Gutierrez thanked his family, travel ball coaches and the La Joya High coaching staff for helping him earn the opportunity to continue his athletic and academic career at the next level.

Texas Tech has named Baylor assistant and longtime Texas high school coach Joey McGuire as its next head coach.

Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley made a quarterback switch that put a Heisman Trophy hopeful on the bench and a freshman at the helm of a top-10 team.

Andrew Body helped Texas Southern top Southern, as Baylor and TCU each won Big 12 games on Saturday.

Huddle up! Here’s a look back at this weekend on the gridiron, with three key takeaways from the state’s football scene.

Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist and evangelical Christian, has written a book that lays out strategies for discussing the climate crisis in a divided country.

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley department of intercollegiate athletics announced Thursday that it will host the inaugural UTRGV South Padre Island Battle on the Beach, featuring men’s basketball games between UTRGV and Northern Arizona as well as Texas Tech and Incarnate Word on Nov. 20 at the SPI Convention Centre.

Texas Tech and Oklahoma State map out scenario where they join Pac-12 as a package deal.

It’s my craft and I like to perfect it and I’m always trying to improve,” Gutierrez said. Gutierrez attributed La Joya’s perfect district record and trip to the regional quarterfinals to team chemistry, which has been building for several seasons. Faced with a postseason play-in game against Mission High with the winner clinching District 30-6A’s final seed in 2019, La Joya handed the ball to its freshman. He’s always been a hard worker and dedicated,” La Joya head coach Mario Flores said. He takes it upon himself to improve and listens and is very coachable.”Gutierrez and a solid incoming senior class at La Joya High are focused on defending their district title.

Former San Antonio Wagner basketball standout and Texas Tech guard Kevin McCullar Jr. has quickly made a name for himself on the court for the Red Raider basketball team, and now for the first time, he’s using his name to open up endorsement opportunities and give back to the community.

For just the second time in school history, and the first time since facing Texas Tech inside Bobcat Stadium on Sept. 8, 2012, Texas State will host a Big 12 opponent.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] Sports San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

With only TCU's Trevon Moehrig projected to go in the first round, Thursday's draft won't bring much home-state pride to fans.

(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)The Latest on the first round of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern):___6:50 p.m.Another first-round upset as 12th-seeded Oregon State defeated No. 9 seed Georgia Tech 71-60 on Friday to mark a triumphant return to the NCAA Tournament. Senior guard Bubba Parham, who is 5-10, got the start instead as Georgia Tech went with a guard-heavy look. AdIllinois will face eighth-seeded Loyola Chicago or ninth-seeded Georgia Tech in the second round of the Midwest Regional on Sunday. Ad___2:10 p.m.Players from several NCAA Tournament teams took a knee during the playing of the national anthem before their first-round games.

NHL games scheduled for Monday and Tuesday between the Dallas Stars and Nashville Predators had already been scrapped. The shuffling of pro events came amid adjustments for several men's and women's college basketball games in Texas because of frigid temperatures and icy conditions for traveling. 12 Texas men's visit to ninth-ranked Oklahoma has been moved back a day to Thursday after originally getting bumped from Tuesday to Wednesday because of the weather. Two other women’s games scheduled for Wednesday had also been called off: Texas at TCU and Texas Tech at Oklahoma. The American Athletic Conference men's game between Tulane and SMU in Dallas scheduled for Wednesday was postponed, with no makeup date announced.

Now their first scheduled game with Houston has been added to the postponement list. ___The Big 12 has announced the reschedule dates for nine women’s basketball games postponed this season because of COVID-19 protocols. ___The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Thursday that Louisville's men's basketball game at Virginia Tech scheduled for Saturday has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. Ad___Saturday’s men's basketball game between Texas A&M and Florida has been postponed due to COVID-19. It's the third straight Florida men's game affected by the coronavirus.

Michigan took advantage of Villanova's loss at St. John's to jump into the top three, Ohio State climbed three spots to No. The Jayhawks began their Top 25 streak on Feb. 2, 2009, when freshman guard Bryce Thompson was 6 years old. “We have plenty of games to go win and I know this team can do it,” Kansas guard Christian Braun said. 15, followed by Tennessee, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Creighton and Southern California. The Bruins dropped out, along with Kansas, Florida and Drake, whose 18-0 start was spoiled in a 74-57 loss to Valparaiso.

Baylor head coach Scott Drew watches from the sideline during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. 15 Texas Tech 68-60 on Saturday in their closest game this season. Mac McClung had 24 points for Texas Tech, while Kevin McCullar had 10 points and 10 rebounds. Texas Tech led 45-44 after Marcus Santos-Silva made a free throw with 7:14 left. Texas Tech missed a chance for its highest ranking this season (that was 13th last month).

Texas Tech won 79-77. 15 Texas Tech rallied to beat No. “I've got a lot of confidence in Mac,” Texas Tech coach Chris Beard said. Texas Tech has roughed up the Longhorns in recent years with six wins in seven matchups, including three in a row in Austin. After drawing an offensive foul on Texas Tech with 45 seconds left, Texas had the ball and the lead.

Former Texas Tech women’s basketball coach Marlene Stollings, who was fired after USA Today published a report detailing players' claims of physical and emotional abuse, has filed a lawsuit against the school and athletic director Kirby Hocutt. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Lubbock, Texas, claims breach of contract, fraud, fraudulent inducement, defamation and sex discrimination. It said Texas Tech and Hocutt “regularly, and in this instance in particular,” penalized female coaches for employing the “same demanding and effective coaching techniques” that male coaches used without consequence. That’s exactly what I did at Texas Tech, and in return the university and Kirby Hocutt have treated me shamefully and dishonorably," Stollings said. Texas Tech finished 18-11 in Stollings’ second season after going 7-23 the year before she arrived.

LUBBOCK, Texas Texas Tech will eliminate 40 positions from its athletic department and reduce the salary of many remaining employees in the face of an expected $25 million reduction in revenue over the next year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The cuts announced by the department Monday night, the final day of the fiscal year for the department, are expected to save Texas Tech roughly $4.5 million. Employees with annual salaries of $30,000 or more will see reductions of 3% to 14% in pay, while those making less than that won't have their salaries reduced. COVID-19 has had a major financial impact on our athletics department, and it was necessary to make these very difficult decisions. The athletic department took in about $95 million in revenue for the fiscal year that ended Monday, but is projecting about $70 million in revenue over the next year.

Texas Tech women's basketball players have accused Stollings and her staff of fostering a culture of abuse that led to an exodus from the program, according to a report published Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, in USA Today. (AP Photo/Rod Aydelotte, File)LUBBOCK, Texas – Texas Tech women's basketball players have accused coach Marlene Stollings and her staff of fostering a culture of abuse that led to an exodus from the program, according to a report published Wednesday. DeGrate played two seasons at Texas Tech after transferring from Louisville. Texas Tech finished 18-11 in Stollings’ second season after going 7-23 the year before she arrived. “We know change is difficult and that has been no different at Texas Tech,” Stollings said.

See the list of impacted schools below:Arkansas StateSeven athletes from three of the school's sports programs tested positive in early June. Florida State UniversityAt least one Florida State football player tested positive for the virus, a spokesman for the program told CNN Tuesday. Texas TechThe Texas Tech athletic department on Monday confirmed recent positive tests for Covid-19 within the men's basketball program. University of AlabamaSeveral University of Alabama football players tested positive for coronavirus in early June, according to multiple reports including Sports Illustrated and AL.com. University of Central FloridaOf the 60 football players that returned to the University of Central Florida's campus, three tested positive for coronavirus.

SAN ANTONIO Brandon Beckel made his commitment to attend Texas Tech last June after receiving attention at the area code tryouts a showcase for top prep talent with MLB scouts and NCAA coaches in attendance. Although Beckels senior season was cut short, he was still able to compile impressive numbers: 63 strikeouts and 10 hits allowed in 29 innings. His junior year he was a 1st Team All-District Selection and an All-State Honorable Mention.

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21 Oklahoma State included a different element of the junior quarterback's game. After the game, Sanders sat in a stadium tunnel, left hand to his forehead, as he answered questions from the media. "We had to show the world, like, we can play defense at Texas Tech," Coleman said. Oklahoma State is 0 for 2 in the Lone Star State this season, having lost 36-30 at Texas on Sept. 21. Texas Tech visits Baylor next Saturday, its first trip to Waco since 2007.

LUBBOCK, Texas - LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Alan Bowman and the Texas Tech offense got off to a fast start under new coach Matt Wells. Bowman completed 40 of 55 passes for 436 yards with two touchdowns, and ran for another score late, as Texas Tech beat FCS team Montana State 45-10 in its season opener Saturday. Texas Tech piled up 691 total yards in its first game with offensive coordinator David Yost and an up-tempo scheme. ANOTHER CHANCEWhite had a chance to get into the end zone for Texas Tech much earlier than his 45-yard TD catch in the fourth quarter. Texas Tech is home again next Saturday to play UTEP.

The UTSA Roadrunners defense will face a huge challenge when they host the undefeated Arizona State Sun Devils who are coming off a 68-55 shootout with Texas Tech.

Texas Tech's Mad Genius Scott Pelley profiles Mike Leach, head coach of Texas Tech's Red Raiders. Leach made up for a lack of money and talent by creating an offense that's changing the way college football is played.