collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com - 12/30/2008
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In accordance with NCAA rules, Texas coach Mack Brown declined Monday to comment about Lufkin defensive tackle Jamarkus McFarland, who committed to Oklahoma at 12:01 a.m. on Christmas day.
But the New York Times story that detailed the recruiting struggle between the Sooner and Texas was ...
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totalprosports.com - 12/30/2008
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totalprosports.com —
It has been nice to see the Rice
Owls finally enjoy some success this year, although they...
will not have the warmest climate that Texas has ever enjoyed they are still glad to be in a bowl game. After many years of futility the Owls have really come together under second year head coach
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Texas Bowl: Preview and Prediction
burntorangenation.com - 1/5/2009
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burntorangenation.com —
Odds are this post won't look good Tuesday
morning, but let's have some fun anyway. Weigh in...
on any or all of the questions with your own takes in the comment section. 1. How well will Texas contain wildebeast Beanie Wells? I spent a ton of ...
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Five Fiesta Bowl Questions And Predictions
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Mack Brown Calls Out Thayer Evans
Burnt Orange Nation —
Mack Brown Calls Out Thayer Evans
"One-sided stories normally usually don't make it when sources aren't checked on the other side," Brown said. "The story has absolutely no credibility with me because the writer did the same thing exactly last year and it's obvious ...
NYT Acknowledges Furor, Immediately Makes it Worse
Burnt Orange Nation —
... This sidebar report lifted from the DMN's Texas blog is being published today in the sports section of the New York Times. It essentially says that Mack Brown denies any recruiting improprieties in the wake of losing JMac to OU. Um, ok. Unbelievably, there is absolutely no mention of the Thayer Evans article that engendered the need for this article. So here's the logic within this sidebar report: "Texas did not get a recruit and as a result, Mack Brown says his program's recruiting practices are clean." That makes no internal sense. No one reading ...
Reporters Notebooks
The Wiz of Odds —
... Chuck Carlton, Dallas Morning News: Texas' Mack Brown was critical of a New York Times story on the recruitment of defensive tackle Jamarkus McFarland, who committed to Oklahoma over the Longhorns. Brown said the author, Thayer Evans, "has an agenda, in my mind, against Texas." Evans responded, "The article ...
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