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Texas A&M Looks to History to Take the Next Step

Nate Kotisso — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:01:21 +0000

The year 1893 gives us the first known record of then-Texas A&M College’s Glee Club, originally made up of nine students and faculty from the college. As the club entered the 20th century, membership grew modestly from the original nine to a club of 21. They also began traveling across Texas and the United States trying their luck at singing competitions. (There is no record of success from said competitions.) In 1908, the director of the club left the college and involvement started to fizzle out. Two years later the college decided to hire Frank D. Steger for the task [...]

Right on Cue, Gillispie’s Defenders Tell The Other Side of the Story

dnspewak — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:30:57 +0000

Danny Spewak is a Big 12 microsite staffer and an RTC correspondent. You can follow him on Twitter @dspewak.

Three days ago, the loss of Billy Gillispie‘s employment at Texas Tech seemed like a formality. On the heels of a series of articles from a local Lubbock newspaper, ESPN.com and CBS Sports — in which former and current players said he violated NCAA practice regulations and forced a player with a stress fracture to run stairs — it seemed he’d probably never coach college basketball again, especially in light of his “second chance” following the whole Kentucky fiasco. On Friday, I defended [...]

ATB: Black Friday for Louisville

rtmsf — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:56:28 +0000

11.23.07

Game of the Day. BYU 78, #6 Louisville 76. Due to familial obligations, we didn’t get to see this game tonight, so chime in if you did, but the result here didn’t shock us. On Wed. night we caught a good portion of the Cards’ game with UNLV, and even though they ended up winning by 20, it was an ugly performance. BYU is significantly better than UNLV, and the tournament site of Las Vegas, while culturally a million miles away from Provo, is still [...]

06.18.07 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:41:57 +0000

With the draft withdrawal deadline looming…

Should I stay… Cal’s DeVon Hardin, Marquette’s Dominic James, Nevada’s Marcelus Kemp, Illinois’ Shaun Pruitt, Texas A&M’s Joseph Jones and GW’s Maureece Rice will stick around another year to play for free. Or should I go? Georgetown’s Jeff Green, Georgia Tech’s Thaddeus Young, Nevada’s Ramon Sessions, Oklahoma State’s JamesOn Curry have all decided to keep their names in the draft. In case you missed it, Florida guard Brandon Powell was arrested last week. We thought this was kinda cool: Kareem‘s commencement speech at UCLA last weekend.

Oden Even More of a Beast than Originally Thought

rtmsf — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:15:55 +0000

Somewhat lost amidst all the Billy Donovan and Lebron talk in the hoops world this weekend were reports from the NBA’s predraft camp, coincidentally also held in Orlando. We’ll get to who helped and hurt themselves in a minute, but we have to first mention that Greg Oden is apparently a gazelle trapped in a seven-footer’s body. Consider this report from the Portland Oregonian:

Oden is faster than Durant in the 3/4-court sprint, quicker in the lane-agility drill, and has better numbers in the running and standing vertical leaps. And, Oden has a mind-boggling 7.8 body-fat percentage … most big men are north [...]

04.25.07 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:27:45 +0000

Guess none of these guys got the memo that this is the deepest draft in years… Georgia Tech’s Javaris Crittenton going pro but will not hire an agent. Despite early reports to the contrary, Brandon Rush is still undecided about leaving Kansas for the NBA. His frontcourt teammate, Darrell Arthur, is apparently staying for his sophomore year. Clemson’s James Mays also will test the waters. Who are these guys? Texas A&M’s Joseph Jones also declares. This is a hoax, right? 7’3 Jason Bennett of Kansas St., who averaged 1.9 ppg last year, is going pro. Finally, some sanity. Luc Richard Mbah a [...]