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Texas QB outlook for 2021: Who will replace Sam Ehlinger? Quarterbacks Casey Thompson and Hudson Card will duke it out for the starting job this offseason. FILE - Texas quarterback Casey Thompson (8) scrambles for a first down as hes chased by defensive lineman DAndre Christmas-Giles (55) during the Orange and White spring game at Darrel K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday, April, 13, 2019, in Austin.(Rodolfo Gonzalez / The Dallas Morning News) Casey Thompson has found himself in yet ano...

Hookem Texas disappointing 2020 season ultimately led to the termination of head coach Tom Herman, who was replaced by Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian. Herman was hired before the 2017 season as an offensive guru with limited head coaching experience. Herman was tasked with fixing the program, but he failed. And that failure was felt on the recruiting trail in the 2021 cycle way before athletic director Chris Del Conte terminated his contract.  Texas 2021 class ranked 17th in the...

February 8, 2021 I’ve been thinking a lot, lately, about the example of Ciaran Carson, the Irish poet born in 1948, who wrote (like the rest of his generation from the North) in the immediate shadows of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, and who died in October 2019. I got to know Ciaran just a bit in 2013 when I was on a Fulbright to the Seamus Heaney Centre, which Ciaran had come to direct after many years as a freelance journalist, prose writer, translator, and poet. He was wry and dry-hum...

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The Godfather On If He Received Heat For Missing His Cue At WrestleMania VIII Charles Wright is best known as The Godfather in WWE but he’s had a plethora of gimmicks throughout his career. He’s been known as The Goodfather, Kama, Kama Mustafa and his first extended WWE run came as Papa Shango in the early 90s. Papa Shango was a unique, ghoulish character that was a voodoo practitioner. Wright talked about that early gimmick when he joined the Scheduled for Two Falls podcast. “I wish, loo...

Photo courtesy of Brooke Matson. Brooke Matson is a Spokane-based poet and book artist whose latest collection, In Accelerated Silence , explores the intersections of Big Science (think astrophysics) and Big Feeling (think grief and resilience). Both philosophical and grounded in the elements and the body, these poems read like missives from a starry night, when the body feels alive and the mind contemplative. Hum by Jamaal May: Maybe because I read it on my first writing residency, May’s f...

Hookem Texas added a final piece to the 2021 recruiting puzzle a day after national signing day when quarterback Cole Lourd, who will start his career at Texas as a walk-on, picked the Longhorns over a dozen other offers. The 6-2, 190-pound three-star hails from the Brentwood School in Los Angeles, Calif.  He’s the 51st pro-style quarterback in the country, according to the 247Sports composite. California didn’t play high school football in 2020 due to COVID-19 protocol in the state.  He...

Talented Dallas-area offensive tackle Austin Uke spurned the Texas Longhorns for the Stanford Cardinal on National Signing Day, handing Steve Sarkisian his first defeat of the day

Charles Wright became an icon of 1990s wrestling as the Godfather, but he was in talks with WCW before that and discussed the situation on the Scheduled For Two Falls podcast. You can see some highlights from the discussion below, along with the full audio: Godfather on reports he was in talks with Eric Bischoff to to go to WCW and join the nWo: “First of all, I never talked to Eric Bischoff, so Eric Bischoff had nothing — I don’t know where that came from … It was Jim Herd and somebod...

What Is The Longhorns Dream Class Scenario For 2021? With just days left in the 2021 recruiting cycle, what is the best-case scenario for the Longhorns to fill the final spots in their class? Author: Feb 1, 2021 With college footballs National Signing Day just days away, Steve Sarkisian and the Texas Longhorns are in the midst of wrapping up the 2021 recruiting cycle.  Following a lackluster year on the trail, the Longhorns currently rank 18th in SIs recruiting rankings, sitting behind histori...