The Texas softball team was ranked 18th in the USAToday/NFCA Preseason poll and 19th in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Preseason poll. Defending champion Arizona State topped both
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Softball team picked 18th, 19th in nation
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Blake Gideon heard the preseason whispers. All of the Longhorns did. The talk Texas was shaky at cornerback was hard to ignore.
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Corners Byndom, Diggs have turned a Horns question mark into a strength
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The two Longhorns sophomores were named to the preseason All-America squad coming off the heels of stellar freshmen campaigns.
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Knebel and Weiss named to NCBWA Preseason All-America team
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1. Texas A&M had to put a halt this week in what surely will be a year-long celebration of its move to the SEC in order to learn how the league goes about its business. The school sent its top athletic administrators to the SEC office in Birmingham on Tuesday to learn how the league does things, from reading through its by-laws to addressing how the league pays its officials. The mundane always follows the excitement. 2. You could tell when Oregon corner Cliff Harris, a 2010 All-American, returned to the lineup after his preseason suspension that something had gone awry. Harris didn’t resemble the ballhawk and kick returner who a year ago had been a threat to score every time he stepped onto the field. On Monday, Kelly suspended Harris again after his arrest again during a traffic stop. Harris needs to have a discussion with himself about how important football — and a free college education — is to him. 3. Speaking of unfulfilled potential, three’s USC sophomore tailback Dillon Baxter . Before the 2010 season — before Baxter had played a down — Trojans coach Lane Kiffin used Baxter’s name and the Heisman Trophy in the same sentence. On Tuesday, Kiffin announced that Baxter no longer was on the team, but that he would remain enrolled in school. He has rushed 68 times for 281 yards and one touchdown. When you hear coaches talk about recruiting character instead of characters, this is why.
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3-point stance: Learning a new league
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Texas junior guard J’Covan Brown was also selected to the preseason All- Big 12 team, as he will be expected to carry a much heavier load… Source: Focus Daily News
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Duncanville alum names Big 12 player of the year
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For only the second time in the last seven years, Oklahoma and Texas arrive at their annual showdown in Dallas with unblemished records. The Sooners (4-0) have slipped two spots from their preseason… Source: FOX Sports
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Oklahoma takes on Texas in Red River
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Freshman Cassie Peoples shares the Big 12’s top freshmen honor in a vote of the league head coaches; sophomore Chassidy Fussell tabbed Preseason All-Big 12 Team.
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Peoples named Big 12 Women’s Basketball Preseason Co-Freshmen of the Year
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After one week of games, we’ve figured out exactly where every Big Ten team is going bowling. (Insert guffaw here). Sure, we’re still doing a lot of speculating and projecting here, but it’s fun to do. We didn’t see a whole lot in Week 1 that changed our minds about our preseason bowl picks, except we erased Purdue as an at-large bowl team. Not that the 1-0 Boilermakers can’t win at least five more, but we want to see a little more evidence that they’re capable of that. On to our ridiculously early bowl picks: Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO: Wisconsin vs. BCS team Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: Nebraska vs. BCS team Capital One Bowl: Ohio State vs. SEC team Outback Bowl: Iowa vs. SEC team Gator Bowl: Penn State vs. SEC team Insight Bowl: Michigan State vs. Big 12 team Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas: Michigan vs. Big 12 team TicketCity Bowl: Illinois vs. Big 12 team Little Caesars Pizza Bowl: Northwestern vs. MAC team
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As promised, the freshmen were everywhere. Texas coach Mack Brown talked about this freshman class being special during the preseason, and it appears the Longhorn coaching staff can pat itself on the back for a good job evaluating.
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UT football: As promised, freshmen were everywhere
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Texas A&M made its intention clear on Wednesday. It plans to leave the Big 12 , presumably for the SEC. Gray But even as those rumors and whispers turned to hard news, the focus is still the same on the field for the Aggies. “I don’t really know too much about it,” running back Cyrus Gray told ESPN.com on Wednesday, just hours after the university made its big announcement. “I hear stuff here and there, and I know as a team and as players, we’re not really concerned about that. I think our main goal and main concern right now is SMU.” Gray says he didn’t know much about it for one reason. He hasn’t been following it. “Not at all. Not close at all. I don’t think it’s that important right now,” Gray said. “I’m a senior. I’ve got one more year here and I’m trying to make it count and play with the parts we have here.” That’s not hard when the team’s real leader, coach Mike Sherman, isn’t talking about it and makes sure, as he’s said several times this preseason, the only three letters on his team’s mind are “S-M-U.” “He’s so motivating and always just worrying about the next opponent. SMU has been his main concern since Day 1. He doesn’t talk about anything else, we just talk about winning and what we’re going to do to prepare for these guys. That’s been the most important thing right now on campus,” Gray said. ”Our main thing is SMU, and that’s the main thing everybody’s riled up about around here.”
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Gray: SEC move no concern to players
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