The Texas men's basketball team impresses in the classroom as well as on the hardwood: Three players were named to the Academic All-Big 12 first team, more than any other school, and one was named to the second team.

Summary: Come to Texas, make a lot of $.

The two brothers will spend more time together this spring. Jaxon graduated from Brownwood in December. However, instead of enrolling at Texas this semester and getting a head start with the Longhorns in spring drills, he decided to spend time training and learning from his brother.

"Who wouldn't want to train from an NFL receiver," Jaxon said. "You're trying to get as much as information as you can from him and learn from him. We'll be doing a lot of training together, fishing and just hanging out."

Nice article. Can't wait to see him in burnt orange.

After leading the Cleveland Browns to victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday, Colt McCoy is nominated for the NFL's Rookie of the Week.

Kevin Durant (again) proves he is awesome.

Cool interactive graphic from the Statesman on how Colt's career record compares to Greene, Manning, Young, Applewhite and Simms.

Good read on the Brownwood vs. Graham high school game featuring Jaxon Shipley vs. Case McCoy. Another round of "McCoy to his roommate, Shipley, for a touchdown" in a few years??

A fight at a pickup basketball game at Gregory leads to an assault arrest warrant. Seriously?

From article: "We’re disappointed for Brandon and Christian that they won’t be able to play this season, but they will continue to practice with the team and work towards earning their degrees, which is the ultimate goal," Brown said. "They both have two years of eligibility remaining so they’ll help us in practice this year and then get back to competing for playing time in the spring."

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Bumped. As has been said several times here, Harris needed to show clear separation to make the case over Gilbert. Would be good to see the competition battle stay hot, regardless. No word yet on the severity of Harris' injury. --PB--

Here's hoping he gets that extra $650,000.

... except this time, as part of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Ridiculous column by Dave Sittler of the Tulsa World, blaming the Longhorns' "slap" and "slug" of Blake Griffin for the Sooners not making it to the championship: "If the Longhorns didn't slap Griffin twice in the face and then slug the nation's best player in the jaw on Feb. 23, the Sooners could easily have been in Monday night's NCAA national championship game."

Kirk Bohls of the American-Statesman on recruiting and how Coach Brown is "breaking new ground in a field that he has long tilled. He wasn't dubbed Coach February for nothing."

Colt and Chase Daniel catch up.

Let's do it.