Kobe Bryant’s widow has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the pilot and owners of the helicopter that crashed last year, killing the NBA star, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.
By Tyler Pounds / Texas A&M Athletic Communications
Linda Cornelius, the first Texas A&M female student-athlete inducted into the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame, passed away after a battle with cancer. She most recently served as the Bryan Parks & Recreation and Facilities Director and was a member of the Texas A&M Lettermen’s Association Board of Directors as well.
The 11 university presidents and chancellors who oversee the College Football Playoff authorized a continued evaluation of a proposed 12-team playoff on Tuesday that, if eventually adopted, could still be another five years away.
Former Texas A&M head football coach R.C. Slocum, following out-patient tests at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, has been diagnosed with a form of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He will require chemotherapy and will undergo that at Scott and White Hospital in College Station in consultation with M.D. Anderson.
Waco High product Wil London III earned a spot in the men’s 4x400-meter relay pool, according to former Baylor head coach Clyde Hart, after advancing to the 400-meter final.
Buffalo Bills receiver Cole Beasley does not plan to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and insists he will not follow rules jointly adopted by the NFL and NFLPA requiring unvaccinated players to stay clear of people.
With just 10 weeks until the start of the 2021 high school football season, Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Managing Editor Greg Tepper talked with East Texas Sports.
The 45,000 sq. ft. basketball facility will have a full court and a half court for practice, office space, new men’s and women’s locker rooms, new training facility, a new weight room and coaches offices.
The commissioner’s office, responding to record strikeouts and a league batting average at a more than half-century low, said Tuesday that major and minor league umpires will start regular checks of all pitchers, even if opposing managers don’t request inspections.
Sam Houston outfielder Colton Cowser is the 2021 Southland Conference Baseball Student-Athlete of the Year, the league announced Tuesday along with the all-academic teams.
College athletes in Texas will soon be able to receive compensation from outside businesses that want to use their name, image or likeness under a new law.
The UIL will vote on Tuesday on a game changing basketball topic, the shot clock. States across America have been playing without a shot clock, with the exception of nine that have already tested it out. In May, the National Federation of State High School Associations announced that a 35-second shot clock will be permitted in 5A and 6A beginning in the 2022-23 school year.
Following competition at the 2021 Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Southland Conference student-athletes collected 32 all-America recognitions.
