Dan Hampton among 19 players and 3 coaches voted into College Football Hall of Fame Hampton was also the Southwest Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 1978. Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 8, 2024
‘UnderFrogs’ No More: TCU Football Now Owns the State of Texas Once a vagabond school wandering the country in search of a place to play big-time football, TCU is now the biggest and best show in the Lone Star State. Sports Illustrated · Jan 8, 2023
TCU’s first Black student-athlete is now immortalized on campus. Here’s his story. FORT WORTH, Texas — A bronze statue of a young Black man, his hand extending to the sky with a basketball, now prominently stands on the campus of Texas Christian University, immortalizing a Fort Worth native who’s a trailblazer on and off the basketball court. Tribune News Service · Nov 13, 2022
Vahe Gregorian: Disillusioning latest wave of college realignment no surprise but has no end in sight KANSAS CITY, Mo. — College athletics are careening towards chaos, if not already embroiled in it, with ever-churning conference realignment implications. And that’s entwined with the insatiable demand for profits and commercialism that obscure, if not outright mock, the educational mission. Tribune News Service · Jul 9, 2022
Mac Engel: UCLA and USC’s potential move to Big Ten aligns Pac-12 and Big 12 in Panic Conference FORT WORTH, Texas — What the SEC started in 1991 — when Arkansas left the Southwest Conference to join that league — has us here today in a world where conference realignment is more interesting than a conference game. Tribune News Service · Jul 1, 2022