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3 weeks ago | 
statesman.com | Ryan Hopper
When patrons step into Planet K on Guadalupe Street, about a mile north of the University of Texas, it’s immediately clear what its primary business is. Shelves fixed against the store’s vibrant green walls are filled with a diverse array of consumable hemp products, most containing THC: gummies, vapes, infused beverages, smokable flowers, and accessories such as bongs, pipes and rolling papers.
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1 month ago | 
statesman.com | Ryan Hopper
Dozens of drag performers and University of Texas students gathered at Gregory Gymnasium Plaza on Monday for “Day of Drag,” an event protesting the UT System’s newly enacted drag performance ban. The board of regents implemented the ban in March, citing compliance with a January executive order by President Donald Trump and a subsequent directive from Gov.
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2 months ago | 
thedailytexan.com | Ryan Hopper
As many other programs hold their annual spring games, Texas has decided — for the first time in head coach Steve Sarkisian’s five-year tenure — not to do so. Typically, a program’s spring game is an intrasquad scrimmage held at the end of spring practice with free admission to the public. After the game, the team takes a roughly two-month break to prepare for summer practices. In its place will be Texas Football Fan Day, a series of events running from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in and around Darrell K.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Ryan Hopper
Smoke shops in Austin are seeing customers panic-buy consumable hemp products after two proposals in the Texas Legislature threaten to upend Texans' right to "puff, puff, pass" smokable and edible products containing low levels of THC. Senate Bill 3, authored by state Sen.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
statesman.com | Ryan Hopper
March Madness, the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, tipped off Thursday and Friday, respectively. The single-elimination tournaments, which each consist of 68 Division I teams, are not just tent pole events for the sport but for the rapidly expanding sports betting industry.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
thedailytexan.com | Ryan Hopper
The typically unflappable Joe Buck was tense ahead of game one of the 1996 World Series between the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees at the original Yankee Stadium. At just 27 years old, Buck was about to become the youngest broadcaster to ever call a World Series on television and the first to do so for Fox, which only began broadcasting sports two years prior. “That was my first real test as a national broadcaster,” Buck said.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Ryan Hopper
Flavored vape products, which the FDA banned five years ago amid an uptick in underage vaping, are continuing to be sold in shops across Central Texas. Although the Food and Drug Administration in 2020 banned all fruit and mint vape flavors, excluding menthol and tobacco, the sale of imported flavored products, almost exclusively from China, has continued across the country. In Austin, a random sampling of used and discarded vapes found that 98.9% came from the East Asian country.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
thedailytexan.com | Ryan Hopper |Sofia Estrada Ferrufino
Nota del editor: Este artículo fue publicado por primera vez el 2 de marzo por Ryan Hopper y traducido al español por Sofia Estrada Ferrufino. El Director de Texas Athletics, Chris Del Conte, abordó una serie de temas en el ayuntamiento anual en Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium el miércoles por la noche.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
thedailytexan.com | Ryan Hopper
Veteran defensive backs coach Duane Akina will return to Texas to replace Terry Joseph, according to Orangebloods.com. Akina served as an assistant head coach and co-defensive coordinator under former Texas head coach Mack Brown from 2001-2013. He spent the 2024 season at Arizona as the defensive coordinator but was demoted to defensive backs coach in January.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
alextimes.com | Ryan Hopper
The T.C. Williams Titans football team in a yearbook photo taken during the 1971-972 football season. (Photo/ACPS) By Ryan HopperAt the turn of the 1970s, Alexandria was effectively two different cities, separated socioeconomically but represented geographically. The line of demarcation? The rail line that runs through the city and once ended at a switching yard, now the Potomac Yard Shopping Center.
