Sam Khan Jr.
Senior Writer at The Athletic
✍🏽 Senior writer @TheAthletic 🏈 Covering CFB roster management + transfer portal 🤠 aka “the Texpert" 🌸 RIP @AschoffESPN 🔴 @UHouston alum 💰 #LongLiveTheSWC
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6 days ago |
nytimes.com | Sam Khan Jr.
Texas and Texas A&M's rivalry game will move to Black Friday this year, the schools announced Thursday. The Longhorns and Aggies, who last year renewed their more-than-century-old rivalry for the first time since 2011, will kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. CT on Friday, Nov. 28 in Austin.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Sam Khan Jr.
College football roster budgets have ballooned this offseason as teams prepare for a new era in which schools can compensate athletes directly. But could a championship team cost as much as $40 million? That's one high-end estimate of what Texas could be spending on its 2025 roster, according to a Houston Chronicle report from columnist Kirk Bohls.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Sam Khan Jr.
HOUSTON - After Texas had a school-record 12 players chosen in the 2025 NFL Draft, there's plenty of curiosity about who might fill the next Longhorns draft class and whether quarterback Arch Manning will be part of that group. Manning, the former No. 1 recruit, grandson of Archie Manning and nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning, will be the full-time starter for Texas for the first time this season.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Sam Khan Jr.
College football's spring transfer portal window officially closed Friday, but not without a flurry of activity leading into, during and at the end of the window. There was high drama at Tennessee, which led to what amounted to a quarterback trade, impact players making moves and hundreds of players entering the portal in hopes of finding a new home. Let's recap some of the notable storylines from a busy April.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Sam Khan Jr. |Chris Vannini
Outside of the Shedeur Sanders drama, one of the biggest stories of this year's NFL Draft was the slide of quarterback Quinn Ewers, the former highly-touted recruit who won big at Texas but ended up as a seventh-round pick by the Miami Dolphins. Ewers passed up a lot of money by opting to go pro, leading some to wonder whether it was the right call.
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