Barking Carnival

I’ve never played a round of golf. I’ve never even played a hole of golf. I grew up literally two blocks from a public course, but I never set foot on it other than to fish and catch frogs in its pond. I don’t watch golf either. I don’t even read about golf.
But I [...]

Texas track and field signee Marquise Goodwin set the national high school record in the long jump on Saturday. He was competing in both the junior and senior long jump at the U.S. Championships. He won the junior event on his second jump, and then he passed on his final four attempts to rest for [...]

When we at Barking Carnival heard about Sergio Kindle’s accident, we immediately dispatched our staff photographer to the scene to get some pictures. In other words, I drove by this morning and took some pictures with my iphone before I got breakfast tacos.
The accident occurred at 2704 Rio Grande, and the apartment into which Kindle [...]

Here’s the initial report from the Statesman.
Police are looking for a driver who crashed into a West Campus apartment early Wednesday. There were no injuries.
Witnesses saw several people get out of a car that crashed into an apartment at 2704 Rio Grande St., police Cpl. Scott Perry said today.
The people who got out of the [...]

None were hotter.

Texas’ two biggest strengths coming into the College World Series were pitching and defense. They had carried a rather anemic offense throughout the year. If you had told me before the series started that Texas would hit fourteen homeruns, I would have told you that we would win it. I never would have guessed that [...]

Before pitching the deciding game against TCU in the super regional, Taylor Jungmann was asked about his nerves.
“Nerves? I don’t get nervous, man,” he said. Apparently not.
He’s been fantastic the whole series (6 pitches last night excluded), and he was brilliant last night. He stayed down and away against LSU’s lefthanders with his two [...]

After last season’s regional exit, Augie Garrido said, “It needs to be fixed. I know how to fix it.”
And he did. Texas is going back to the College World Series for the first time since winning the title in 2005. Seems so long ago, which is how it’s supposed to feel at a school [...]

Pitching, defense and the three runs off homers. That strategy worked perfectly for TCU yesterday, and they’ve now forced a winner take all game three tonight.
Whenever you make a mistake to one of TCU’s 2-3-4 hitters, they hit a home run. It’s really that simple. They’ve combined for 10 of TCU’s fourteen hits in the [...]

So CloseToJumping texts me during the 4th inning of the game. He’s in New York about to watch Rent for the umpteenth time, and he’s listening to the radio broadcast. While Craig Way has lost himself in mascot minutiae, Bill Little is calling out Augie Garrido’s small ball ‘critics.’ He went uncharacteristically silent after TCU [...]

The German army.
From TexasSports’ write up on the 14-10 victory:
Another two-run panzer attack by Army in the fourth ballooned the lead to 6-3.

Surprised they only got two runs out of it.

This game was surreal. It was an ordeal. Although I had over seven hours to think about it, I can’t really put into words what it was like watching a 25 inning baseball game. Just a couple of innings shy of a triple header. Texas went 22 straight scoreless innings. Twenty two. I just [...]

F will call. Let me just throw that out there. I had to wait 45 minutes before the game to pick up my tickets so I missed the first three innings. Texas Box Office apparently decided to have both people picking up tickets from will call and people purchasing tickets stand in the same lines. [...]

This time it’s former Colorado linebacker Lynn Katoa. Texas recruited Katoa, but he never actually made it to campus for an official visit. That’s too bad. For him.
He’s flunked out of Colorado, according to The Buffzone Blog’s Kyle Ringo, after needing to “apply himself, bear down and focus.” Instead he “did just the opposite.”

“If every [...]

Texas beat Missouri 12-7 yesterday to win the Big 12 tournament for the second straight year. And they could probably care less.
When Augie Garrido was asked to reflect on the title, he replied “I’ve already moved on.”
And Cameron Rupp let everyone know the difference between Texas and pretty much every other school out there. [...]

Texas beat A&M 5-4 yesterday to win the regular season championship.
After going 0-2-1 against Kansas State, Texas rallied to take 5 out of 6 from Baylor and Texas A&M.
This should give Texas a top eight national seed and guarantee that they will host a super regional.

The Texas baseball team beat A&M last night in 10 innings 11-9. The Aggies tied the game in the bottom of the eighth, and the potential winning run was thrown out at home on a controversial call.
An Aggie fan has placed video of the call on Youtube. It’s full of win.
First, t.u. Outstanding.
Second, the [...]

Get ready single women in Norman. Justin Chaisson is back on the market. After pleading no contest to two counts of false imprisonment, one count of conspiracy to commit coercion and one count of malicious destruction of property, Chaisson was sentenced to probation and will be enrolling at OU.
Come on. It’s not like he [...]

The Big 12 football coaches are meeting today in Phoenix to discuss conference tiebreaking procedures. Apparently there was some contention last year season over the current rule. Does anyone remember what happened? I really wasn’t paying attention.
The coaches are at some three day seminar sponsored by the Fiesta Bowl giving them all an excuse [...]