University of Texas NCAA News

For the first time really since 2009, the Texas Longhorns know who their starters will be in the spring.

When Colt McCoy was entering his third season as Longhorns QB in 2008, he had a viceA grip hold on the Texas locker room.

The Texas Longhorns will officially welcome 15 new players as part of their 2013 recruiting class in just a few weeks, although several from the group enrolled early and have already been through a semester on campus.

In a 4-2-5 defense, one of the most important positions is the nickel back. In 2013, Texas will once again have their best defensive back at the position.

Former Leander Lion and Texas Longhorn Blake Gideon is hanging it up. After his UT career, the safety was signed as a free agent by Arizona last year.

It's never too early to look ahead to the 2013 college football season, especially for a University of Colorado program that has a new coach, Mike MacIntyre, anxious to begin the rebuilding process after the program went just 4-21 under Jon Embree, including a disastrous 1-11 last fall.

He's the head coach of the men's basketball team for the most recognizable university in the state of Texas which just so happens to have one of the richest athletic departments in the country.

Canadian Myck Kabongo is the seemingly typical 6'2 180 lb college point guard. Small, quick and likely destined to be a second round draft pick despite his skill level.

Vince Young says heading back to school to get his degree was the best thing he did at Texas.

With their second-string point guard slated to become a free agent and their third-string point guard possessing an unguaranteed contract, Orlando Magic officials already have met with some potential backcourt replacements during the 2013 NBA Draft Combine.

Recruiting busts always snag the headlines and infuriate the fanbase. Though it is the unexpected booms that should get the attention, and the Texas Longhorns will have their fair share of them from their 2013 class.

Texas Longhorns head coach Mack Brown and safety Kenny Vaccaro and running back D.J. Monroe react after defeating the Oregon State Beavers in the Alamo Bowl at the Alamodome.

Longhorns guard Julien Lewis informed the school he intends to transfer, becoming the fourth player this offseason to leave the program before completing his eligibility.

In a little more than two months, the Texas basketball program, which this past season failed to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in 15 years, has lost its top three scorers, all of whom were underclassmen.

Texas guard Julien Lewis has been granted his release and will become the third player to leave the Longhorns since they finished a disappointing season 16-18 and missed the NCAA tournament for the first time in 15 years.

Last season, the Texas Longhorns suffered quite a bit on the defensive side of the football, as did most of the Big 12.

Breaunna Addison, the first-semester freshman out of Boca Raton, Fla., has just stepped onto the University of Texas's campus, but she has already achieved an elite level of success in her first semester of collegiate tennis.

New Orleans Saints safety Kenny Vaccaro is measured by NFL scouts during his pro timing day at Texas in late March.

The Texas Longhorns return the most experienced quarterback in the Big Twelve and have 19 returning starters from last season.

The spring evaluation period has produced plenty of new targets for the Texas Longhorns and a handful of new offers, including one that went out on Friday evening to Dallas Skyline defensive end Victor Evans.