Good morning. I’m introducing a new series intended to take a look at each team in the new Big 12. I’m not sure how many I’ll get done each week, but the only way for me to really know about these teams is to actually do the research so I can be relatively informed when the season hits. So I spent time doing the research this weekend. There are links to everything below so if there isn’t a link, then I didn’t write it, but I always link back to the originator of the content. I wanted to take a quick look at the team: get a feel for the best players; look into their portal class consisted and h ..read more

Spencer and Michael are joined by Keith Patrick of Dinger Derby and Red Raider Dugout to recap the baseball season, look around the regional matchups, and go through the fries and wings sauces in the Restaurant Sauce Breakdown ..read more

JT Toppin is a 6’9″ forward who played his first year at New Mexico and committed and signed to Texas Tech on Tuesday. Toppin averaged 12.4 points per game, making 62% of his shots from the floor, 9.1 rebounds, 0.6 assists, 1.9 blocks, and 1.1 steals a game in just 26 minutes a game. In looking at Toppin’s advanced stats, his biggest weaknesses are his assist rate, just 4.2 and free throws, making 56% overall. The strengths are exactly what you think, high block rate, low turnover rate, high rebound rates, high effective field goal percentage, and high offensive rating, simply because he ..read more

Tough as Nails This has nothing to do with football, so if you’re just interested in football, skip this part. In Gloucester, England, the annual Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake contest is held and Abby Lampe, from NC State has won the women’s division two years in a row. I don’t know that I’ve seen a tougher woman just have zero regard for her body to get a cheese roll. Just tremendous toughness. US woman Abby Lampe WINS Women’s Cheese Rolling race for a second time. Abby, from North Carolina, rolled to victory in the wacky annual event held on Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire today ..read more

Good morning. I’m introducing a new series intended to take a look at each team in the new Big 12. I’m not sure how many I’ll get done each week, but the only way for me to really know about these teams is to actually do the research so I can be relatively informed when the season hits. So I spent time doing the research this weekend. There are links to everything below so if there isn’t a link, then I didn’t write it, but I always link back to the originator of the content. I wanted to take a quick look at the team: get a feel for the best players; look into their portal class consisted and h ..read more

On the Gridiron 100 days as of yesterday. On the Course Texas Tech golf is in Carlsbad, California as part of the Men’s NCAA Golf Championship, competing against 30 teams. Texas Tech is the 8th best team going into the tournament. On the Diamond Texas Tech baseball continues to stay alive, beating Cincinnati 10-5 yesterday and will play Oklahoma State (yet again) today at 4:00 p.m. On the Court Lubbock Avalanche Journal’s Nathan Giese wrote about Grant McCasland’s desire to continue to add size with the last 3 spots available: With 10 slotted scholarships accounted for, Texas Tech has three ..read more

Good morning. I’m introducing a new series intended to take a look at each team in the new Big 12. I’m not sure how many I’ll get done each week, but the only way for me to really know about these teams is to actually do the research so I can be relatively informed when the season hits. So I spent time doing the research this weekend. There are links to everything below so if there isn’t a link, then I didn’t write it, but I always link back to the originator of the content. I wanted to take a quick look at the team: get a feel for the best players; look into their portal class consisted and h ..read more

Spencer and Michael breakdown the recent roster additions to the football and basketball teams, live react to Game 1 of the Big 12 baseball tournament for the Red Raiders, and break down the Mexican regional in their Restaurant Sauce Breakdown, all with special guest Rob Breaux ..read more

NCAA Settlement Yahoo’s Ross Dellinger reports that the Big 12 has signed the $2.8 billion settlement, but there are issues with how the settlement is being divided: The industry, on the brink of authorizing a landmark settlement of three consolidated antitrust cases, is fighting amongst itself over how to fund the deal’s $2.8 billion in damages owed to former athletes for use of their name, image and likeness (NIL). In a framework approved Tuesday by the Division I Board of Directors, the NCAA will fund 41% of the damages ($1.1 billion) while the schools will fund 60% ($1.65 billion) over a 1 ..read more

Texas Tech received a commitment from 4-star point guard Christian Anderson, Jr. (6-1/160) from Oak Hill Academy, Mouth of Wilson, Virginia. Anderson was originally committed to Michigan, but when Michigan let Juwan Howard go as head coach, Anderson opened up his commitment (Rivals | 24/7 Sports | On3 | ESPN). I’m committed to Texas Tech Wreck’empic.twitter.com/9gHLLjVpRs — Christian Anderson Jr. (@chrisanders2024) May 20, 2024 I think this was relatively known by people in the know, but not known by me because I’m not in the know. The reason I think this is because Red Raider Sports had 3 c ..read more