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Really starting to feel like Game 6 is a must-win for the Heat. How will Texas Tech use its Big 12 payout? Don Williams of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal asked around. Good story from Jeremy Fowler on how Mike Gundy dug up Mike Yurcich as his ne...

If you've been without an internet connection since Alabama clinched the SEC's seventh consecutive national title in January, you might not have noticed a bit of saber-rattling on the part of Big 12 coaches. Bob Stoops started the parade by trumpe...

Each week this spring, GigEmNation reporter Sam Khan Jr. will bring you notes/nuggets from watching and visiting with high school football prospects in the Greater Houston area that week. He will include observations of Texas A&M commitments and ...

Just hours after three-star offensive lineman Robert Castaneda (Round Rock, Texas/Round Rock) decommitted from Kansas State, he was ready to make his next move official. Castaneda committed to Texas Tech on Saturday afternoon after attending the R...

Blog | June 15, 2013

One look at safety Payton Hendrix (Dallas/Bishop Dunne) makes college coaches want to instantly inquire. He's 6-foot-3, 187 pounds and plays with a punisher's mindset in the secondary. Hendrix and Bishop Dunne are in the middle of 7-on-7 season, but ...

Blog | June 14, 2013

Thanks for all the emails this week, everybody. Here's where you can reach me if you've got more to say. Doug in Philadelphia writes: Now the Alamo Bowl get the first pick of Big 12 teams not going to the playoffs to play a Pac-12 team? What happe...

Finally went to Pecan Lodge on Thursday. It was magical. Good story from Randy Peterson of the Des Moines Register on Iowa State's Wally and Shane Burnham's ability to mix family and football. Clark Kent in the the new Man of Steel movie is a K...

HOUSTON - Katy (Texas) High School 2016 safety Collin Wilder is rare in that he started games on Katy's varsity as a freshman. According to head coach Gary Joseph, only two Tigers in the last 31 years have done that and one of them is Wilder's teamma...

Blog | June 14, 2013

Phil Steele is continuing his march through the top 15 units at each position group across the country, and took a look at the nation's best wide receivers and running backs for the 2013 season . As you might expect, the Big 12 was well represent...

People always forget how icy the Zack-Slater relationship was in the beginning. Texas Tech is looking into recruiting violations possibly committed by alum Wes Welker. Berry Tramel of The Oklahoman compares the new Big 12 bowl lineup to the old...

Recruiting is the lifeblood of every program in the country, and every conference has its strengths and weaknesses when it comes to landing top prospects. In the start of a weeklong series, we'll examine the BCS conferences plus Notre Dame to find ea...

Blog | June 13, 2013

Incoming freshmen have started arriving at Big 12 campuses for the summer, taking part in offseason strength and conditioning programs as well as 7-on-7 work with teammates, an especially important exercise for spread offenses popular in the Big 12. ...

The best. A lack of experience is Iowa State's biggest hurdle this time around. The sting of losing Louisville got worse with the baseball team booking a ticket to the College World Series, writes Berry Tramel of The Oklahoman. Kliff Kingsbur...

Oklahoma State had better be careful. Look for an emphasis from Mike Gundy's staff on graduation and grades in the year to come, or it could mean a postseason ban in 2014. The NCAA recently introduced the Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores, and f...

Dubai! ... DUBAI! Has Bob Stoops taken Oklahoma as far as he can? Matt Hayes of Sporting News talked to a lot of folks about that idea and Stoops' legacy at Oklahoma, and his recent efforts to get the Sooners over the top. Missed this over the ...

You never know who will break out in their first year in the league. Last season, we saw a true freshman in TCU's Devonte Fields capture the league's Defensive Player of the Year Award, and plenty of other freshmen, redshirt freshmen and juco transfe...