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Texas fired basketball coach Chris Beard on Thursday while he faces a felony domestic family violence charge stemming from a Dec. 12 incident involving his fiancée.

Cleburne will soon be the home of a new division of a baseball league that hopes to make the town a hub for a fresh take on the sport.

The latest surge in COVID-19 cases has upended postseason plans for a number of college football programs in Texas.

Sonny Dykes spent the past four seasons at SMU before his return to the other side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The son of former Texas Tech coach Spike Dykes had been considered a top candidate for the Frogs job since Gary Patterson and TCU mutually agreed Oct. 31 to part ways with four games left in the season.

Regardless of why SMU and TCU couldn’t find a way to pull off the 100th meeting between the Dallas-Fort Worth rivals last season, it’s happening a year later.

The ruling is the culmination of a five-year investigation undertaken by the NCAA following the eruption of the sexual assault scandal at the Christian university in Waco, Texas, in 2016.

The court ruled that NCAA rules are not reasonably necessary to distinguish between college and professional sports. Still, the ruling could be potentially transformative.

The commercialization of big-time college sports has led to questions about whether the players are employees or student athletes.

The NCAA said hosting a tournament across 13 U.S. cities "would be very difficult to execute." Talks are underway to try to hold all 67 games of the tournament in Indianapolis in March and April.

Colleges and universities across Texas moved to online and hybrid courses for safety reasons when COVID-19 hit. Now, many students wonder why they're still paying the same in-person tuition prices.

The Big Ten said its Council of Presidents and Chancellors voted unanimously Tuesday to restart sports.

With the first day of school fast approaching, athletics officials at major Texas universities are moving forward with a fall football season, planning to…