40 Acres Sports

Rangers promote Taylor Teagarden to Double-A Frisco. He was tearing up Class A pitching.

Texas is ESPN’s third best team of the last decade. Notre Dame at number 23? Yeah right.

Priest Holmes is coming back to the Chiefs. With Larry Johnson’s hold out, if Priest is healthy things could get interesting in Kansas City.

EA Sports’ NCAA Football 08 has been out for a couple of weeks now and the game is fantastic. This year’s version on the Xbox 360 is definitely a big step up from last year’s disappointing next gen appearance. The game isn’t perfect (excessive turnovers, bad ESPN integration, a few strange quirks in the menus) and I’ll have a review up after I’ve had more time to play, but so far my biggest issue is Jared Zabransky’s mug on the cover.

Don’t want someone who will soon be working in an autobody shop on the cover of your game? That’s where the site EA Custom Covers comes in. They’ve got high quality custom covers with your favorite players from all your favorite teams for whatever version of the game you own. Check out their Texas gallery including covers for Colt McCoy, Jamaal Charles, Limas Sweed, and Selvin Young. If you passed kindergarten it’s easy to print out the cover you want, cut it out, and replace the picture of the Boise State QB Sooner-killer with someone more deserving.

Prepare yourself for video greatness courtesy of Brian Cook over at The FanHouse, check out the Longhorns football recruiting video below from 1989:

Nothing inspires young men to greatness quite like Jefferson Starship. I don’t know how [tag]David McWilliams[/tag] and the Longhorns recruited by the video could ever lose a game. I think it’s clear now why the Longhorns dominated the nineties and McWilliams brought home two national titles to Austin. Oh wait…

If only they had chosen a more inspirational song the whole decade might have turned out differently. I think it’s clear Mack Brown must have much better taste in music. Thank God.

Dennis Dodd’s preseason top 25. Texas at number 8 seems about right, though I’m not as high on Michigan or Wisconsin.

Heisman Pundit rates Jamaal Charles as college football’s third fastest player. Charles is one of the best actual football players on the list.

Media picks Horns to win Big 12 South. Unless Mizzou or Nebraska turns it on this year looks like the North will be mediocre once again.

Maize n Brew’s misguided and misinformed preview of the Big XII isn’t particularly misguided or misinformed. Good writeup.

Chase Pittman signed with the Cleveland Browns. Best of luck to Chase, hope he can find a way to make the roster.