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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.

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

Tarell Brown persevered through tragedy and injury. Lots of positive articles on TB coming out of San Francisco.

Selvin Young hopes to impress in Broncos minicamp. Needs to perform on special teams to make sure he makes the team.

Roy Williams back in Austin for youth football camp. Wants Chris Simms in Detroit and calls his UT career disappointing.

Retire No. 10, NOW! Kevin Durant isn’t the only Longhorn who should have their number retired.

The Austin American-Statesman is reporting that the Longhorns will retire Kevin Durant’s #35 jersey. Durant only spent one season as a Longhorn but he put up one of the best single season’s in college basketball history for a freshman. Durant set numerous Big 12 records on his way to becoming the first freshman to ever win the Adolph Rupp Trophy, the Naismith Award, or the Wooden Award.

There’s some question among Texas fans whether one year on campus is enough to receive this exclusive honor. Coach Rick Barnes believes Durant deserves the honor. “Kevin meets the same criteria as T.J. (Ford),” Barnes said. “He was national player of the year.” Though Durant didn’t lead the Horns to an NCAA championship, he put a young team on his back and took them a lot further than most Texas fans were expecting when the season began.

Durant will be only the fourth Longhorn in any sport to have his number retired, joining Heisman winners Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams, Roger Clemens, and fellow Naismith winner T.J. Ford.

So what do you think? Should one incredible season be enough to have your jersey retired?

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Sonics set to hire P.J. Carlesimo as new head coach. Seattle is definitely trying to become Spurs Northwest.

Earl Campbell has paid a toll for his hard running style. Earl is still representing UT well and the university is taking care of him.

Titans looking for ways to get FB Ahmard Hall more involved in the offense. I bet Hall had more carries per game last year than he had in his UT career.