Growing up in the hills of Monterrey, Mexico, Pedro and Carlos Luna were surrounded by soccer. 
Clad in the gold and blue of Tigres UANL, the brothers relished trips to the Estadio Universitario to watch their chosen club. They played the sport when they could — and even when they couldn’t, by way of a makeshift ball fashioned out of the lid of a mayonnaise jar for those indoor recess days when a ball was nowhere to be found. 
But nothing matched the excitement of the FIFA World Cup: Pedro can s...

Four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, George Washington, Oscar the Grouch and a banana walk into Reed Arena.
It’s not the start to the weirdest “walks into a bar” joke ever conceived. This one is real.
All seven characters are a few of the costume-clad students who have been popping up in the crowds of Texas A&M athletic events — and elsewhere on campus and social media — over the past several months.
So what possessed these figures to ditch the standard maroon and white for their own menagerie of...

After Texas A&M baseball’s win over Florida sent the Aggies to their first Men’s College World Series Championship Series in program history, junior SS Ali Camarillo couldn’t brag about the Aggie crowd during his interview with NCAA Baseball — they were still just too dang loud. 
“Game one, opening day, 12th Man is real,” Camarillo said. “And they’ve stuck from game one to [the] championship series.”
If Camarillo thinks that crowd was intense, just wait for the championship series against Tennes...

As soon as the Mexico-Brazil soccer match at Kyle Field was announced, Jacob Svetz and Caitlin Falke saw an opportunity. 
The match was scheduled for June 8, the same day as the Super Regional round of the NCAA baseball tournament. And with Texas A&M already in the top five of the national polls, the pair of Aggie grads each had their eyes on a doubleheader unlike any other.
“It was never a consideration of one or the other,” Svetz said. “It was ‘If we can do both, we are going to do both.’”
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They come from all walks of life. Some, like Penn student manager Jake Federman, want a career in sports analytics, but know they couldn’t cut it as a player. Others, like Illinois State manager Nathan Purcell, played college basketball at a lower level but couldn’t resist the chance to see a Division I program up close. 
But they all have one thing in common: They are crazy enough about basketball to take on the tough, tedious, sometimes downright miserable jobs nobody wants in order to have a...

When A&M Consolidated boys soccer head coach Jarrod Southern named then-sophomore backup goalkeeper Ross Versari a team captain at the end of last season, it wasn’t because of what he saw on the pitch — it was what he saw off of it.“When it was so easy for him to be upset or pout because he wasn’t playing, he did the opposite and became a real leader.” Southern said. “He motivated the other goalkeeper, motivated the other players, and was a constant source of encouragement for his teammates.”The...