HOUSTON – Two of the last four World Series champions play in Texas, and this summer they are chasing October together. The Houston Astros and Texas Rangers are running side by side in the American League West, one of the tightest division races in baseball. The one thing neither team’s fans can do is legally … Read more
AUSTIN – Almost every conversation about gambling in Texas circles back to the Legislature and the next opening for lawmakers to approve casinos or sports betting when the session resumes in 2027. Yet the official with the most day-to-day sway over gambling before then will be chosen this fall, and the Texas attorney general race … Read more
AUSTIN – For roughly three weeks last winter, something Texas had shut off for over a decade quietly worked again: a resident could bet a horse race from a phone. Texas online horse betting came back in early February, when the advance-deposit operator TwinSpires reopened to bettors around the state. The window closed by month’s … Read more
HITCHCOCK, Texas – The city of Hitchcock has lost its bid to claw back $721,408 that Galveston County drew out of a municipal bank account, after a federal judge ruled that two limbs of the same state government cannot take their constitutional grievances to federal court against each other. The result leaves the disputed funds … Read more
A Lubbock judge is set to decide within days whether Brendan Sorsby suits up for Texas Tech this season, after the quarterback admitted to a four-year, $90,000 betting habit that touched his own former team.