Texas Longhorns to announce $300 million deal with ESPN for Longhorn TV network

Texas officials have scheduled a news conference for this afternoon in Austin to announce a 20-year, $300 million agreement with ESPN to create a 24-hour network that will carry Longhorn sports programming and some non-athletics related content. Discussions have been ongoing for months and the ability for the school to create its own programming network proved pivotal in Texas’ decision to remain in the Big 12 last June, when conference rivals Colorado  and Nebraska announced plans to join other leagues, effective in the 2011-12 school year.
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Shooting revives debate over allowing guns on college campuses

AUSTIN – The University of Texas shooting stoked a simmering conflict Tuesday about allowing handguns on campus – an issue that's already roiled the governor's race and sent hundreds of students marching in protest last year. Gov. Rick Perry says he favors allowing guns at colleges, giving owners a chance to intervene. Police groups and others say that would only confuse what are potentially chaotic situations. Perry's Democratic challenger, Bill White, says state policymakers should stand down and let individual campuses decide.

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Police, alarms blunt UT gunman's rampage

Mulvaney, on the scene Tuesday morning, filed this report: AUSTIN – University of Texas junior Eric Gladstone was sitting in his 500-student organic chemistry class Tuesday morning when his cellphone buzzed with a text message – an urgent warning that a gunman was loose on campus. Looking around, he noticed others glancing at their cellphones and registering the same worry he was feeling.

The warning sent throughout campus by administrators was prompted by reports that a young man, clad in black, wearing a ski mask and wielding a semiautomatic AK-47, had fired shots as he entered the southern edge of campus. The gunman, 19-year-old UT student Colton Tooley, fatally shot himself after police chased him into a library. No one else was injured.
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