croome's storiesQ&A with Von Miller
Friday, September 04, 2009
Von Miller and the new hybrid "jack" -- linebacker/defensive end -- position have taken up a good percentage of the talk surrounding the Aggies' spring and fall camps. The Aggies expect to surpass their sack total of 16 from last year with Miller fre ...full story
A&M hopeful for fresh startFriday, September 04, 2009
With every new season there is new hope, new optimism among players and supporters whether the team they support went 4-8, 6-6 or 9-3 in its previous campaign.An offseason with the strength coach, countless reps with the first team for the returnees ...full story
CROOME: Life in Aggies' position no funTuesday, July 28, 2009
IRVING -- Texas A&M football coach Mike Sherman found himself in the unenviable position of having to defend and explain the Aggies' past struggles Monday rather than discuss the possibilities of the upcoming season.In previous years that task ha ...full story
Croome: A story for the agesMonday, June 15, 2009
A few days before the NCAA Track & Field Championships, Texas A&M coach Pat Henry spoke highly of a 4x400 team that willed itself to victory."They won that because they have a great heart just to win that relay. That's it," Henry said. "These ...full story
CROOME: NCAA headed in right direction with golfTuesday, June 02, 2009
Texas A&M golf coach J.T. Higgins got his wish, then his dream came true.The wish was that college golf would move to a less-traditional, head-to-head format to decide a national champion.His dream was to win a national championship. I'm not sure ...full story
Pitching didn't live up to billingMonday, June 01, 2009
FORT WORTH -- Texas A&M's baseball team was given the preseason nod at No. 1 by Baseball America because of the depth of its pitching staff, specifically in its starting rotation.The Aggies are back home Monday putting up the equipment because of ...full story
NCAA Tennis RoundupTuesday, May 19, 2009
MEN'S BRACKETNo. 3 Ohio State 4, No. 7 UCLA 3Key match: Justin Kronauge fought through leg cramps to beat Harei Srugo 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 at the No. 3 line to decide the match. Kronauge broke at 5-4 thanks to two double faults, then won it on a point in wh ...full story
NCAA Tennis RoundupMonday, May 18, 2009
MEN'S BRACKETNo. 3 Ohio State 4, No. 6 Baylor 1Key matches: OSU rolled at Nos. 3 and 5, losing only three games total in the two matches. Justin Kronauge, ranked No. 25, beat unranked Julian Bey 6-1, 6-0, while No. 74 Balazs Novak beat Attila Bucko 6 ...full story
CROOME: Aggies need to finishMonday, February 16, 2009
Texas A&M's inability to finish has in all likelihood led to the end of its NCAA Tournament run.
After a 20-year absence, the Aggie men had been a part of arguably the most exciting few weeks in college athletics for three straight seasons.
If ...full story
CROOME: Improving A&M knows time is nowSaturday, February 07, 2009
A lot went right the last time the Texas A&M men's basketball team took the court, just not enough to beat the No. 2 team in the nation on the road.When A&M coach Mark Turgeon met with the press after Oklahoma pulled out a 77-71 victory Wedne ...full story
CROOME: Each game gaining importance for AgsSaturday, January 31, 2009
After taking a few steps toward the shallow end, the Texas A&M men's basketball team will try to tread in deeper waters again before its life preserver -- the softer part of the Big 12 schedule -- arrives.A&M gained some confidence and, more ...full story
Turgeon to try igniting Aggies with changeThursday, January 22, 2009
Texas A&M men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon hinted Wednesday at a change for the next game after the Aggies' slow starts in recent games. However, Turgeon would not elaborate too much about the possible changes with the Aggies going on the road ...full story
CROOME: Elonu getting praise he deservesSaturday, January 17, 2009
Chinemelu Elonu is one of those people who wants to be liked.He should be pretty content right now, because the 6-foot-10 junior is getting a whole bunch of love.Whether its from his teammates, his coaches, the media or Texas A&M basketball fans, ...full story
CROOME: Others step up for AggiesMonday, December 15, 2008
If we've learned anything about the Texas A&M men's basketball team in the first eight games, it's that there is no shortage of players confidently willing to pull the trigger with time winding down and the game on the line.It has to be one of th ...full story
CROOME: Aggie volleyball team came so closeTuesday, December 02, 2008
Two points.That's all it would have taken for Texas A&M to assure itself a berth in the NCAA volleyball tournament.Instead the Aggies are spending the first week of December on the outside looking in for the third consecutive season.A 15-13 loss ...full story
CROOME: Long season finally overFriday, November 28, 2008
AUSTIN -- It's appropriate that the Texas-Texas A&M game was moved to Thanksgiving for the first time in 15 years.The Aggies can now give thanks the season is over.It's been a drawn-out, rigorous three months. I can only imagine how the players f ...full story
CROOME: A&M's performance helps BaylorSunday, November 16, 2008
After each Baylor win, coach Art Briles signs the baseball cap he's wearing and throws it into the student section.On Saturday, it looked like A&M threw in the towel long before that.That may not be a totally true statement, because I don't want ...full story
There's a reason TV passed on this gameSaturday, November 15, 2008
For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, the Texas A&M football program is chasing the Baylor Bears.Not even in 2003, when the Aggies went 4-8 under first-year coach Dennis Franchione, were the Aggies looking up at the Bears.I know th ...full story
CROOME: Aggies certainly not ESPN material these daysSunday, November 09, 2008
While watching ESPN's College GameDay on Saturday morning, I couldn't help but think back to two years ago, almost to the day.Kyle Field was the backdrop for Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler's pregame show. The matchup between Texas A& ...full story
McGee's legacy starting against OklahomaSaturday, November 08, 2008
Stephen McGee took off down the sideline and was popped pretty good by Oklahoma's D.J. Wolfe. McGee bounced up immediately, got in the defensive back's face and an Aggie quarterback was born.On Saturday, that quarterback will have gone full circle, s ...full story
A&M looked strong during Fall World SeriesWednesday, November 05, 2008
Shane Minks pounced off the mound for a slow grounder on the third-base side of the infield. With no outs and runners on first and second, the play for Minks was to throw to third.But third baseman Jordan Chambless had vacated his position to field t ...full story
CROOME: Sherman's talk helps Aggies through rough watersSunday, November 02, 2008
Texas A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson says head coach Mike Sherman refers to boats during many of his speeches to the team.Mostly, it has to do with everyone being in the same one.Well, Sherman did some heavy bailing at halftime Saturday to keep t ...full story
Q&A with safety GreggSaturday, November 01, 2008
Senior safety Devin Gregg lost his starting job after injuring his leg the week before the season. He is healthy now but has yet to regain his spot. Until the Iowa State game, he had seen very little action for a player with 26 starts in a row enteri ...full story
CROOME: Aggie defense has trouble with basicsSunday, October 12, 2008
Will someone hit somebody, please?Even if it's late, hit somebody. Wait, that didn't help either, when Texas A&M's Garrick Williams' stop in the early going Saturday against Kansas State was negated by a roughing-the-passer penalty on Cyril Obizo ...full story
A&M-KSU Quarter-by-QuarterSunday, October 12, 2008
FIRST QUARTERBurning shirt: Freshman Randy Bullock kicked off to start the game. He had his redshirt pulled off because senior Richie Bean pulled a groin muscle Wednesday. Others starting their first game were Matt Moss for suspended Michael Bennett ...full story
Big 12's pass-happy teams to test A&M's fifth-ranked pass defenseSaturday, October 04, 2008
Now it's time for the real fun. I say real not because the first four games of the season didn't matter but because of this:In the next nine weeks, Texas A&M will line up against three teams in the top seven and one more in the Top 25. The other ...full story
CROOME: A&M-OSU soccer match should be funFriday, October 03, 2008
At times, watching a Texas A&M soccer game can be more frustrating than entertaining.Opposing teams, especially when they visit the Aggie Soccer Stadium, pack all 11 players behind the ball and hope for a favorable result. Favorable as in a 0-0 d ...full story
CROOME: Lane's effort one of few bright spots for AggiesSunday, September 28, 2008
And we all scoffed at Army coach Stan Brock for being concerned about Jorvorskie Lane."All you have to do is watch film on him and watch him run. I think it will be pretty self-explanatory when they get out there," Brock said when asked early in the ...full story
A&M can't be taking Army lightlySaturday, September 27, 2008
A couple of days after a discouraging loss to a Florida team, a Big 12 football coach stood behind the podium at his weekly press conference.Up next on the schedule was a game against a team his squad should have no trouble with even on a bad day.The ...full story
Kines still trying to fix defenseSunday, September 21, 2008
Texas A&M defensive coordinator Joe Kines might want to visit Lowe's or Home Depot on Sunday before the Aggies take a look at the film of the Miami game. On Monday, Kines described his defense as having "two bricks and a little mortar between tho ...full story
Aggies have a chance to get it right with MiamiSaturday, September 20, 2008
This week is an anniversary of sorts for Texas A&M. Only in this case, a celebration cake might be inappropriate -- unless it came with arsenic or, to be less graphic, one of those candles you can't blow out.A year ago this week, the A&M foot ...full story
Sherman runs a tight ship despite slow startSaturday, September 06, 2008
Aggie football fans may not have liked what they saw Saturday night at Kyle Field, but they should have been impressed with what followed on Monday at the weekly press conference.Not because there were promises of Texas A&M rebounding from an ugl ...full story
More questions than answersSunday, August 31, 2008
Whoa. Didn't see that coming.I didn't see it coming last spring. I didn't see it coming after the final scrimmage, and I definitely didn't see it after the Aggies' first drive on Saturday night.But there they were, the Arkansas State Red Wolves, the ...full story
CROOME: Rice makes habit of getting in A&M's wayMonday, June 09, 2008
HOUSTON -- The banner highlighting Rice's accolades over the past 13 years stretches the length of the batting cages at Reckling Park. It's hard to miss.
There aren't many gaps in the sequence of numbers that underline the three headers -- the ...full story
CROOME: A&M pitching doesn't deliverSunday, June 08, 2008
HOUSTON -- Six free passes, five runs.
There were more storylines to Saturday's Game 1 of the Super Regional between Rice and Texas A&M at Reckling Park, but for A&M's head coach, who is also a former pitching coach, none were more promi ...full story
A&M's Greene makes most of changeSaturday, June 07, 2008
Brodie Greene can tell his friends it took the Big 12 player of the year to beat him out of his starting position.
He can also tell them he's made the most of it.
Greene was penciled in as Texas A&M's starting shortstop for the 20 ...full story
Rice's righties vs. A&M's bats? We'll find outSaturday, June 07, 2008
Few words come from a coach who is asked to compare two opposing teams to each other, especially when one team is in the backyard and the other just down the street. And the few that come out usually amount to a politically correct response that most ...full story
Aggie men's basketball team gets oral commitmentThursday, June 05, 2008
Khris Middleton says he appreciated the honesty from Aggie men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon as much as he did the opportunity to attend Texas A&M.
Earlier this week, Middleton, a 6-foot-7, 205-pound senior-to-be at Porter Gaud High ...full story
A&M screams past Houston for regional titleTuesday, June 03, 2008
There was no dog pile this time around -- just plenty of hugs, a dousing of coach Rob Childress and plenty of talk about what's next.
Texas A&M advanced to a Super Regional at Rice University for the second straight season, defeating H ...full story
Houston pushes A&M to edge in CS RegionalMonday, June 02, 2008
The Houston Cougars had more than enough excuses had they lost Sunday night's College Station Regional game against Texas A&M.
But they had one big reason to win.
The Cougars, who were pounded 22-4 the night before by the Aggies, ...full story
A&M's 6 homers lead to blowout of HoustonSunday, June 01, 2008
Texas A&M has outscored its opponents 37-5 so far this weekend, and that's against the teams still alive in the College Station Regional.
The Aggies' 22-4 victory over Houston on Saturday night puts them in the enviable position of wai ...full story
Aggies open CS Regional with a bangSaturday, May 31, 2008
The Texas A&M Aggies' eight-game losing streak is now as far behind them as their 16-game Big 12 winning streak after the Aggies took care of business in their first game of the College Station Regional with a 15-1 victory over Illinois Chi ...full story
Anders takes lumps, delivers them for A&MFriday, May 30, 2008
Sometimes even a good boxer has to get hit before throwing a knockout punch.
Texas A&M's Luke Anders, a big target at 6-foot-6, consistently stands his ground while crowding the plate in the batter's box, and as a result, he's been hit ...full story
CS Regional has Texas flavorTuesday, May 27, 2008
Texas A&M not only will get to play in familiar surroundings, it'll be matched up against a couple of familiar teams in this weekend's College Station Regional at Olsen Field.
The Dallas Baptist Patriots return as the No. 2 seed after ...full story
Ags snap skid with win vs. Missouri in final Big 12 tourney gameSunday, May 25, 2008
OKLAHOMA CITY -- It wasn't that Texas A&M ended its eight-game losing streak but how the 10th-ranked Aggies did it that had them leaving Bricktown Ballpark with their heads up.
The Aggies got a first-rate pitching outing from starter B ...full story
Pollock, Krajicek pull off upset at NCAA tennis tourneySaturday, May 24, 2008
TULSA, Okla. -- If it's better to be lucky than good any day, what can happen when you combine the two?
You can beat the No. 1 team in the nation.
Texas A&M's duo of Conor Pollock and Austin Krajicek defeated Virginia's top-ranked ...full story
Aggies fall to Longhorns in eighth straight lossFriday, May 23, 2008
OKLAHOMA CITY -- After seven straight losses, Texas A&M coach Rob Childress shook up the lineup, but things got much worse before they got better for the 10th-ranked Aggies.
In the end, the result was an eighth-straight loss, this one ...full story
Aggie baseball team opens Big 12 tournament with seventh straight lossThursday, May 22, 2008
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Texas A&M may want to take a page out of Oklahoma's book if the Aggies want to turn things around before it's too late.
At 33-23-1 overall, the Sooners are playing every game to extend their season. They did it Sunday, ...full story
A&M's Pollock focused on resultsWednesday, May 21, 2008
Moments after defeating Baylor's eight-ranked Lars Poerschke 6-1, 7-6 in his final team match of the season, Texas A&M's Conor Pollock said he doesn't look at the rankings anymore.
Not his nor his opponents'.
"Once I reached my hi ...full story
CROOME: Postseason will be barometer for AggiesWednesday, May 21, 2008
"The glory is more glorious, but the time you spend in 'baseball hell' is hotter, too."
That from Texas Longhorn coach Augie Garrido, known to many who follow college baseball as the Zen Master, the game's equivalent to Los Angeles Lakers coach ...full story
The blame game
