Photo Credit: UTRGV Athletics Sometimes the team answers you. Not at a press conference. Not by explaining what went wrong. Not by telling everybody outside the building that everything is fine. Sometimes they just show you. That’s what UTRGV did Saturday night. After Nicholls, there were real questions. The offensive line. The run game. The running back rotation. Pressure that wasn’t always getting finished. A quarterback getting loose and turning broken plays into first dow

Tony Diaz gave Iowa State 95 yards worth of reasons to remember it. Jimmy Rogers called him Nate during the week. 95 yards later, we’re pretty sure he knows Tony now. Eight catches. 95 yards. Twelve targets. And one 56-yard shot that changed the temperature in Iowa’s 16-13 win over Iowa State. Iowa was down 10-0. The Cyclones were making the run game work for everything. Iowa needed something. No. 14 gave them something. Kirk Ferentz came back to that play again Tuesday. “Tha

Before McNeese ever played a game this season, Matt Viator said something that hits a little different now: “We look much more like a football team is supposed to look.” Three games in? Yeah. You can see what he meant. McNeese is 1-2, but if you’re just staring at the record, you’re not really watching the football. The Cowboys just dropped 495 yards on No. 4 Tarleton and pushed that thing all the way to a 24-yard field goal as time expired. They can run it. They can throw it

Photo Credit: UTRGV Athletics The score is old news. The words aren’t. We already did the recap. We know UTRGV lost 31-28. We know about the comeback. We know about the penalties, turnovers and quarterback debate. Monday Receipts ain’t here to run Saturday back. This is where DITV grabs what Travis Bush said before kickoff, what he said after the smoke cleared, and puts those words next to what actually showed up on the field. Not to catch Coach slipping. Not to act like we’r

UTRGV men’s cross country made progress last season. The Vaqueros finished fifth at the Southland Conference Championships, their best conference finish in five years, with five runners setting personal bests. Now two of their top three finishers from that race are gone. Who replaces those points? Saturday’s UIW Invitational gave us our first look — and the first Vaquero across the line was a freshman. Brock Morales led UTRGV in his collegiate debut, finishing 26th in approxi

UTRGV women’s cross country entered 2026 with something to build on. The Vaqueros finished third at the Southland Conference Championships last fall, their best conference finish in 15 years, and were picked third again in this year’s preseason poll. Then came the season opener. Kailey Salazar and Mia Picazo immediately gave us something to talk about. Salazar produced one of the fastest 5Ks in program history, while Picazo made a significant jump from where she started last

Tracking Valley players carrying the 956 into college football. Somebody in the Valley remembers these kids before the offers, before the college graphics and before signing day. They remember the little kid at the barbecue with a football in his hands, the rides to practice, the summer heat, the Friday nights and the work it took to get there. Now those same kids are in college football programs all over the country. That’s what DITV wants to celebrate — not just where they

Diaz had national media talking. Smith Flores earned the start. Noland got into the rotation. DITV checks what all three former Vaqueros did in Week 1 — and what we’re watching today. Tony Diaz. Ismael Smith Flores. Xayvion Noland. Different schools. Different roles. Same roots. DITV is keeping tabs on all three. Every week, we’re checking the numbers, game reports and coverage to see what these former Vaqueros are actually doing at the FBS level. Not just whether they played

UTRGV men’s tennis has been close. Twice. The Vaqueros have finished second in the Southland Conference in each of the last two seasons. Now, as UTRGV opens its fall schedule at the Islander Open in Corpus Christi, the question isn’t whether this program can compete near the top of the conference. We already know it can. The question is whether this group can take the next step. Head coach Nathan Robinson returns seven players and adds four newcomers to an 11-man roster. Ther

There might not be a UTRGV team with more to figure out this fall than women’s tennis. The Vaqueros return experience, including a player who went 8-1 in Southland Conference singles last season. But they also welcome five new players to a 10-player roster, including a transfer who finished her freshman season on an 18-match winning streak. Five returners. Five new faces. Starting Friday at the Islander Open in Corpus Christi, we get our first look at how it all fits together

Corey Holmes leads UTRGV in receiving. Broderick Taylor is averaging more than 12 yards a carry. Aidan Jakobsohn is taking snaps at quarterback. Jaydon Smith is stretching the field, and Christian Sabsook is in the rotation. None of them came from Houston, Dallas or San Antonio. They came down Highway 77. That’s why Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend shouldn’t feel like just another recruiting stop for UTRGV anymore. The 361 should start feeling like part of the backyard. UT

UTRGV men’s golf already proved it can win. Now the Vaqueros have to prove they can keep winning after losing the player at the center of their breakthrough. UTRGV enters the 2026-27 season as the defending Southland Conference champion after beating UIW by one stroke last April. That championship sent the Vaqueros to the first NCAA Regional in program history. Four golfers from that NCAA Regional lineup are back. The one who isn’t is a pretty big loss. Jorge Martin Sampedro

Join us every Wednesday and Sunday night at 8pm to discuss 956 sports. “This decision needs to come Monday.” That was our take Sunday night on DITV. And we weren’t talking to an empty room. At one point, 180 people were watching live at the same time, with the chat moving while we argued quarterback, running backs, the defense, Corey Holmes and what changes now that Southland play is here. That’s exactly what we want DITV to become. The Valley’s only live sports talk show on

UTSA 45, UTRGV 16 Let’s start where everybody is going to start: 45-16 is 45-16. UTSA won the football game, and UTSA was the better team Saturday. We don’t need to dress that up, turn it into a moral victory or pretend the scoreboard doesn’t matter. But if you watched all four quarters instead of checking the final score and moving on, there was a lot more happening underneath it. UTRGV finished with 422 yards, 22 first downs, ran 81 offensive plays and held the football for

UTRGV women’s golf already answered one big question. Yes, the Vaqueros can win the Southland Conference. Now comes the more interesting one: What do they do next? UTRGV opens the 2026-27 season Monday at the Bear Brawl in Greeley, Colorado, just a few months removed from a historic season. The Vaqueros won the Southland Conference Championship by one stroke over Houston Christian and earned the program’s first trip to an NCAA Regional. And instead of starting over, UTRGV bri

UTRGV Football is only one season old, but some of the talent that helped build Year One is already showing up on some pretty big FBS stages. Tony Diaz. Ismael Smith Flores. Xavyion Noland. Three of UTRGV’s biggest offensive weapons from 2025 transferred up this offseason, and all three begin their new chapters Saturday. Together, they combined for 125 receptions, 1,950 receiving yards and 24 touchdowns last season. Diaz led UTRGV with 68 catches, 875 yards and 11 scores. Nol

By Diamond DITV | Fan Perspective Five games into the season, UTRGV women’s soccer is 3-2. But the record doesn’t tell the whole story. The Vaqueros opened the season with back-to-back losses and were outscored 6-1. Since then? Three straight wins. Three straight shutouts. A 6-0 scoring advantage. And maybe most importantly, this team looks different. We were there for the season opener against Texas Southern. UTRGV had plenty of the ball and created opportunities, outshootin

Photo Credit: UTRGV Athletics Two quarterbacks dealt. The receivers got loose. The defense gave up 13 rushing yards. And The Vack reminded everybody that football in the 956 is getting real. We spent part of the week talking about the gap. Division II to FCS. How big is it really? Could a really good DII team hang around with an FCS team into the fourth quarter? UTRGV gave its answer Saturday night. Not here. Not tonight. The Vaqueros didn’t just beat UT Permian Basin 44-0 in

By Diamond DITV | Fan Perspective It’s only two games. We know. But there’s already something interesting happening with UTRGV men’s soccer. The Vaqueros are 1-0-1 to start the 2026 season, and the record might not even be the most encouraging part. It’s how they’ve gotten there. UTRGV has fallen behind three times. UTRGV has answered three times. That’s not a bad identity to start building for a team with 16 newcomers and only nine returners. The Vaqueros opened with a 3-2 r

By Diamond DITV | Fan Perspective If you’re a UTRGV baseball fan looking for something to feel good about in the middle of August, here you go. Five Vaqueros just won a championship together. And some of them were right in the middle of winning the whole thing. The Saskatoon Berries are Western Canadian Baseball League champions after sweeping the Sylvan Lake Gulls in the championship series, and five players connected to UTRGV’s 2027 roster were part of it: Gael Salinas, Mer