Brandon Chambers lands his first 2027 commitment, adding a 6-foot-6 shooter with developing playmaking skills and plenty of room to grow. Brandon Chambers has his first commitment for UTRGV’s 2027 recruiting class, and the Vaqueros are starting with a 6-foot-6 wing who can flat-out shoot. Nate Woods, a prospect from Bolingbrook, Illinois, announced his commitment on November 9, giving Chambers and his staff an early recruiting win before Woods begins his senior season. Woods

Photo Credit: UTRGV Football Monday Receipts is where we take what was said during the week, match it against what actually showed up Saturday, and see which receipts still spend. 52-7 looks like everything got fixed. Monday Receipts says hold up. UTRGV absolutely deserves its dap for what happened at Northwestern State. The Vaqueros responded after Lamar, got back to .500 and handled a winless team exactly how they were supposed to handle it. Now let’s look underneath the sc

Monday Receipts is where we take the quotes from the week, match them against what showed up on Saturday, and see which ones still spend. Coming into Year Two, I thought UTRGV was a top-third Southland team with a real shot to fight for a playoff spot. Nine games later, they are 4-5, 2-4 in conference and sitting seventh. That is not top-third football. That is where we are. Lamar did not create that reality. They just made it impossible to dress it up. Now we get to the rece

Photo Credit: UTRGV Football DITV OPINION PIECE Monday Receipts is where we take the quotes from the week, match them against what showed up on Saturday, and see which ones still spend. Last Monday we asked one thing: Can the standard travel? Arkansas answered. Not pretty, not easy, not clean. Just 30-27 in overtime, the first road dub of the year, the first OT win in program history, and Broderick Taylor — Turbo — hitting the edge like everybody had somewhere else to be. Tha

The gunslinger returned, Tha Goods made history, and Broderick Taylor delivered a walk-off that gave the 956 plenty to celebrate. Some wins look good on paper. Others just hit different. Saturday night in Conway, UTRGV delivered one of those games the 956 will be talking about for a long time. The gunslinger was back. The running game had some juice. Tha Goods was collecting tackles like overdue rent. And Broderick Taylor decided everybody had been in Arkansas long enough. On

DITV Opponent Files | UTRGV vs. Central Arkansas Five straight losses. A 2–5 record. Nearly 31 points surrendered per game. If you’re shopping for an easy win, Central Arkansas looks pretty good in the window. Just make sure you check what’s under the hood. These same Bears opened the season by knocking off No. 22 UT Martin, 36–24. Last Saturday, they rolled into No. 2 Tarleton State and dropped 35 points, tying the game at 28 in the third quarter before falling 49–35. That’s

DITV | UTRGV FOOTBALL | OPINION & ANALYSIS Garret Rangel is healthy again, but Travis Bush faces a bigger challenge: establishing the offensive consistency UTRGV has been searching for. “He’s fresh, he’s healthy, excited to get him back.” That’s what UTRGV head coach Travis Bush said this week about quarterback Garret Rangel. Bush also indicated the staff can build its game plan around the fifth-year transfer. That’s great news. But it brings us back to a question that’s foll

Photo Credit: UTRGV Football Winning fills stadiums. Relationships keep people coming back when the winning gets harder. And if Saturday in San Antonio proved anything, it’s that the Valley isn’t going anywhere. UTRGV fans made the four-hour trip to watch their Vaqueros take on UIW. They showed up in force, brought the energy, and made their presence felt inside another team’s stadium. DITV was right there with them. The scoreboard read 41–16. The support told a different sto

Monday Receipts is simple: keep the quote, watch the football, come back Monday and see what still spends. One week UTRGV put No. 25 Southeastern Louisiana in a box and held them to three points. The next week Southeastern turned around and knocked off No. 8/10 Lamar 34-31. So that receipt aged beautifully: the Vaqueros did not beat some pretend ranked team. SLU can ball. UTRGV just made them look regular for a night. Then came San Antonio. UIW 41, UTRGV 16. Another road trip

Brandon Chambers hasn’t coached a regular-season game at UTRGV yet. But in some ways, he’s already winning. Since arriving in Edinburg, Chambers has made a noticeable effort to connect with the Rio Grande Valley. He’s been visible, approachable and intentional about getting people excited for UTRGV men’s basketball. And it’s working. But winning people over and winning basketball games are two very different things. UTRGV enters the 2026-27 season coming off back-to-back winn

For years, UTRGV women’s basketball was trying to build toward a season like the one it just had. Now comes a different challenge. How do you follow the best season in program history? The Vaqueros finished 21-14 last year, won a program-record 16 Southland Conference games and reached the second round of the WNIT. That’s not something you simply forget about when a new season begins. But it’s also not something you can count on happening again. Head coach Lane Lord has plent

UTRGV women’s cross country has two performances worth talking about after the Arturo Barrios Invitational. One runner made history. Another showed why her future could be pretty exciting. N Vanee Anchike stole the headlines in College Station, running a 20:51.0 in the women’s 6K to set a new UTRGV school record. The senior broke Mercy Chelangat’s previous mark of 20:53.0, which had stood since 2018. She also improved her own personal best by more than 24 seconds. That’s a se

Rhea Makesar is making some noise for UTRGV women’s tennis. The senior put together an impressive run at the ITA Texas Regional in Waco, becoming the first Vaquero since 2018 to reach the singles main-draw Round of 32. And she had to earn every bit of it. After winning twice in qualifying, Makesar faced Tarleton’s Anna Huisgen in the main draw. She dropped the opening set before battling back for a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory. Three singles wins, a comeback under pressure, and a pr

Photo Credit: UIW Football DITV | UTRGV Football Fam, that 2–4 record is telling one story. The football is telling another. UIW just went toe-to-toe with No. 5 Stephen F. Austin and No. 10 Lamar, losing those games by a combined five points. Against SFA, a penalty wiped out a successful two-point conversion. Against Lamar, a late fumble ended a comeback bid. The Cardinals aren’t getting pushed around. They’re competing with some of the Southland’s best, but haven’t figured o

DITV PRESENTS | PLAYER OF THE GAME | VOL. 01 The game tells us who showed out. DITV tells you who they are. TJ Neal spent his high school days in Kansas trying to make defensive backs look silly. Now he’s in the 956 returning the favor. Funny how football works. Back at Wichita South, UTRGV’s No. 2 was an All-State quarterback and safety. Calling plays, reading defenses, finding passing windows and putting points on the board. Now? My guy is out here repossessing footballs. S

Photo Credit: UTRGV Football Monday Receipts is simple: keep the quote, watch the football, come back Monday and see what still spends. Saturday had real football juice. A ranked team walked into The Vack, got dragged into a four-quarter fight, and spent most of the night trying to find clean answers that never really came. UTRGV beat No. 25 Southeastern 13-3, forced three interceptions, kept Aidan clean, won the biggest moments and closed the game with a drive that finally f

Here’s what scares me about Southeastern: they don’t seem married to one way of winning. They started 0–2, then found three completely different ways to get right. Against North Alabama, Southeastern trailed by 11 before ripping off 23 straight points and winning 30–25. Then the Lions went to ULM and walked out with a 38–35 win — their first over an FBS opponent since the program returned in 2003. A week later, they flipped the whole script and ran for 300 yards while hanging

Photo Credit: UTRGV Athletics Football brought the explosion. Basketball already had the history. Now Brandon Chambers and Lane Lord have rosters that could make this winter hit different. Football is the loudest thing in the Valley right now. Packed house. Tailgates. Orange everywhere. Saturdays at The Vack turned UTRGV athletics into something the whole 956 could feel. But basketball was here first. Long before football had everybody pulling up on Saturdays, Pan American Co

Monday Receipts is simple: keep the quote, watch the football, come back Monday and see what still spends. UTRGV changed the road routine before Commerce. Practice got moved around. Travel changed. The message was about getting comfortable being uncomfortable and bringing the same edge away from The Vack. Then Commerce happened. UTRGV lost 20-17 on a 51-yard field goal as time expired. The Vaqueros were better late than early, again, and that matters because the concern now i

Forty-five assists. In three sets. For a freshman. Lana Rnjak has been good for UTRGV all season, but what she’s doing right now feels like another step. Thursday against UIW, Rnjak tied her career high with 44 assists. Two days later against HCU, she broke it with 45 as UTRGV picked up another sweep and moved to 4-0 in Southland play. That’s 89 assists in seven sets. And watching Rnjak lately, it isn’t just the number that stands out. It’s how she’s getting there. In UTRGV’s