Rob Breaux is a sports talk host, show producer, online writer, and news anchor for Townsquare Media of Lubbock. You can hear him weekdays on Ryan Hyatt's Raiderland, during KFYO Sports Updates, and Saturdays during the college football and basketball seasons hosting "Rob Breaux's College Tailgate" on stations across West Texas. Interact with Breaux on Twitter @robbreauxshow. Breaux previously produced "The Weston Odom Show" and "Jack Dale's Sportsline" before becoming the host of his own sport talk show. Breaux also hosted Talk 103.9/1340's Texas Tech Football pregame show, "Countdown to Kickoff" from 2016-2019. Breaux is a graduate of Lubbock Christian School and he attended Lubbock Christian University. He's a Jerry Jones apologist and Kliff Kingsbury look-alike.
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The Lady Raiders Are Building Serious Momentum in 2023
In Coach Gerlich's first season back in Lubbock after her career as a player and assistant coach, she was taking over a program in shambles. Sure, the Lady Raiders had just won 7 conference games heading into the COVID stoppage, but that offseason went into panic mode after Marlene Stollings was fired and Gerlich was brought in extremely late in the process...
Will Texas Tech Basketball Win a Big 12 Conference Game?
With West Virginia beating TCU to move to 1-5 in Big 12 play the Red Raiders are now the only Big 12 conference team winless in the league at 0-6. They fell to 0-6 after their third straight home loss this season, an 81-74 loss to Baylor...
Former Red Raider Will Make History in the NBA Dunk Contest
Mac McClung was a high school phenom that rose to fame on Instagram before even got to college. McClung made a pit stop at Georgetown before coming to Texas Tech for a single season. The Mac Attack took Texas Tech by storm notching 15.5 points per game, good enough for Big 12 player of the year...
Legendary Red Raider Owned Bar Burns Down in Houston
When I was in Houston for the Texas Bowl, I had the pleasure of getting an incredible sandwich and tater tots at the State's oldest Irish Sports Pub Griff's. I had the Chicken Philly and it was legitimately one of the best sandwiches I've ever had...
Kliff Kingsbury Got Fired and Left the Country
Kliff Kingsbury made it through four seasons in Arizona with Kyler Murray before finally getting fired after a disappointing season in which he didn't have DeAndre Hopkins to start the year or Murray to finish it. Kingsbury took over the worst team in the NFL, improved it year over year for three seasons, and then a dramatic off-field season for the franchise tanked his season...
Texas Tech Basketball Player Gets Dunkin’ NIL Deal
Sometimes, NIL deals are perfect fits. This is one of those times. Dunkin' and Basketball are just perfect for each other and the newest Dunkin' Donuts NIL Athlete is a Red Raider, well a Lady Raider.
Texas Tech Sophomore Ashley Chevalier joins 30 other student-athletes from the country in Dunkin's latest recruiting class.
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Alan Bowman Makes His Return to the Big 12
In 2018, Alan Bowman stormed on the scene as a true freshman for Kliff Kingsbury's Red Raiders and led the team in a loss against Ole Miss to open the season after taking over for an injured McLane Carter. Bowman then put up monster numbers against Lamar and Houston...
Gerlich’s Lady Raiders Gaining Confidence Through Adversity
The Lady Raiders got their first Big 12 win against TCU this weekend in Fort Worth beating the Horned Frogs 78-70. The Lady Raiders trailed by a point in at halftime and outscored TCU by nine points to take the victory. Bre'Amber Scott led the Lady Raiders in scoring with 20 while Brynn Gerlich and Bailey Maupin joined her in double figures with 16 and 14 a piece...
Texas Officially Fires Beard, Then Releases Letters Between Lawyers
On December 12th, 2022, news broke that Chris Beard was involved in a domestic incident in which he was arrested, booked and seen by a judge. At the time, it was fairly obvious that because of the events that had taken place, according to language in Beard's contract, he could be fired with cause...
Texas Tech Basketball Will Go As Far As Pop Isaacs Takes Them
Pop Isaacs is a natural born leader. You see it on the floor with his assertiveness both with the ball and without. He's vocal and displays incredible focused while on the floor and while on the bench.
He's also a true freshman.
It's rare in college athletics to have a true freshman be the leader of the team, but in my opinion Pop Isaacs is the alpha wolf of the Texas Tech street dogs this season.