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Longhorn Network's Lowell Galindo, Ahmad Brooks and Chris Rix take a look at the Longhorns' big win over the Rebels.

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Longhorn Network has found another outlet.

And just in time. AT&T U-verse and LHN have reached an agreement that will allow the television provider to broadcast the 24/7 channel that is devoted to University of Texas athletics.

The deal comes on the eve of Texas’ season opener against Wyoming. U-Verse customers will be able to watch the game at 7 p.m. Saturday. The pregame show starts at 5 p.m. on LHN.

“We know fans are passionate about watching Longhorn football, and we’re thrilled to offer Longhorn Network to U-verse TV customers in Texas and nationwide,” Jeff Weber, President of Content and Advertising Services, AT&T Home Solutions said in a press release. “This is another example of how we continue to deliver the content customers want.”

The Longhorn Network, which celebrated its first year in operation this week, is also slated to carry Texas’ game against New Mexico on Sept. 8.

Sean Adams, Lowell Galindo and Ahmad Brooks break down leaders at each position.

Longhorn Network's Kevin Dunn and HornsNation's Sean Adams look at surprise wide receivers, which DB will have the most picks, who is the most stressed and More.

Longhorn Network goes all-access as the Texas players check in and take the practice field for the first time.

Former Texas defensive coordinator Greg Robinson talks about how loaded the 2012 squad will be.

Max Olson and Samantha Steele break down the impact that Penn State transfer kicker Anthony Fera will have on Texas in 2012.

Texas defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat joins West Virginia QB Geno Smith to talk about the upcoming Big 12 season.

The Longhorn Network goes inside the offseason workouts with the Texas basketball team.

AUSTIN, Texas -- The past can be elusive.

Slippery even.

Particularly when it involves ice cream.

Mine is filled with gallons of it. Wait, vats of it. Nay, tankers of it. I was an Amy's Ice Creams scooper. Never heard of it? Then you haven't been to Austin.

Amy's is an institution since 1984. Velvety ice cream with just about any candy confection imaginable either already stuck inside or at the ready to be crushed in by the scooper. Back in the day, when there was just the one store on Guadalupe, instead of 15, the line for service would double back on itself and go out their door till after midnight.

On Wednesday's if you got stuck inside at closing time -- midnight -- Rick Redman and I used to make you do the Time Warp before you could leave. Come to find out there are very few Cinderellas in Austin.

Yep, that was me. Hippy hair. Goofy hat. Literally a Goofy hat. Ears and all. (Seriously, check the Austin-American Statesman archives circa 1989. Somewhere there is a photo of me slinging through the stuff. I remember it as a six-column wide section front. Might've just been a mug shot.)

It was with four years of experience and some lingering scoop swagger that a call was placed to founder Amy Simmons about the upcoming Amy's Ice Creams Trick Olympics. It was the eighth annual gathering of these athletes and they are, let's see here, unusual? No. Unique? Nope. Eclectic talents. That works. And this time I was going to join the fray. Cue John William's “Summon the Heroes”.

Or maybe just Richard Dawson saying, “Survey says?”

“You'd better practice,” Amy told me when I sprang my brilliant idea on her. “These guys are good.”

Pshaw. I was fastest scooper two years running. (Yes, it is a real award and I had the trophies to prove it.)

“Maybe you should just come to a store and work on some tricks,” cautioned Aaron Clay, Amy's right-hand man in all things dealing with publicity.

C'mon. Have a little faith. There was a time when I could throw a scoop across Guadalupe. Even threw one into a moving jeep one time. (By the way, Belgian Chocolate flies the best. Something to do with the lack of viscosity and the way it came off the shovel-like implements of destruction we scoopers used called spades.)

So it was with no practice and two decades away from the counter that I stepped into the arena. The trick, as I learned, was to do my 10 tricks before any of my three competitors did their 10 tricks.

“A decathlon,” Clay joyfully explained.

“Of death,” I ruefully mumbled.

I'm not going to go into specifics. If it's one thing I've learned in two decades of covering other kinds of games, the losers rarely do. Maybe my tie might have gotten in the way. That and the fact it was definitely not Belgian Chocolate we were working with. (And for that my dry cleaner thanks you, Amy.)

Still as scoop after scoop flew off my spade and into the abyss of failure -- also known as the asphalt of Waterloo Records’ 6th and Lamar parking lot -- it was impossible not to think how fleeting the past was, especially as it was melting right before my eyes.

The Longhorn Network's Lowell Galindo and Mack go inside a crucial play from the 2011 Texas A&M game.

Longhorn Network's All-Access show goes inside a summer meeting as strength coach Bennie Wylie outlines Texas' motto for the summer.

Carter Strickland looks at injuries problems including the recent news of Camrhon Hughes tearing his ACL and Paden Kelley quitting football.