Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have to decide whether a death row inmate lives or dies.

The U.S. Navy has identified the pilot found after his plane disappeared off the Texas coast on Wednesday.

Florida, Alabama and Texas hold the top three spots in the first BCS standings and control their fates in the national championship race. The Gators (.988) are in first, just ahead of the Crimson Tide (.952). Texas (.891) is third. Boise State (.808) is fourth, but the Broncos still seem to be a long shot to play for a national championship.

Colt McCoy was a mess. His right thumbnail was ready to fall off, a nagging cold was wearing him down and Oklahoma was confusing him with blitzes he’d never seen. Then, with a chance to put the game away for No. 3 Texas midway through the fourth quarter, he threw an interception that could’ve turned into a go-ahead touchdown for the Sooners.

A Texas judge who closed her court before a death row inmate could file an appeal plans to testify at the ethics trial where she faces charges that could end her career.

If you are interested in tightening your abdominals or improving your sex life, Men’s Health magazine has plenty of advice for you. Every issue, or so it seems, has stories on those topics. That’s all well and good. But there is one thing about Men’s Health that is not so good. In the July/August issue, the magazine ranked America’s most sports obsessed towns.

OMAHA, Neb.—One night after his shortest outing of the season, Taylor Jungmann turned in his longest and best. Now Texas and LSU have a showdown for the national title. The Longhorns’ freshman All-American limited LSU to five hits in his first complete game, and Russell Moldenhauer hit his record-tying fourth home run of the College World Series as Texas evened the best-of-three finals, 5-1 over LSU on Tuesday night.

OMAHA, Neb. -  Texas freshman All-American Taylor Jungmann limited LSU to five hits in his first complete game, leading the Longhorns to a 5-1 win Tuesday night and forcing a winner-take-all game in the College World Series.

OMAHA, Neb.—Mikie Mahtook singled in the winning run in the top of the 11th inning after DJ LeMahieu tied the game in the ninth, and LSU survived Texas’ five home runs to beat the Longhorns 7-6 in Game 1 of the College World Series finals last night. LSU (55-16) would win its sixth national title with a victory over the Longhorns (49-15-1) tonight.

OMAHA, Neb. - Texas coach Augie Garrido conceded that his team’s College World Series finals opponent has played the best of any team in Omaha. LSU, after all, has outscored its opponents 32-11 in its three wins. “But if it’s about drama,“ Garrido said, “we’ve got that.“ No matter what happens in the best-of-three finals starting tomorrow, it’ll be tough for Texas to top its finish in a 4-3 victory over Arizona State in Friday night’s Bracket 2 final. That followed LSU’s 14-5 Bracket 1 win over Arkansas in the afternoon.

SAN ANTONIO For decades, the channel of the San Antonio River north of the popular restaurants and retail shops downtown was overgrown and blighted - the kind of place tourists went only if they made a wrong turn. Not anymore. A $72 million overhaul - essentially doubling the size of the River Walk - has transformed the dry, weedy eyesore north of the River Walk into a 1½-mile manicured waterway with whimsical art, benches and fountains that can be passed on foot or by water taxi en route to attractions upriver.

The other day, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the most important voting rights case to come along since Bush v. Gore. The Court’s decision, expected this summer, will have a lasting impact on our democracy. The case involves a small municipal utility district in Texas that wants to avoid having to comply with certain requirements under the Voting Rights Act. But the Voting Rights Act doesn’t permit the district to be exempted. So in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, the district has argued that if it isn’t entitled to the exemption, then the Voting Rights Act is an unconstitutional infringement on states’ rights because the district has never discriminated against anyone in the voting process.

GREENSBORO, N.C.—A.J. Abrams hit eight 3-pointers and scored 26 points to help Texas beat Minnesota 76-62 in the first round of the NCAA tournament Thursday night. Damion James added 18 points and nine rebounds for the seventh-seeded Longhorns (23-11), who hit 11 of 20 3s overall to win their tournament opener for the fifth time in six seasons.

Reports of debris falling across Texas could be related to recent satellite collision.