Most Texan Thing You’ve Done This Week, Raiderland Hot Links Featuring Extra Large Weekend Of Texas Tech Sports, 1953 On The Phone, 1985 Madonna, The Highway Men Plus The Greatness Of Craig Biggio

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Happy Friday Y’all !

We made it!

This week seemed to crawl by. And then, suddenly it’s Day Two of The Masters and Ludvig Aberg is starting the day in second and all is right in the world. Add in both Texas Tech Softball and Baseball being in Lubbock this weekend and we’ve got lots of options on our sports menu.

We’ll have some fun with y’all tonight at 6:30 Central on The Daily Broadcast. Join in LIVE on X, YouTube and Facebook and we’ll update Tech Softball and Baseball in real-time and see where Aberg ended up going into Saturday.

If you missed the Thursday show, fret not, here ya go:

The Daily Broadcast…The Only Show That Promises One Hour Martinizing! Is Toppin Worth 4 Million Bucks For Texas Tech MBB? Which MTV Bands Did You Love/Hate? Ludvig Aberg Got Hot And Scorched The Back Nine At Augusta. That’s A Golf Thing… Also, We Have 6 New Kittens And Need Names!

Most Texan Thing

Each Friday we ask one question.

What’s The Most Texan Thing You Did This Week?

Big or small, it needs to happen. If you haven’t done anything yet, run out, do something really Texan and then report back in the comments!

Raiderland Hot Links

Each morning we serve ’em up, Fresh and Hot! The Best Links from Raiderland and Beyond!

Good morning’ pic.twitter.com/dlePQsMTd4
— Dane Dewbre 🌵 (@MarlandDane) April 11, 2025

They say there’s no ballers in the 806 😴@michaelldever x @marcusramon23 pic.twitter.com/lX4QlX4AOb
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) April 11, 2025

Everything you need to know ahead of our three game series!
— Texas Tech Softball (@TexasTechSB) April 10, 2025

Switching it up for the weekend!

⚾️ @jeffreyMacHeuer
⚾️ @zanepetty22
⚾️ TBA pic.twitter.com/fb0d76nSDr
— Texas Tech Baseball (@TTU_Baseball) April 10, 2025

Texas Tech softball getting an ESPN2 game next week against Arizona. Key series for the Big 12 title and regional hosting implications. https://t.co/QOQJTU5EIo
— Nathan Giese (@NathanGiese) April 11, 2025

Match Day 🔥

🆚 Arizona State
📍 Lubbock, TX
⏰ 5 PM
📺 https://t.co/2MrrMM9VIM
🎥 @CrackedRacquets on ESPN+
📊 https://t.co/Y25dRinGft #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/Yc7DYoTYaj
— Texas Tech Women’s Tennis (@TexasTechWTEN) April 11, 2025

MEET DAY ‼️

📍 E.B. Cushing Stadium
⏰ 11:30 am
📊 https://t.co/qfJOkixRv2 pic.twitter.com/XwRsFtjLjq
— Texas Tech Track & Field (@TexasTechTF) April 11, 2025

Officially Suited for Success 👏

Congrats to all our Fearless Champions that completed our Suited for Success Career Series this spring! pic.twitter.com/XyPO5RYt48
— Texas Tech Red Raiders (@TechAthletics) April 10, 2025

Five career @TheMasters rounds, four career under-par rounds for Ludvig Åberg. Making it look easy at Augusta National! #WreckEm | #TheMasters pic.twitter.com/dp7laKwiUp
— Texas Tech Men’s Golf (@TexasTechMGolf) April 11, 2025

Blue Chip Recruits through the portal, 2025:

Texas Tech: 12
Rest of the Big 12 (15 teams): 12 https://t.co/IO6HFCMnXa
— parker fleming (@statsowar) April 10, 2025

April 10, 2005: Tiger’s iconic chip on 16 on Sunday at The Masters. He would go on to win his 4th Green Jacket in a sudden death playoff.

Verne Lundquist on the call.

“OH WOW! In your life have you ever seen anything like that??”
pic.twitter.com/A4STSb0SNY
— This Day In Sports Clips (@TDISportsClips) April 11, 2025

April 10, 2016: Louis Oosthuizen (@Louis57TM) gets the hole-in-one on 16 at Augusta after his ball deflects off J.B. Holmes’ on the green and goes into the hole. pic.twitter.com/08pYp8mErc
— This Day In Sports Clips (@TDISportsClips) April 11, 2025

1974: Gordie Howe beats the Russians and Vladislav Tretiak with a beautiful goal… pic.twitter.com/A42dAo5rPL
— Stirrups Now! (@uniformcritic) April 11, 2025

Craig Biggio started 392 games at Catcher…and then played 15 seasons of 2B pic.twitter.com/JvcFWuv51F
— OldTimeHardball (@OleTimeHardball) April 10, 2025

League Park, Cleveland, 1911 – Cleveland Naps great Shoeless Joe Jackson emphatically stomping on home plate against New York Highlanders#Guardians #MLB pic.twitter.com/4ZLQWPoQkK
— Old-Time Baseball Photos (@OTBaseballPhoto) April 11, 2025

April 10, 1972: ABC's "Monday Night Sports" tours the custom-built home of Los Angeles Lakers center Wilt Chamberlain: pic.twitter.com/B130SEC0lz
— NBA Cobwebs (@NBACobwebs) April 10, 2025

Born #OTD 1921,Basketball ,Baseball Player and versatile actor,Chuck Connors, remembered mostly by many
as “The Rifleman”.#Celtics #Cubs #Dodgers #NBA #MLB #TV #nostalgia pic.twitter.com/HUhzWXtNN9
— Tom’s Old Days (@sigg20) April 10, 2025

‘Future Phone To Be Carried, Is Prediction’

— Associated Press (April 10, 1953) pic.twitter.com/gPo0xkbxfn
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) April 11, 2025

"Fridays" the weekly late-night live comedy show debuted on tv today back in 1980. The series ran until April 23, 1982. The program was ABC's attempt to duplicate the success of NBC's Saturday Night Live. #80s #80stv pic.twitter.com/qRxGuD6SkZ
— LandOfThe80s (@landofthe80s) April 11, 2025

April 10, 1985: 40 years ago, Madonna began her first concert tour, The Virgin Tour, in Seattle Washington. #80s pic.twitter.com/Vpf7wG0Yq4
— Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) April 10, 2025

The Highwaymen 🎩🪄Highwayman "1990"#Goodnight✨💫 pic.twitter.com/rtPIIGCi7x
— Music Jim 🎩🪄 (@MusicJim2) April 11, 2025

April 10, 1796

James Bowie was born in Kentucky.

Bowie arrived in Texas in 1830, where he'd eventually fight in the Battles of Nacogdoches, Concepcion, and the Grass Fight, before he was killed in the Battle of the Alamo. Read more about Bowie here: https://t.co/eZvL1SOqo4 pic.twitter.com/t6rwJMABCc
— The Alamo (@OfficialAlamo) April 10, 2025

April 29th is going to be a great evening to raise money for the Big Fish Foundation and our veterans!https://t.co/NfK8IYkelj pic.twitter.com/PEk8xTr66k
— XIT Ranch (@XITRanch) April 10, 2025

I took this photo of the old schoolhouse in Indian Gap, Texas in 2018. As you can see, it was built in 1913. It closed 46 years later, in 1959. The post office in Indian Gap closed in 1972. Indian Gap's name came about when it was noticed that the Comanches came through a gap in… pic.twitter.com/nuJy2yy4s0
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) April 10, 2025

🕵️ When you're *this* close to being the world's greatest undercover possum… but you forgot the secret password.#WildlifeAtWork #WildlifeWednesday pic.twitter.com/0Vz6mNmZAG
— Texas Parks & Wildlife (@TPWDnews) March 26, 2025

I’m at a Mexican restaurant in Fredericksburg and their Chips & Salsa situation is interesting 🤔 pic.twitter.com/zDbqR8xwhS
— Rich O'Toole (@RichOToole) April 11, 2025

Combined, both measures will blueprint how the state spends its money (including its $24 billion surplus) in the next two years. https://t.co/eHXDvjxSbw
— KAMC News (@KAMCNews) April 11, 2025

Most Texan Thing You’ve Done This Week, Raiderland Hot Links Featuring Extra Large Weekend Of Texas Tech Sports, 1953 On The Phone, 1985 Madonna, The Highway Men Plus The Greatness Of Craig Biggio

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