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Last night was the Red & Black Gala, where all of the student athletes get dressed up and attend a formal awards ceremony.
Presenting your 2026 Red & Black Gala award winners! 💫 pic.twitter.com/gflO1TvZkW
— Texas Tech Red Raiders (@TechAthletics) May 5, 2026
On the Diamond
NiJaree Canady was picked No. 2 overall by the Texas Volts in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League. Congrats!
.@CanadyNijaree IS STAYING IN TEXAS 🙌
Congratulations are in order for our first ever Red Raider drafted into the AUSL 👏 pic.twitter.com/fmMCQ4aGiu
— Texas Tech Softball (@TexasTechSB) May 4, 2026
Special person. Special player. Special talent.
There is no one like NiJaree Canady! pic.twitter.com/ldXYI87kn9
— Texas Tech Softball (@TexasTechSB) May 4, 2026
Texas Tech baseball hosts DBU tonight for a single game tonight with first pitch at 6:30 p.m.
On the Gridiron
USA Today’s Matt Hayes writes a weird tweet that lead me to this article, i.e. that the “Sorsby case will be filed and heard in Lubbock (Texas) District Court.” This makes it sound as if a case against Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby is pending in District Court, but this is an article that just details the jurisdiction that they will be in should a case against the NCAA be involved, which is the Lubbock District Court. The silliness of this article is confirmed when two people had to tell Hayes that any court related situation would be in Lubbock. I am asking you not to click on that link because this is the definition of click-bait, there’s no story there, they are just letting you know that if there is a lawsuit it would be in Lubbock. Congrats on the story.
The narrative that Texas Tech quarterback Will Hammond is progressing quickly continues to be interesting to me. I am not a doctor and I do not pretend to play one on TV, but from what I know, the problem is that there’s only so much you can do to speed things up because the ligament takes time to heal. This isn’t about muscles healing or a bone healing, but a ligament and ligaments take time. The only reason I have an opinion about this is because Youssouf’s labrum tear (the labrum is cartilage, while the ACL is a ligament) required time. The strengthening of the muscles around the labrum was important physical therapy, but the doctor was incredibly hesitant to let him go early because the more time you give something like the labrum to heal the better he will be long-term and believe that ACL’s are similar. Ligaments typically can heal faster that cartilage because it has more blood supply than the labrum. Regardless, this is a time thing and not a physical therapy thing or how hard Hammond works. I have no doubt that Hammond is working as hard as he can, but there’s only so much he can do.
The link to this story is behind a paywall and I can’t read it. But the idea that this story is being written is interesting to me.
Inside Texas Tech QB Will Hammond’s ACL recovery: ‘The knee is getting better at a rapid pace’
More: https://t.co/HyQQ3pZjYG pic.twitter.com/AkLpFobrli
— Pete Nakos (@PeteNakos) May 4, 2026