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Boy, that was fun, right? If you are one of the lucky ones to Austin, you know what I'm talking about: a big football game, a big party before the game, great BBQ and an amazing night in Austin.For those who only observe from your living room, maybe you missed one of the most amazing experiences I think I had as a Bruin fan (located in the Ben Ball Warriors win in Oakland and Adam Morrison, Gonzaga 13 - 9). Also big props to all the Bruins, who came, crossed the 100 heat, the sun is bad, the sticky humidity and cheered their hearts out for the Bruins. Meet the players could hear us, hiding in our corner of the upper deck of the stadium, really made it special.

More on my journey to the heart of Texas, after jump.Before go, I have to give special recognition to the fans of the Texas Longhorns and the good people of Austin. I have a lot of games in college football and I've never met a group of fans who were so kind, polite and smart as the people wearing orange in Austin. I'm not sure that our schools are very similar (large academic institutions with elite athletics) or if our mutual hatred for U $ C (thanks to Vince Young!), But I've never had a better interaction with an opposing base of fans that I did this weekend.

In a rapid destruction of the burnt orange Coeds were great. Let's say I'm a big fan of short skirts and jeans boots.Before the game, Texas fans were very friendly, talk football, congratulating us on the demolition of Houston (which is definitely the redheaded stepchild of Texas, at least Longhorn fans agree), and more than willing to drink beer with us. After wandering from bar to bar and back-to-back (with HT uclaron1 to its long list), I was ready for the game.

Of course it is easy to be friends with an opponent weaker non-conference is expected to get around and sacrifice. If your team loses, it's a completely different story for most sports (especially some of the crashes in other programs Pac-10), but not in Austin. Even if the BCS national title hopes and dreams evaporate before their eyes, yet fans of Texas, kind and congratulations.

Two examples really bring the message to me. During the game, some drunk jackass Frat type species are not too far from me and some other Bruin fans. As the game went on, more and more belligerent and uses a wide range of unpleasant homophobic insults, racist, or just flat-UCLA fans in his section. Every school has kids like that, but not all schools are treated as Texas does. Sometime during the quarter, a fan of older people in Texas approached the officer told the authors, and, like his days in DKR was done. As fans entered early, a couple passed by the UCLA group of people who were with and apologized for the classless trash drunken Frat boys had said. That was pretty impressive.

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A gunman wearing a ski mask and brandishing a shotgun entered a library of the University of Texas at Austin today and shot several times before taking his own life, causing a blockage around the campus and fears that a second shooter may be on the loose.

Shortly before noon, central time, a campus lock in place for about 8 hours rose, ending a search for a possible second suspect. "The armed suspect is dead. No other injuries were reported," UT President Bill Powers wrote in a campus e-mail.

The gunman was found dead on the sixth floor of the library apparently self-inflicted wounds, police said.An email and SMS alert sent to students and teachers about 8 hours, as the day of the first classes began warns that an "armed men were reported recently in Perry Castaneda Library" and telling students to stay in place.

"I went to class a little late," said senior Robby Reeb ABCNews.com. "I ran out of the business school, and a man running past me screaming, 'There's a man with a gun." I looked up and saw a man with a ski mask, a suit and carrying an assault rifle. And I called 911. "

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The University of Texas at Austin was part of a block last week after a suspected gunman wielding an AK-47 shots and then turned the gun on himself in a campus library.The attacker died, said Robert Dahlström, chief of staff of the Austin Police Department. No one else was injured.Police searching for a possible second suspect and control of campus buildings in search of possible explosives left behind, said Austin Police Chief Art University Acevedo.The closed mid-morning and all classes were canceled the day that teams law enforcement descended on the campus.

An ambulance was seen just before 9 am in front of the Perry-Castañeda Library, reported CNN affiliate KXAN. SWAT teams, armored vehicles and helicopters around the campus.The identity of the suspect or suspects or motives were known immediately. "Suspect in PCL library shooter is dead," said an alert posted on the University of emergency in place at 10.30 pm "The police are looking for a second suspect. If you are out of school, stay away. If the gates of the campus, do not leave the building. All classes organized for today, 28 September have been canceled. "

University of Texas, Professor William Randall heard gunshots on his way to class and saw students struggling for safety. She said she saw a man in a dark suit and a ski mask pulled his face in the direction of the library shortly after 8 amWilhite said the man had what appeared to be an assault rifle and fired at random.