{"id":377739,"date":"2026-07-18T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:36:08","slug":"texas-tech-signs-naming-rights-deal-with-digital-assets-company-galaxy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377739\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech signs naming rights deal with digital assets company Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Tech has signed a 15-year naming rights partnership with digital assets and infrastructure company Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal announced on Friday were not disclosed. The partnership will begin with the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Raiders&#8217; football stadium will be renamed Galaxy Stadium and the partnership will include NIL opportunities for Texas Tech student-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes on the heels of a tumultuous time at Texas Tech surrounding quarterback Brendan Sorsby.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech planned to play Sorsby after he transferred from Cincinnati despite admitting to betting on games as a freshman while at Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterback ultimately abandoned a legal effort to regain his eligibility after the NCAA suspended him for gambling and has said he will wait until next year to enter the NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>\n               <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/07\/15\/cody-campbell-ken-paxton-donation-brendan-sorsby-texas-tech\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Texas Tribune reported<\/a> Texas Tech Board of Regents Chair Cody Campbell donated $274,300 to a fundraising committee supporting Texas attorney general Ken Paxton in his bid for U.S. Senate. Paxton sent a letter to the Big 12 the following day, saying that any attempts to sanction the university for fielding Sorsby would be \u201cunlawful\u201d and potentially expose it to $200 million in damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Tech has signed a 15-year naming rights partnership with digital assets and infrastructure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14694,17968,1967,202,196,942,27,29,28,874],"class_list":["post-377739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brendan-sorsby","tag-cody-campbell","tag-ken-paxton","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}