{"id":42238,"date":"2025-11-09T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/42238\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:03:10","slug":"byu-texas-tech-tailgates-collect-books-for-literacy-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/42238\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU, Texas Tech tailgates collect books for Literacy Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; BYU kept true to its promise to support its opposing team\u2019s community Saturday. BYU started a \u201cCougs Care\u201d initiative in 2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since then, whenever its football team has an away game, the university partners with a nonprofit in the host city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/video\/2025\/11\/06\/mahomes-teams-up-with-cougscare-help-literacy-lubbock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/video\/2025\/11\/06\/mahomes-teams-up-with-cougscare-help-literacy-lubbock\/\">Mahomes, Reid team up for Literacy Lubbock<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both BYU and Texas Tech\u2019s alumni associations partnered up to support Literacy Lubbock this weekend. The schools hosted a book drive and its respective tailgates Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PREVIOUS STORY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/11\/03\/texas-tech-byu-alumni-partner-book-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/11\/03\/texas-tech-byu-alumni-partner-book-drive\/\">Texas Tech, BYU alumni partner for book drive<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cougars and Red Raiders alike donated new and gently used books to the agency.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Books were collected from BYU and Texas Tech fans, Nov. 8, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RZMATC5DNVBV7D5M2SSLDN2X2Q.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1306\" \/>Books were collected from BYU and Texas Tech fans, Nov. 8, 2025.(Crystal Meister)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Literacy Lubbock not only teaches people to read, but also offers classes, tutors and ESL. Learn more about Literacy Lubbock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.literacylubbock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.literacylubbock.org\/\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; BYU kept true to its promise to support its opposing team\u2019s community Saturday. BYU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[25350,17321,25349,18496,168,170,169,1769],"class_list":{"0":"post-42238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-book-drive","9":"tag-byu","10":"tag-cougs-care","11":"tag-literacy-lubbock","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-texas-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42238","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=42238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}