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utdcomets.com, the official athletics website for the University of Texas at Dallas Comets, organizes its coverage around four recurring content areas: Top Stories, Comets of the Week, the Comets Social Zone, and video/promo content. If you want to follow UT Dallas teams, athletes, and gameday results, these are the sections to check — the homepage presents them alongside a Scoreboard for scores and a Main Navigation Menu for deeper pages.
Top Stories
Top Stories is the site's headline news area. It carries the featured articles the athletics department wants front and center — game recaps, previews, milestone results, and program announcements. On the homepage it appears as a dedicated heading, so it functions as the main editorial feed rather than a single fixed article.
Use it when you want the current narrative around Comets teams rather than raw scores: what happened, why it mattered, and what's coming next.
Comets of the Week
Comets of the Week is a recurring recognition feature that spotlights individual student-athletes. It appears as its own labeled section on the homepage, which means it updates on a regular cadence rather than being a one-off article.
This is the section to check if you follow specific players or want a quick read on who performed well across UT Dallas sports in a given week.
Comets Social Zone
The Comets Social Zone aggregates the athletics program's social media presence into one area of the site. Instead of visiting each platform separately, you get the social content surfaced directly on the athletics homepage.
It's the lightest, most informal of the four areas — useful for behind-the-scenes posts, gameday atmosphere, and short-form updates that don't warrant a full Top Stories article.
Video and Promo Content
The homepage includes a Promo section and Videos content, presented with skip-ad style promo slots. These carry video features and promotional material produced by or for the athletics department — highlight reels, feature segments, and sponsored placements.
Note that promo slots may include sponsor content, so not everything in that area is editorial coverage of the teams.
Scoreboard and Navigation
Two structural elements frame all of the above:
| Element | What it does |
|---|---|
| Scoreboard | Shows scores and results, appearing at the top of the page |
| Main Navigation Menu | Links to deeper sections of the site beyond the homepage feed |
The Scoreboard answers "what was the result," while Top Stories and the other features answer "what's the story." Together they cover both the factual and narrative sides of UT Dallas Athletics.
How to Use the Site
- For results and scores: start with the Scoreboard.
- For news and recaps: go to Top Stories.
- For player recognition: check Comets of the Week.
- For social and informal updates: browse the Comets Social Zone.
- For video features: look at the Videos and Promo areas.
- For anything beyond the homepage: use the Main Navigation Menu.
The site is the official athletics source for UT Dallas, so content reflects the department's own publishing priorities rather than independent coverage.