On ESPN.com's College Football page, the current Masked Rider Ashley Hartzog is the main story. In all my years, I've never seen the Masked Rider get any praise on a national level (anything positive anyway). This was a great article about the Texas Tech tradition and what it takes to become the Masked Rider.

This was one of my favorite lines from Tim Griffin's article:

You can have Bevo (Texas), Reveille (Texas A&M), the Sooner Schooner (Oklahoma) or Willie the Wildcat (Kansas State) on his motorcycle. But there's something about the charge of the Masked Rider before the Red Raiders take the field for each home game that sets this tradition apart.

 Here's the link for the story: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/index