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Sports writer Dan Jenkins said about the big shootout. “All week long in Texas the people said Hogs ain’t nothing but groceries and that on Saturday in the thundering zoo of Fayetteville, the number one Longhorns would eat ….. hog meat with Worster-Speyrer sauce. Fifty plus years later, Texas-Arkansas shootout worth remembering ByLARRY CARLSON Dec…
Preface to Professor Carlson’s article “Living the Dream” . DKR the Dream Maker Edith and Coach Royal, Lise and Mac Davis, Jenna and Randy Royal’s high school coaches said he was too small to try out for the football team, but Royal continued to dream of greatness. No great activity starts without a vision, and…
Learning from Julius WHO SOMEONE ROOMS WITH SHOULD NOT BE A NEWSWORTHY EVENT. HOWEVER, ON SEPTEMBER 8, 1970, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WROTE A “PROVOCATIVE” ARTICLE THAT SAID, “WHITTIER, TEXAS BLACK OFFENSIVE GUARD, IS ROOMING WITH A WHITE PLAYER AND OCCASIONALLY DATING WHITE WOMEN.” I AM THAT “WHITE PLAYER.” IN 1970 COACH ROYAL CALLED THREE SENIORS…
Dana LeDuc’s Mean and Tough list from the Aker’s era. 2022- Coach Vermeil with Dana at the NFL Hall of Fame ceremony. I recognize Dana’s sandals as a reproduction of one made in the late 1960s. ???? I think my mother has mine in the attic in Odessa. Billy, Going back in time, these are…
THE ENDURANCE OF KINDNESS by Larry Carlson Hero worship is loosely defined as excessive admiration for someone. Most of us, as kids, had heroes in sports or music or movies. Or all of those. Nothing wrong with it. But how many of us got to break through that sometimes impenetrable wall between the worshiper…
For those of you who do not know Steve Ross, here is a story he tells about himself and the 1977 OU game that McEachern enters as the 3rd team quarterback. Steve Ross says about this game “it was my first game I ever broadcast live on TV. It was a “local exception” telecast where…