Articles for TLSN
THE MIGHTY QUINN by Larry Carlson for TLSN The Professor with his Horns ???? While many folks enjoy the sport of schadenfreude, taking pleasure in the failure and humiliation of another (I confess to being gleeful at losses absorbed by certain hated teams), virtually everyone relishes a good story of redemption. Texas fans got an…
MACK BROWN SAID ABOUT HIS LIFE JOURNEY, “WE ARE LIKE PIECES OF CLAY, AND EACH PERSON WHO TOUCHES US MAKES AN IMPRESSION. JULIUS DID SO ON MY LIFE JOURNEY. 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…
NUMBER 30 WAS NUMBER ONE by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) My niece, Kim, still calls me “Uncle Woo,” even though she has passed the 39-year mark. It’s because her mom, my oldest sister, Karen, called me “Woo” for almost fifty years, until she passed away this very week in 2017. Her reason? I talked…
Donnie Wigginton’s interview is at DONNIE WIGGINTON INTERVIEW (squarespace.com) Thoughts from the Webmaster and Professor Carlson about Donnie Wigginton. Billy dale says: Less than a handful of “boys turning to men” can say they received a pitch-out from the first four quarterbacks in the productive history of the Wishbone. Yours truly is one of them….
A Burnt Orange Christmas Ditty by Larry Carlson, with apologies to Clement C. Moore ‘Twas the night before Christmas, When throughout Bellmont Hall Not a creature was stirring, There hung quite a pall. The stockings were hung, though there would be no bowl, And many predicted just small lumps o’ coal. Longhorn Nation was tossin’…
BIG GAME, VOLUME II by Larry Carlson for Texas Legacy Support Network Much has been made — ever since the schedule was released last year — about the potential peril Texas football would face in mid-October. Oklahoma and Georgia on the Longhorns’ agenda looked more daunting that any pair of hurdles in recent times. But…