THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org The scoreboard is gonna be in for a workout. Take that bet over to Harrah’s when you’re in the Crescent City for the game. Might be one of those games in which the last team with the ball and forty seconds will win. Apologies in…
pass/fail The Three Biggest UT Passes That Failed by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org Larry Carlson Back to the classroom now after a long, luxuriant Christmas break. The remarkable college football season is over and Texas certainly graded out with an “A” for its superlative season. But with the Sugar Bowl fresh in the minds of…
YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org TLSN’s Larry Carlson teaches sports and news media courses at Texas State University. He is a member of the Football Writers Association of America. It seemed like an average, pedestrian New Orleans hangover. For the biggest game in 14 years, UT’s Sugar Bowl…
FINAL CHAPTER OF TEXAS IN BIG XII TITLE GAMES: HORNS AIM TO GORE OKIE STATE by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org (TLSN’s Larry Carlson teaches sports and news media classes at Texas State University. He is a member of The Football Writers Association of America.) The Longhorn Nation was feeling pretty chesty in 1996. This new…
THE BALLYARD AND THE GRAVEYARD by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) Oakwood Cemetery Disch-Falk It had been a long time since I had been to “The Disch” for a Longhorn baseball game. An embarrassingly long time, really. Dog years. I mean, I’ve been keeping up with the hardball Horns since I was a teenager and they…
Good Riddance to the Big XII by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org The below article is Professor Carlson’s condensed version of the History of the Big XII and conference member the Texas Longhorns. I never really bought in to the Big XII. Fancy Roman numerals and all. Sure, the old Southwest Conference had eroded into a…
The Rise and Fall of Texas Longhorn football prior to 2023 by Larry Carlson Journalism Professor Larry Carlson has been a Longhorn fan since middle school. He was part of the media that covered the Longhorns starting with Randy McEachern and Coach Fred Akers (see Photos). Larry Carlson Media savvy journalism Professor Larry Carlson has…
Tom Landry: Longhorn For Life? by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org He was a mythical figure on the NFL sidelines. He was one of pro football’s brightest, an innovator without peer, and frequently described as aloof. Laconic. Cold. An automaton. Perhaps most famously, one of his best players, running back Duane Thomas, in 1970 called him,…
The story of John McElroy. Originally written for publication in the Waxahachie Daily Light to promote interest in the Ellis County Veterans Celebration that I helped to get started in 2000. Everything in the story is based on true events to the best of my knowledge. Perry Giles Waxahachie, Texas Destiny can’t be changed. It’s…
Head manager Roy Jones remembers longtime Longhorn assistant coach Mike Campbell, known to his players as “Iron Mike,” had special nicknames for two of his top prospects—Scott Appleton and Robert “Big Bob” Young. Coach Campbell, a battle-hardened World War II veteran who flew 50 missions in a B-24 bomber targeting German targets, dubbed the pair…