My good friend Tim Griffin passed away in July 2022, just five months after this interview we did. He is greatly missed by many. The memorial service hosted by his widow, Dede, and son, Bradley, was a celebration of a life well-lived and was attended by a “who’s who” of sports journalists and friends from…
THE DUKE SINKS THE JOLLY ROGER by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org Texas had gone 10-0 and won the mythical national title declared after the regular season. But except for a 28-7 whipping of then top-ranked OU back in October, UT seldom won in any kind of stylish, posed-for-a-picture way. So as Texas prepared to host Navy,…
Painting by Don Langeneckert ALWAYS ON THE RUN: THE BAKER’S DOZEN OF UT RB’S by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) If you’re honest, even though you’re burnt orange-blooded, you can’t really contend that UT is RBU. There’s a case for Southern Cal. Five Heisman winners among the Trojan hosses at running back. So what…
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…
What’s In A Name? by Larry Carlson (lc13@txstate.edu) “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.” So said Billy Shakespeare’s Juliet to Romeo. But, Julie Baby, many of us would disagree. I mean, would the Rose Bowl be nearly as cool if it were the old Poulan Weedeater…