COULDN’T STAND THE WEATHER By Larry Carlson https:// texaslsn.org “If you don’t like the weather in Texas, just wait five minutes and it’ll change.” You’ve heard that one since you were a tadpole. And you no doubt learned early on that, unlike other outdoor sporting pursuits, the show goes on with football. It’s similar to…
REWIND TO 1982 TEXAS MAKES TURKEYS OUT OF AGGIES by Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org The weather in Austin was cold and raw on Thanksgiving Day, 1982. Misty and forty degrees. But it didn’t take long for the Longhorns to provide Texas fans with a toasty glow, whether or not they had partaken in a nip of…
BRIGHT SPOTS IN BURNT ORANGE By Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org Sometimes you have to look for a silver lining. You have to squint hard on a gray day when a ray of sunshiny hope is as difficult to find as a haystack needle. Maybe the boss was in a bad mood. Then the I-35 or I-10…
According to CoPilot, the greatest Longhorn baseball teams were from 1949-1950, 1975, 1983, 2002, and 2005. Each had its own unique and compelling story, shaped by the distinct personalities and coaching styles. While TLSN plans to spotlight each coach in detail in a future article, it’s impossible to discuss a team without considering the coaching…
UT’S King-Sized Robert Guevara By Larry Carlson When Robert Guevara signed a letter of intent to play football with the national champion Texas Longhorns in early 1970, he was the biggest thing to come out of Marfa, Texas since Liz Taylor. When Taylor completed work on “Giant,” in 1955 and left the tiny town…
MUSICAL ONE-HIT WONDERS: By Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org Way, way into adult-hood, I was still the guy among the guys I grew up with, who could ID all the “one-hit wonder” songs and artists through the decades. Yet another of the questionable “skills” I was blessed with. Knowing all the Texas high school football nicknames, from…
ARCH, HORNS ROLL FOR TEN IN 2025 Arch Manning, with his Texas team’s slick 41-27 thumping of Michigan in the 2025 Citrus Bowl, joined a rather august herd of Longhorn quarterbacks in the history book.It’s the list of UT signal-callers who have bossed a team to double-digit wins as a starter. Manning did it in…
Celebrating the 1970 National Champs by Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org Winning was a habit for Longhorn football teams of the Darrell Royal era. A hard-earned habit, certainly. Sweat equity was in plentiful supply. So was talent. It’s arguable that no edition of UT ball boasts as much star power as the ’70 bunch. The Worster Bunch,…
Jim Deitrick played one year of D3 basketball ( freshman year..).., played baseball sophomore year…. then hit the books. His high school was small, so they just fielded baseball in the fall and basketball in the winter. Then more baseball in summer. Such was life in the Allegheny National Forest… plus fishing and hunting 😂👏👏🙏🙏…
Donnie Wigginton’s interview is at https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ 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. Bill Bradley, James Street, and Eddie Phillips had a soft pitch with a…