It has been fifty years. Nineteen-seventy-six marked America’s bicentennial. Americans celebrated star-spangled events across the nation. Culturally, Disco, stepping high atop platform shoes, was king. Rocky Balboa lost the heavyweight fight of the year, but he captured Hollywood. And the nation’s imagination. So did a former UT coed with an enchanting mane of hair. Her…
The Darrell K Royal Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease (DKR Fund) is dedicated to raising awareness and funding research initiatives throughout Texas for Alzheimer’s disease. The epilogue to the book of life of Darrell and Edith Royal’s love story is never-ending. A Longhorn cultural stamp that represents the compassionate heartbeat of the Longhorn Nation. Their legacy lives on…
REMEMBERING BOOGER BROOKS October 15, 2022 Commentary The unusual story of a blue-chip quarterback hanging up his cleats with the Texas Longhorns to become a welder & rodeo bull rider Every coach I have ever known has a story to tell of a certain athlete they will never forget. I just happen to have a…
ABC’s For Sark, Vol. II by Larry Carlson (lc13@txstate.edu) Last spring I flippantly tossed out advice for Texas Coach Steve Sarkisian on this website, in the form of “The ABC’s for Sark.” I made it a take-off of actor Alec Baldwin’s classic cuss-fest as he tore into slacking employees at a real estate…
UTNY: Four Longhorns helped Namath back up Super Bowl guarantee By LARRY CARLSON Feb 3, 2019 Imagine four players who sweated and soared on a college championship team together, then moved on to one pro team and played key roles in a Super Bowl win, against the biggest odds there will ever be. The fairy…
IS UT READY FOR IT TO MEAN MORE? 7/29/2022 by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) Professor Larry Carlson interviewing Randy McEachern in 1977 I will say this. It’s gonna be loud when Texas and Alabama tee it up in Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium on a crispy, not crisp, early autumn morning in…
GOLDEN ARCH TOPS BIG EASY MENU by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) Dateline: NEW ORLEANS, August 26 In the ol’ Crescent City, there’s always a checklist. Muffaletta and Pimm’s Cup at Napoleon House. Check Praline at Southern Candy. Check Staring out at barges on the Big Muddy. Check Mint Julep at The Columns. Check Walk…
Professor Larry Carlson FOOTBALL REVIEW/PREVIEW: 2022/2023 Commentary by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) It’s daunting to stare at eight months of no college football. Talk about a dry January. Especially tough when your Longhorns have lost at least five games for the eleventh time in thirteen years (the Horns went 10-4 in 2018 and 7-3…
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…
Bum Phillips said, “Fuller was the best football player I ever had at any level.” That would include Earl Campbell. Bum Phillips introduced Fuller to Bear Bryant and the Alabama Crimson Tide and Fuller did not disappoint Bear Bryant. In his first year, Fuller made the All-Southeast Conference team at safety, and during his senior…