The Good Side of Joe Don Looney, as told by Longhorn Chuck Taylor Joe was a dear friend. His folks, Don & Dorothy, were ‘bridge partners’ with my Mom and dad in FW. His best friend in FW was my ex-brother-in-law, with whom he went to Austin/UT. Joe lived in Austin for a brief time…
December 1982 Issue Texas Monthly by Jan Reid Images added by Billy Dale Coach Royal Regrets Why he won. Why he quit. Why he doesn’t miss it? Raising a great cloud of caliche dust, Darrell Royal zoomed away from the lake house in his van. He explained his haste as a measure of consideration for…
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Where Have All the Footballs Gone? A Spoof James Cooke was a Longhorn manager from 1967-69. During those years, James committed one of the most heinous and felonious crimes in the history of college football. Now that the statute of limitations has expired, James admits that he stole the game ball used in the 1969…
William Edward “Rooster” Andrews Rooster was offered a scholarship at Texas A&M, but Kutner interceded and convinced Coach Bible to offer him a scholarship. After Rooster graduated, Coach Bible said he was “the best manager I ever saw.” Class of 1945Inducted into HOH 1966 FOOTBALL (1941-45, Manager, Kicker, Halfback)BASEBALL (1944, 1946, Manager) Standing 4″…
OBITUARY Gene Ross MARCH 1, 1943 – OCTOBER 13, 2023 IN THE CARE OF Weed Corley Fish Funeral Homes and Cremation Services What is it about a ball in the water that makes a golfer go to great lengths to recover it? The thrill of the hunt? Because he could? Or did he just recognize…
CURTAINS FOR THE COUGARS by Larry Carlson for TLSN https://texaslsn.org “Out, damn spot! Out, I say.” So said Lady Macbeth, famously. I don’t know if Billy Shakespeare was ever required reading at the University of Houston, but Lady Macbeth and Cougar coach Dana Holgorsen are now intertwined in cursing that damn spot. Texas got a…
IT’S BEEN A MINUTE: Horns and Coogs Meet Again by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org There was a strange vibe that night when the Texas Longhorns football team last visited the University of Houston. For starters, kickoff time in H-Town for this televised game was 8:15 p.m., the latest Central Time Zone slot UT has ever…
Randy Braband: Turning The Tide, Melting M&M’s by Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org Randy Braband’s car had dodged a bullet, so to speak. During a heavy overnight June rain, a hefty limb from a San Saba pecan tree in his front yard had landed in the driveway, just missing the vehicle. I rode shotgun with Jay Arnold…
The History of the Texas vs. Tide during the Modern Era by Larry for TLSN. BLUEBONNET BOWL 1960 Season Dec. 17, Rice Stadium, Houston Background: Ninth-ranked Bama went 8-1-1 and boasted the nation’s second-ranked defense. Texas, coming off Darrell Royal’s first SWC championship in ’59, had gone 7-3, with one-point losses to Nebraska and…