By Nathan FennoStaff Writer Dec. 3, 2019 BOSTON — The brains arrive at all hours in white cardboard boxes stamped “RUSH!” Inside each package is an inch-and-a-half-thick foam liner and a red bag protecting an ordinary white plastic bucket. When a courier service delivered Kevin Ellison’s brain to the Bedford VA Medical Center near Boston just…
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Hand written resume’ written circa 1966 by High School Coach Gustafson ! 1968- 1996- Coach Cliff Gustafson Darrell Royal, then the athletic director at Texas, gets credit for hiring Cliff in 1968. Royal was asked in 1994 if he ever dreamed Gustafson would be so successful. He responded, “Hell, no, If I’d known that,…
Do or Do Not Playing the game for these special moments 2001 to 2016- Coach Jerritt Elliott Coach Jerritt Elliot – The Bloom is on! Coach was the right hire at the right time in Longhorn Volleyball history. His decision to incorporate the best from the past into the best of the present helped build…
The Inner Wounds From Sports Injuries by Larry Carlson The strong impact of athletics upon so many Americans cannot be understated. Most of us who participated in athletics in high school benefited from the experiences that came with it. Commitment. Camaraderie. A sense of belonging and of accomplishment. Still, there was adversity to overcome. Some…
Rusty Coffee Frank was a very special guy to me and tried to help me improve my performance as an athlete while growing up in the locker rooms! His adoptive son Randy was a classmate at Brykerwoods Elementary since we lived in the same neighborhood! I remember his neighbor had a pet lion which was…
A great story of triumph over adversity, surviving a German Forced labor Camp that leads to a historical mark in football that can never be duplicated. Edited by Billy Dale Important: Before you read one of the greatest Longhorn sports stories in the history of college football, click on the link below for a preview….
Part III of “A Trilogy + 1 “ football and neurodegenerative diseases The book “Loving Sports” by Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson states that the Onion each year after the Super Bowl uses shredded concussion Studies as confetti to celebrate the end of another season. It is a “cruel, biting humor that reminds us…
Michiko Hattori has a storied collegiate career at the University of Texas: Four-time All-American Southwest Conference Player of the Year (1987-91) Two-time National Collegiate Golfer of the Year 1988-89 National Golf Coaches and Golf Week National Player of the Year Honda Broderick Award Player of the Year (1989-90) Southwest Conference Player of the Decade for the…
A condensed bullet point history of Texas Longhorn football during the Royal years follows. Please go to the “credit” section of this website to view books you can purchase from many fine book stores about Texas Longhorn Sports or please visit the official University of Texas Longhorn site Texassports.com. In the biography of Darrell Royal,…