LHN: Into The Burnt Orange Sunset by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org DeLoss Dodds, Athletic Director at the University of Texas from 1981-2013, once famously snapped off a line that made the Longhorn faithful smirk and UT enemies boil. Asked something about “keeping up with the Joneses” in college sports, Dodds, self assuredly, swatted the concern…
By Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org I guess it comes with, uh, …experience. Number of years tromping around the graying granite planet, aka the big blue marble. I’ll see some old footage of James Street dashing for the Arkansas end zone, Archie Manning sprinting out in that gangly, loose-legged way before he accelerates…maybe I’ll see that…
Texas Longhorns football today is the most valuable program in the game. The foundation was built over 50 years ago. By Stephen Ross Jul 13, 2016, 12:57pm CDT It’s being called “The Greatest Opening Weekend of College Football Ever.” The college football orgy starts with Kansas State at Stanford on Friday Sept. 2nd, then moves…
https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ CARLSON: As for your time covering Longhorn sports, you came along for some of the worst of UT football, then the best turnaround ever, plus “the Runnin’ Horns” of Coach Tom Penders, featuring “BMW”…Blanks, Mays & Wright. How cool were those times, up close? BMW My first basketball season was the year of BMW….
https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ Bill Schoening is one of those rare individuals who always seems to lead the league in fun. Sure, you might think, put me in place as one of America’s premier play-by-play radio announcers, and I’ll have fun, too. But the Philadelphia guy who called Texas Longhorn football, basketball and baseball for more than a…
by Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org THE “NATIVE” LANGUAGE OF LONGHORNS by Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org The natives are restless. No, not homeless but, at least according to most of the media, incorrectly situated. Let me explain. We all have pet peeves. Maybe you wince when others say “I could care less,” when you know they mean they…
Cody attended 2 National Championship games in 36 years as a TV sportscaster, the last in 2009 when Colt McCoy’s injury on this first-half hit doomed Texas vs. Alabama. Also, he was in the media Gaggle that recorded Vince Young when he crossed the goal line for the game-winner in 2005. National Championship games are…
$6.00 ticket for the Big Shoot-out Mark McDonald played for the Midland Lee Rebels, received a scholarship to UTEP, got his degree in Journalism, and he has been writing ever since. Mark is also the proud father of Longhorn All SWC player Turk McDonald who played for Coach McWilliams and Mackovic. Sports writers who never…
What do you get when you combine a great Texas Tech and Longhorn coach? You get Spike Dykes – a colorful storyteller, a virtuoso of one-liners, and a master of politically incorrect comments. Author Mark McDonald is a Midland Lee Rebel, a UTEP scholarship football player, a sports writer, and the author of many…
Mark McDonalds shares his story about the definitive book he wrote on the 1969 Big Shoot-out . That game — before, during and after — was one of those seminal moments that we can never forget. For Arkansas fans, it’s something akin to the assassination of a president. Orangebloods treasure the memory, each in his/her…