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…
Larry Carlson is a senior writer for TLSN and has been covering Longhorn sports through radio, magazines, newspapers, websites and podcasts since 1977. He hosted KVET Radio’s Longhorn Locker Room post-game show during the early Fred Akers era and wrote for James Street’s Orange Power. He was also a radio correspondent for NBC Sports and…
THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS Aggies, Re-hashed & Warmed Over. 1974- Texas upsets A & M 32-3. A&M is ranked #9, and Texas is ranked #17. Don’t tell anyone, but Texas’s record against A&M in Memorial Stadium since 1924 was 23-1-1. A&M had three fumbles in the first quarter, and Texas scored points on all of the errors….
NUMBER 30 WAS NUMBER ONE by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) My niece, Kim, still calls me “Uncle Woo,” even though she has passed the 39-year mark. It’s because her mom, my oldest sister, Karen, called me “Woo” for almost fifty years, until she passed away this very week in 2017. Her reason? I talked…
My good friend Tim Griffin passed away in July 2022, just five months after this interview we did. He is greatly missed by many. The memorial service hosted by his widow, Dede, and son, Bradley, was a celebration of a life well-lived and was attended by a “who’s who” of sports journalists and friends from…
THE OUTSIDERS by Larry Carlson Email: LC13@Txstate.edu If you’re playing for the Crimson Tide and from outside Alabama, you’re in the majority. Likewise, Clemson could not play ball with mostly South Carolinians. And Texas followers know all about that team operating out of Norman, up in Baja Kansas. The vast majority of OU players are…
Larry Carlson’s interview of Bill Bradley is sponsored by Hornfans.com This is Bill Bradley! Your articles are very true and great! I’m not saying this because of my own article! I’ve read them all, and’ WOW’! They are all the Salt of the Earth! I feel very privileged to have mine with such other great…
Linus Baer through the eyes of a 10 year old Larry at 10 Wearing Linus Baer’s #10 Childhood memories of the Christmas season stay with you. This one is seared into the personal brain files. The sounds of the Ronettes’ new version of “Sleigh Ride” and Brenda Lee’s already classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”…
Randy and Jenna at Hall of Honor installation In 2021 Jenna received the second most TLSN national listeners of 22 oral history productions produced in two years. Her link is https://www.texaslsn.org/jenna-mceachern THE TLSN INTERVIEW: RANDY McEACHERN TLSN: You — and teammates from the signing class of ’74, such as Earl Campbell and Brad Shearer —…
Preface to Professor Carlson’s article “Living the Dream” . DKR the Dream Maker Edith and Coach Royal, Lise and Mac Davis, Jenna and Randy Royal’s high school coaches said he was too small to try out for the football team, but Royal continued to dream of greatness. No great activity starts without a vision, and…