View in Browser Top of the Queue Volume VII newsletter #23 11/03/2023 TLSN is not associated with the UT Athletic Department or any organization closely aligned with UT. IMPORTANT: Please click “VIEW IN BROWSER,” shown in the small white letters above, to enlarge and enhance the photos and text on your cellphone. If you don’t…
View in Browser Top of the Queue Volume VII Newsletter #22 September 21, 2022. To format the TLSN newsletter for cell phones, it is necessary to Click on the white lettered “VIEW IN BROWSER” at the top of this page. Not doing so reduces the quality of photos and the text font. Health Updates: Longhorn…
View in Browser TLSN Thanksgiving Special Edition 11/22/2022 Click on the white-lettered “VIEW IN BROWSER” shown in very small print at the top of this page to enhance the quality of photos and the text of this newsletter. After Texas joins the SEC the Thanksgiving Texas-Aggie game may once again be part of Longhorn Sports…
View in Browser Thanking all for donations received to help former Longhorn student-athletes in need is more than good manners; it is good spirituality. Click on the small white “VIEW IN BROWSER” letters above for best-quality text and photos. Larry says: I was returning home from a story one night driving northbound on I-35 when…
View in Browser Volume VI Newsletter #30 – 12/21/2021 Click on “view in browser” at the top of page if images do not appear or content is distorted. NOTE: All the TLSN newsletters written since 2016 are captured in the Navigation tool at the top of the TLSN website. Warning 2016 -2018 newsletters were rudimentary…
View in Browser Kenneth Sims was recently inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. A full write up on Kenneth’s honor will be included in the January 29, 2021, TLSN newsletter. The “Father of bone marrow transplantation,” Dr. E. Donnall Thomas is a former SWC Longhorn swimming champion. E. Donnall (Don) Thomas Donnall was…
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….
Remembering Lemons, Texas’ NIT title-winning team On the eve of the NCAA crowning a national champion at the Final Four, guest columnist Larry Carlson remembers the NIT-winning Texas squad of Abe Lemons 40 years later. Article written for 247 Sports LARRY CARLSON Apr 1st, 2018, 8:00 AM35 Long before Longhorn basketball backers swooned for Tom…
THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS- By Larry Carlson Aggies, Re-hashed & Warmed Over. Larry Carlson stirs the pot with three favorite seasonal Texas A & M memories. “Shock the Nation” is one of Texas vs Aggie trilogies that he captures for the TLSN historical site. Visit this link for the 1974 Texas-A & M game https://www.texaslsn.org/1974-aggie-game-by-larry-carlson Visit this…
Professor Larry Carlson and Pat Culpepper THE MOST SPIRITED, PASSIONATE LONGHORN EVER by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) It had been my good fortune to enjoy one of the trademark mint juleps with the prettiest girl in the world out on the patio of The Columns Hotel on stately, oak-lined St. Charles Avenue in New…