View in Browser H Christmas 2008 Looking Back Moving Forward In 2016 three former Longhorn student-athletes/managers -Jim Kay, Benny Pace, and Billy Dale- envisioned a free, insightful, historical, and educational newsletter to share and celebrate the history of Longhorn sports by those who created it. One hundred thirty newsletters later, we close-out 2020 with this…
View in Browser Top of the Que Volume V Newsletter #10 Top of the Que 05/06/2019 Volume IV Newsletter #14 Welcome to the Texas Longhorn sports historical newsletter and website. Both mediums capture the power of UT Sports history, UT traditions, UT legacies, UT culture, individual records, photos, insightful comments, and personal commentary from those…
View in Browser ALBUM RELEASE Texas Legacy Support Network Presents Records to Remember For the Record TLSN combines 1000’s of photos; the history of every Longhorn NCAA sport from inception until 2014; Seasonal and career individual records; insightful articles ; and player comments into a form that celebrates the greatest brand in the history of…
Top of the Que Volume V Newsletter #12 History, Heritage, and Traditions have built the Longhorn Brand Health Watch Coach Leon Black has been added to the Longhorn health watch. There are two links. Please save the first link for updates on Coach Black . https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/coach-leon-black-1 https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/coach-leon-black SIGN OF THE TIMES Coach Gus April 2020…
Top of the Que Volume V Newsletter #13 TLSN is an independent organization celebrating Longhorn Sports History . TLSN is not associated with the UT Athletic Department or any organization closely aligned with UT. The website and newsletter are free, insightful, historical, and educational. HOOK’EM ORIGIN 1955 is the Beginning of Big Bertha and the…
Bill Sansing has passed away. The link below shares an article that Bill Little wrote about Mr. Sansing’s influence on the Sports media starting as the SID for D.X. Bible. Bill was 100 years old. https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/bill-sansing Benjamin Franklin said there are only three things certain in life: death, taxes and Fans Ok – the quote…
View in Browser https://texaslsn.org Top of the Que 10/03/2019 Volume IV Newsletter #24 Scientific structural integrity testing of the helmet in 1912. Steve Ross and Coach Akers Over the last 4 years great articles from Gaylon Krizak, Barbara Wainscott, Mark McDonald, Ragan Gennusa , Robert Brewer, Rey Moreno, Byrd Baggett, Stewart Keller, Pamela Ferguson, Hub…
View in Browser Coach Allison Coach Allison Dear Horns, Finding research material for the history of Longhorn tennis during Coach Allison’s years went from sparse to plentiful last week. Coach Allison left all his correspondence and more to the Stark Center. Some of the content quite frankly would embarrass some of the players and their…
Top of the Que Volume IV newsletter 24 Oct. 25, 2019 Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the 50th anniversary reunion of the 1969 football national championship team because I was fortunate enough to attend my mother’s 90 birthday party during the same time frame. For those who attended, please send me some photos and…
Augie Garrido said that “life doesn’t give us what we pray for. It doesn’t give us what we wish for. It doesn’t give us anything other than opportunity, nothing more, nothing less, and that’s enough. In fact, it is a great gift.” Charlie is part of the greatest generation in the history of our country,…