PROLOGUE TO Lubbock 2008, Ten Years After Sept. 20, 2021 by Larry Carlson Dateline: Lubbock, November 10, 2018 Many of us began the elevator shuttle from the press box down to the floor of Jones AT&T Stadium, with about six to seven minutes on the clock. Texas had entered the fourth quarter with a lead…
Randy Braband: Turning The Tide, Melting M&M’s by Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org Randy Braband’s car had dodged a bullet, so to speak. During a heavy overnight June rain, a hefty limb from a San Saba pecan tree in his front yard had landed in the driveway, just missing the vehicle. I rode shotgun with Jay Arnold…
RICH OKLAHOMA-TEXAS RIVALRY INCLUDED MANY ROYAL OCCASIONS By Sam Blair and Dallas Morning News Chicago Tribune •Oct 13, 1991 at 12:00 am DALLAS — Fifteen years after he coached his last game at the Cotton Bowl, Darrell Royal still feels the heat and emotion of the Texas-Oklahoma football rivalry. Chances are, he always will. When…
Bill Wyman 06.22.2013 | Football Bill Little commentary: The quiet man When it came to describing Bill Wyman, Darrell Royal would call him the best center he ever coached. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and there is one photo of former Longhorn Bill Wyman that shows just that. Shot…
Former Longhorn Defensive defensive coordinator Greg Robinson dies at 70 Early in his career, Robinson established his reputation as a tremendous defensive coordinator. Robinson’s coaching career, which began in 1975, spanned 40 years at the high school , college, and professional, levels. He is best known as the defensive coordinator for the 1997 and 1998…
https://youtu.be/7ccJRRNGoho the story of the Eyes of Texas by Walter Cronkite The Eyes of Bevo are upon you. This whole discussion is quite simple for me. No one sings the Eyes of Texas to salute racism. Over the last 55 years, I had no clue that the words might be indirectly perceived as racist….