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Monthly Archives: April 2017

Home2017Monthly Archives: April 2017
Reminiscing about the 1970 Bryan Adams Football Season

Reminiscing about the 1970 Bryan Adams Football Season

Football is big in Texas, I know. Probably too big, but what can we do? Since early in the 20th century, it has been integral to the state’s culture. Please permit me to wax nostalgic by thinking back to the team that represented my alma...

April 29, 2017 Richard alma mater, Bryan Adams High School, high school football 6 Comments
Basketball Referees Need to Put the Kibosh on All This Traveling

Basketball Referees Need to Put the Kibosh on All This Traveling

The greatest benefit of having a press-row seat at University of Texas basketball games in the 1996, 1997 and 1998 seasons was that I got an up-close view of how the game was played (by 10 athletes) and called (by 3 men in black-and-white...

April 25, 2017 Richard college basketball, pro basketball 0 Comments
Bill Bradley Was a True Student−Athlete

Bill Bradley Was a True Student−Athlete

I’m trying to think what I was doing in 1988. I was living on Lafayette Street in east Austin, working as a proofreader at G&S Typesetters, writing a weekly column for the American-Statesman and preparing to run my first marathon. It...

April 19, 2017 Richard American politics, Bill Bradley, pro basketball 0 Comments

Tom Swift

Rodney Elkins, Tony Sandow, David Twedell, Jeff Seacrest, Mickey Williamson, Sammy Ritter, David Posey, Jimmy Allen, Randy Patrick and Barry Payne were some of my male classmates in third and fourth grades at Edwin J. Kiest Elementary School...

April 5, 2017 Richard Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, youth reading 0 Comments

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