I was on a radio show about 20 years ago. One of the other interviewees was Dr. John Butler, a faculty member at the University of Texas. Dr. Butler, a tall, savvy man of African descent, had helped integrate Louisiana State University as an...
After lots of discussion and planning, Lee Su-hyeon (“Vicky”) and I arranged for me to visit Hayang, her hometown in North Gyeongsang Province, to give a talk about Jikji and my NGO’s efforts to extricate it from the clutches of the French...
I am told that high school football in Texas these days has evolved. As in college and as in the pros, the game is now more about pitching and catching, tossing it around the old ball yard as Steve Spurrier once said. When I was a student five...
In July 1990, the University of Arkansas—by which I mean former football coach and then-AD Frank Broyles—declared that it would leave the Southwest Conference, of which it had been a member for 76 years. The Razorbacks were going to the...
During my unsuccessful year-long drive to convince the College Football Hall of Fame to admit Abner Haynes, I joined the Football Writers Association of America. I did so just to have access to its membership directory. Approximately 1,100...
A film maker, two authors, a TV producer, a disability rights advocate, a member of the Massachusetts Senate, a judge on the Massachusetts General Court, an entrepreneur, two actors and a retired brigadier general are among the notable alumni...
I admit to having wasted a few hundred dollars on the lottery when I lived in the USA, but I am not a gambler. I had never been to Las Vegas or any other casino and now, in a 24-hour span, I would visit two. I researched the matter before heading...
Maybe it was owner Alex Spanos, general manager John Butler, director of player personnel Buddy Nix, director of college scouting Jimmy Raye or head coach Mike Riley. Who among these leaders of the San Diego Chargers was most responsible for...
Tuesday marked the end of the life of Julius Whittier, a significant person in University of Texas history. Before him, there had never been an African-American varsity football player at UT. All of his predecessors had been European-American...
It was my 11th Chuseok holiday, the first of which came in 2008 when I was teaching English in Daegu. I had five days and would use four of them on an excursion to the southern coast of Korea. Chuseok traffic is usually horrible, but we just...
As a sixth-grader at Victor Hexter Elementary School in Dallas, I wasn’t too hip. If I had been, I would have invested $5.50 to see the somewhat long-haired Beatles sing, stomp and shout at Memorial Auditorium on September 18, 1964. To do...
I had met five University of Texas presidents—Drs. Norman Hackerman, William Cunningham, William Livingston, Robert Berdahl and William Powers—and the sixth would be Dr. Gregory Fenves. He was going to speak to a gathering of alumni at Seoul’s...
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