The Beatles publicly announced their breakup in April 1970, but it’s a wonder that did not happen before since the band had long been roiling with acrimony. They squabbled in front of cameras during the recording and filming of Let It Be, and...
My family, such as it was, lived in a red brick house at 9853 Champa Drive (1,564 square feet, three bedrooms and two bathrooms) in east Dallas from the summer of 1963 until September 1971. Champa was about half a mile long, running diagonally...
So much of what we hear these days is doom and gloom―political battles, a slumping economy, corruption, K-pop stars committing suicide, social problems and thunderous threats from North Korea. It’s enough to make a person pull up the covers and...
Abner Haynes met his new teammates in August 1956, in a parking lot outside of Fouts Field on the North Texas State campus. He would be the first black football player in school history, and none of the White Eagles had been consulted on the...
When Babe Ruth’s spirit ascended to that great baseball diamond in the sky in 1948, his body lay in state in the Yankee Stadium rotunda, allowing 105,000 people to pass by; about 75,000 stood in the rain outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral the...
Six-foot-eight David Miller played varsity basketball for Southern Methodist University from 1970 to 1972. Not a star by any stretch of the imagination (9.1 points and 5.8 rebounds per game), he nevertheless contributed to his team winning a...
I visited Dr. Roman Kintanar in Quezon City, the Philippines back in 1994. My main purpose was to gather information about his life (a doctorate in physics at UT in 1951 and nearly 40 years as head of the country’s weather bureau) for my book...
The New York City Marathon took place last weekend, which put me in a reflective mood. I ran that race in 1989, exactly 30 years ago. My time was 2:54:59, and I came in 858th out of 24,492 entrants. The story at hand, however, is not about me...
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I refuse to take responsibility for the flaws of Texas Longhorns Football History A to Z (2007). For one thing, the Boston-based publisher assigned me a female editor who was clueless about sports writing conventions. And while I was happy to...
It was Saturday morning. I took Line 2 to Dongseoul Bus Terminal and then cruised down the highway to Cheongju. This time, however, I was not there on Jikji business (although I was carrying a copy of Jikji, and One NGO’s Lonely Fight to Bring It...
I have never been to Ukraine. Nor, to my knowledge, have I met a native of that country of 42 million on Russia’s western border. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it became independent—which is not to say the Bear does not still...
I spent most of 1995, 1996 and 1997 researching, writing and nudging Longhorn Hoops / The History of Texas Basketball toward publication. Funded on the cheap by the UT athletic department, it was brought out in 1998 by UT Press. I was in touch...
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