Eight years before he became commissioner of the National Football League, Pete Rozelle served as a public relations specialist for the Los Angeles Rams. A PR guy is not a scout, and yet he somehow he found the ultimate diamond in the rough when...
When I attend services at nearby Choonghyeon Presbyterian Church, I usually sit in the balcony where two rows are given over to foreigners. Seventeen-plus years after moving to Korea, I am still learning the rudiments of the language, so a...
What in the world have I wrought? I never anticipated that my two-part homage to Blackie Sherrod would have such a far-reaching and profound impact. My opinion is now sought on every subject from geopolitics to submolecular biology, a lengthy...
• A Book of Travelers’ Tales by Eric Newby, Penguin Books, 1985 [July 2011] • A Brief History of American Literature by John Huh, Shinasa, 2001 [May 2008] • A Brief History of American Sports by Elliott J. Gorn and...
Public response to the paean I wrote for Blackie Sherrod has been overwhelming. A veritable tsunami of praise has rolled in, leaving me deeply humbled. On the basis of such plaudits, I am here with a second go-round. While doing research that...
His Sunday columns used a staccato format of various topics separated by ellipses borrowed from previous sports writers, but William Forrest “Blackie” Sherrod (1919–2016) perfected it. I am doing so here to honor this native of Belton, Texas, who...
For the last couple of months, I have been in e-mail contact with a Catholic priest, Father M—C—. This native of Papua New Guinea works in Istanbul, Turkey, and it is he who first informed me that Pope Francis was seriously ill. Father M— C—...
My father (d. 2005) worked on the assembly line at the Ford plant on East Grand Avenue before moving up to an office job. He stayed with FoMoCo through retirement, which took place in Michigan a decade after the Dallas plant had closed. I was...
In late March, I was with two You Me colleagues, Lee Jeong-jin and Park Ji-eun, at a nearby restaurant dining on samgyetang. For reasons I do not recall, the latter made reference to a long-ago Korean military man, Kang Kam-chan. I had not...
Former NBA players blowing through their money and ending up broke and in desperate straits is an oft-repeated story. Shawn Kemp, Vin Baker, Latrell Sprewell, Antoine Walker, Rumeal Robinson, Derrick Coleman, Larry Johnson, Christian Laettner...
While I do not claim to be the court of final appeal when it comes to University of Texas basketball history, as the author of Longhorn Hoops (UT Press, 1998), I submit that few people know it better. One of that book’s most compelling stories...
My friend Jack Crager is a University of Texas grad, athlete, husband, father, New York City resident and writer. A fair percentage of his stuff pertains to music, and that is why I urged him to assess Steely Dan, the incomparable rock band...
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