To be perfectly honest, I have never been a big fan of dogs. In my growing-up days, the Pennington family did not have one as a pet. (Nor, for that matter, was there a cat in our household.) They were plentiful, however, in the two east Dallas...
He has been dead now for a quarter-century, but I am certain that people in Austin and beyond still remember Dan Del Santo. A larger-than-life figure, he hosted a Friday night world beat (a term he popularized but falsely claimed to have...
Not long ago, I finished reading The Rape Gang Inquiry Report put together by Rupert Lowe and some other UK patriots. It described, in painful detail, how Mohammedans of Pakistani descent (and a few of their Afghan, Syrian, Iraqi, Somali, Turkish...
Perhaps in the spirit of July 4, the people at Sports Illustrated recently printed an article in which they listed the top five athletes from each of the 50 states. I had neither the time nor the inclination to go through the whole thing, so I...
In a recent exchange of e-mails with a friend, I said—and he felt the same way—that I wish I had been more mature in my youth. During the 12 years I spent as a student in the Dallas Independent School District, there were numerous opportunities...
According to Carl Jung, “the general function of dreams is to try to re-establish our psychological equilibrium by means of dream material which, in a subtle way, reconstitutes the total equilibrium of our entire psyche.” Yeah, maybe. I have had...
Not every guy who makes it to the major leagues has a long and successful career, developing his athletic skills to the utmost, winning championships, earning big money and getting his ego endlessly stroked. There are far more who manage to find...
Having honored John Mackovic as a football lifer and Hubie Brown as his hoops counterpart, I simply had to write a similar article about a baseball man. I sought suggestions and got quite a few, but each one left me unenthused. Then, I heard a...
He was born in the depths of the Depression and grew up in a rough-and-tumble part of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a port town 20 miles southwest of Manhattan. His father was a foreman at a shipyard, lost his job and was not too proud to hire on as a...
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—it seems the Beatles are always listed in that order—traversed a long and winding road between their formation in 1960 and their “divorce” in 1970; they did not wrap up...
I am an ecumenical guy, especially regarding Christianity and Judaism—from which sprang the Wonderful Counselor, the Bread of Life, the Lamb of God. Interfaith dialogue and finding common ground here are all well and good. But when it comes to...
My friend Dex’s knowledge of sports, especially baseball, is deep and wide. If I ask his opinion of the fictional pitcher Stanislov Wiśniewski, he can tell me without checking Baseball Reference or the Society for American Baseball Research that...
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