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...
I am a sucker for a good historical episode, and this is one. Please allow me to summarize. On April 15, 1885, three British warships (HMS Agamemnon, HMS Pegasus and HMS Firebrand) and two transport ships steamed out of Nagasaki and headed west...
I was a first-semester freshman at the University of Texas in the fall of 1971, doing my best to maintain some degree of equilibrium on that huge campus. My home, and that of 3,200 others, was Jester Center. While walking through an outdoor...
I do not mean to criticize John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Warren Buffett or Bill Gates. They gave away (Buffett and Gates continue to do so) untold millions, even billions of dollars for various causes, including...
I had been to Incheon before—once for a baseball game (the hometown SK Wyverns vs. the Nexen Heroes) at Munhak Stadium, once to visit friends and once to join a group catching a ferry up to Baengnyeong Island. But those were just brief visits in...
I like to say that since moving to Korea 10-plus years ago, I have come to disregard big-time sports. The NBA playoffs? The NCAA Final Four? The World Series? Wimbledon? The Indy 500? The Olympics? University of Texas football? The passion I long...
June 6 is a national holiday in Korea, when people (are supposed to) pause and reflect about the sacrifices made during the 6-25 War, as it is usually called here. Of course, June 25 is the day in 1950 when Kim Il-Sung’s soldiers, with Soviet and...
George Halas was certainly in the twilight of his pro football career—player, coach and owner—in the mid-1960s. He had his critics, even though the Chicago Bears had won the NFL championship in 1963. Papa Halas fully understood that drafting...
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