How many hours have I spent coursing through YouTube as I savor Michael Jackson singing, dancing and moving with consummate élan as a member of the Jackson 5 and then as a solo artist, in huge concerts from Detroit to Bucharest, from Sao Paolo to...
My maternal grandmother, Katherine Jones Cox, was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana in 1900. Her father worked as an overseer on a nearby sugar plantation, a fact that has always caused me some discomfort. Grandmother, as we called her, died in...
Fire-breathing, all-knowing American social critic Camille Paglia has discoursed on, among other topics, the so-called world’s oldest profession: prostitution. According to Paglia, “The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men...
The following list does not include Doug English, Blake Johnson or Ricky Brockway because I have written about them (and to a lesser extent Bruce Gaw, Darrow Hooper and Quency Hill) elsewhere. I should apologize for a glaring gender imbalance, as...
I left Austin a long time ago (4,487 days ago, to be precise) and have never missed it. While I was there, however, I often listened to KUT, 90.5 on your FM dial. I donated to its bi-annual fundraisers and came to know several of its on-air...
In 1990, I dragged my then-girlfriend to the Texas Union Ballroom to hear Dr. John Edgar Wideman give a speech about Emmett Till. That would have been four years after a driving tour I took through the state of Mississippi; Greenville...
My last Korea Times column (February 1-2, 2020) referred to Nino Benvenuti of Italy having lost a controversial boxing match to Korea’s Kim Ki-soo at Jangchung Gymnasium on June 25, 1966. Since the KT editor limits me to 800 words, I could not go...
During my growing-up years in Dallas, the name of Mildred “Babe” Didrikson was frequently written and spoken. Everybody, it seems, knew about this Norwegian-American athletic marvel. Born in Port Arthur, she moved with her family to...
The sports world is reeling after the death of Kobe Bryant in a Los Angeles-area helicopter crash Sunday morning. It is no surprise that this calamity has sparked intense media attention and over-the-top praise for Bryant, who lived just 41...
I am a Gentile, which is to say a non-Jew and a Protestant to boot. So I was born, and I have never felt tempted to alter my religious/spiritual affiliation. One of my female cousins married a Jewish guy, joined him in the synagogue and is...
“Physical fitness is the foundation of national strength. We must not forget for even a moment that cultivating a strong and fit people, and making sport an everyday part of people’s lives will provide the vitality necessary for the task of...
Offense Quarterback—Roger Staubach of Navy (1962−1964) Running backs—Jim Brown of Syracuse (1954−1956) and Herschel Walker of Georgia, (1980−1982) Receivers—Jerry Rice of Mississippi Valley State (1981−1984) and Larry Fitzgerald of Pittsburgh...
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