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...
On the first weekend of a new year and a new decade, what better way to celebrate than to take a trip out of town? I did not go far—about 30 kilometers—to Gwangju, but not the big city in the southwest corner of the country. To differentiate, the...
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...
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