Nobody ever said that running a big-time football program is easy. You have to deal with pushy alumni, egg-heads on the faculty who want to abolish intercollegiate athletics and know-it-all reporters at the local newspaper, not to mention...
I was a junior at UT on September 20, 1973 when the so-called Battle of the Sexes took place at the Houston Astrodome before 30,000 howling fans and another 90 million, including me, who watched on television. In a heavily hyped, one-off...
I hope I have made it abundantly clear that Abner Haynes deserves to be in the College Football Hall of Fame. His exploits for the North Texas State Eagles in the late 1950s should suffice. Further proof is the fact that the process of racial...
Bear with me as I gaze 57 years into the past, back to the 1959 college football season. I propose to look at some numbers and hazard a supposition or two. Washington beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, Georgia beat Missouri in the Orange...
Cheol-Woong Rim and I were a bit late in arriving at the National Palace Museum, adjacent to Gyeongbokgung—the biggest and most central of Seoul’s five royal palaces. The date was July 22, 2016, which meant that more than three...
Almost 7,000 miles separate me from the land of my birth, so obviously I am not on the scene. My feel for what’s happening in the USA in the summer of 2016 is a bit shaky. That applies to numerous issues—Donald Trump winning the...
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, there are now more than 20 million cars or trucks in Korea. That’s one four-wheeled, motorized vehicle for every 2.56 people. Quite a jump from the 7,000 cars in the...
I have only two vague memories of life before my family moved into a red-brick home in far east Dallas in the summer of 1957. In the first, I was quite young—maybe one year old? I was in a crib, and there were a number of adults in the...
The North Koreans are in the news again. I refer not to them testing a hydrogen bomb or sending another missile over the East Sea or hacking computers in South Korea and the USA or putting the clamps on desperate would-be refugees or sucking...
It was an interesting setting and an interesting conversation. Prior to the Orange-White Game at Memorial Stadium sometime in the mid-1980s, the coaches and other staffers of the University of Texas athletic department were cooking up an...
Just after noon on a beautiful day in the spring of '16, I was in the park adjacent to the Halla Classic Building in Gangnam. I sat on a bench and awaited the arrival of my friend Kathy Choi. She was operating on what she called...
Back in the 1980s, I had a GF named Louise Montgomery. She was working on a doctorate in journalism at the University of Texas. Louise swooned for Thomas Jefferson, calling him brilliant, a man of protean intellect and vision. She was not...
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