Here we are in the fall of 2016, half a century since Jerry LeVias’s sophomore season on the SMU football team. I have already written extensively about him, what he did and its significance, so I hesitate to retrace my steps...
The sports world did not exactly come to a halt when I announced my retirement from marathoning in March 2016. I thought the New York Times or at least the Billings Gazette or the Jackson Clarion-Ledger would have sent a reporter to do an...
My grandfather (“Pappaw”) was proud of a certificate that attested to him having put more than 100,000 miles on his Harley-Davidson, so he obviously liked riding motorcycles. And his son—my father—was much the same. He...
Remember those long-ago days when people in the USA first got hip to the Beatles? Seems there was an avalanche of publicity, much of it of the fawning variety, when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr invaded our...
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...
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