I spent most of 1995, 1996 and 1997 researching, writing and nudging Longhorn Hoops / The History of Texas Basketball toward publication. Funded on the cheap by the UT athletic department, it was brought out in 1998 by UT Press. I was in touch...
As I have said before in various ways, I am ambivalent about my alma mater. I attended and graduated from the University of Texas and spent about 30 years in Austin, but it is not the central fact of my life. While UT is a big school (more than...
Many people look back on their college days with unalloyed happiness. I had a bit of that during my four years at the University of Texas, but I can also remember worry, pressure and feelings of insecurity. It was a big campus packed with 40,000...
I was on a radio show about 20 years ago. One of the other interviewees was Dr. John Butler, a faculty member at the University of Texas. Dr. Butler, a tall, savvy man of African descent, had helped integrate Louisiana State University as an...
In July 1990, the University of Arkansas—by which I mean former football coach and then-AD Frank Broyles—declared that it would leave the Southwest Conference, of which it had been a member for 76 years. The Razorbacks were going to the...
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...
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 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...
Any list of the real hotbeds of far-left college activism in the United States in the mid- and late 1960s would have to include the University of California, the University of Michigan, Ohio State University, the University of Wisconsin...
In one respect, I am unqualified to write this piece since I am 7,000 miles from the scene and have been living the expat life for almost a decade. Nevertheless, I am a graduate of the University of Texas, wrote three books on Longhorn sports...
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...
Almost as soon as former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal breathed his last on November 7, 2012, there began the encomiums, the flowery tributes, the hosannas in the highest. It seemed that sports writers, fans and ex-players...
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