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"Why, those sorry bastards"
During football season, two Clear Thinkers favorite subjects are the annual Texas-OU game and former Texas head coach Darrell Royal (here, here, here, here and here). So, this Barking Carnival post on the epic 1976 game -- Royal's last...
"Darrell, I don't think we could go through that again"
With the beginning of the college football season this week, it just feels right to pass along this OU Insider interview of one of Texas' legendary college football coaches -- Emory Bellard, the inventor of the Wishbone offense. Numerous...
Expanding DKR Memorial
A couple of years ago, while attending the Texas-Iowa State football game (blog post here), I took the photo on the left of the horseshoe section on the north end of the University of Texas' Darrell K. Royal Memorial...
The return of Coach Slocum on a Mobile
New Texas A&M football coach Mike Sherman was an assistant coach in the A&M program under R.C. Slocum, the folksy former head coach who was somewhat unceremoniously dumped when the A&M reached to hire Dennis Franchione five years ago. As...
UT's Sooner legacy
This post from earlier this fall noted that this season was the 50th anniversary of the legendary University of Texas football coach Darrell K. Royal (previous posts here) taking the reins of the then faltering Longhorn football program and turning...
As the Aggie Football World Turns
What is it about Texas A&M University that the institution cannot fire a football coach correctly? The slowly disintegrating status of A&M head football coach Dennis Franchione has been a frequent topic on this blog for almost two years now...
50 years with Darrell Royal
Has it really been 50 years since the University of Texas hired Darrell Royal to revive its flagging football program?...
Jody Conradt steps down
Longtime University of Texas women's basketball coach Jody Conradt resigned on Monday, ending a coaching career at UT that spanned 31 years and produced 900 wins, a national championship with an undefeated team in 1986, 21 NCAA tournament appearances, three...
Dan Jenkins on Darrell Royal
The Chronicle's David Barron uses last night's Texas Children's Hospital fund-raising dinner to honor legendary former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal as a Texas Legend to pen this fun article on two Clear Thinkers favorites -- Coach Royal...
Runnin' with the Dogs at Texas-OU Weekend
The greatest annual rivalry game in college football is renewed this Saturday in Dallas as the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners strap it on at the Cotton Bowl, and this year's game is highlighted by a new book about...
Good karma for the Rose Bowl
As Texans prepare for the long-awaited Rose Bowl matchup tonight between the Texas Longhorns and the USC Trojans, this Ray Buck/Ft. Worth Star Telegram article does a good job of telling how Longhorn coach Mack Brown's relationship with legendary former...
The Horns' recurring nightmares
As Houston prepares for the Texas Longhorns to win their first Big 12 Football Championship tomorrow at Reliant Stadium, I have detected an unusual reserve among the Longhorn supporters. It's a bit hard to describe, but it's definitely noticeable --...
Dan Jenkins on Vince Young
As regular readers of my blog know, Dan Jenkins of Ft. Worth is my favorite sportswriter, bar none (previous posts on Jenkins are here, here, here, here and here). In this interesting David Barron article that explores where the 2005...
Woody Hayes' advice to defense counsel in the Enron cases
Peter Henning over at the White Collar Criminal Prof Blog is skeptical that U.S. District Judge Sim Lake's letter-writing campaign is going to induce any of the recalcitrant witnesses in the criminal case against former Enron executives Ken Lay, Jeff...
2005 Weekly local football review
Amidst the chaos resulting from Hurricane Katrina, at least a small amount of normalcy returned this past weekend as the local college football season kicked off. As with last season, I will pass along a brief summary of the local...
A true character at the Naval Academy
When Naval Academy head football coach Paul Johnson took over the head coaching job after the 2001 season, he inherited a Navy football program that that had gone 1-20 over the two seasons before he was hired. In Coach Johnson's...
The politics of statutes at UT
This NY Times article reports on the squabble that has arisen over the University of Texas at Austin's decision to honor famed Houston trial lawyer Joe Jamail with his second statute on the UT campus: Of the more than a...
The demise of the Southwest Conference
Kevin Whited has this interesting post over at PubliusTX.net about the demise of the old and beloved (at least in Texas) Southwest Conference, and how former University of Houston Athletic Director Bill Carr flubbed the chance to shoehorn UH into...
UT honors Dr. Denton Cooley
Dr. Denton Cooley is one of Houston's many legendary doctors who have helped build the Texas Medical Center into one of the world's great medical centers. Dr. Cooley founded The Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, and he...
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