Roos, Friends: It’s Friday afternoon, and Austin College Homecoming weekend is here! Time for another “Roo Tale”. Well, sorta. 🙂 As some of you might be aware, over the past year I’ve been telling stories of Austin College Sports from 25, 50, and 100+ years ago. They are a lot of fun for me to
Roos, Friends: It’s Friday afternoon! I wasn’t planning on writing or posting a Roo Tale this week. But two games requires that I pull an old one out of the archives and dust it off. Pitt topped Georgia Tech 37-34 two weeks ago at Heinz Field, in part on a touchdown reception by Brian O’Neill.
This. Is. The. Year. It’s Friday afternoon! Time for another Austin College Roo Tale. Yes, yes. I know. I’ve got a lot of friends who are Rangers fans. And they may not enjoy this story. The Rangers’ day will come. Just not yet. Some professional sports fans bask in the glory. Yankees. Celtics. Patriots. Others
The United Kingdom is bursting at the seams once again. Ehh, makes sense. Scotland and England have always had something of a troubled relationship, and it is on display once more. Recent parliamentary elections showed a decisive divide between Tory England and SNP Scotland. The Brexit vote proved similar. Thus it was always so. The
I’m a College Station boy. The 1973 OPEC oil embargo was a boon for Persian Gulf and Texas oil producers, Texas refining, and by extension the Texas economy and state coffers. As the Permanent University Fund (PUF) grew, so too did A&M’s ambitions. No longer content to be a Citadel or VMI, Texas A&M began
Dianne and I have a son with a passion for rules and imposing order on chaos. It’s fairly typical of many boys his age. We joke that his career options will be limited to (1) Il Duce or (2) football referee. The latter would be a fine Austin College tradition. Another season of NFL football
We’ve got a great little neighborhood. Our community in Southwest Austin has it all. Walking distance to schools. Nearby retail. And proximity to downtown. But mainly, it’s the neighbors themselves that make it special. A number have already lived abroad, and more have plans to do so. They come from all across the country. New
Monday, August 1st will be a solemn day in Austin, TX, and for good reason. 50 years ago on this date, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the UT Tower and began firing at students with deadly accuracy. 48 people would be killed or wounded over 90 minutes, before his deadly rampage was ended
A powerful storm literally came out of nowhere on a hot July day in Sherman last Saturday. The storm took out all power on campus during Austin College Legends weekend. But the ceremony and celebration were moved elsewhere, and the resilient Roos were honored all the same. Sounds appropriate for this week’s Roo Tale. This
This week’s Roo Tale is dedicated to AC Athletic Director David Norman, member of the 1981 Roo National Championship football team, coach of the 1991 Roo baseball team, and former Roo football coach in the 2000s. Coach Norman was the skipper of AC baseball, and I was an AC tennis guy. However, the fellas I
