This week, the commissioner of Major League Baseball reinstated the infamous “Eight Men Out” of the 1919 Chicago White Sox. All eight, banned from the game for taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series, are now eligible for the Hall of Fame. The story of the eight was told in the 1988 movie “Eight
In honor of Texas A&M’s dramatic win last night over Notre Dame in “the House that Knute Rockne built,” here’s a Texas photo of Rockne and Austin College Kangaroo Coach Pete Cawthon. Cawthon’s Roos defeated Baylor in 1924. But every other Southwest Conference school failed to do so. The Bears rolled to a SWC title
The Cowboys open their 2025 campaign tonight against the Philadelphia Eagles. There is not a whole lot for Dallas Cowboys fans in Roo Nation to be happy about as they start the 2025 season. But Marc has something for you! Dallas and Philadelphia met for the first time in September of 1960, the first season
Melida Ailshire, friend of the Sherman/Denison community and Austin College alumnus like Marc, has been writing about Friday’s 127th edition of the Battle of the Ax football game between the Bearcats and Yellow Jackets. The Battle of the Ax is the oldest rivalry in Texas high school football. This Friday’s game has special meaning. It
College football kicks off today with “Farmageddon,” the Iowa State – Kansas State rivalry that has taken place uninterrupted since 1917. The game will be played in Dublin, Ireland. If you are an Iowa State fan, here’s an article of Head Coach Donnie Duncan’s Iowa State Cyclones defeating Kansas State in the 1980 edition of
The US Open tennis tournament kicks off this week, one month after Marc was inducted into the Austin College Hall of Honor for tennis and one month after Marc read a great book about the history of Texas tennis. Hey, that sounds like a good excuse for a Texas / US Open Roo Tale. Only
Marc’s in D.C. today, paying respects to Roo Danny Gilstrap at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Today is the last day of the AC Crimson & Gold Challenge for Athletics. Gilstrap was an AC track star in the early 1960s. Danny Gilstrap was lost in the conflict in Vietnam. Every Friday night Gar Hole reception before
It’s Austin College Crimson & Gold Challenge Week! See the comments for a link to give back to AC. I believe that to encourage others to give, one has to give first. So on Crimson & Gold Challenge Week, I usually give a story. This year’s Challenge Week story is about an AC Legend for
I don’t write about myself that much. But this year I’m making some exceptions. The AC “A” Board announced that I’ll be inducted into the Austin College Hall of Honor in the summer of 2025. My sport is tennis, and Legends Weekend 2025 is igniting a bunch of Marc tennis stories. Here’s the LAST one:
These 5. You know what’s cool about these 5 inductees with whom I’m going into the AC Hall of Honor? They’ve all been in Roo Tales. See the comments for all 5 tales. Let’s go through the list of THESE FIVE. Walker Fenci ’90 – Four-year football player, TIAA Academic All-Conference and NAIA Academic All-American,
