Volleyball (VB) is big in Texas, and the biggest stage takes place at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, TX. The Center annually hosts the Texas UIL State Tournament. I’ve written a handful of times about Coach Heather Woods Sanders. Sanders is a Kangaroo and veteran of Roo volleyball. She is also the legendary Coach
The number of the day is NINE. Shohei Ohtani may have had the greatest day at the plate in baseball history this week. In an instant classic Game #3 of the World Series, Ohtani got on base a record NINE times during the 18-inning game. 18 innings! That’s basically two 9-inning games back-to-back. A double-header.
100 years ago in 1925, Austin College & Texas A&M competed for the last time. The Aggies hosted the Austin College Kangaroos in basketball. The Bryan-College Station Eagle noted that the Kangaroos were “the fastest quintet in the [conference] last year.” Texas A&M prevailed; the game took place at the DeWare Field House. 50 years
The game of the week is Vanderbilt at Alabama. The Crimson Tide, a perennial college football power, is ranked in the Top 25. But so is undefeated Vanderbilt, the academically prestigious SEC member that historically struggles on the gridiron. The game will be the first time these two squads have clashed as ranked opponents since
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
