Midnight Yell Practice is a Texas A&M tradition. Dianne’s and my son Mr. A., a rising sophomore Aerospace Engineering major in Aggieland, heads for College Station this weekend. This fall football season, with its return of the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry, probably means Mr. A’s life will include Midnight Yell. Midnight Yell Practice was born in
Many folks in the state of Texas are excited about the return of the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry at Kyle Field this year. That group includes more than a few Austin College Kangaroos. Longhorn-Aggie conference matchups resume after a 13-year hiatus dating back to a 2011 Aggie loss at Kyle Field. Those 13 years are not
Six Roos will be inducted into the Austin College Hall of Honor during Legends weekend of 2024 (July 26-28). I happen to have ties (some big, some small) to the six 2024 inductees. Hey, that sounds like a Marc writing opportunity! So, let’s do six short stories over six days for these SIX. The British
Dave’s Campbell’s Texas Football magazine is out this week. The magazine always kicks off the football season in the Lone Star State. This year’s cover and lead story is about the coaching success of the Joseph family: father Gary and son Jeff. For the Joseph family in Texas, football is a “Family Business.” Gary Joseph
Cher is your 2024 recipient of the IHeartRadio Icon Award. Not much of a shocker. The American singer is the only artist in history to have a #1 single on the Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades. Cher’s career can be traced back to the 1960s, when alongside partner Sonny Bono she recorded her first
As we prepare for tonight’s winner-take-all College World Series baseball game between Texas A&M and the University of Tennessee, Marc is offering a strange-but-true “twilight zone-like” baseball Roo Tale absolutely free of charge. Austin College baseball defeated Texas A&M baseball in 1911 by a score of 3-1. The game took place in Sherman at the
You may have read the news this week that Fort Worth’s nearly 100-year-old LaGrave Field is being demolished. LaGrave Field, born in 1926 just north of downtown, was the home of the minor league Fort Worth Cats of the American Association. You may have read the news this week that Willie “Say Hey” Mays passed
The Boston Celtics are your 2024 NBA champions. The Celtics won their 18th title last night, the most in NBA history. Many of those 18 titles were won in the 1960s, when Boston was led by Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, and a fella named John Havlicek. John Havlicek’s steal in Game #7 of the Eastern
“Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then It’s a love without end, amen.” – George Strait George Strait played Kyle Field this Father’s Day weekend. Nearly 111,000 saw the highest attended concert in U.S. history. The event was also the largest in Kyle Field history. At 119 years, Kyle Field is one
Roo Tales are often lighthearted good fun, like the carefree days of my Austin College experience. But sometimes Roo Tales are somber, like the wartime days of Dr. Clyde Hall’s Austin College experience. Dr. Hall passed away this week at the age of 101. It was a privilege to meet Dr. Hall on AC’s campus,
