W Larry Carlson saw his first orange tower after a victory in 1960 and has been following Longhorn football ever since. He hosted the Fred Akers Pre-game Show and the Longhorn Locker Room for Austin’s KVET Radio and co-hosted Longhorn Pipeline on San Antonio’s ESPN Radio affiliate during Mack Brown’s tenure. Larry recently retired after…
Texas wishbone offense fondly remembered 50 years after the debut ByLARRY CARLSON Aug 25, 2018 Ted Koy was at home in Bellville, trying to cool off after another hot, humid summer day of hauling hay and digging post-holes on his father’s farmland, an hour west of Houston but a million miles distant in feel, when…
Number Eleven, And What Might Have Been By Larry Carlson Larry Carlson has followed the Longhorns since seeing his first orange tower in 1960. He hosted the Longhorn Locker Room Show on Austin’s KVET Radio and was later a co-host of Longhorn Pipeline on San Antonio’s ESPN Radio affiliate. Larry just retired after 35 years…
PRESSURE: UT SHOULD WIN ITS FINAL BIG XII Commentary by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) It was hot at DKR for the Orange-White game. About 90 degrees. It’ll be hot for the Rice game on Sept. 2 but let’s hope LHN will get us a 6:30 kickoff. And remember, it’ll be toasty in T-Town, Tuscaloosa,…
Texas, Rice and JFK’s Space Race ByLARRY CARLSON Sep 12, 2019 It was this week in September 1962 when President John F. Kennedy addressed a large crowd at Rice Stadium in Houston. The Space Race was on, and America was not about to lose to Russia. “We choose to go to the moon,” Kennedy boomed,…
THE MIGHTY QUINN by Larry Carlson for TLSN The Professor with his Horns ???? While many folks enjoy the sport of schadenfreude, taking pleasure in the failure and humiliation of another (I confess to being gleeful at losses absorbed by certain hated teams), virtually everyone relishes a good story of redemption. Texas fans got an…
THE END OF THE ROAD FOR BAYLOR by Larry Carlson for https//texaslsn.org The Texas Longhorns have a business trip in Waco on Saturday. Take care of business, UT. And never play Baylor again. Ever. Don’t grant the private school a hefty paycheck to take on an SEC team at DKR-TMS. And certainly never again take…
Professor Carlson took a road trip with Kirk Bohls to the SEC Media Days and shares his day-by-day adventure with the History of Longhorn sports group members and the Longhorn Nation. Enjoy the trip! DAY 1 WAS SATURDAY, 7/15/2023 Larry Carlson says: Jimbo Fisher Brian Kelly Paul Finebaum Kirk Bohls and I embarked on a…
I MISS TIE GAMES by Larry Carlson (lc13@txstate.edu ) Paul “Bear” Bryant offered up long, long ago his disdainful judgment of any football game ending in a tie. “A tie is like kissing your sister,” the Bear said, of his lack of ardor for sixty minutes of football combat that decided nothing. Bryant’s…
LOOKING FORWARD TO FOOTBALL, WITH AN ASTERISK Opinion, by Larry Carlson I can’t wait for college football. The countdown to kickoff has been a big part of the rites of summer for me since 1961 when I got my first issue of (Dave Campbell’s) Texas Football magazine. It had debuted one year earlier but I…