Today, North Texas football legend “Mean” Joe Greene turns 80! Greene was a defensive tackle for North Texas from 1966-1968 under coach Odus Mitchell. The strong defensive front helped lead the Eagles to back-to-back conference titles. Greene made history as the first North Texas All-American. Joe Greene was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the… Read more »
After the Texas Longhorns’ unbelievable comeback against #1 Ohio State, I wanted to showcase a father-son legacy that demonstrated their athleticism at the University of Texas and went on to the big leagues. This is the Ernie Koy story. Ernie Koy Sr. Ernie Koy was born in Sealy, TX in 1909. He attended the University… Read more »
Fashion designer and icon Bob Mackie has passed away. Known for his inventive and sparkly eye-catching designs, Mackie was affectionately known as the “Sultan of Sequins” and the “Guru of Glitter,” designing outfits for Carol Burnett, Elton John, Dolly Parton, Cher, and many other larger-than-life personalities. One of Mackie’s earliest assignments was drawing the original… Read more »
The World Cup is here! Athletes and fans have been gathering from all the globe into North America to compete and spectate the world’s favorite sport. The DFW has been hosting matches including teams from the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, England, Croatia, Argentina, Austria, and Jordan at AT&T Stadium. UNT Special Collections just finished hosting an… Read more »
Today marks 56 years since the notorious Kent State shootings that left four unarmed college students dead at the hands of the Ohio National Guard while protesting operations in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. It was a boiling point for intranational tensions in a turbulent time of civil rights struggles, antiwar sentiment, and a skyrocketing… Read more »
[Disclaimer: Contains graphic news footage and written details some may find disturbing] May 22, 1953. In his palatial residence in the exclusive Park Hill neighborhood of Fort Worth, 61-year-old oilman William P. Clark is found with a rifle by his side and a bullet in the head. He had been dead for three days. While… Read more »
November 6, 1954. It’s college football season, and New Haven is roaring. The Yale Bowl is packed with 73,600 fans — over twice the attendance of any home game of the season — as the Bulldogs face off against the Army Cadets. Towering over the throngs of spectators and sportsmen is the press box filled… Read more »
Pat Kirkwood. Gambler. Stock car racer. Businessman. Beatnik Beelzebub. The great and powerful Ozymandian charlatan of chivalry and charm. Lord of the underworld weirdos from hipsters to gangsters with connections to anyone from Gene Autry to Amon G. Carter, George Carlin to Jack Ruby. A man of controversy and public service, admired and reviled by… Read more »
Helena once thrived. Tucked away east of the San Antonio River, the unassuming Karnes County town founded in 1852 quickly developed into a crucial South Texas commercial center between San Antonio and Goliad. The former Mexican trading post soon became a highly populated area, gaining a post office, headed by town founder Thomas Ruckman as… Read more »
Deeply engrained in both rock ‘n’ roll lore and Texas culture is a wiry, bespectacled good ol’ boy from Lubbock that would inspire Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Eric Clapton among many other ‘rock god’ contenders, and remain an iconic staple in American popular culture. Despite his tragically brief life, Charles Hardin… Read more »
