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 »
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 »
Curtis Cokes, a Dallas native, was an all-around athlete, who began his professional boxing career in 1958 at the age of 21. He worked hard to become the World Boxing Association’s Welterweight World Champion in 1966, at the age of 30. Throughout his career, many trainers approached him to move to different cities to pursue… Read more »
