Last week we presented part one of a two-part, “historical” sports tribute to the events in years ending in 6 — this being 2016. It wasn’t complete, and this symphony will be unfinished, too, but it will add some missing moments I don’t think will bore you.
2006
Peyton Manning won his first Super Bowl ring following the ’06 regular season, as Indianapolis beat Chicago, 29-17.
1996
Tiger Woods claimed a third consecutive U.S.
LAGO VISTA—The Aaron Knuckles Era was unveiled, June 9, in this community well-known for the 30-mile scenic route from Marble Falls.
Well, it’s a stretch—not quite 30 miles—to say “unveiled.” The new Llano High boys’ basketball head coach did see his guys play organized ball for the first time, but it was in the Vikings’ summer league.
“I’m excited,” Nuckles said.
GEORGETOWN — Two fine performances by Llano High players in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes All-Star Classic football game. Austin-area athletes made up the teams.
Offensive lineman Colton Center was on the Gold squad, while linebacker Wyatt Bauman wore Blue.
Cody Miller was also chosen but couldn’t play because of a shoulder injury suffered when pole vaulting at state.
The youngsters were nominated by their own coaches and picked from this group by All-Star coaches.
This was not an Ea ...
MARBLE FALLS — Two losses in two games don’t usually mean that things went well, but they did — they really did — for the Llano High 7-on-7 team, which dropped a pair of contests by a total of eight points.
“Much better than the Burnet league,” quarterback Ben Walling said of the June 6 outing.
Through the years, we’ve played an anniversary game, and we’ll continue that now: Since it’s 2016, six is our main ingredient — a top sports event in the annual calendars ending in that number. Tell the stage line, we’re ready to depart.
2006
The Longhorns were the national champions for the ’05 season, but they won the title in January ’06, with a 41-38, come-from-behind thriller over USC, in the Rose Bowl.
Oh, what’s a wait of 47 years among friends? Ed Thompson of Horseshoe Bay filled the span profitably enough with the “routine” job of professional tennis player.
But this story concerns his more-recent days with the T-shirt off—not on.
Ed was “Mr. Texas” in the 1960s in the world of Bodybuilding, but he left that activity in 1969.
I wrote about this tragic situation last week before Art Briles was fired — and now Athletic Director Ian McCaw has stepped down. There are pieces of the aftermath I want to address now in what should be my last comment on a subject with an infinite amount of observations by numerous writers.
I briefly indicated that Baylor lost often before the Art Briles era, and it would lose again, and Bears’ fans and followers like myself could and would handle that.
The new coach, Jim Grobe from ...
He claims to have a humble background. We’ll accept that, since we didn’t know him at Edison High in San Antonio in the mid-1950s, but after graduation he would author a background that would last longer to examine than the NBA playoffs.
Say hello again to Rudy Davalos. You may know him as president of the Horseshoe Bay Sports Club, but long before he started that organization he established a resume that has earned him the Lamar Hunt Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Texas Sport ...
HORSESHOE BAY — One golfer is a consistent threat to crash the leaderboard party on the PGA Tour. The other last won in 2010 — his ninth career title — and remains a solid influence. They joined a pair of LPGA pros for a friendly match-play contest on the Slick Rock Golf Course, May 23.
Jason Kokrak and Kathleen Ekey edged Stuart Appleby and Katie Burnett on the 18th hole, one-up.
The 31-year-old Kokrak — a birthday boy 24 hours earlier — has collected $1.2 million of tournament money ...
You might have to go all the way — oh, maybe to Denmark — to find someone who’ll say something negative about Louie Nyeland. Denmark is the home of the Llano High School “One and Done” Exchange Student-basketball player. He didn’t graduate, May 27, but he saw his Jacket friends get their diplomas.
“Fantastic,” Louie said of his school-year-time spent away from the Danish town of Herlufmagle.
