By Art Dlugach
I suppose if anyone can take on a challenge, it’s Steve Golemon, Llano High’s cross country mentor. The runners of summer and autumn opened for business, July 29, without a bunch of last year’s talented athletes. Golemon, though, 75 before the season concludes, hasn’t graduated yet, and he returns for a 40th year as a head coach.
By Art Dlugach
HORSESHOE BAY—Sonny Dykes visited the Rudy Davalos Horseshoe Bay Sports Club, July 19, and his appearance and knowledge certainly brought back memories of his late father, Coach Spike Dykes.
Sonny now has that title at SMU, and, not surprisingly, he’s pretty pumped about the Mustangs in his second year on campus.
Is that Louisiana State-Texas game, on the first Saturday in September, shaping up as a beauty, at DKR Texas Memorial Stadium? These are teams recognized as favorites by magazine gurus like Phil Steele as worthy of Top Ten consideration, and Sam Ehlinger has been chosen as the choice for Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year.
The Longhorns are coming off a dandy 10-4 season in Tom Herman’s second year as Head Coach.
You can’t do much better than learn from the best where volleyball camp is concerned. Head Coach Dee Heiner is prohibited by UIL rules to direct the participants, so, for the second year in a row, Al Bennett stepped in, August 16-18. Retired now, the Hall of Famer won four state championships in a 30-year run, 1988-2018, at Westlake.
“The biggest change {in those three decades} have been the girls have changed dramatically—bigger, stronger and faster.” He identified a 6-4 player of ...
You get your money’s worth if you listen to Big 12 Commissioner, Bob Bowlsby. He delivered his annual keynote address at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, July 15, and that talk kicked off Big 12 Conference Football Media Days.
Years ago…
“This is college football’s 150th anniversary. The first game was Princeton and Rutgers.” The gridiron today: “It’s the best regular season in all of sports, especially the months of October and November.”
Not in the stands?
“The new digit ...
I don’t know if you noticed, but the Big 12 Media folks named Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger as the conference preseason Offensive Player of the Year. Please hold your applause till the end, which will be soon. The Defensive Player of the Year—in midsummer—is Kenneth Murray of Oklahoma, a linebacker.
Good picks.
Time for our (on again, off again) annual trip down through the years—in sports, of course. Here’s the way it works: Since this is 2019, we’ll take a look at what happened in the final year of every decade, 2009 back to 1909. You may have guessed that after reading the clever headline.
It was the greatest match in Grand Slam history in tennis. Challenge me if you will, but here are my reasons: it was Roger Federer against Novak Djokovic—one vs. three in all-time Slam wins (20-15); it was Wimbledon, its own number one among the four majors. Federer is 37 years old, about 50 in the age of a baseball player, 55 in golf, 60 in horse racing (the jockey, not the horse).
