January 25th, 1986. A hotel meeting room in New Orleans just hours before Super Bowl 20. Buddy Ryan’s voice cracked. His players stared back, jaws tight, fists clenched. In seconds, a steel film projector would be lying in pieces on the floor. Kicked there by one of the most feared defensive linemen in football. Next,…
Steve Sarkeesian and company are pushing to bring another top five recruiting class to Austin next year. Texas has had its hands in myriad high-profile recruitments this cycle, and it has oftentimes come out with a commitment. That’s been especially true this summer. The Longhorns landed 11 commitments in June, eight of which were of…
Wyatt Earp Walked Past a Prop Table in 1927 — One Word He Said Became John Wayne’s Whole Career The young man carrying those crates in the summer of 1927 was not yet John Wayne. He was Marion Morrison, 20 years old, a prop boy on the Fox lot. Nobody called him Duke yet. Nobody…
Deion Sanders is trying to restart the party. After a brutal five-game losing streak to close out the Big 12 season and the 16th time in 18 years that Colorado failed to win more than three conference games, Coach Prime is all but starting over. And there’s something to that. If your team isn’t good…
Everyone who ever played for Vince Lombardi remembers the same thing first. The sound of his voice before they remember anything he actually said. Grown men, professional athletes, hit by 300-lb linemen without flinching, have talked for decades about the specific terror of hearing him coming down the hallway. He ran practices like punishment. He…
Restaurant Owner Humiliated John Wayne Over His Outfit—Minutes Later He Was Fighting Back Tears Pasadena, California, early September 1974. There was a restaurant hidden beneath old oak trees on a quiet street just outside old Pasadena. Its name was El Mirador. It wasn’t famous because of advertisements. It didn’t need them. Judges, studio executives, politicians,…
John Wayne was in the middle of filming the most important scene of his career when a production assistant handed him a letter. He read it once. Then he stood up, walked off the set, and never came back that day. What happened next left 3,000 crew members changed forever. It was June 3rd, 1965…
John Wayne pulled off the Wickenburg Highway for breakfast on a Tuesday morning in 1957 and found the sheriff’s car parked in front of a small diner and the sheriff on the porch with a padlock and a woman in an apron standing in the doorway not moving. He sat in his truck for a…
Alabama, April, 1964. A lunch counter in a diner on the main street of Anniston, 70 miles east of Birmingham. A man named James Whitfield, 31 years old, a school teacher, sits down at the counter and asks for a cup of coffee. The owner tells him the counter does not serve colored people. James…
New Mexico, 1958. A feed store on the main street of Cimarron in the high country south of Taos. A cattle baron named Vance Prudhomme has been offering Esteban Maestras $800 for his grazing permit and the 40 acres of deeded land around his lambing pens for 6 months. Esteban is 73 years old and…
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