Once A Knight ...

    (Third in a series)      Basketball was the sport Kenneth Harvey loved most, and it came to him naturally. By his eighth-grade year in ...

      (Second in a series)       It is one of those familiar 100-degrees-in-the-shade days, and there is little shade this morning on the ...

         This is the start of the story I've always wanted to write. It has taken me about 40 years to reach this point.          Kenn...

Dad and his first wife, Estella, in September 1941 (Ninth in a series)       Her name was Estella Halberstad -- Stella -- and she wa...

      Gary Patterson screams at his players, yells at his assistant coaches and trainers and anyone in his path on the TCU sideline, points ...

       I am old school; I am not old school. Going back and forth on this as I thought about it the past week or two.        Yes, some chan...

      I never became a very good fisherman, although Howard Shaw -- my father-in-law -- did his best to help me pursue that desire. He loved...

                It is mid to late August, and football season is coming -- I don't count the NFL preseason -- but my life has changed, a...

     I love red meat and potatoes -- a T-bone steak, ribeye, porterhouse, filet mignon, roast beef (rare, please), and mashed potatoes, bake...