Once A Knight ...

          As I said in the previous blog piece, LSU has been a tough opening-game opponent for any football team, especially the 18 seasons ...

       The opening game of the football season -- and I'm talking mostly high school and college -- can be a scary experience for teams ...

(31st in a series)       I remember the uniform, especially the hat, and the whistle, and the coin dispenser. My Dad's tram conductor/d...

       When we first moved to Fort Worth, to the TCU area, one of our neighbors was a single father with a teenage son. The boy was quiet, s...

This might be the first photo of Rose and Louis Van Thyn together: Taken in Amsterdam's Vondelpark late in 1945 -- a year before the...

     I read somewhere that the college football season kicks off in two weeks. Really?      Unlike most fans of the sport, I'm not read...

(29th in a series)       Dad (Louis Van Thyn) wasn't one to wallow in his grief. In his life, he always seemed to bounce back and keep ...

Two sportswriters and longtime friends: O.K. "Buddy" Davis (right) is a Hall of Famer; the guy on the left is a blogger.     ...

(28th in a series)      How did my Dad (Louis Van Thyn) know that his first wife had died in the Holocaust? How did he know about her pa...