Author, Senior Editor, Podcaster
Barry Switzer wants to watch college football with you. Yes, you. He wants you to be sitting right next to him, in his house, munching on his snacks, with drinks from his fridge, talking Sooners football while the game is on TV. And yes, I’m talking about that Barry Switzer, the 79-year-old College Football Hall... Continue Reading →
My documentary Don't Think You'd Understand: The Billy Ray Jeter Story is now available for free on Vimeo. You can watch the short-film which had it's world premiere at the Texas Theatre (the place where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested) last month. This film is about my indoor soccer team and was intended solely for the... Continue Reading →
Let's fall in love with our telephones off - Langhorne Slim, "Never Break" I'm not addicted to my phone. I mean, I don't have to have it all the time. I don't check it incessantly for no reason. I don't have triggers throughout my day that cause me to look at it. I don't get... Continue Reading →
I am always looking to challenge myself when I make these lists so they don't get stale. For this year's list each album will get one more sentence about it than the album before. So, No. 10 gets one sentence, No. 9 gets two, etc. Like every year, I didn't realize how much great music... Continue Reading →
My new book Lesson from Legends: 12 Hall of Fame Coaches on Life, Leadership, and Leaving a Legacy is available on Amazon right now. The book is great, not because I wrote it, but because it contains wisdom from so many great men. It obviously has some great advice for coaches and players, but I... Continue Reading →
Bun B, Kendrick Lamar, Big K.R.I.T. Tim Keller, John Piper, Louie Giglio. Bubba Watson, Justin Forsett, Steph Curry. The first three: famous, critically-acclaimed rappers. Keller, Piper, and Giglio? Well-known white pastors in their 50s and 60s. Two-time Masters champion Watson, Baltimore Ravens running back Forsett, and newly-crowned NBA MVP Curry round out the group. The... Continue Reading →
By the time he hit five-years-old, Mike Osegueda loved baseball. By the time he was fourteen, he knew he wanted to be a sportswriter. By the time he was eighteen, he thought his career was over. “I walked into the school newspaper the day before classes even started and said I wanted to write for... Continue Reading →
I hate distance running. Anything over a mile and I’m out. And I’m tired of hearing from people who love it that I just have to stick with it a little longer until I can enjoy it. If only there was some science I could point to in order to prove that I’m not just... Continue Reading →
After years of hard behind-the-scenes work, grinding away, and even winning an Emmy for his writing, Ben Schwartz is finally having his moment as a star. And, assuming these jobs pay well, you could say he’s “flushhhhed with cassshh.” The man who is probably best known for playing the irrepressible, energetic, wildly irresponsible, and somehow lovable Jean-Ralphio... Continue Reading →
Politicians would dream of the crowd Andy Mineo recently had at his show at the Texas Theater on the campus of The University of Texas at Arlington. College and high school kids got hyped next to middle-aged people, some with their children. The hands bobbing in the air, from the front row to the back... Continue Reading →
