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 →
I try to do something different every year for my album of the year list, so this year I wrote a little poem for each of my top ten albums. Let me know which albums you loved this year in the comments! Honorable Mentions The Saint of Lost Causes - Justin Townes Earle, New Age... Continue Reading →
I recently got to spend time with the artist Arturo Torres to discuss his latest best-selling book with Shea Serrano, his incredibly tough upbringing, and his pride at being a new dad. It was one of the most fun stories I've ever worked on. For it to be published on Texas Monthly's website is even... Continue Reading →
this mall is still open don't ask me how no, the locks aren't broken but it's a demolition zone now it used to be cool to go to Valley View but all the people have gone away no more 15-year old chicas or the occasional orthodox jew those shops are empty, there's no more soccer... Continue Reading →
At the end of the day, it's just a building, but to me and many others it's a hall of memories. We've seen wins and losses, eaten ridiculous food, felt our legs stick to those green seats in 1 million degree weather in July, chased foul balls, heckled opposing players, listened to Chuck Morgan's perfect... 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 →
