Review: “Book masterfully lays out The Big Shootout”
He interviewed vast numbers of players from both teams, as well as fans. He researched the social and political attitudes of the times. McDonald doesn’t short-change the era when it comes to race and American culture. What McDonald ended up with was the ultimate book on a football game that changed lives.
The Doctor Is In – Network Filming Feature of Ted Koy and Teammates to Salute College Football’s 150th Season
By Mark S. McDonald Sr., author, Beyond The Big Shootout Let the party begin … This year is the 150th birthday of college football, and the 50th anniversary of the Arkansas-Texas Big Shootout for the 1969 national championship. For one, Longhorn Network (LHN) is on it like a loose fumble, interviewing Ted Koy and others […]
Hogs & Steers — All Business, All the Time
By Mark S. McDonald, author When Texas played Arkansas in The Big Shootout for the 1969 national championship, America was in chaos … our young men coming back from Vietnam in body bags, race riots over integration, peace rallies, assassinations, The Pill, street drugs … In this cauldron of stress, how did players and coaches […]
Gasp! – Coach Declares His Faith, Before All
Oh, dear, what now? Moments after his Clemson Tigers won the college football national championship Monday night, Coach Dabo Swinney stood on his hind legs and proclaimed “all the glory goes to the good Lord.” Not to some bull-necked linebacker or a pass receiver who seems to carry his own mini-trampoline. With once-invincible Alabama leaving […]
Bama vs. Clemson: Not First of a Kind
In their hustle to fill air time, radio and TV pundits have covered every possible angle in the run-up to the Clemson-Alabama game for the NCAA football championship. Is America suffering from Tiger-Tide fatigue? Which team will blink? Will Nick Saban actually smile? This much we know: Santa Clara, Calif. is not exactly the crossroads […]