Dennis Vinzant’s East Texas State Teachers College Lions were starting making going to Kansas City a habit at the end of the year, and for the 1942 Lions, it was a start of some adversity that would lay the groundwork for the great teams to come in an era with so much uncertainty. After making…
I have been meaning to write about this for a long, long, time. I love music. I love raw, rockin’, upbeat, tempo driven music. My musical tastes can vary, but I won’t get into what they are because this DI diatribe really isn’t about a need to know about what I like and what I…
Dennis Vinzant’s name is not usually mentioned in the names of the great Lion Basketball coaches, but for the pre World War II era and the college students that made up the greatest generation, it was Vinzant that steadied so much of the athletic department at East Texas State Teacher’s College during that time frame.…
In these chronicles, or tales, or whatever you wish to call them, some of them are longer than others and back in 1936, close to 90 years ago, it is a given that basketball was much different today than it is now. The game has evolved (and for the worst in the past decade if…
It has been so hard to believe that 365 days ago today, Lion Nation lost a fan, a former player, a student of sports and sports writing, and a Lion of Old ET to the core. Others lost a husband, a loving father, and I lost my best friend. Russell McLean’s passing this time last…
J.V. Sikes is a coaching legend in the annals of East Texas State Lion history. A northeast Texas native from Leonard, Sikes was a 3 sport letterman at Texas A&M University before he got into coaching. In 1929, Sikes left Southeast Texas and came north to coach the freshman at East Texas State Teachers College…
Mark Twain once said about the game of golf, that “Golf is a good walk that is spoiled.” I know that first hand. I have been learning how to play the game for the past 5 years and I slowly but surely am getting better, but I hate the slowly part. That being said, being…
I love two things, history and basketball. I read a lot because in my 38 years it amazes me how things have progressed from the time I was coming home as a newborn from St. Paul’s Medical in Dallas to the current day. How much our society has evolved and changed from 10, 20, 30…
Note: I have written a lot about historic teams and their seasons, but this one was special to Me because I actually got experience it as a student, going to these games, seeing the school rally around this team, and getting to watch someone I had known of since my days of growing up in…
QB Ron Peace-Threw for 400 yards and completed 62% of his passes. A lot of quarterbacks would have closed up shop after throwing for two picks, including one that went straight to the house for the other team, but like I have said before, when Ron Peace is on, this offense moves well. 41 points…
