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What I Love About College Football

.Reading time 7 minutes.

With college football, it’s really is not whether we win or lose. It’s that we all play the game.

We’re all in this together on those Saturday afternoons, cheering on our teams, big and small, hoping against hope that this year will be “our year.” College football is a unifying experience that is not just about the “Top 25.” It’s about everybody else too.

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A War To End All Wars

.Reading time 5 minutes.

On the SMU campus just behind Perkins Hall Administration, tucked beneath a grove of stately oaks, you’ll find this small memorial. I first stumbled across it more than twenty-years-ago now, during my frequent nighttime perambulations around campus. If you’ve driven down Hillcrest anytime during your life, you’ve zipped past it. Maybe hundreds of times. But […]

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