I am a frustrated sports writer. My first ambition was to become the next Dan Jenkins, an iconic Sports Illustrated writer who covered college football and professional golf for SI for a quarter century. Dan also wrote about a dozen raunchy and irreverent sports novels, the best known of which is Semi-Tough, published while I…
Tag: Va Tech football
The Military Classic of the South (Thanksgivings Remembered)
Thanksgiving always brings back especially fond and warm memories of my early childhood. The time frame for these recollections is the period of my life from age five or six till the beginning of adolescence, when my parents apparently became either aliens or lepers, driving a need to distance myself from them. But from the…
Frankie Loria (50 years remembered)
Frank Paul Loria. I hope the name still resonates through the halls and annals of Virginia Tech football. I am sure it does. Frankie, as he was known in my current part of the world (as I will explain later), was a 2-time All-American safety at Tech in the mid-1960’s – he played during the autumns of…
Bud-Hoo 