DOG COMMENTARY: Back in the day when this ImaSportsphile video library was being recorded from 1978 to 1991….for Bone Daddy tells me that in the Video Room at The Sports Place, Madison Square Garden at 302 E. 6th Street in Austin, Texas….the walls of the room where the videos were being recorded on Sony Betamax video recorders….that…
DOG COMMENTARY: I have written a great deal about the 1978 Texas Longhorns Men’s Basketball Team….who in our opinion here at ImaSportsphile was one of the top 5 teams in the country that year….but instead of dancing in the 1978 NCAA Tournament….instead were destroying the mediocre competition in the N.I.T…..I mean, after all, Arkansas went…
DOG ASIDE: This 1986 HBO Post Fight coverage of the 10-round heavyweight bout between Iron Mike Tyson and Jose Ribalta….featured interviews with both fighters….along with the outstanding HBO Boxing commentary team of Barry Tompkins, Sugar Ray Leonard and Larry Merchant….who handled both pre-fight and post-fight shows as good as any to ever cover the wonderful…
DOG ASIDE: Back in the day from the 1960’s through the 1980’s….that is when the Texas Longhorns verses the Arkansas was always a bitter rivalry….with it seemed like every game being played had national championship implications….as it all started when two legends of college football coaching were at the helm….with Darrell K. Royal at Texas….and…
DOG ASIDE: Many of the videos in our TV Ads section here at ImaSportsphile are national commercial for national brands of products….however, this particular video features two of the Austin, Texas business that have been major players in and around Austin for over 50 years….KVET Country Music Radio and Capital National Bank of Austin. Shortly…
DOG COMMENTARY: KVUE Channel 24 is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Austin, Texas….and is owned by Tegna, Inc……and their studios are located on Steck Avenue just east of Loop 1 in northwest Austin…. with its transmitter being located on the West Austin Antenna Farm just west of downtown Austin (which it shares with KEYE-TV). The station first signed on the air on September 12, 1971….and was originally operated by…
DOG ASIDE: In our opinion here at ImaSportsphile should never have lost his title in the first place to Michael Spinks…. but anyone and everyone who was a boxing fan during the reign of Promoters Don King and Bob Arum….. had some kind of inkling that many fights were fixed….if not actually choreographed and spliced…
DOG COMMENTARY: The Red River Rivalry….commonly called The Red River Showdown, Red River Classic or Red River Shootout….is truly one of the greatest parties to go to every year for the past 118 years….culminated by one of the best college football rivalries in the USA….is played annually at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas, Texas….during the third weekend of the State…
DOG COMMENTARY: Bone Daddy tells the story about taking Rags Murphy….only the best “fan ragger” in the history of sports fandom….to the Texas Longhons men’s basketball games at the University of Texas Erwin Center every time they played against the University of Arkansas Razorbacks from 1976 thru 1982….for these two teams were coached by two legends of…