In early September 2012, Dr. Paul Dimeo, arrived at the Stark Center on the University of Texas campus. Dimeo, a professor and sport historian from the University of Stirling in Stirling, Scotland, has been visiting UT as a Fulbright Scholar, and he has been using the archives available at the Stark Center and surrounding areas....
Year: 2012
Basketball and American Culture: A Special Symposium featuring Bill Bradley
NBA Hall of Fame member and former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley said it best. “[Basketball] is the gift that never stops giving. The game is full of great joy and a great memory. It needs to be celebrated.” As part of the campus-wide celebration, “The Naismith Rules of Basket Ball”, Bradley spoke at the November...
Basketball great Bill Bradley to speak at UT (austin360.com preview)
Austin360.com‘s Pam LeBlanc previews our upcoming symposium on her fitness blog: Note: This preview by Pam LeBlanc is no longer available at the web address below. http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/fitcity/entries/2012/11/27/basketball_great_bill_bradley.html/?cxntfid=blogs_fit_city
Stark Institute for Olympic Studies Hosts 1968 U.S. Olympic Team Reunion
On Saturday, October 27th, more than 40 Olympians who represented the United States in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, along with spouses, friends, and family members, arrived in Austin for a special reunion weekend. The reunion was organized by the Stark Center’s Dr. Thomas Hunt, the 1968 US Olympic Team’s reunion coordinator, Tom...
Iron Game Historians
Until a week ago, here at the Stark Center things had been humming at a higher rate than ever during the spring semester, at least as far as the “doing” of History is concerned. I say that in part because David Webster, Scotland’s venerable chronicler of the strength sports, had been here with us since...
Another Weider Gift
In 2008, Joe and Betty Weider donated a second million dollars to the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports at the University of Texas, and as a way to thank the Weiders for their many contributions to the fields of exercise and health as well as for their financial support to the...
