Ted Buss

Once upon a time in the make-believe town of Hooterville, lived a fictitious state senator named Ben Hanks. Kindly old Ben Hanks was re-elected time and again because his constituents loved him. They loved him, that is, for all the ...

I've never known many people who have returned home from Las Vegas with fuzz balls in their pockets and admit it. They either break even, win a little or a boatload.

We spent the last five minutes of the game standing on the sidelines on that cold winter night, Dec. 16, 1979. The mood at Texas Stadium was up, but not ecstatic. The players on Washington Redskins' sidelines were obnoxiously giddy. ...

The Green family — cerebral seekers of fashionable new energy sources — must be growing tired of the constant grappling with beings of inferior intellect. It is the cross the ultra-wise must bear in trying to convince mindless clods like ...

I could be wrong, but I have this nagging feeling that when some high profile individuals apologize for making a dumb and hurtful remark that the apology has more to do with saving a nice paying job than anything else. ...

For baseball nuts the best thing about the Final Four is that it brings us to the brink of another season. Rather than toiling over a basketball bracket, we weigh the odds of "our team beating your team" in the ...

In Nevil Shute's 1957 masterpiece, "On the Beach," the author painted an unforgettable picture of nuclear annihilation of the world. How the global atrocity started is a given, rooted in politics, greed and power. The crux of the story involves ...

A few days ago I decided to park my car and take a walk around downtown to see what was going on. Despite heroic efforts to revitalize the historic core of the city, walking block after block makes me realize ...

With all the vicious hits to head and the exposure of bounty money being passed along to bloodthirsty linebackers and defensive backs via plain brown envelopes, reminds me of a former editor I used to verbally tangle with. I wonder ...

Since I've never been in the big cigar tax bracket, I've always had trouble understanding why professional athletes turn down $50 million contracts for x-number of years for $62 million pacts for the same x-number of years. If the decision ...

It's hard to imagine that as late as the 1970s parents of natural southpaw children would immobilize the kid's left-hand as a means of converting him to a righty. Some would actually tie their tyke's left arm down for months ...

In the 1950s, "boys of summer" wasn't exactly a label. It was an accepted way of life.

James Patterson, a man who has sold more books than some illustrious libraries hold, has discovered the keys to Fort Knox. It's called volume. The man commands a word factory on steroids. However, despite the multitudes who understand that excellent ...

Sometimes when it's dreary outside and I've scanned all the photos of home restoration in "Southern Living," and read about how Jerry Jones is confident the Cowboys will return to the Super Bowl before all loyal fans 50 and older ...

Sarah passed away less than a month ago. I didn't know her well, but always heard she was a supportive friend and loving wife. The connection I had with Sarah came in the form of a tall, bald man with ...