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Monday, September 03, 2007

Big Brother on the Godzillatron;
Plus, Postgame Analysis




'From the gleaming, incandescent 55-foot-by-134-foot screen known as "Godzillatron," [University of Texas football coach] Mack Brown has the Texas crowd prepared for everything. Every so often on a game night, his prerecorded high-definition visage will gaze down from Royal-Memorial Stadium's huge video board, reminding fans to cheer with class...


He saw some things [during the team's latest game] that disappointed him, but he said he focused his postgame speech on positives. (Presumably, one of those was the encouraging fact that no UT player was arrested on the sidelines.)...'



---express-news.net---