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Joe Weider 24 Mar 2013 | 03:12 am
Early this morning Jan and I received a call from the family of Joe Weider that he had just died of natural causes in a local hospital near his home. To say that Joe was a giant in the world of physic...
Memories of Coach Royal 11 Dec 2012 | 08:14 pm
Early in the morning on November 7th, Darrell K Royal—the iconic former football coach at the University of Texas who had fallen under the dread sway of Alzheimer’s a couple of years earlier—died as t...
A Historian at the Crossroads of History 3 Dec 2012 | 10:16 pm
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, h...
Basketball and American Culture: A Special Symposium featuring Bill Bradley 1 Dec 2012 | 12:45 am
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 great memory. It needs to be celebrat...
Basketball great Bill Bradley to speak at UT (austin360.com preview) 28 Nov 2012 | 08:27 pm
Austin360.com‘s Pam LeBlanc previews our upcoming symposium on her fitness blog: http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/fitcity/entries/2012/11/27/basketball_great_bill_bradl...
1968 Olympic Team Reunion 2 Nov 2012 | 09:11 pm
On Saturday, October 27th, over 25 Olympians who represented the United States in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, along with their spouses, friends and family reunited at the Stark Center for a spec...
Presenting the Stark Electronic Archive 28 Jun 2012 | 03:38 am
You may have read the headline and sensibly asked yourself, “what is an electronic archive?” In a few words, the Stark E-Archive is the latest in our ongoing efforts to facilitate physical culture sch...
Iron Game Historians 17 May 2012 | 09:07 am
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 bec...
Another Weider Gift 14 Feb 2012 | 09:55 am
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 ...
The Weider Museum Documentary 5 Nov 2011 | 07:49 am
The reception to celebrate the official opening of the Joe and Betty Weider Museum of Physical Culture was private, and only invited guests were allowed to take photographs or to videotape the occasio...
