Excerpts from the upcoming book, "Sonny Side Of The Street."
On November 21, 1963, the day before Kennedy’s fateful visit to Dallas, he came to San Antonio to speak at the dedication of the Aero Space Medical Health Center. His motorcade was to come down Broadway Street, a few blocks from my school, Central Catholic High. More...
 
 
It was early 1979 and I found myself in a small waiting room at the MGM Studios in Hollywood. I was there to read for the part of a reporter in the sequel to Sylvester Stallone's Academy Award winning, ROCKY.  

 

When my name was called, I expected to meet with a group of casting directors as is usually the case, but to my surprise, only one person sat on the other side of a small desk -- Stallone himself. More…
 

It was the spring of 1966. On the radio, Nancy Sinatra's Boots Were Made For Walkin' and the Rolling Stones were having their 19th Nervous Breakdown. And in the West Texas town of El Paso, the little known Texas Western College was making national news of their own as their Miner Division 1 basketball team was undefeated. Little did they know that they were about change the face of college basketball forever. More...

 
 

It was my 6th Christmas and already a family tradition had begun of visiting our favorite store, Joske's of Texas in San Antonio. It was billed as "The Largest Store In The Largest State." . More...