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BIOGRAPHY
Has published five books, including Herschel Walker's Basic Training (Doubleday, 1989), and more than 400 articles in both popular and academic publications, including Sports Illustrated, Readers' Digest, the Journal of Sport History, Men's Journal, and the National Strength and Conditioning Association Journal. Co-editor Iron Game History, a journal dealing with the history of physical culture. Lectures often around the nation on the subjects of drugs in sports, conditioning, and sport/fitness history. Served as CBS' commentator on sports medicine and drug testing in the year prior to, and during, both the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympic Games. Worked as a color commentator on sports for CBS, NBC, ESPN, and the BBC and has appeared many times on such shows as the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour, the Today Show, Good Morning America, Nightline, ABC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CNN News, and CNN's Newsmakers. Consulted for many television programs, including 60 Minutes. Provided regular commentaries on sports medicine and history for National Public Radio's Morning Edition since 1986 and for three years wrote a weekly column on sports for the Austin American-Statesman. From 1983-1995 co-coached UT's lifting teams, which won many national championships and set many national records over the past half dozen years. Also coached Olympian-world record holder, Mark Henry since 1990. Consultant 1996-9 for Angola's Olympic team. With his wife, Jan, who also teaches at UT, has assembled a large collection of books, magazines, videos, photos, training courses and films in the field of resistance training. (The 200,000+ item collection, the largest in the world, is housed at UT.)
