A Coach With More Than Football on His Mind
LUBBOCK, Tex. — After his Texas Tech football team scored the biggest victory in its history, knocking off No. 1 Texas on Saturday night, Coach Mike Leach stood in a narrow hallway under the stadium with a cup of coffee.
Instead of talking about Michael Crabtree’s last-second touchdown in the Red Raiders’ 39-33 victory or their place in the Bowl Championship Series standings, Leach, who was reading “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill,” began quoting Churchill.
Asked about the book, Leach enthusiastically recited an exchange between Churchill and Nancy Astor, the first woman to sit in the English House of Commons. “She says, ‘If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea,’ ” Leach said. “He says, ‘And if you were my wife, I would drink it.’ ”
nytimes.com
11/2/08
Magnolia Tribune
