By luck and happenstance, I found myself standing in the middle of Kyle Field before 105,086 fans on a recent Saturday night. I suppose it was the Spirit of Aggieland that brought me there.
I had arrived at Texas A&M University nearly two hours before the scheduled kickoff between the Aggies and the Florida Gators on Oct. 11. Though I had begun my journalism career in sports about 20 years ago, those days were brief, were merely high school sports, and had long been over. I was here covering a sporting event this time as a favor, though to whom the favor was accorded, I’m not sure. My cousin, David Castro, who had recently begun a sports media business, asked if I could cover the game since he would be in Dallas covering the Mexico–Columbia soccer game at AT&T Stadium.
