Bob Ballou

AUSTIN, Texas — As a Quinn-Fender, I couldn't believe my ears. The noise was coming from inside my own house. Before I left for the Cotton Bowl, my wife asked me a pretty blunt question: When did you become Quinn Ewers' agent? It got to a point I was having to Quinn-fend myself, even in my home. Not because of anything Quinn Ewers was doing wrong per se. It was really because the outside noise and expectations had become off-the-charts ridiculous.

On Monday the heat index in Austin reached 117 degrees, hottest in the history of the city. It certainly didn't affect Alex Litt and Cory Sullivan's mission. "Cory and I in this heat and walking 100 holes, we're trying to replicate that feeling," explained Litt as he marched down the middle of the fairway at Onion Creek. "We can never replicate that but we can push our bodies as much as we can to - for a second - feel what these people are going through.

Susan Trobaugh's four sons all played basketball at Bowie High School, and all four played for head coach Celester Collier. "He is a father figure to us all," explained Callaghan O'Reilly. "He's the reason I coach right now. "Collier's coaching is well-known around Austin.