San Antonio entrepreneur Red McCombs made his fortune as an automobile dealer. Today he owns the sixth-largest auto conglomerate in the U.S. and an NFL football team, the Minnesota Vikings. As a civic leader he was central in bringing Sea World and the Alamodome to San Antonio. His generous philanthropy has gained national attention, especially his support of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Southwestern University. In 1997 he made the largest donation ever to women's athletics at The University of Texas at Austin, funding a new women's softball complex. In May 2000 he gave $50 million to the University's Business School, the largest single donation in UT's history. To acknowledge his generosity, the University has renamed the school as the McCombs School of Business.

So how did a small-town boy from Spur, Texas, make it so big?

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