Subject: Alamodome

• The Road to the, um, Super Bowl?

  April 11, 2007

• Dearly Departed

  August 21, 2006

• Tony Romo: Money? What Money?

  July 26, 2007

• Gold gamble

  May 27, 1999

• The more things change

  March 4, 2004

• Ellis Island

  Cowboys veteran tries to escape the tired, poor, hungry, huddled masses

  September 6, 2007

• Alternate Route

  Don't look now, but T.O. actually seems OK

  August 23, 2007

• Romo Holiday

  Tony Romo makes a short, sweet journey from anonymous backup to A-list celebrity

  August 9, 2007

• Captain Casual

  Wade Phillips ushers in a kindler, gentler, better Cowboys era

  August 2, 2007

• Dodgeball

  North Texas' new football coach will be fast, furious and fruitful

  December 21, 2006

• Search Party

  Bill Parcells is looking for a few good men. Good luck.

  August 21, 2003

• Strait to hell

  George Strait saved country music. Then he killed it

  September 28, 1995

• Cowboys' New Video Board is Big. But Is It High Enough?

  While the Dallas Cowboys held this week's minicamp at their temporary home (Carrollton's Standridge Stadium), their new home is about to become a really cool home. Cowboys Stadium will today officially debut as the world's biggest media room. This afternoon owner Jerry Jones will press the power button on Jonestown Coliseum's 60-yard video boards. (Having just bought a new 1080p HDTV, I'm guessing that baby runs at least $3,000 at Best Buy.) It weighs 600 tons, wi

  May 21, 2009

• Cowboys' Camp Questions?

  Home Sweet Dome.​A year ago at this time I was pegging the Dallas Cowboys for the "Super Bowl." Last time we saw them however - 44-6 losers in Philly on Dec. 28 - it was "or bust." Coming off 2008's 9-7 disaster, the Cowboys have shedded from their roster the leading receiver (Terrell Owens), second-best pass rusher (Greg Ellis), two best special-teams players (Keith Davis and Kevin Burnett) and the second-leading tackler (Zach Thomas). When the Cowboys open training camp in p

  July 27, 2009

• Camp Cowboys' Prelude: Top 10 Observations

  Stephen Jones, Wade Phillips, Jerry Jones and some big whig from Ford kick off Cowboys Camp '09 by pretending to drive a pickup. Cue Brent Musberger: You are looking live!!! ​Let's do this every day, shall we? Okay, some days I'll split it into five observations from two separate practices and some days I'll be so hungover from Riverwalk margaritas that I'll only muster like three. But you get the picture, right? You guys tell me what you want to know about a certain player, coach, mas

  July 28, 2009

• The Dallas Cowboys' Final 53-Man Roster Will Look Like ...

  Let's not get greedy. For now we'd settle for a win in December.​This? Just hours before the first practice of training camp here at The Alamodome, I decided to doodle up what the Cowboys' final roster will look like come the Sept. 13th opener at Tampa Bay. It starts here. And ends up below. Clip 'n save, woncha? OFFENSE: QB: Tony Romo/ Jon Kitna/ Stephen McGee RB: Marion Barber/ Felix Jones/ Tashard Choice/ Deon Anderson WR: Roy Williams/ Patrick Crayton/ Miles Austin/ Sam Hurd/ 

  July 29, 2009

• Camp Cowboys Top 10 Observations: Day 1

  Playmaker and his pupil.​Pass along your questions or suggestions of who/what you'd like a report on and I'll watch it at tomorrow's practices. Thursday is the first day of two-a-days. Who knows, we might even see pads. 10. So much for the new-and-improved-and-tougher Wade Phillips. The Cowboys worked out for two hours in shorts and jerseys and helmets. After the leisurely practice, Phillips put them through conditioning drills - consisting of two sprints across the width of the field.

  July 29, 2009

• Whitt's End: 7.31.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Been buried in Camp Cowboys all week, but looks like 103.3 FM ESPN needs a new drive-time sidekick alongside Randy Galloway. Brian Estridge is leaving to co-host mornings on WBAP 820 AM with the legendary Hal Jay. Odds-on favorite for an increased role on Galloway & Company: Matt Mosley. Long-shot: Tyler radio icon David Smoak. *We can - and I do - rip Wade Phillips for his ridiculously ea

  July 31, 2009

• Marty Be Freaky. Marty Be Funny. Marty Be Good.

  When he's not busy being all weird and great, he's even trying to improve his blocking. ​To my eyes, second-year tight end Martellus Bennett is the early star of training camp. And I'm not just saying that because he stole the show with his impromptu rapping at The Dallas Observer Music Awards last month. He's making all of us in San Antonio forget about Marty B TV and his getting fined for one profane video and causing a ruckus with another black stereotype off

  August 4, 2009

• Camp Cowboys Top 10 Observations: Day 7

    Well, you are ready for some aren't you?​10. Cult hero/roster longshot Jesse Holley had his highlight of camp, catching a slant in front of Orlando Scandrick during team drills. There. You happy? 9. Weird - unusually intense - afternoon practice here at The Alamodome. When's the last time you heard of an interception by linebacker Bobby Carpenter followed by a reception by backup offensive tackle Pat McQuistan? Happened. 8. Receiver Roy Williams doesn't strip naked afte

  August 4, 2009

• Camp Cowboys Top 10 Observations: Day 8

  ​10. Story out of Lincoln, Nebraska of all places - apparently the writer was in Dallas for the Big 12 Media Days - says at Cowboys Stadium there is for sale $800,000 suites in which you can purchase a $90 pizza. That's about $11 a slice by my sportswriter math. However, Dallas Only Daily's Todd Archer says not so fast Mr. Husker Rumor Starter. 9. In a word, rookie quarterback Stephen McGee is strug-guh-leeng. This morning he dropped two more snaps, he has a horrible habit of ta

  August 5, 2009

• Whitt's End: 8.7.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Sunday is the NFL's annual Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio. More importantly, it's the induction of my first Dallas Cowboys hero - Bob Hayes. I'll be watching. For one thing, to see if Lucille Hester will try any shenanigans. Remember her? *Final comments scoreboard: Greg Williams 404, Russ Martin 73. *We can debate whether C.J. Wilson should close or whether Elvis Andrus should be

  August 7, 2009

• Everyone Expects the Cowboys Quarterback to Be a Leader, But is Romo Finally Ready to Answer the Call?

  August 13, 2009

• Dallas Cowboys' Training Camp: Success Over Circus

  ​No Terrell Owens. No Pacman Jones. No Michael Vick or Brett Favre or Michael Crabtree. No drama. To which I say ... Yes! Last summer the Dallas Cowboys broke camp fat 'n happy and consumed with personal agendas. After a successful training camp at San Antonio's Alamodome in which the focus was football over fireworks and even included a blessing by a Catholic priest (in light of Magic Johnson's pep talk failing last year in Oxnard), it's safe to say the 2009 version is leaner '

  August 20, 2009

• Jerry Jones: Big, But Not Well-Hung

  Size matters.​Everything's bigger (and lower) in Texas. Toldja. Back in May - after reading that the colossal video boards at Cowboys Stadium were to be only 90 feet above the playing field - I penned an item questioning exactly how high was high enough. It was more common sense than aeronautical engineering, but I was lampooned as if theorizing that was the world wasn't, in fact, flat. "half wit Nimord," one critic blasted me. Another called me a "college grad with middle sc

  August 24, 2009

• Wade Phillips final season as coach of the Dallas Cowboys? Sure feels that way.

  August 27, 2009

• Only Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Could Build A Palace Big Enough To Match His Larger-Than-Life Persona

  September 10, 2009