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If Nothing Else, the AFL's Dallas Vigilantes Now Have the City's Most Interesting Logo

​Looks like it's Sportsy Thursday 'round here. So, then, from puck to ball ...Back in December we broke the news that the Dallas Desperados were on the comeback trail, along with the rest of an Arena Football League sidelined during the '09 season. Turns out, the team that's scheduled to return to ... More >>

The Dallas Desperados Are Back!

​We just got the invite: Tomorrow at 4 p.m., there will be a press conference "to announce the return of the Dallas Depserados," which, as you may (or may not) recall, canceled its 2009 season exactly one year ago along with the rest of Arena Football League. Probably the most intriguing item cont ... More >>

Tom Landry Would Not Be Amused

A few Dallas Cowboys quick hits, apropos on a morning blanketed with a freezing fog. We begin, where else, with MartyB -- which is to say, tight (not bright) end Martellus Bennett, who follows his now-vanished rap video ("Romo, homo, etc.") with the apology below. FOXSports.com is reporting that the ... More >>

This Just In: Arena Football and Your Dallas Desperados Need a Timeout

When even football can't survive, we're officially in a recession. The Arena Football League - home to your Dallas Desperados - announced this morning that it has canceled its 2009 season because - you guessed it - shitty financial times. Actually, I believe the official wording is "suspending the ... More >>

Dallas Now Without Its Desperados For at Least One Suspended Season

One more sportsy note this a.m. -- a follow to last week's item concerning the fate of the Arena Football League, in which Your Dallas Desperados play. Or played, rather, as this morning the league has announced that there will be no 2009 season, which shorts the American Airlines Center and Victory ... More >>

What, No Desperados Season in '09? Nothing Official, But Ain't Lookin' Good.

Word's been circulating all day that the Arena Football League may be a goner -- at least, for the 2009 season. Though if it disappears for one season, insiders (and outsiders, let's be reasonable) figure there's no way it can claw its way back for a 2010 season. And various news reports have put so ... More >>

Headline Coming Soon: Quincy Carter’s Career Goes to Pot. Again.

Word's been circulating all day that the Arena Football League may be a goner -- at least, for the 2009 season. Though if it disappears for one season, insiders (and outsiders, let's be reasonable) figure there's no way it can claw its way back for a 2010 season. And various news reports have put so ... More >>

Jon Bon Jovi on Fellow AFL Owner Jerry Jones: "It's All Hugs and Kisses."

Word's been circulating all day that the Arena Football League may be a goner -- at least, for the 2009 season. Though if it disappears for one season, insiders (and outsiders, let's be reasonable) figure there's no way it can claw its way back for a 2010 season. And various news reports have put so ... More >>

Cowboys' and Mavericks' Premature Evacuations Disappoint

Early playoff exits have Big D disappointed, devastated and downright dysfunctional

Almost Famous

Dallas' other quarterback content with triumphant anonymity

Desperate Times

The Desperados' play-off

A Setback in Quincy Carter's Latest Comeback

The Desperados' play-off

The Other Drew

The Desperados' play-off

Deep Thoughts

The Desperados' play-off

In the Game

Our Desperados satisfy

Club Directory

Our Desperados satisfy

Trick Treats

The Globetrotters win again and again and again

Club Directory

The Globetrotters win again and again and again

Whacked

Goodfella Joe Avezzano is no longer a made man with the Dallas Cowboys

Desperate Measures

Welcome (again) to the Arena League, where Desperados are kind, giants are invisible and rock concerts turn into football games

Hail to the GM

The Cowboys never called, so Drew Pearson lives out his front-office dream in the XFL

She's Better Than You

Chicks dig the roundball, but for some reason fans don't care

Love unlimited

KRNB-FM's Rudy V is the smoothest operator on the air, whether you're a man in trouble or a woman in love