Subject: Bob Hayes

• How the Dallas Cowboys Changed Jerry Ford's Life

  January 8, 2007

• Bob Hayes is Resting in Peace, If Only You Could Find Him

  August 16, 2007

• Save The Date: February 3

  October 1, 2007

• T.O. 28, Redskins 23

  November 19, 2007

• Ice Your Ball

  November 20, 2007

• Welcome To Orientation

  May 1, 2008

• The Top 10 All-Time Dallas Cowboys

  At least we can all agree on No. 1. Right?From time to time I've been known  to construct a Top 10 list. But this one, I've got to tear apart. You're telling me there's a list of the Top 10 All-Time greatest Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones isn't on it? Altogether now: Bull. Shit. If NFL Network is merely trying to get the blogosphere all a Twitter via look-at-us controversy, mission accomplished. But if it's actually trying to capture the most important contributors to the almost 5

  June 1, 2009

• World’s Fastest Human Doubles As Hall of Fame’s Slowest Inductee

  August 29, 2008

• That ’70s Show

  September 2, 2008

• Seventh Heaven

  October 9, 2008

• Searching for Gold

  Like other past Olympic stars, local gold medal winners often have trouble keeping track of them

  September 21, 2000

• Pro Football Hall of Fame: Jerry Jones vs. Jimmy Johnson

  October 29, 2008

• Godspeed, My Holy Friend

  T-Minus five days until the final Dallas Cowboys' game at Texas Stadium. I have a vague recollection of climbing atop Dad's shoulders and watching Don Meredith toss bombs to Bob Hayes at the Cotton Bowl, but basically my life's screenplay starts in Texas Stadium.   Section 12. Row 24. Seat 8. For a 7-year-old punk, there was no better place on Earth than the 8-yard line, visitors' side. Pops thinks he secured the right to those seats via a bond that cost him a cool $300. In Jonestown

  December 15, 2008

• Whitt's End: 1.30.09

  Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *The Cowboys fined Martellus Bennett one game check for an obscenity-laced and offensive rap video. Interesting to see what they'll do to Anthony Spencer, who actually broke the law and got arrested. *So who you rootin' for in the Super Bowl: The Steelers, who have former Cowboys' safety Ray Horton on their coaching staff? Or the Cardinals, who have former Cowboys' assistants Clancy Penderga

  January 30, 2009

• BREAKING NEWS: Bob Hayes and the Hall of Fraud

  Somewhere between Milli Vanilli, Rosie Ruiz, Criss Angel and Dennis Green's "They are who we thought they were," something smells fraudy. Or, as the old Florida A&M college buddy and former business manager of newly minted Pro Football Hall of Fame member Bob Hayes says of Lucille Hester: "She's a fake. A total perpetrator. She's hoodwinked the Dallas Cowboys, the NFL, the Hall of Fame and the national media. But she isn't a member of the Hayes family. And she's about to b

  February 2, 2009

• 43 Observations About Super Bowl XLIII

  To the victor go the spoils. Right, Hines?Steelers 27, Cardinals 23: Best Super Bowl ever? Santonio Holmes' tip-toe TD: Best Super Bowl catch ever? The Boss: Best Super Bowl halftime show ever? Better late than never, I've got XLIII thoughts about Super Bowl 43: 43. Gotta make it snappy. My free Grand Slam at Denny's is calling. 42. If you watched the Australian Open final, you saw Roger Federer break down into tears after losing to Rafael Nadal. Which begs the question, "After

  February 3, 2009

• Get real

  December 4, 1997

• Lucille Hester: Half the Truth is a Total Lie

  As Bob Hayes' entangled family tree goes under the microscope and as the newspaper that for years has thrust Lucille Hester out front finally joins the investigation into the validity of her branch, one thing - and one thing only - has become clear: The world's fastest human is quickly turning over in his grave. This is even more sad than it is confusing. As I wrote on Monday morning, Bob Hayes' family claims that Hester isn't his sister, but a phony. The evidence continues t

  February 3, 2009

• The Comeback of Harvey Martin

  January 8, 1998

• BREAKING NEWS: Bob Hayes Foundation Web Site Shut Down

    The Bob Hayes Foundation web site - owned and operated by one Lucille W. Hester out of Washington, D.C. - was abruptly shut down this afternoon. Maybe this is nothing. Maybe they didn't pay their bill at the first of the month. Maybe it's a computer glitch. Maybe the Bob Hayes Foundation is the only foundation in America with a link to a web site, but not an actual web site. Or maybe, just maybe, the fact that Hester pulled the plug on the place is another example o

  February 3, 2009

• Amid More Oops, Lucille Hester's Story is On the Ropes

  DNA test? Maybe. Smell test? No way.Look, I love Lucille Hester "as my big sister", but this thing's gone too far for too long. With new discrepancies in her story cropping up on the hour every hour, if I'm in her corner I throw in the white towel. Watching a sweet, old forgetful/manipulative lady get bludgeoned is never pretty. The latest haymakers thrown at her knee-buckled reputation: *In a revelation first uncovered by Sportatorium commenter "Matt", Lucille's poign

  February 5, 2009

• Credit Crunch: George Dunham, I Feel Your Pain

  Credit where credit is due. Seems like a simple concept. But in today's 24-second news cycle the genesis of "breaking news" often finds himself as nothing more than the guy at the bottom of the dog pile. Forgotten. Squashed. Raped of credit. Example #1: The Ticket's George Dunham. Got a Ticket text at 5:37 Wednesday afternoon, screaming that "The Ticket has learned that Dan Reeves has already quit Cowboys and left VR complex." Turned on The Hardline and, sure enough, there was Jub

  February 5, 2009

• What About Bob?

  After a weird, wild week of name-calling, foundation-shuddering, letter debunking and a he said/she said spanning Florida to Hawaii, the bizarre tale of Bob Hayes' Twisted Sister finally has a temporary resolution, if not permanent closure. The current verdict: Bob Hayes, Jr. - and not Lucille Hester - will be front and center Aug. 8 in Canton, Ohio to unveil the former Dallas Cowboys' Pro Football Hall of Fame bust and accept his ceremonial gold jacket. Throughout last week the prepon

  February 9, 2009

• Letters

  December 3, 1998

• The Top 10 Greatest Black Athletes in the History of Ever

  Mission Accomplished Impossible. In honor of February's Black History Month, I set out to pinpoint a pristine list of the world's all-time greatest black athletes. But using what criteria? Sheer athleticism? Popularity? Accomplishment? Social activism? Transcendence? All of the above? Nothing of the sort? The task, in and of itself, is as absurd as trying to convince Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price that, sure, 28 days is adequate celebration of your race. I w

  February 17, 2009

• Best (and Only Good) Idea Jerry Jones Has Had Lately

  September 20, 2001

• For Our Homies

  December 26, 2002

• Bob Hayes’ Family Feud Tarnishes a Long-Awaited Hall of Fame Entry for the Cowboys Great

  February 12, 2009

• The Great Digit Debate

  Just which local players have earned the right to be eternally identified with their uniform numbers?

  September 18, 2008

• Out With the Old

  With the Cotton Bowl's inevitable departure, Dallas dies a little more

  January 4, 2007

• Mocking the Draft

  Don't look now, but it's sports' biggest waste of time

  April 27, 2006

• The ghost of Tom Landry

  In 1970, Pat Toomay was scared he'd get drafted by Vince Lombardi. Something worse happened -- he ended up playing for the Dallas Cowboys. Years later, he'd realize what damage that wrought.

  October 21, 1999

• The Goal Line

  If Blackie Sherrod's just another writer, then Wilt Chamberlain was just another center

  July 8, 1999

• 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

• Hey Josh Hamilton, WWJD?

  ​My problem isn't that Texas Rangers' All-Star Josh Hamilton got drunk, took off his shirt and playfully licked whipped cream - and vice-versa - off three hot females in an Arizona bar last January. My beef isn't that a born-again guy who continually tells us I Am Second decided to - according to the photos that look like they belong in The Hangover credits - bat himself first that night. Problem? Hardly. Jealousy? You betcha. Even though he's a drug addict tested for cocaine th

  August 10, 2009

• Hall of Fame. Or Bust?

  Who's next?​Hard to remember way back when we bitched and moaned about a "Cowboys bias" in the Pro Football Hall of Fame isn't it? Saturday night in Canton receiver Bob Hayes became the 11th Cowboy inducted into Canton, continuing a trend that has seen four Dallas stars earn immortality over the last four summers with Rayfield Wright and Troy Aikman in '06, Michael Irvin in '07 and Hayes. That streak will certainly reach five next year when Emmitt Smith - the NFL's all-time leading rush

  August 10, 2009

• Dallas' Fantasy Roster

  No. 12 in your football program ... No. 12 on our fantasy roster.​When I say No. 22, who comes to mind? Do you immediately think of the Dallas Cowboys' all-time best runner? Or their all-time best rusher? Or perhaps instead the second-leading all-time scorer in the history of the Dallas Mavericks? The quest is to attach a Dallas/Fort Worth player to every sports uniform 0-99. A fantasy roster, if you will. The criterion for determining which local athlete "owns" a specific number is as

  August 25, 2009

• The Cowboys' Wade Phillips is Deteriorating into a Bad Coach and an Even Worse Leader.

  October 15, 2009