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May 18, 2012
Why Did SMU Really Fire Steve Orsini?
You don't shoot the goose that laid the golden egg. You just don't -- not unless you really, really have to or the goose stops pooping out gold. Which is why SMU's firing of athletic director Steve Orsini yesterday was so perplexing, and why the non-explanation offered by school President Gerald Tur ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2012
The Master List: The Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, January 6-8
Cowboys fans can admit it: We cried a few sports tears when our playoff dream evaporated on Sunday night. But so be it. We know must move past another dismal season of professional football and look forward to the remaining college bowl games. Sure, these guys aren't making big money like Tony Romo, ... More >>
News
January 5, 2012
Why can't Anglos Pronounce Spanish Words?
And why the love for UT?
News
December 15, 2011
College Football's Fleecing of American Universities
How insiders use the bowl system to loot the colleges that support it.
Blogs
December 7, 2011
It's Official: SMU Heads Big East
Speaking of SMU ...It has officially been invited to join the Big East, and is only too happy to accept. In a conference call with media, commissioner John Marinatto just intro'd the Hilltop to the ranks of the conference, along with the University of Central Florida and the University of Houston ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
SMU, Packers and Cowboys Great Forrest Gregg Diagnosed With Parkinson's Disease
An old friends passes along this story from the Associated Press: Former SMU great Forrest Gregg -- Birthright, Texas's own, and a two-time All-Southwest Conference selection in 1954 and '55 -- has disclosed that he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Gregg, a first-round draft pick of the ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Old School Shootout
An old friends passes along this story from the Associated Press: Former SMU great Forrest Gregg -- Birthright, Texas's own, and a two-time All-Southwest Conference selection in 1954 and '55 -- has disclosed that he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Gregg, a first-round draft pick of the ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2011
They Must Be Ice Skating in Hades Because SMU is Laying Three Touchdowns. On the Road.
With the Big 12 seemingly back together since the Pac 12 didn't want 'em, SMU is back in play as a potential member in the wake of Texas A&M's expected departure. But before the Mustangs play with the big boys, they need to beat the little ones. They have a chance to do that Saturday. ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Rangers Closer to Raising AL West Pennant, Funds for Shannon Stone
Yep, the Angels somehow lost to this laughable outfit again last night -- Anaheim has given up the division by going 5-9 against the A's -- shoving the Rangers' lead in the AL West up to 3 with 15 remaining and trimming their magic number to 13. Nelson Cruz should be off the DL and ... More >>
News
September 8, 2011
Football's Jason Garrett is a Football Coach Who Coaches Football
And that's about all he wants you to know.
News
August 18, 2011
As It Tries to Bolt the Big 12, The Joke's On Texas A&M (Again)
Jealous and impotent until the bitter end, the Aggies try to flee for the SEC.
Blogs
August 15, 2011
Guess A&M Finally Listened to its Own Fight Song
Like a lot of Aggie traditions, how is their nonsensical, yet sacred War Hymn going to sound in the SEC? Good bye to Texas University; So long to the orange and white Imagine the curious looks in Florida's Swamp when the Aggies, trailing 42-7 in the third quarter, start singing about abo ... More >>
News
July 7, 2011
For SMU Football, Adrian Klemm's L.A. Story is Paying Off (But Not Like That)
And a little movie about the Mustangs' downfall isn't hurting either.
Blogs
June 30, 2011
Are You Ready For Some (College) Football?!
In 65 days there will be football at Cowboys Stadium. And it will be before a sold-out crowd. NFL lockout be damned, LSU and Oregon will play in the Cowboys Classic Sept. 3. With 80,000 tickets already sold, standing-room only seats could go on sale as early as next week. Without& ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2011
With USC Out, Oklahoma Should Be 2004 National Champs
Like it never happened?When Ben Johnson was stripped of his 100-meter gold medal in the 1988 Olympics, it was awarded to second-place finisher Carl Lewis. When Carter High School was ripped of its 1988 Texas State 5A Football Championship, it was given to the team it beat in the titl ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
Texas A&M Quarterback Jerrod Johnson Falls From Heisman to Hartford
One thing I will do is admit when I'm wrong. And Aggies fans, I was wrong about this one and y'all were right. Texas A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson was indeed good enough to be a first-round draft pick. In the United Football League. The Hartford Colonials last night made Johnson the firs ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Super Bowl XLV Also Gave Us ... The Greatest Moment in Texas Football History?
I was flattered when the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee approached me late in 2009 to help construct and singularly author its prodigious Century in the Making project. What started with 250 of the greatest moments in Texas football history -- high school, college and pro -- ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Can Dallas Cowboys fans forgive new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan for the sins of his father?
I was flattered when the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee approached me late in 2009 to help construct and singularly author its prodigious Century in the Making project. What started with 250 of the greatest moments in Texas football history -- high school, college and pro -- ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Auburn 22, Oregon 19: My Top 10 Observer-ations
10. Cam Newton = Overrated. I take it back. He ain't better than Vince Young was at Texas. 9. Sure he's corny at times, but I love me some "Big Game" Brent Musburger. 8. Props to Auburn coach Gene Chizik for running a play to wind the clock down and set up a walk-off 19-yard field goal by We ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Auburn over Oregon in Tonight's BCS Title Game: My Top 10 Observer-ations
Cam can. And will.A year ago I was correctly predicting Alabama over Texas in college football's national championship game. In tonight's Oregon-Auburn clash my heart says Ducks but my head says no way the Tigers don't prevail. Why? 10. Oregon usually wins with its spee ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2011
Accountability, Shame and Wealth: A Review of My 2010 NFL Predictions
You can say I botched my 2010 NFL prognostications. But you can't say I ran and hid from my errors. There's hope for me surviving this thing, as I have Big Ten Buffoonery dough coming in, tonight's Megamillions jackpot is up to $330 million and I actually sneaked by with a profit b ... More >>
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January 3, 2011
TCU Finally Shuts Up the Big Ten Buffoons
So a bunch of us are sitting around on New Year's Day laughing at the empty seats at the Ticket City Bowl, gulping venison chili and combating our headaches with straight up hair o' the dawg. Suddenly, invited to our football-watching gala by a mutual friend, the Big Ten Buffoons show up. Th ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Battle on Mockingbird
So a bunch of us are sitting around on New Year's Day laughing at the empty seats at the Ticket City Bowl, gulping venison chili and combating our headaches with straight up hair o' the dawg. Suddenly, invited to our football-watching gala by a mutual friend, the Big Ten Buffoons show up. Th ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2010
Cuban Reads Book Making the Case Against BCS, Then Decides to Do Something About It
I was coming back from an interview last week when I heard Mark Cuban on with Bob and Dan talking about a book he's reading: Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter and Jeff Passan. In the book, the reporters write that the only reason ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2010
Screw Baseball, Mark Cuban Wants to Own College Football
College football's biggest division is popular, yet ultimately broken. The latest example - one that hits close to home - is TCU having a 12-0 record yet 0 chance of winning a national championship. Every year the BCS attempts to pair the two best teams against each other in the title g ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
Undefeated TCU, with the best college football program in Texas, doesn't get a chance to win a national championship. Now why is that again?
College football's biggest division is popular, yet ultimately broken. The latest example - one that hits close to home - is TCU having a 12-0 record yet 0 chance of winning a national championship. Every year the BCS attempts to pair the two best teams against each other in the title g ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
SMU and "Pony Excess": The Scars Remain
No one from the 1980s pay-for-play scandals remains at SMU, but the stigma - and the residue from the NCAA's Death Penalty - remain on the Hilltop. Those wounds may not be re-opened, but they'll certainly be re-visited Saturday night when ESPN presents its latest 30 for 30 documentary: "Pony Exces ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2010
Holy Nevada, The Frogs Smell Like Roses. And the Big East.
Think it's been a wacky college football season? Michigan, Florida, Southern Cal and Texas are a combined 26-17 22. And TCU (which is apparently jumping to the Big East in 2012) - at the very worst - is going to the Rose Bowl. Couldn't believe my eyes early Saturday morning. Despite a stirrin ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
TCU BCS = WTF?!
TCU is by far the best college football team in Texas. The Horned Frogs could have easily won the Big 12 this season. TCU, in fact, can beat any team in the country. But even with the best defense in the country, TCU is defenseless against the BCS. With another week of results from coll ... More >>
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October 4, 2010
OU 28, Texas 20: My Top 10 Observations
10. Pretty sure the Sooners and Longhorns are just mediocre football teams. But I'm certain Texas was absolutely gutted -- in emotion and field-position -- by nine penalties. 9. The Longhorns will lose Oct. 16 at Nebraska, giving Texas three consecutive losses for the first time since 1 ... More >>
News
September 30, 2010
Texas-OU has, with last week's shocking Longhorns loss, slid from a marquee game with national implications.
10. Pretty sure the Sooners and Longhorns are just mediocre football teams. But I'm certain Texas was absolutely gutted -- in emotion and field-position -- by nine penalties. 9. The Longhorns will lose Oct. 16 at Nebraska, giving Texas three consecutive losses for the first time since 1 ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
The Top 5 Best Games in the History of Texas-OU
Here's hoping that Saturday's Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl is better than last year's yawny 16-13 Longhorns' victory. The memorable 45-35 game in 2008 was a little more like it. Still, with pedestrian quarterbacks Garrett Gilbert and Landry Jones and what I think are two medioc ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2010
Reggie Bush Should Give Up His Heisman Trophy ... to Vince Young?
Your 2005 Heisman Trophy winner?Reggie Bush is a liar. Should Vince Young be a Heisman winner? That's the contention of Texas coach Mack Brown, who says - if - the Heisman Trophy Trust yanks back its 2005 award from the Southern Cal running back it should be handed over to former Longhorns ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2010
SI Cover Jinx: University of Texas?
Not sure I get all the hype over Texas this year. I know the Big 12 media picked Oklahoma to win the South, but Texas is ranked No. 4 by Sports Illustrated and - uh-oh - on the cover this week. Last time I checked UT lost a quarterback named Colt McCoy and a receiver called Jordan Shipley an ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2010
Big 12 Football: OU over UT
The media hath spoken in regards to the 2010 Big 12 Conference football season and the winners are ... Oklahoma. And Nebraska. We'll get to the full pre-season predictions after the jump, but in picking OU over Texas in the South apparently the Big 12 media thinks Landry Jones will be a bett ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2010
Lousiana Season is Over,
But You Can Still Get a Crawfish Fix
Crawfish lovers, don't give up yet.A new project at Louisiana State University may eventually extend the crawfish season through the fall, but a local seafood purveyor says many consumers don't realize live mudbugs are already available through Halloween. "You can get crawfish from the Pacif ... More >>
News
June 24, 2010
A Smaller, Weakened Big 12 Conference Means Football Fans Lose Big.
Crawfish lovers, don't give up yet.A new project at Louisiana State University may eventually extend the crawfish season through the fall, but a local seafood purveyor says many consumers don't realize live mudbugs are already available through Halloween. "You can get crawfish from the Pacif ... More >>
News
April 8, 2010
SMU Cornerback Derrius Bell, After A Series Of Concussions, Makes The Heads-up Decision To Quit Football
Crawfish lovers, don't give up yet.A new project at Louisiana State University may eventually extend the crawfish season through the fall, but a local seafood purveyor says many consumers don't realize live mudbugs are already available through Halloween. "You can get crawfish from the Pacif ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2010
SMU Cornerback Gets His Bell Rung
Last Sept. 12, SMU cornerback Derrius Bell suffered a concussion in a game at Alabama-Birmingham. Sidelined for three weeks, he returned against TCU and, on the game's first play, violently hit a Frog receiver after a reception. The tackle forced a fumble, and gave Bell another concussi ... More >>
News
January 28, 2010
Dallas Cowboys Receiver Roy Williams, After A Dismal Season Of Drops And Disappearances, Is On The Verge Of Being A Big-Time Bust.
Last Sept. 12, SMU cornerback Derrius Bell suffered a concussion in a game at Alabama-Birmingham. Sidelined for three weeks, he returned against TCU and, on the game's first play, violently hit a Frog receiver after a reception. The tackle forced a fumble, and gave Bell another concussi ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2010
BCS Playoffs: Quarterfinals/Semifinals
See, that's the problem with the current bowl system. Even though they're 12-0 and good enough to beat any team in the nation, a TCU team playing for nothing but a bag of Tostitos shows up unmotivated and loses, 17-10, in the Fiesta Bowl. If last night's game was a BCS quarterfinal, mind you ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2009
If Joe Barton's BCS Bill Is All About Making Lobbyists Some Dough, Then Good Work
For more than a year, Smokey Joe Barton's been trying to kill the Bowl Championship Series -- most recently, of course, with H.R. 390: College Football Playoff Act of 2009, which would ...... prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, the promotion, marketing, and advertising of any po ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2009
The Eyes of the BCS Critics Are Upon ... Texas
Ironic, isn't it, that last year Texas was a great, sympathetic team that got rejected, and this year the Longhorns are a good, criticized team that's getting the royal treatment? Colt McCoy lost the Heisman Trophy last Saturday night in Arlington. Does Texas still deserve a chance to w ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2009
Who's More "Inspiring": Sully Sullenberger, Michael J. Fox or Local Air Force Major?
Courtesy BeliefnetMajor Tobin Griffeth and Capt. Katie IllingworthThat's more or less the question being posed over on Beliefnet, where readers are being asked to vote for "The Most Inspiring Person of 2009." Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and the former Alex P. Keaton are among the nominees, ... More >>
News
November 19, 2009
TCU's Football Team Demands National Recognition While SMU Takes Relatively Quiet Steps
Courtesy BeliefnetMajor Tobin Griffeth and Capt. Katie IllingworthThat's more or less the question being posed over on Beliefnet, where readers are being asked to vote for "The Most Inspiring Person of 2009." Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and the former Alex P. Keaton are among the nominees, ... More >>
Blogs
November 19, 2009
June Jones Prefers Hawaii ... Over Hardware?
SMU wasn't ready to let fans storm the field. Are the Mustangs ready to bypass Memphis for Honolulu?As I write in this week's Dallas Observer column, SMU picked a bad year to have a good year. And now - on the verge of his school's first bowl bid in 25 years - Mustangs' head coach Jun ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2009
Yes, But Does a "Classic" Bowl Game Really Involve Conference "Also-Rans"?
God knows the city's been talking about it since forever -- you know, finding another bowl game to stick in the Cotton Bowl, since the actual New Year's Day Cotton Bowl Classic will now be played at the EnormoDome in Arlington, which is about 389 shades of ain't-right, but, whatever. So, maybe yo ... More >>
News
October 22, 2009
Texas-OU Belongs in the Cotton Bowl, But Jerry Jones is Preparing to Lure the Game to You Know Where.
God knows the city's been talking about it since forever -- you know, finding another bowl game to stick in the Cotton Bowl, since the actual New Year's Day Cotton Bowl Classic will now be played at the EnormoDome in Arlington, which is about 389 shades of ain't-right, but, whatever. So, maybe yo ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2009
Texas Fight 16, Boomer Sooner 13. Yuck.
A tie may be like kissing your sister, but what Texas pulled off Saturday in the Cotton Bowl was akin to drunken, relapse sex with your ex. Sloppy. Ugly. Guilty. But yet, in the end somehow satisfying. A combined 29 points. Eight turnovers. Key plays made by two different No. ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
Whitt's End: 10.16.09
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *According to my very unscientific research conducted on this very blog over the last two years, the most sensitive, whiny, irrational folks on Earth are: 1. Ticket P1s; 2. Right-wing Republicans; ... More >>
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