Subject: Dale Hansen

• Reunited, And It Feels So Good

  April 4, 2007

• Instant Nostalgia (Or: How Old is John McCaa, Anyway?)

  December 8, 2006

• Instant Replay

  September 7, 2006

• Rage Against the Machine

  July 28, 2006

• It's "Hardline" Out Here for a Wimp

  July 27, 2006

• Punching His Ticket

  April 17, 2006

• Hansen: Still Unplugged

  March 16, 2006

• Talent Scout

  March 8, 2006

• C'mon, Richie, How About them Desperados?

  May 17, 2007

• "A Night at the Improv," By Which Uncle Barky Means WFAA-Channel 8

  May 21, 2007

• Beating A Dead Mustang

  November 1, 2007

• In Case You Miss Troy Dungan ...

  November 5, 2007

• You Betcha: The Last Gasp

  December 21, 2007

• Bush for Obama! Bush for Obama!

  February 28, 2008

• Victory Park Continues Getting All Sporty

  May 22, 2008

• Based Here. Best Here. Surely You Jest Here?

  May 22, 2008

• Wintry Mix: The Quiz

  I can almost understand the BCS, just about explain the NBA's defensive three seconds and sometimes even comprehend Tom Hicks' vision to make the Texas Rangers a winner. But I am totally and utterly clueless about what was falling on my driveway last night/this morning. Sleet? Freezing rain? Frozen drizzle? Snow? Really cold hail? Black ice? Vanilla Ice? Reverse global warming? Beats me. Think you can do better, ol' man winter? Fine, try this matching quiz, Wintry Mix Home

  December 16, 2008

• A Metroplex mega-autoplex?

  December 8, 1994

• UPDATED: The Top 10 Hottest TV Women in Dallas

  It wasn't that I got 20 minutes of solid face time on KFWD Channel 52 Friday night. It wasn't that I got to tour Channel 8's spiffy HD studios in Victory Park and take a spin in Dale Hansen's chair. (Psst, it really is unplugged!) And it wasn't that I out-yelled The Ticket's Mark Elfenbein despite generally looking a fidgety, finicky mess. The point is, I bumped into Shelly Slater and - whoa - time to update the ol' rankings. In other words, watch out Megan Henderson:

  January 19, 2009

• Buzz

  March 20, 1997

• 1998 Best of Dallas

  September 24, 1998

• Night & Day

  October 1, 1998

• Rinse and Repeat? Mavs Can Earn Believers Tonight

  Mark Cuban = William Wallace?Was enjoying some second-hand smoke from Dale Hansen's seegar down in Victory Plaza before last night's Mavs-Spurs showdown. We were discussing this week's Observer cover story, owner Mark Cuban's unprecedented outburst, how Dale claims he's "too shy" to serve as Grand Marshal for the Observer's annual St. Patrick's Day parade on Greenville (swear), and our thoughts on the impending game's outcome. Dale: No doubt the Mavs win. Maybe even easy, by 12. Me:

  March 5, 2009

• Best Sports 'Stache

  September 25, 2003

• Best TV Sports Anchor

  September 25, 2003

• With the Addition of Pacman Jones, Valley Ranch Has Become a Halfway House

  May 1, 2008

• Invinci-Bill

  Exactly why is Parcells Dallas' dictator?

  September 29, 2005

• Like Zombies, SMU football Plays on Without a Pulse

  November 1, 2007

• America's Ticket

  The NFL's most popular team hops in bed with a most peculiar teammate

  March 16, 2006

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  April 21, 2005

• The Newy Factor

  How does someone who calls himself "Newdawg" compete with Dale Hansen? By not being Dale Hansen.

  December 23, 2004

• Best TV Sports Anchor

  Dale Hansen, WFAA-TV Channel 8

  October 14, 2004

• All Net

  The Mavs gets Jazzed

  October 30, 2003

• Me and My Beaver

  Plus: Where's Newy?

  April 10, 2003

• War Torn

  Or, how CNN has made this column more irrelevant than usual

  April 3, 2003

• Enough at 8

  So, WFAA loses one reporter. No big deal, right? Wrong.

  January 23, 2003

• Seeing Red

  Channel 8 is full of evil people--unless they return my phone calls

  June 6, 2002

• Large and in charge

  Dale Hansen, the 300-pound gorilla of local sports, wraps up 20 years of whip-smart TV

  May 25, 2000

• On Monday, Children's to Document Kidney Transplant 140 Characters at a Time

  USA Today directs our attention to the following tweet sent this morning from Children's Medical Center Dallas and UT Southwestern: "Who's an early bird? Transplant Twittering starts Mon. at 6 a.m. central!" Yup. On Monday morning, a 3-year-old named John Gilbreath is set to get a kidney from his father, firefighter Chris Gilbreath, and docs from the hospital will tweet the whole thing -- a sort of up-to-the-moment PSA for organ-donation awareness. Which makes this "the first time a hospital has

  May 14, 2009

• Your Weekend Planner: Vacation Edition 6.5.09

  Hey, if Dale Hansen thinks it's a good time to skeedaddle, who am I to quarrel? Let's see, last summer I went to a river and a waterfall. This year ... Seattle. Yeah, that sounds about right. Temperatures in the 70s. Fish to eat. Coffee to smell (but not drink). A mountain to climb hike. Blogs to ignore. Should be a relatively slow sportsy week ...

  June 5, 2009

• Stand-Up Guys

  June 11, 2009

• BREAKING NEWS: Dale Hansen Out at ESPN

  ​As I told you back in June, Dale Hansen is a tip-toeing toward burnout these days. As of today, his work load is a little lighter. A radio industry source told me over the weekend that the iconic voice of Dallas sports will not sign a new contract at 103.3 FM ESPN. The station will - for now - simply replace his nightly 6-7 p.m. "Hour of Hansen" with an elongated GameNight featuring Wally Lynn and RJ Choppy from 6-10 p.m. "I'm not burned out," Hansen told me last mont

  July 27, 2009

• Dale Hansen Explains His Departure From ESPN: "I Finally Walked."

  ​Got a call back from former 103.3 FM ESPN radio host Dale Hansen yesterday afternoon, explaining how/why he kinda sorta abruptly walked away from the station last week. Seems Hansen - who told me last month he wasn't happy at ESPN - quit amidst the worldwide leader's self-imposed muzzling of the Ben Roethlisberger story. Last Wednesday Hansen somehow didn't receive the directive from Bristol, Conn. and spent 20 minutes on his "Hour of Hansen" 6-7 p.m. show dissecting the ramificatio

  July 28, 2009

• Camp Cowboys Top 10 Observations: Day 2

  ​Send me your players and/or topics to watch and I'll, well, watch 'em. 10. Goofball or not, Martellus Bennett is a badass. He's got the biggest, softest, best hands on the team. Marty B doesn't catch. He plucks. Expect to see plenty two-tight end sets with him and Jason Witten 9. At 6-2, 322, offensive lineman Montrae Holland is built like SpongeBob SquarePants. 8. Noticed something about rookie kickoff specialist David Buehler. When he kicks to the right, he steps of

  July 30, 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

• 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

• Dale Hansen: Unglued

  ​Was checking out Channel 8's sports last night when I was presented with classic Dale Hansen. Not unplugged exactly. How about unglued? As Hansen began his recap of Rangers 5, Indians 0, the video didn't exactly cooperate. While he beamed about Tommy Hunter's pitching and Josh Hamilton's hitting, the screen - for a good, long 10 seconds - stayed on the above shot. "Whoops," Hansen grumbled, "how long we gonna stay on this couple?!"

  August 13, 2009

• Who's the Most Trusted Man in Dallas/Fort Worth? On TV? When it Comes to Sports?

  Ah, the bad ol' days.​When Walter Cronkite punted the bucket recently, the title of "Most Trusted Man in America" fell to - believe it or not - Jon Stewart. While this news made me, a Daily Show devotee, click my heels, it also got me to thinking: Who's the Most Trusted Sportscaster in the Metroplex? I've appeared on Fox 4's Sports Sunday with Mike Doocy. I predict Channel 11's Babe Laufenberg will feel some love in next month's annual Dallas Observer "Best Of" issue. These days I

  August 20, 2009

• Dale and Oprah, Curbing Their Enthusiasm

  Dunno how we missed this -- well, actually, I do, since nobody 'round here watches the 5 o'clock news. Anyway, thanks to WFAA-Channel 8 for posting to YouTube this afternoon a clip of Dale Hansen with yesterday's special guest anchor, one Oprah Winfrey, with whom Dale took issue for introducing the world to Dr. Phil. Best watched while listening to this.

  October 13, 2009

• Hansen, Revo, Doocy, Hammer? Yeah, About Time for Some Media Minutiae.

  He's baaaaack.​*Dale Hansen on The Ticket: Coulda swore I heard him Monday morning filling in for Craig Miller on 1310 AM. But don't get used to it. Apparently it was a one-off, with Dale returning to his old chair just long enough to fill in for Miller, who spent last weekend running the New York City Marathon. Hansen, who flirted with burnout and then scorched his ESPN bridges with some of these comments back in July, said there is no plans for another fill-in. "I don't think it was a

  November 4, 2009