Dallas Desire

Better Football? Dallas Cowboys vs. Dallas Desire

​Woe are the Dallas Cowboys. I still don't think their season is kaput, but it doesn't look good: *At 1-3, they're firmly in the NFC East cellar. *Sunday they play at the Minnesota Vikings, an equally desperate 1-3 team. *You'd think the Cowboys would have the motivation factor, what with B ... More >>

Whitt's End: 9.17.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Of all the teams that lost in Week 1 of the NFL season, betcha there's only one that spent the last couple days explaining and defending their organizational flow chart: Your Dallas Cowboys. *On ... More >>

Are You Ready For Some (Lingerie) Football?

Danny Hurley​I could tell you that the Dallas Desire kick off their Lingerie Football League season this Friday against the San Diego Seduction. I could enlighten you that the Desire are growing up, playing in the Cotton Bowl this season after spending last year on a quasi-field in the out ... More >>

The Dallas Cowboys just might have found themselves a kicker in kooky David Buehler

Whitt's End: 7.23.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *OK, OK,  I get it. So I write that Dez Bryant almost assuredly wouldn't be signed by Day 1 of Dallas Cowboys' training camp. "Barring an 11th-hour agreement ... " I think I penned. Never wish ... More >>

Whitt's End: 5.14.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *This is why I thought Ron Washington should have been fired on the spot last summer when he first told Texas Rangers' management about his cocaine use: He can't be trusted. Twice in the last two w ... More >>

Sportatorium: Happy Birthday To ... Us!

​I'm like you, I didn't know if this thing would make it two weeks. But, whatdya know, all the sudden it's been two years. Seems like just yesterday we launched this lil' corner of the blogosphere. After 730 days, 1,370 items and more than 20,500 comments we've survived to our second bir ... More >>

Call It a Tea Party, Serve Beer: On Tax Day, Getting Populist at the Ballpark

Patrick MichelsThe Tax Day Tea Partier's sophomore effort drew the largest crowd QuikTrip Park's ever hosted.Heading west on I-30 from downtown last night, you'd have passed two stretches of stalled traffic -- the first, along the access road just across the Trinity, made up of the grumbling masses ... More >>

Ballers and Shotcallers: Play-N-Skillz's Welcome To All-Star Affair

Gloria LevarioModel Gloria Velez, Dallas Cowboy Ken Hamlin and Bun B hang in Plush's VIP section. For more photos from the night, check the full slideshow here.​Play-N-Skillz's Welcome to All-Star AffairPlushSeemed it was a late-arriving crowd at Plush, for the first of Play-N-Skillz's four nights ... More >>

This Just In: American Idol Sucks. Seriously, They Missed HER?!

Cherisse Symons​ I don't watch American Idol because I  don't believe in American Idol. Other than Carrie Underwood and (sorta) Daughtry, the "winners" don't really become rock stars. Simon's about to leave for Ellen. What the what? But mostly, I just think the show jumped ... More >>

What’s So Appealing About Gorgeous Women in their Underwear Tackling Each Other? If You Have to Ask, You Won't Want To See the Lingerie Football League's Dallas Desire.

Ghouls of Greenville

Women in Sports: Athletes or Accessories?

Watching a win? Or ogling some skin?​My column in this week's dead tree version of The Sportatorium (better known as the Dallas Observer) delves into chicks in sports. Specifically, the Dallas Desire of the Lingerie Football League. Generally, why do we watch? Is it because Maria Sharapova ... More >>

Jesse Holley Makes a Fine Catch

​As promised, I ventured to Grand Prairie's Quick Trip Park Friday night for some Dallas Desire Lingerie Football. In a word: Loved it. And not just the toned female physiques running around in their bras and panties. (Though, if you haven't seen Erin Marie Garrett in and/or out of "uniform" ... More >>

Desire Tops Temptation: They Actually Keep Score in the Lingerie Football League

Photos by Danny Fulgencio​Hundreds (no, really) cheered as tan, sleek women in bras and panties (no, really) sprang onto the moist 50-yard-long field. Fireworks lit up the field. The local media was out in full force; one man screamed from the stands, "Stop taking pictures of my sister!"What a bru ... More >>

Lace 'Em Up!

Dallas' Best Football Team is Also its Best-Looking

Touchdown celebration or unnecessary roughness? Who gives a damn, really.​Gonna spend my Friday night ogling two of my favorites: Football 'n Females. Been meaning to catch a Dallas Desire game this season, but lo and behold they only play two home games. The last one is Friday at 9 p.m. ag ... More >>

Whitt's End: 9.4.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *93.3 FM - the station formerly known as The Zone, The Bone, Quality Rock and who knows what all else - has for the last day or so been "stunting." That is, playing nonsense in advance of flip ... More >>

If It's Dallas Desire You Want, Grand Prairie's Still Got It

Patrick MichelsYou think the Seattle Mist stands a chance against this combination?Funny, we'd just been thinking we hadn't heard from our local Lingerie Football League franchisees in a while -- especially with the ABA throwing its weight around Dallas last week -- when the Dallas Desire sent an in ... More >>

Richie Whitt: Unplugged, Unmasked and Universally Apologetic

This is by far the most difficult post I've ever written. But it's time. I can continue this charade no longer. Over the past 11 months on this blog I've spewed forth a plethora of radical opinions, most of which this morning I'd like to officially denounce. I admit, most of them didn ... More >>

Title Nein!

Why does a game played below the rim fly so far above the radar?I play sports because I love them. But I watch sports because I love to see done what I can't do. I watch Tiger Woods because I can't hit a 7-iron 210 yards. I watch Andy Roddick because I can't hit a serve 149 mph. I watch ... More >>

Dallas Desire Prospects: Lookin' Good!

Patrick Michels Because I'm home making elaborate plans for my sweetie's Valentine's dinner - or something - I had to (grudgingly) send intern Kelly Knickerbocker out to scope the Dallas Desire wannabes in Grand Prairie. Kelly, what'd I miss? Today at QuikTrip Park a group of beautiful - ... More >>

Local Lingerie Hopefuls Bring Game, Tight Pants to Dallas Desire Tryouts

Patrick MichelsToday was tryout day for the Dallas Desire -- which, as we mentioned way back in October, is the local franchise in the new Lingerie Football League. And around 30 women turned up at Grand Prairie's Quick Stop Park hoping to make the final cut -- 12, all told. Over on Sportatorium, In ... More >>

Sasha Cohen Bringing Her Short Skirt and Long Legs to Dallas

What better way to cap our very female-friendly Thursday than with an interview with the No. 3-ranked hottest female athlete on the planet? That's right, Sasha Cohen is in the Sportatorium. I see it this way: If you selfishly keep Valentine's Day as yours, go to Purgatory Saturday nig ... More >>

Yes, But Will They Be Paid in Ones?

First-String Divas

Girls in underwear playing football. Nice.