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April 25, 2012
Inspired by The Yu Dog, 25 More Dishes to Honor DFW Sports Stars
The Yu Dog at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington has created a food media circus. But he's not the only DFW sports icon worthy of his own dish at The Ballpark in Arlington, Jerryland and the AAC. Here are some others. 1. Tom Landry Enormous fedora filled with chili. Feather garnish optional. 2. Nolan ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Batters Up For Charity
The Yu Dog at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington has created a food media circus. But he's not the only DFW sports icon worthy of his own dish at The Ballpark in Arlington, Jerryland and the AAC. Here are some others. 1. Tom Landry Enormous fedora filled with chili. Feather garnish optional. 2. Nolan ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
The Best Team in Mavericks' History: '88 vs. '11
While contemplating defensive coordinator Dwane Casey's departure to be the Toronto Raptors' head coach and whom they should take with the 26th pick in Thursday's NBA Draft, a couple more Mavs-related items buzzed through my brain this week. 1. Who from the championship team s ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Whitt's End: 6.17.11
Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Jason Terry's voice is still hoarse from all the partying and cigars, but yet we're already peeking at 2012. Problem: The Mavs aren't a team built for the future, but rather the here-'n-now ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Roddy Beaubois, Caron Butler Get Into Mavs Starting Lineup For Letterman's Top 10
Some of the staff's already downtown for the parade -- along with the thousands already on hand both at Victory Park and behind the barricades stretching back to the Dallas Convention Center starting point. And, this just in from Dallas City Hall:Accommodations will be made for people who are handic ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Go, Um ... Mavs, Was It? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Basketball.
Two things I could have done to make my dad really happy with me would have been to become religious and to care about baseball. I failed him in both. Let's not talk about the religion thing and say we did. But professional sports: I can't even tell you why I never developed an interest. I s ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Watch: The Mavericks End Celebratory Parade With "We Are The Champions" Singalong
Patrick MichelsJason Kidd and Terrell's Own Jamie Foxx After going on Letterman last night to talk about their win, their potential new Kardashian boos and their very dirty habit of licking the Larry O'Brien Trophy, the Mavericks paraded around Dallas today like the champs they are and ended up a ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Before the Mavs' Parade, Fans Sweated in the Streets While Local Officials Fawned
Photos by Patrick MichelsLike Jim says, don't let yourself get carried away. It's just sports.After hanging out along the parade route for a while this morning, Nick and I ducked into the convention center for what we'd been told would be a half-hour interview session with the Mavs before they fl ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
2011 NBA FINALS GAME 5 -- Mavericks 112, Heat 103: My Top 10 Observer-ations
10. So did he or didn't he? Rashard Lewis I mean. Did he or didn't he sleep with LeBron James' girlfriend. Best guess: Maybe. 9. Remember when I said a faster pace would equal better looks for the Mavs on offense? With J.J. Barea joining the series and Jason Kidd pushing the ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
Game 5 -- Mavericks 93, Blazers 82: My Top 10 Observer-ations
10. There was a time when the Mavs going 3 of 17 on 3-pointers in a playoff game meant certain doom. Last night, Dallas didn't shoot particularly well, but it defended and rebounded. Wow did it rebound, to the tune of 12, 11 at the offensive end. 9. Turns out Brandon Roy's fourth ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Blazers 97, Mavericks 92: My Top 10 Observer-ations
10. As we suspected, Portland's team is pretty salty. But their fans suck. Booing Mark Cuban is cool. Throwing shit at him is lame. 9. The Mavs are the NBA's best road team the last two regular seasons, but they're now 2-14 in their last 16 playoffs games away from the American Airlines Cen ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
What If Dirk Nowitzki Weren't White?
His critics wouldn't call him soft, but his teammates would still lead the Mavs to another early exit.
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December 9, 2010
Avery Johnson Returns: To Boo or Not to Boo?
He led the Dallas Mavericks to their 30-year apex. He Instilled defense and discipline into a franchise that had forever languished with an offensive philosophy. He orchestrated the best regular-season in team history. He was the NBA's Coach of the Year. And he took ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
Will the Dallas Mavericks Bore Their Fans To Death With Another Winning Season?
He led the Dallas Mavericks to their 30-year apex. He Instilled defense and discipline into a franchise that had forever languished with an offensive philosophy. He orchestrated the best regular-season in team history. He was the NBA's Coach of the Year. And he took ... More >>
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October 6, 2010
Oct. 1, 1996: Where Were You When the Rangers Won Their Playoff Game? Their Only One.
The defending Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys were 2-3 under Barry Switzer and on their way to a playoff loss to the Carolina Panthers. The Dallas Mavericks were embarking on a season that started with head coach Jim Cleamons and the Three Js -- Jason Kidd, Jim Jackson and Jamal Mashburn ... More >>
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June 24, 2010
Walk Of Fame
The defending Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys were 2-3 under Barry Switzer and on their way to a playoff loss to the Carolina Panthers. The Dallas Mavericks were embarking on a season that started with head coach Jim Cleamons and the Three Js -- Jason Kidd, Jim Jackson and Jamal Mashburn ... More >>
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April 30, 2010
GAME 6: Spurs 97, Mavs 87. My Top 10 Observations.
Another year, another painful playoff loss.10. The Mavericks are now the only NBA team to lose in the first round of the playoffs as a No. 1 and No. 2 seed. Granted the four-time champion Spurs aren't your pedestrian No. 7 seed, but it's still an ugly epitaph to have etched on your tombsto ... More >>
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April 26, 2010
GAME 4: Spurs 92, Mavs 89. My Top 10 Observations
10. Spurs' rookie DeJuan Blair is a beast. Sunday he had seven points and seven rebounds in 11 minutes and even placed an elbow in Dirk Nowitzki's ear to bait him into a technical foul. Roddy Beaubois may grow into the Mavs' point guard of the future, but some of us (my hand was raised) were ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Mavericks 100, Spurs 94: My Top 10 Observations
10. Asked Mavs owner Mark Cuban on his Stairmaster last night if he was serious about his story of almost imploding the team in late January before finding the Caron Butler trade: "Absolutely the truth. Ask my wife." 9. In crunch time, it was Jason Kidd on Manu Ginobli. He doesn't always sto ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
Mavs Whip Hapless Knicks by Half-a-Hundred, But is it the Biggest Ass-Whipping in Metroplex Sports History?
No Jason Kidd. No Erick Dampier. No momentum. No prisoners. Was dilly-daddling around the house yesterday with a rare Sunday off (thanks, Cowboys). Had the Mavs-Knicks on the TV and it was something like 35-30 early in the second quarter. Next thing I know Roddy Beaubois is raining 3-pointer ... More >>
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December 2, 2009
Hey, Don't Look Now, But That Mavs-Nets Trade Is Looking Better by the Loss
In hindsight, bravo Mavericks. Brah-voe! When I screw up, I do it biiiiiig time. And, turns out, I was dead-ass wrong about the February 2008 trade in which the Dallas Mavericks sent Devin Harris to the New Jersey Nets for Jason Kidd. Actually, the entire deal was Harris, Trenton Hassell ... More >>
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November 6, 2009
Drowned Out By Grandiose Doings in Arlington, the Dallas Mavericks Begin What Should Be a Loud, Proud Season
In hindsight, bravo Mavericks. Brah-voe! When I screw up, I do it biiiiiig time. And, turns out, I was dead-ass wrong about the February 2008 trade in which the Dallas Mavericks sent Devin Harris to the New Jersey Nets for Jason Kidd. Actually, the entire deal was Harris, Trenton Hassell ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
Happy Basketball! Do You Believe in These Dallas Mavericks?
Dirk looks excited about the season. You?Last time we saw our Dallas Mavericks it wasn't pretty was ugly. Jason Terry was flopping (only 15 points per game), the defense was floundering (surrendering 115 per game) and owner Mark Cuban was flapping (his gums at Kenyon Martin's mom) in ... More >>
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July 6, 2009
Mavericks' Free Agency: Kidd Returning, Polish Hammer Looming
The Mavs are Pole dancing. Got your $1s ready? We can no longer confuse the Dallas Mavericks' silence with inactivity. Let's hope we never confuse Marcin Gortat with the franchise's legacy of Great White Nopes. The Mavericks last night agreed to re-sign 36-year-old point guard Jason Kidd ... More >>
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July 2, 2009
The Mavericks' French Misconnection Marks More of the Same on Draft Day
The Mavs are Pole dancing. Got your $1s ready? We can no longer confuse the Dallas Mavericks' silence with inactivity. Let's hope we never confuse Marcin Gortat with the franchise's legacy of Great White Nopes. The Mavericks last night agreed to re-sign 36-year-old point guard Jason Kidd ... More >>
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June 2, 2009
What's In My Closet? Horrible Ideas Edition
Was just over on Unfair Park reading Schutze's take on the latest missle fired into the hull of the Trinity River Toll Road Waste Of Time Project. From the city that gave us the CueCat, plastic dividers on HOV lanes and P.C. Cobb Stadium downgraded into an InfoMart, this might be our dumbe ... More >>
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April 17, 2009
2009 NBA Playoff Preview: Spurs vs. Mavs
The good news: When the Mavs and Spurs begin their first-round playoff series this weekend it will be a renewal of a rivalry featuring talented, tested teams. The bad news: When the Mavs and Spurs finish their first-round playoff series, the loser will go home and the winner won't be far b ... More >>
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January 30, 2009
Devin Harris: NBA All-Star
Welcome to Mavs' fans' nightmare.Sorry I'm a little late this morning. Been glued to one of the greatest, longest tennis matches ever. The Fernando Verdasco-Rafael Nadal Australian Open semifinal that started at 2:30 a.m. our time just ended. In other news ... Devin Harris is an NBA All- ... More >>
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January 19, 2009
Mr. Hollins' Opus
Let's don't call Laura Miller and her parade plans just yet, but the Mavericks may have found something. A luxury they haven't enjoyed since, oh, forever. Or at least since Roy Tarpley. A mobile, athletic big man. It was - who else? - Dirk Nowitizki's calm, fadeaway 18-footer that beat the Phi ... More >>
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January 9, 2009
Your 2009 Dallas Mavericks: Mediocre? Morose? Magical?
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What'd I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another ... More >>
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October 30, 2008
The Top 10 Most Memorable Openers in Dallas Mavericks’ History
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What'd I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another ... More >>
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October 17, 2008
Video of the Week: On Second Thought, Maybe Trading Away Devin Harris Wasn't Such a Bad Idea
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What'd I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another ... More >>
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July 21, 2008
Chris Bosh Is Packed for China and the Olympics. Now, It's All Crackin'.
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What'd I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another ... More >>
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May 27, 2008
The Chicago Cubans? Say It Ain’t So
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What'd I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another ... More >>
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May 22, 2008
Mavericks' New Coach Promises Not To Be 'Ivory Johnson'
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What'd I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another ... More >>
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May 8, 2008
After the Season Is Torched and the Coach Fired, Mavericks Begin an Overhaul
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What'd I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another ... More >>
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May 6, 2008
At Least I Got Two Predictions Right
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What'd I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another ... More >>
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April 30, 2008
Now, Where Did We Put Our Post-Season Bong?
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What'd I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another ... More >>
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April 24, 2008
It's Time for Mavericks Coach Avery Johnson to Deliver
If the team continues to erode, the coach must go
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April 23, 2008
The Beginning Of The End
If the team continues to erode, the coach must go
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April 15, 2008
Two-Face: Or, Why I Should Really Stop Waking and Baking
If the team continues to erode, the coach must go
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March 27, 2008
Are We Golden?
Or are the Mavs just Kidding around?
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March 24, 2008
Mavs Now Without Leg to Stand On
Or are the Mavs just Kidding around?
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February 29, 2008
Avery Gets a New Web Site
Or are the Mavs just Kidding around?
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February 28, 2008
Net Gain
Kidd and Co. take it to the Nets
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February 27, 2003
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
Kidd and Co. take it to the Nets
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October 23, 1997
One-on-one
With Mavericks Coach Jim Cleamons and GM Don Nelson, life's a constant battle for position
Culture
July 6, 1995
Draft day menu
A sleepy Kidd--and unhappy fans--greet an underwhelming NBA pick
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April 27, 1995
Buzz
A sleepy Kidd--and unhappy fans--greet an underwhelming NBA pick
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April 20, 1995
Letters
A sleepy Kidd--and unhappy fans--greet an underwhelming NBA pick
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