Subject: Sports Stars

• Miami Twice

  February 23, 2007

• Worst to First

  November 14, 2006

• European Vacation

  July 21, 2006

• Whose Balls Are Worth More?

  May 10, 2006

• (Flawed) German Engineering

  May 9, 2006

• Sosa What

  June 18, 2007

• Tony Romo's Shirt by Levi's

  August 17, 2007

• NBA GMs Not High on Dirk

  October 25, 2007

• How the East Was Won

  November 12, 2007

• Tony Romo, Now Officially in More Gossip Columns Than Ink

  November 16, 2007

• Tony Hearts, Um, Brett?

  November 27, 2007

• Are You Shittin’ Me?

  January 14, 2008

• Guess Which Hottie Tony Romo is Linked to Now?

  May 29, 2008

• It's In the Hole. It's In the Hole.

  July 10, 2008

• Chris Bosh Is Packed for China and the Olympics. Now, It's All Crackin'.

  July 21, 2008

• Week 2 NFL Quarterback Rankings

  September 9, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 4

  September 23, 2008

• A Ranking You’ll Find Hard to Believe

  October 8, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 10

  November 4, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 11

  November 11, 2008

• Dallas Cowboys Are No. 1! At Least in Something.

  November 12, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 12

  Not Tony Romo’s best day. But better than Brad Johnson. By a mile. Okay, I’ve got a long-distance, work-related field trip today so let’s get to it. Just for fun, let’s reveal ‘em in reverse order. Extrapolates the drama and all. Where you guys think Graham Harrell and Sam Bradford would fall on this list? 32. JaMarcus Russell – Raiders 31. Marc Bulger – Rams 30. Matt Hassellbeck -- Seahawks 29. Tyler Thigpen – Chiefs 28. Sage Rosenfels – Texans 27.

  November 18, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 13

  Donovan McNabb benched? Matt Cassel with back-to-back 400-yard games? Just when you think the quarterback world has gone crazier than George Clooney, Tony Romo finally returns to being, well, Tony Romo.   Moving around in the pocket to produce 341 yards and three touchdowns.   Moving up in the rankings to produce more  cries of "Homer!".32. Ryan Fitzpatrick -  Bengals 31. Matt Hassellbeck - Seahawks 30. Marc Bulger - Rams29. Tyler Thigpen - Chiefs28. JaMarcus Russel

  November 25, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 14

     Homer this.   Despite missing three games with a broken pinkie, Dallas Cowboys' quarterback Tony Romo leads all NFL quarterbacks in:   *QB Rating (103.2)   *Average yards per pass attempt (8.5)   *TD-Interception ratio ( 13)   If you watched his 331-yard, three-touchdown performance on Thanksgiving, there's no doubt Romo is back to being Romo. Which is great news for the Cowboys, and bad news for the quarterbacks he's leap-frogging i

  December 2, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 15

  Okay, I'm swamped up to here penning a cover story about a former Cowboy you haven't thought about in a long time, so let's make this snappy. Besides, isn't it best to eat your crow on the run? After praising Cowboys' quarterback Tony Romo in a swath of I-told-you-so's last week, he went out and looked like the goofball from the worst flag football team you ever played on. Goofy grins. Running to the heater between plays. Sailing passes. Fumbling. Throwing high and wide intercep

  December 9, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 16

  Tony Romo, all is forgiven. At least for a week. After one of the most Gawd-awful performances of his career - or, let's face it, any career - in Pittsburgh, the Cowboys' quarterback went out Sunday night and padded his legacy with a game straight from Hollywood. Aching back and nagging teammates be damned, Romo willed Dallas to a crucial victory over the Giants by throwing two touchdowns, committing zero turnovers and withstanding four brutal sacks. Two more games like that and

  December 16, 2008

• Final NFL Quarterback Rankings

  According to the Pro Bowl, Peyton Manning and Kurt Warner are the two best NFL quarterbacks of 2008. According to me, nonsense. Warner has the best receivers in the league and throws in the worst division in football. Manning was steady, but hardly spectacular. My rankings, which take into account quarterback rating, team record, TD-to-Int differential and which way the wind's blowing, culminate today. And my winner - surprise - ain't even headed to Hawaii. 32. Dan Orlovsky - Lions 31

  December 23, 2008

• The World's Top 10 Left-Handed Athletes

  Right is wrong and left is ... right? Seems to be. It's not exactly a bass-ackward revolution, but left-handers are doing okay for themselves in sports these days. Or are they? The idea struck me last week when I saw highlights of college quarterbacks Josh Heupel and Matt Leinart winning BCS National Championship Games. They disappeared = Bad. Then I watched this year's game and saw Florida's Tim Tebow will his Gators to a title. He's one of the best players in the history of college football&n

  January 14, 2009

• Here's the pitch

  November 6, 1997

• The Dallas Mavericks Go for Broke, But Where Is it Getting Them?

  March 5, 2009

• Pete Sampras Returns to Royalty

  The tennis king makes pit stop in, um, Frisco?

  September 27, 2007

• Hail to the King

  March 1, 2007

• Doctoring Dirk

  Why ransack the MVP's skill when we can simply reboot his psyche?

  May 24, 2007

• Play It Again, Sammy

  Can the Rangers' oldest rookie leave his diva days behind and deliver?

  March 29, 2007

• Play It Forward

  Sports' smallest acts often come laced with giant implications

  February 2, 2006

• Best Professional Coach

  Donnie Nelson

  October 14, 2004

• Best Rumor That Got Us All Worked Up Over Nothing

  Shaq to come to the Dallas Mavericks

  October 14, 2004

• Mavs-Spurs Game 5 Preview: Uh-Oh

  Dirk's getting double-teamed. What's your excuse?*Unless Mark Cuban smears Swine Flu on Tony Parker, I'm afraid the desperate and prideful San Antonio Spurs beat the Dallas Mavericks tonight, forcing a Game 6 Friday night at American Airlines Center. Why? Because home teams down 3-1 always win Game 5. Because Greg Popovich has won 75 percent of his games when facing elimination, best all-time. And because there's that nagging "internal devil" thing with the Mavs. *Deferential Dirk: O

  April 28, 2009

• Prepare To Be Amazed As Mind Reader David Magee Freaks Out Dallas Cowboys and Other Local Sports Celebs With His Mental Skills

  June 18, 2009

• Tony Romo Attempts to Sell the Comedy

  Tony Romo: Product Spokesman from Tony RomoVia Just Jared, we find this brand-new Funny or Die exclusive: Tony Romo as a pitchman for "over 50,000 products," among 'em yarmulkes, gas that tastes like chocolate and something called a "ball-pen hammer," sigh. In short: The Dallas Cowboys quarterback is no Peyton Manning. Or Joe Montana.

  July 15, 2009

• Dallas Cowboys' Training Camp: Success Over Circus

  ​No Terrell Owens. No Pacman Jones. No Michael Vick or Brett Favre or Michael Crabtree. No drama. To which I say ... Yes! Last summer the Dallas Cowboys broke camp fat 'n happy and consumed with personal agendas. After a successful training camp at San Antonio's Alamodome in which the focus was football over fireworks and even included a blessing by a Catholic priest (in light of Magic Johnson's pep talk failing last year in Oxnard), it's safe to say the 2009 version is leaner '

  August 20, 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

• Whitt's End: 9.11.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *As for August's PPM radio ratings - surprise! - 1310 AM The Ticket continues to dominate. Among men 25-54, The Ticket remains No. 1 in the market leading every hour from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. In the distant battle for second place 105.3 The Fan continues to gain on 103.3 FM ESPN, leading in about half the day. To avoid those "Hey, quit tooting your own horn, asshole!" accusation

  September 11, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 1

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  September 15, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 5

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  October 7, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 6

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  October 14, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 7

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  October 20, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 8

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  October 27, 2009

• 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.

  October 29, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 9

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  November 3, 2009