Thanks to Ozzy Osbourne and Mike Ditka, this is not the worst 7th inning stretch in the history of the friendly confines. — Richie Whitt…

Putting down galliant fillies like Eight Belles is only one of horse racing’s serious problems Tomorrow, Lone Star Park holds one of its biggest days of the year, and after a disastrous and embarrassing Kentucky Derby, horse racing could use some good news. Maybe that’s why Lone Star Park is…

In sorting through the rubble of a series, a season and an era that totally and hideously imploded, Dallas Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson is discombobulated. How else do you explain him awkwardly giving a vote of confidence to his team’s wayward pot-head while leaving a crack in the door…

On deck? According to two baseball sources I trust way farther than I could throw them, your Texas Rangers are making plans for when – not if – manager Ron Washington is fired this season. The Dallas Observer – via this here The Sportatorium sports blog – has learned from…

This joint is already jumpin’. Okay, it’s not that cool. Unless you’re a fan of Arizona State or Notre Dame, that is. But it is a sporting event. And, no, it ain’t coming to Dallas. In a deal announced just moments ago, the Sun Devils and Fighting Irish have agreed…

Red Wings’ fans throw octopi on the ice when their team scores. How very SpongeBobby of them. And stupid. The Dallas Stars’ bandwagon – so desolate three months ago that team president Jeff Cogen was bending over backward to win back fans – is suddenly more congested than the complaint…

Hey, the Mavs do need a backup point guard. Now that Greg Holland’s Web site actually worked and Avery Johnson is, well, fired, what’s he do for an encore? He could seize momentum from the success of fireavery.com and launch keepjoshhoward straight.com. How about clonedirknowitzki.com? Perhaps, because he’s seemingly so…

Seriously, we’d rather have the guy on the left. The mainstreamers – that’d be, of course, your Dallas’ Only Daily and your good ol’ Startlegram – are echoing what I started yelling last Saturday. That, barring the reincarnation of Red Auerbach, the Mavericks are about to hire Rick Carlisle. Perhaps…

Get it? While the Mavs have been imploding and the Stars surging, your Dallas Cowboys have made some news of their own. In no particular order: *Tony Romo is not married to Jessica Simpson … Yet. *With Dallas’ first full-squad minicamp still two weeks away, is it too early for…

The perfect rollin’ model? Because I like Josh Howard (remember, I used to love him), I’m going to attempt to write this item with a straight face. You, however, knock yourself out. Insert your own marijuana-related punch lines whenever you feel the urge. Fresh off a horrible and horribly short…

We got a logo! Can February 6, 2011, be that far off? At the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s initial press conference today out at the Cowboys new stadium, all sorts of dignitaries — Troy Aikman, Ross Perot Jr, Tom Leppert, Terdema Ussery — pledged their support and…

While most of you were sleeping, this guy scored. Exciting. Excruciating. Exhausting. … Exalting. In an epic hockey game that climaxed a fantastic series and prompted lots of bleary eyes, Brenden Morrow scored in the fourth overtime — at 1:23 a.m. thank you very much — to give the Dallas…

Is it just me, or does the next coach of the Dallas Mavericks look like Jim Carrey? In news that’ll jazz you about as much as finding an old penny in your jeans pocket, it looks more and more like the Mavericks are going to hire former Pacers and Pistons…

Paybacks are hell, eh? That sound you hear is coming from Buffalo. In the form of laughter. It took almost a decade, but the hockey Gods may have finally evened the score with the Stars, as Brenden Morrow had what clearly looked like a legal goal disallowed in a Game…