I smell a shutout. That, and a really stinky “room.” I could sit here and try to analyze and dissect tonight’s Game 5 between your Dallas Stars and San Jose Sharks all afternoon. But it’s 82 and sunny and, honestly, I don’t wanna. Besides, what would it help? As close…

Too much to ask for this guy? Guess so. According to Mike Fisher – as Mavs-connected as anyone in this town — over at DallasBasketball.com, the Mavs have narrowed their coaching search to Mike D’Antoni, Rick Carlisle and Jeff Van Gundy. Two reactions: 1. Dang that was fast. 2. Yuck…

Sorry, Stars fans. Put ’em away. Admit it, you got greedy. The Cowboys lose in the first round and the Mavs puke in the playoffs three years in a row and the Rangers remain the Rangers. So, naturally – finally — when your Dallas Stars took a 3-0 series lead…

Mark it down. Avery Johnson will get another NBA head-coaching gig (he says he’s already been contacted by a team, by the way) and bring his new team into the American Airlines Center and kick his old team’s ass. Nothing new, really. It’s the curse of the ex-Maverick. I mean,…

On his way outta town Avery claims he never wanted Jason Kidd? Yeah, right. Listening to former — weird, huh? — Mavs head coach Avery Johnson speak from the cushy confines of the Ritz-Carlton, I was confused to whether he had just been handed a pink slip or a gold…

Per the GM, the guy in the middle isn’t a candidate to coach the Mavs. Methinks the other two have signficantly brighter futures. Just caught the tail end of Mavericks’ General Manager Donnie Nelson on The Ticket. As far as the next head coach, we now know: *It won’t be…

Attention Jerry Jones: Michael Vick gets out of prison in 15 months. Rae Carruth will be only 44 when he’s eligible for parole in 2019. Dwayne Goodrich is almost halfway through his sentence. Art Schlichter is a free man. No one avoids his pursuers like O.J. Simpson. And, who knows,…

The supportive mid-season shirt: “Avery’s Team.” The distressed post-season edict: “Avery’s Time.” It’s time. Time for Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson to deliver. Time for his precious system and his hand-picked players to win a championship, a series or, at this point, a couple of playoff road games. Time…

Something funny happened on the way to penning another Dallas Stars’ April obit. The team that annually dies in the first round of the playoffs not only has life, it suddenly looks like the strongest outfit in the whole damn National Hockey League. On the heels of a month so…

Chances are your lingering memory of Dave Campo is: A) Inexplicably going for one point, instead of two, on Thanksgiving Day 2001. B) Karaoke singing “I’ve got sunshine…on a cloudy day” during HBO’s 2002 Hard Knocks. C) 5-11. 5-11. 5-11. D) All of the above. Ready or not, the worst…

Don’t buy the martyrdom. Because Dallas’ Only Daily is selling you a knock-off. In an ironic twist, turns out Dallas Morning News reporter Tim MacMahon got himself temporarily banned from the Dallas Mavericks’ locker room because, in part, he failed to go into the Dallas Mavericks’ locker room. The Morning…

In this corner, entering his 30th consecutive season as the radio voice of your Texas Rangers…Eric Nadel! And in this corner, approaching his 2,000th consecutive game as a Major League Baseball public address announcer in Arlington except for one season…Chuck Morgan! Though mired in a local baseball environment that long…

From stage. To national stage. UT-Arlington, whose athletic legacy seemed eternally chained to both the humor of playing hoops on a theater floor in Texas Hall and the horror of axing its football program, is about to participate in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. It’s historic. It’s surreal. It’s reaffirmation…

SURPRISE, Arizona—In the Garden of Eden, so goes biblical legend, Adam involuntarily surrendered a rib so God could fashion a woman. In Arlington, according to medical records, Hank Blalock voluntarily surrendered a rib for the good of the Texas Rangers. For their troubles Adam got Eve and Blalock saved his…

“Jason isn’t the guy who could take us to the next level. Management wasn’t comfortable putting the franchise in his hands.” —Mavericks interim general manager Frank Zaccanelli upon trading Jason Kidd on December 26, 1996 “Kidd’s skill set and leadership will help us close out games and series. Because of…

Hear that? It’s audible. But so quiet and muffled, almost tranquil. Is it the refurbished Mercantile Tower clock, silently ticking high above downtown? Two moths texting in a cotton field? Charlie Chaplin espousing the virtues of Roger Clemens? Nope. Just another winter hot streak by your Dallas Stars. Admittedly stripped…

How’s this for a daunting job description? • Lure successful, high-profile head coaches to a small, private university that has minimized sports for 20 years. • Nurture revenues and raise funds all by your lonesome, while simultaneously trimming fat from a $7 million operating deficit. • Reincarnate a moribund athletic…