Press conference at Cowboys Stadium will make it official at 1:30. Think he, like Wade Phillips did in 2007, will walk up to the podium and say, “Surprise, I’m here!”?  …

On the short list of Dallas Cowboys’ highlights this season: Dez Bryant. Mat McBriar. And, yes, Jon Kitna. After not playing a single snap in 2009, there were concerns about Tony Romo’s 39-year-old backup. We all remember the disaster that was Brad Johnson. But after being pressed into duty after Romo’s October 25…

You’ve heard it. Hopefully you haven’t repeated it. It goes like this: (Spoken with a slow, twangy, red-necky, eternally frustrated drawwwwwl) “Jason Garrett sabotaged Wade Phillips. He didn’t start coaching all good ‘n stuff until he got Wade fired. On purpose!” While we breathlessly await a Valley Ranch press conference…

When Tony Romo broke his collarbone on October 25, the Dallas Cowboys’ season was kaput. When Caron Butler tore a tendon in his knee on January 1, it may not have ended the Dallas Mavericks’ season but certainly the bar has been lowered. What ended as such a promising 2010 has now given…

The race is on today. Which big announcement/press conference will arrive first: The Dallas Cowboys hiring Jason Garrett or the Texas Rangers signing Adrian Beltre? Let’s go with Beltre, as the free-agent third baseman and agent Scott Boras arrived in town last night and agreed to a five-year, $80 million contract…

So me and Charles Barkley call the Dallas Mavericks the best team in the NBA, but when I come back from vacation the whole thing’s in shambles. What the what?! I believe when I left they were 23-5 and had just completed a season sweep of the Miami Heat. Now? Entering tonight’s home…

You can say I botched my 2010 NFL prognostications. But you can’t say I ran and hid from my errors. There’s hope for me surviving this thing, as I have Big Ten Buffoonery dough coming in, tonight’s Megamillions jackpot is up to $330 million and I actually sneaked by with a profit…

Your Texas Rangers whiffed on Cliff Lee and Zack Greinke, instead settling for Brandon Webb and Arthur Rhodes. I don’t mind the signing of Webb because he’s another low-risk, high-reward guy. He only costs $3 million, and what if he – 18 months after a reconstructive shoulder surgery – returns…

Garrett Top. Unless of course, Jason Garrett pulls a Cliff Lee and spurns the metroplex. Make no mistake, the Dallas Cowboys’ interim head coach is suddenly a hot commodity as other NFL teams’ permanent head coach. In the wake of a 5-3 second half he has some real leverage now. How’s…

How about a nice round of applause for Sam Merten? Nice job, Sam. Splendid actually. Thank you. And with that … we now return to your regularly scheduled Sportatorium. 10. A year ago the Cowboys finished the regular season with a win over the Eagles. This year the Cowboys finished…

Every Ranger Down in Tex-ville Liked Cliffmas a lot… But the Philadelphia Phillies, Who lived way north of Tex-ville, Did not! The Phils hated Cliff Lee and ignored Cliffmas! The whole winter meetings season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be that their…

At the risk of sounding 103 years old, I need to ask a question: What has happened to football? On 105.3 The Fan I co-host the weekly radio shows of Dallas Cowboys’ defensive players Jay Ratliff (Mondays 6 p.m.) and DeMarcus Ware (Wednesdays 2:15). Each week they bemoan not being…

Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. 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…

In a related story, Dallas Cowboys fans respectfully disagree. Well, don’t we? Brooking says he has something left in the tank, but we all saw him blocked out of the play – hell, out of the picture – on the Eagles’ clock-killing, game-winning drive last Sunday. I’ve seen – and…

Let me just say this one last thing about Cliff Lee and then we’ll move on. Maybe. Sorta. OK, probably not. Check that, definitely uh-uh. Don’t tell me the Texas Rangers tried hard. Don’t tell me we should be proud of sitting at the big boys table. Don’t tell me…

Cowboys lose to Eagles? Check. Rangers lose Cliff Lee? Check. Mavericks lose to the medicore Milwaukee Bucks? No way in hell. Check?! I was hoping the Mavericks, who had their 12-game winning streak snapped in a head-scratching 103-99 loss, could push it to 15 entering Monday’s game against the Heat…

A proud franchise that once upon a time won Super Bowls behind a Doomsday Defense is these days shackled to the most disappointing season in team history by a defense that is simply doomed. Back in training camp down in The Alamodome in San Antonio, head coach Wade Phillips trumpeted a promising…