The season is a disaster. When it’s “Super Bowl or Bust” and at the halfway point you fire the head coach with a record of 1-7, “or Bust” wins. All is lost. But not all. When the Dallas Cowboys play the Colts in Indianapolis this Sunday they’ll be playing for pride…
Walk under a ladder. Get yourself pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Or, to ensure bad luck, crappy karma and repugnant results, just get on my pissy side. Turns out my hater hex really, really works. It started a couple years ago when I—like most sports fans in Dallas—tired…
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…
Rafael Palmeiro. Juan Gonzalez. A combined 1,003 home runs. A combined 0% chance of getting inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame. The reason? Steroids, of course. Both former Texas Rangers’ sluggers are on this year’s list of candidates and – sans the drug thing – could make a great…
I’m with ya. Tired of seeing Marion Barber. Watching him hop up and strut 10 yards down field to celebrate a four-yard run. Watching him dive into a pile for a 1/2-yard loss on 3rd-and-1. Watching him bounce inside runs to the outside. The Barbarian long ago deteriorated into the…
The good news: Mavs win again. Their sixth in a row, this one over the Houston Rockets comfortably, 101-91, last night at American Airlines Center. Dallas is 13-4 and on one of its trademark rolls that annually leads to 50-plus wins come April. The bad news: Rookie guard Dominique Jones has…
Because it’s never too early to get an Elf for Christmas, 105.3 The Fan is hiring long-time Ticket personality Mark Elfenbein. Elf, who hosted a Sunday morning show on 1310 AM since the birth of The Ticket back in 1994. He will begin his new gig alongside Josh Lewin weekdays 11 a.m.-2 p.m…
Let’s see, he’s won a batting title, an American League MVP, multiple Ginger Ale showers, our hearts and – almost, sorta – a World Series. Today Texas Rangers’ outfielder Josh Hamilton goes for another coveted honor – Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year. Little debate that Hamilton was the best player in…
Think it’s been a wacky college football season? Michigan, Florida, Southern Cal and Texas are a combined 26-17 22. And TCU (which is apparently jumping to the Big East in 2012) – at the very worst – is going to the Rose Bowl. Couldn’t believe my eyes early Saturday morning. Despite…
With the Cowboys’ hopes buried, the Rangers’ pursuit of Cliff Lee still a week from climax and the leftover turkey all but scarfed, time for your Mavericks to snatch our attention. If they haven’t already. In case you’re one of those that refuses to pay attention to basketball before Thanksgiving, you missed…
Wasn’t exactly Cortland Finnegan vs. Andre Johnson, but The Prez got into a scuffle last Friday. On the basketball court. With an elbow. Barack Obama received 12 stitches to a cut on his lower lip after an errant elbow during a pick-up game by Rey Decerega, the Director of Programs for…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *If you’re a TCU fan, it goes down like this: Alabama beats Auburn today at 1:30 on CBS. Arizona beats Oregon tonight at 6 on ESPN. And Nevada beats Boise State…
10. The end of the modest two-game winning streak also means the end of the disappointing season. At 3-8 the Cowboys are officially dead. Tony Romo should be put on injured reserve today. 9. Down 20-3 there was no way the Cowboys were going to win. Then up 27-23 with…
This isn’t still about that JFK thing, is it? Perhaps then it’s eternal payback for the Dallas Cowboys’ Hail Mary, Brett Hull’s “no goal” for the Dallas Stars, the Texas Rangers’ exploitation of 18-year-old David Clyde or all those second chances afforded Roy Tarpley by the Dallas Mavericks? OK, then…
It was 16 years ago today that a red-headed backup quarterback from Princeton authored one of the most amazing holiday scripts in Dallas Cowboys’ history. Thanksgiving Day, 1994. With Troy Aikman and Rodney Peete out with injuries, Dallas’ third-stringer stepped in and promptly fell behind the Green Bay Packers, 17-3,…
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…
And deservedly so. Good for him…
Former SMU player-turned-Cowboys’ stud Bryan McCann got me to thinking. Has an undrafted guy ever made such an immediate impact in Dallas? An interception return of 101 yards one week, followed by a 97-yard punt return the following week is impressive. But he’d better keep it up if he hopes to barge…
OK, admittedly this may be a tad premature. We’ve still got – what? – 4.5 months left of NBA regular season. But what happened last night in Miami was too delicious to bypass. Turkey comes Thursday. Monday night the appetizer was served. Last week I officially wished failure upon the unfortunate noggin’…
For months I’ve been saying that Rangers’ outfielder Josh Hamilton is the best player in baseball. Today he’ll at least be validated as the Most Valuable Player in his own American League. Around 1 p.m. Hamilton should win AL MVP, joining Jeff Burroughs (1974), Juan Gonzalez (’96, ’98), Ivan Rodriguez…
TCU is by far the best college football team in Texas. The Horned Frogs could have easily won the Big 12 this season. TCU, in fact, can beat any team in the country. But even with the best defense in the country, TCU is defenseless against the BCS. With another…
Would you rather your football team – like the Dallas Cowboys – implode during a 1-7 start, fire its head coach and be done by Halloween? Or would you rather your football team – like FC Dallas – make it all the way to the Super Bowl only to dramatically lose…
