10. Pretty sure the Sooners and Longhorns are just mediocre football teams. But I’m certain Texas was absolutely gutted — in emotion and field-position — by nine penalties. 9. The Longhorns will lose Oct. 16 at Nebraska, giving Texas three consecutive losses for the first time since 1999. Seems like we’re…
The 90 wins (just the fourth 90-win season in the franchise’s 39-year history). The nine-game win in the American League West (largest ever). The claw. The antlers. The playoffs. The excitement. Let’s face it, without Josh Hamilton in the post-season it would all amount to tantalizing foreplay with no payoff. Seeing…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Sobering number right outta the gate: Since July 1 the Texas Rangers are 42-40. Are we fooling ourselves thinking they’re an elite team that can actually win a playoff series against…
I’ve seen Mavericks’ forward Popeye Jones inadvertently tip a jump ball into his own basket, giving the Cleveland Cavaliers two points. I’ve seen Cowboys’ defensive lineman Leon Lett inexplicably attempt to recover a blocked field goal on an icy Thanksgiving field at Texas Stadium, handing the Miami Dolphins a victory…
lated by the Rangers’ AL West crown. But I’m not thrilled by the T-shirt. Gray? Coulda swore the Rangers’ colors were red and blue and … Gray? Or is it charcoal? And speaking of celebratory accessories …..
What the friggin’ what?! Last time I saw Jimmy Johnson on Survivor he was ordering her to fetch water and him to cut down trees and those guys to catch some fish and the rest to build a bridge from Nicaragua to Key West so he could home and drink some cold…
There was a crisp, cool nip in the air Monday night at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. We’ve experienced this before with the Texas Rangers. When the shadows grow long and the days dwindle short, baseball annually, promptly gives way to talk of the Dallas Cowboys, Texas-OU, the Dallas Mavericks, Fletcher’s…
At the State Fair of Texas this year they’re selling—I kid you not—deep-fried beer and margaritas. Inside the Cotton Bowl on Saturday they’re giving away—in all likelihood—not a stuffed Snooki game prize but rather a spot in the BCS National Championship Game. There’s nothing quite like Fair Park in October,…
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…
When he defiantly refused to carry veteran receiver Roy Williams’ shoulder pads after a training- camp practice in San Antonio, Dallas Cowboys’ rookie Dez Bryant got lots of support. “Hazing is wrong!” some said. “He’s a football player, not an equipment manager,” others offered. “Dez is a man. He ain’t nobody’s…
I appreciate Josh Hamilton. Admire him. Think he should be this year’s American League MVP. Really I do. But I would feel even better about him had he participated in last Saturday’s locker-room celebration in Oakland with his alcohol-drenched Rangers’ teammates. It’s great news that yesterday Josh – who hasn’t…
Here’s hoping that Saturday’s Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl is better than last year’s yawny 16-13 Longhorns’ victory. The memorable 45-35 game in 2008 was a little more like it. Still, with pedestrian quarterbacks Garrett Gilbert and Landry Jones and what I think are two mediocre defenses, I’d be shocked if…
Watched some Packers-Bears on Monday Night Football last night and it hit me how good Cowboys’ left tackle Doug Free has been this season. How’s that you ask? Bears’ defensive lineman Julius Peppers was all over the field in Chicago’s 20-17 win. (By the way, when their opponents have the…
The Rangers are back in the playoffs. The Cowboys are back in the race. And look now, but the Dallas Mavericks are back in training camp. Yes, already. Just five months after they walked off the court in the wake of another disappointing first-round playoff loss (this one to the San…
Usually by the time we start feeling fall, your Texas Rangers have long since raised the white flag. But I’ll be damned, tonight in Arlington they’re going to raise a championship banner. Cue Prince, it is indeed time to party like it’s 1999. When Nelson Cruz nabbed a lazy fly ball…
10. Oh ye of little faith. If you listened to me or read me last week I toldja this was coming. Negate some penalties, some missed field goals and some turnovers – tweak things – and the Cowboys would be fine. Way I remember it, I called for more Dez…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Times like these make me regret that I stopped referring to Wade Phillips as “Stumbledoofus.” After missing two crucial field goals in two weeks, David Buehler should be on a short…
While we ignore crapola like this from north of the big border bloggers – Jimmy Johnson to return to coach the Cowboys? Really?! – let’s construct a blueprint toward something much more realistic: Making the Dallas Cowboys a better football team. We know they are talented. But in their first two…
When they were first alerted to his unprecedented cocaine use just after the 2009 All-Star break, I thought Texas Rangers’ management should have fired manager Ron Washington on the spot. You know what? I still think that. But by the time the public became aware of his transgression – at…
I hate you, Jimmy Johnson. Not for winning two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys and then up and leaving in a huff, but for luring me into watching reality TV. I really despise reality TV. And, I admit, I’m really hooked on Survivor: Nicaragua. On CBS’ hit show they…
This isn’t going to be a popular theory. In this knee-jerk, dog-pile news cycle, it’s chic and easy and lazy to call the Dallas Cowboys overrated. To label them underachievers. To say they are perpetually hyped yet eternally flawed. To pronounce them—at only 0-2—dead before Big Tex’s first “Howdy, folks.”…
I was supposed to meet Ernie Santos Saturday morning at Twin Peaks in McKinney. I’m digging into an Observer cover story on metroplex motorcycle clubs/gangs and he, being a member of the Dirty Bastards, invited me to a sort of meet ‘n greet with his crew. Seems one of their…
