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…
Hey you. Over there. Yeah, you. The chick with the hair and the lips and the things and the big, bodacious, bountiful booty. What if you could get into an NFL locker room with your brains instead of your beauty? Interested? If so, no better place to start than Football 101 and…
Reggie Bush gave back his Heisman Trophy. To which I respond: Big friggin’ deal. I know the Heisman is one of the most hyped awards, but – let’s be honest – it’s also the most meaningless sports trophy this side of the Governor’s Cup, Golden Boot and the Iron Skillet…
Rangers lose. A’s win. Rangers win. A’s lose. Magic number this and first-round playoff match-up that. It’s all about as meaningless as David Buehler’s too-little-too-late 47-yard field goal if the Texas Rangers have to play October baseball without Josh Hamilton. Right? Hamilton is the Rangers’ best player. He’s having a Mickey…
Call me crazier than bat guano, but I actually think the Dallas Cowboys will be fine … fine … fine … fine … fine … fine. Damn, all the sudden it’s lonely in here. At 0-2 and an underdog on the road this week in Houston against the undefeated Texans, things…
We’re at a rare, almost unprecedented and admittedly awkward spot in Texas Rangers’ history. The Rangers will win the American League West, but they’re still so far away with so much time left in the season that it makes for – honestly – some uninteresting and practically meaningless baseball here in mid-September…
All the sudden it’s been four months since Greg Williams launched his radio comeback by landing a gig at 105.3 The Fan alongside yours truly. Since mid-May I’ve found him to be: *On time. *Thoroughly prepared. *Unequivocally lucid/coherent. *And, well, his old self. He’s come a long way from the…
10. If I told you that Team A had edges over Team B in yards (410-308), plays (71-49) and time of possession (33:40-26:20) while holding its opponent to 1 of 11 on third downs and producing a special teams touchdown, you’d probably say that Team A had a 90-percent chance of winning that…
*Of all the teams that lost in Week 1 of the NFL season, betcha there’s only one that spent the last couple days explaining and defending their organizational flow chart: Your Dallas Cowboys. *On one hand I believe the Dallas Police Department officers who clubbed and beat the runaway motorcyclist should…
Hard to be persnickety about a defense that didn’t allow a touchdown in the season opener, but at some point the Dallas Cowboys’ pressure has to translate into points. Right? Continuing a troubling trend from 2009, the Cowboys harassed Washington quarterback Donovan McNabb and generally suffocated the the Redskins last…
It’s common sense that Ian Kinsler should not have been suspended. It’s also becoming pretty clear that he’s vital to the Texas Rangers’ post-season success. Loved me some Andres Blanco. He filled in with OK defense, scrappy base-running and even some pop in his bat. But in Wednesday night’s 11-7 win over the…
Once upon a time at a Valley Ranch far, far away, Jimmy Johnson drove his black Nissan 300Z into the parking lot and hurried into the building. He’d summoned a snotty-nosed, smart-ass reporter to his office, and I sat nervously in the foyer. After reading aloud my story in that day’s Fort…
When he bought a large chunk of land in Ennis back in the mid-1980s, Billy Meyer had a vision. He’d build the world’s fastest strip of concrete and let the United States government do the rest. But long after the over-hyped, under-producing Superconducting Super Collider went kaput in nearby Waxahachie,…
“It’s Time”, meet “It’s Over.” With an 11-4 thumping of the Detroit Tigers last night – combined with the Oakland A’s loss in Kansas City – the Texas Rangers won their first American League West division championship since 1999. I know the magic number is 10 and there are still…
If you want to go to Sunday’s Dallas Cowboys’ home opener against the Chicago Bears, good news: Over at StubHub there are more than 2,000 tickets available. And, get this, they are cheaper than 2009. The current average ticket price is $209, actually down from last year’s $222. Party passes are…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. 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…
I spoke too soon. Maybe you thought it too. It seemed like a foregone conclusion that if and/or when the Texas Rangers made the playoffs they’d face the New York Yankees. NY would win the American League East, the Tampa Bay Rays would win the Wild Card and the Minnesota…
Deion Sanders played for the Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins and Baltimore Ravens. Why, then, does it feel like it’s a no-brainer that he goes into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a Dallas Cowboy? He’s – perhaps reluctantly – ours, right? Former Cowboys Bill Bates, Charles Haley,…
Just wanted to get your day off to a kick-ass start. Find yourself dragging? Remember, the stage is set and, yes, the lights are indeed on. Wait, the guy in his face and seemingly most hypnotized by Reverend Brooking is none other than Tashard Choice. Did Brooking shout some marching orders…
Lots of blame to go around for Redskins 13, Cowboys 7. As he tends to do, offensive coordinator Jason Garrett got too cute. Felix Jones touches the ball only 10 times. In the Red Zone the Cowboys try a halfback pass with Marion Barber. On special teams David Buehler misses…
Same as we shouldn’t get too low with the Dallas Cowboys, let’s not get too high with the Texas Rangers. Because, well … oh eff it. You know what, let’s do get high. I know the Rangers didn’t face C.C. Sabathia or Andy Pettite, but sweeping the New York Yankees…
10. Cruel. The Cowboys fans in my house erupted in ecstasy as Roy Williams caught what appeared to be the game-winning touchdown, only to seconds later be stabbed in the heart by agony in the form of Alex Barron’s game-ending holding penalty. Cruel, but fair. Lots of crap to talk…
