The Dallas Cup will live on each Easter weekend as one of the world’s most prestigious youth tournaments. FC Dallas will anonymously toil away in Major League Soccer. And Starbucks-slurping soccer moms in their minivans will still dominate our roads and bogart our athletic field parking lots every weekend. But with…
A nod to old Dallas wrestler Fritz Von Erich? A psychological ploy by hitting coach Clint Hurdle? Fallout from last year’s swine flu? After seeing two more Texas Rangers smack extra-base hits last week and then make bizarre hand gestures — Ian Kinsler did a wide-arm double claw and Josh…
Since the day Michael Finley was released in 2005, your Dallas Mavericks have been searching. Looking for a consistent starting shooting guard who can create his own shot off the dribble, get to the free throw line and provide a viable alternative other than Dirk Nowitzki as a guy capable…
I remember Dad taking me a high-school football game to old P.C. Cobb Stadium, and I saw the Dallas/Fort Worth Spurs play minor-league baseball at Turnpike Stadium. What I don’t remember is something called the Dallas Submarines. Apparently they evolved into the Dallas Steers? P.C. Cobb is now the Infomart…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Don’t understand why some folks around here can’t stand Mark Cuban. And that includes you, Ross Perot Jr. In Thursday night’s NBA Draft the Dallas Mavericks owner wrote a check for…
Of course Jerry Jones would never diddle with the most sacred star in sports, but you might be seeing a tweaked Dallas Cowboys’ uniform this season. Why? Hi-Definition TV, that’s why. For years and years and years me and my brother have wondered why the Cowboys’ home pants looked -…
Not expecting a lot from the Dallas Mavericks in tonight’s NBA Draft. They don’t have a first-round pick – Jason Kidd-for-Devin Harris ring a bell? – and own only the 50th overall selection, which, as we know, is about as valuable these days as mittens in Mesquite. The Mavericks haven’t hit…
Dan Beebe is David Blaine. With the boxed body of the Big 12 Conference seemingly sawed into pieces and displaced from coast to coast, the embattled commissioner of our state’s prestigious football fraternity last week dramatically, magically reassembled the body parts into a living, breathing, working whole. Presto! The result…
Tweak it. Or trash it. That’s the charge from the bankruptcy judge in the Texas Rangers’ proposed sale from Tom Hicks to Chuck Greenberg. When the judge decries that the Rangers have to modify their current plan – but not add more money to the deal – it seems like…
I saw the Harlem Globetrotters not long ago but I’ll admit, I had no idea they had a “draft.” You? The world’s most famous basketball team yesterday drafted the “Club Trillion” founder, a college slam dunk champion, a husband-wife couple and – lookie here – a dude from SMU. That’s…
Richard Hunter has a new member of his household. That’s him, quivering in the corner. Shaking uncontrollably. Convulsing. The 4-year-old is scared shitless. “He lives in fear,” Hunter says of his new best friend, Mel. “You would too if you’d been beating and traumatized your whole life.” Michael Vick is…
Is it because he’s so powerful? So rich? So over-the-top passionate? Or is it because he’s won three Super Bowls? Built an unprecedented stadium that is gobbling up sports? Or kept his team popular, relevant and “successful” despite only one playoff win in 13 years? Whatever the reason, while Dallas loves…
After years and a decade of wandering aimlessly from youth movement to patch-it-together-retread program to losing season, the Texas Rangers in 2007 gave general manager Jon Daniels a contract extension and a mission: Rebuild the farm system. Build a major-league winner. Three summers later the Rangers have … arrived? With…
After saying that he’s 75-percent leaning toward not retiring and playing hockey again next season, all-time star of the Dallas Stars Mike Modano is now thinking the unthinkable – putting on the sweater of another team. Mike Modano, Detroit Red Wings? Criiiiiiiiiiinge. It’s still a situation of if he plays and…
After another fascinating True Blood last night, I caught Mike Modano on Fox 4’s Sports Sunday with Mike Doocy. Anyone else see this? I could’ve sworn Modano – who was in studio – said he is strongly leaning toward coming back and playing another season for the Dallas Stars. Didn’t jot…
Spent Father’s Day between the grill and the couch. OK, mostly the couch. Instead of another tacky tie for a gift, I let dear ol’ dad man the remote control. Went something like this: U.S. Open … Rangers … U.S. Open … World Cup … Rangers … U.S. Open … zzzzzzz…
Back in March at Texas Rangers spring training out in Surprise, Arizona I asked team president Nolan Ryan his expectations this season for Josh Hamilton. Is the real Josh the player who had 54 RBI by June 1 in 2008 or the player who hit only 10 homers between numerous…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Watching Thursday night’s NBA Finals Game 7, it struck me just how far your Dallas Mavericks are from a championship. Lakers 83, Celtics 79 was a rugged, violent scrum on every possession…
Dallas Cowboys receiver Miles Austin has a new contract. He doesn’t, however, have a new girlfriend. I’ll say it. “Kardaustian” ain’t so. At least not yet. While the Internet cranks up its buzz machine for the Miles Austin-is-dating-Kim-Kardashian rumors, this girl says not so fast. And, you’ll have to trust me on…
Now it’s time to return the favor. Because while battling lung cancer, the former Cedar Hill High School basketball coach needs a lift. His spirits should be at least temporarily boosted Monday when family, friends and colleagues hold the David Milson Charity Golf Tournament at Tangle Ridge Golf Club in Grand…
Kobe Bryant tonight will do something Michael Jordan never did: Win a Game 7 of the NBA Finals. I know the simpleton argument is that Jordan was so good his Chicago Bulls were never pushed to the brink. Nonetheless, Kobe’s feat in this series – Most Valuable Player, rallying his…
Ties suck. Unless, that is, you’re Troy Dungan. Or Megan Fox’s brother. Or some calf-ropin’ cowboy over at the Mesquite Rodeo. But don’t tell that to soccer. Especially don’t whisper a word to the wonderfully fanatical gaggle of American fans that converged on Trinity Hall in Mockingbird Station last Saturday…
