Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is grumpy. Understandably so. His team has lost 5 of 7 – punctuated by last night’s embarrassing 36-point loss in Denver – heading into NBA All-Star Weekend right here in his own backyard. Cuban has apparently scrapped plans for an All-Star bash at his Dallas mansion, one…
Anthony “Spud” Webb dazzled Reunion Arena and captured America in 1986. Unfortunately, I’d seen his act before. As a horrible point guard for the 1981 Duncanville High School Panthers, I had the ball stolen from me on consecutive possessions by Webb, then a star at Wilmer-Hutchins. After the second theft, the…
I still have a puck from the first Dallas Stars game, played at Reunion Arena on Oct. 5, 1993. Went to the game with Troy Aikman and I remember going into the locker room and meeting Mike Modano and seeing lots of hot women in the crowd and thinking “Whoa,…
Yeah, yeah. Who Dat and all that. Congratulations. Hug a troubled city. Now, let’s move on. To 2010. Next season is now this season. When the NFL kicks off next season your Dallas Cowboys will be a favorite to play in Super Bowl XLV next Februrary in Arlington. According to one…
20. Some of us picked Saints 33, Colts 31, so we’re not terribly surprised. 19. Of all the things on my to-do list today, calling Barney Stinson – whoever the hell he is – isn’t one of them. 18. Entertaining, electric game. Two things that jumped out at me in…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: UPDATE: I’ve been saying for months – starting back in October – that Michael Irvin’s 103.3 FM ESPN radio show was a dead show talking. Don’t look now – um, apparently some…
No Cowboys? No problem. We’re still watching Sunday’s Super Bowl, right? Still ingesting chips, dips, beer, bets on the coin flip and, of course, commercials. The ads had better be good. At $3 million per 30-second spot, you’d think they’d be great. That’s right, three friggin’ million. Bailout? Layoffs? Madoff? No worries, apparently…
[jump] Three thumbs up from me. Why? No cowboy hats … or spurs … or horses … or rope … …
It’s a no-brainer that Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith will get voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. The question is, will he enter Canton as the NFL’s all-time best running back or simply the running back with the most…
If the Dallas Cowboys can do it, why can’t the Texas Rangers? Win a playoff game, that is. In case you’ve been too fixated on Wade Phillips’ contract, Jay Leno’s limbo or American Idol’s “Pants on the Ground” to notice, the Cowboys broke a 13-year post-season drought last month. The…
In case you haven’t noticed I’m a bit of a cynic. A skeptic. A glass-half-empty kinda guy. Okay, I can be an a-hole. But I’m genuinely fired up for the 2010 Texas Rangers. Why? New owner Chuck Greenberg. Met him for the first time last night at Jamey Newberg’s shindig, which…
Third date time hanging out together. High hopes. True story. So we go to dinner and a couple drinks. Bueno. Go back to her place not far from my house in McKinney. Perfect. She takes the initiative. Sets the mood. Color me desperate horny intrigued. Not big on baths, but…
Stay tuned later today for my interfacing with new Texas Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg and details of a romantic moment that went horribly wrong. (And no, smartass, those are two separate stories.) But for now, in recent losses Dirk Nowitzki has taken one and zero shots in the fourth quarter…
The Dallas Mavericks fell apart in the fourth quarter last night in Utah. In the last 12 minutes they had more turnovers (7) than baskets (5). Not good. A lead vanished into a four-point deficit and, ultimately, a blowout loss to a Jazz team playing without Carlos Boozer. Yikes. That’s…
Jay Novacek was always a unique dude. Okay, I’ll say it, he was a little weird. During my time covering the Dallas Cowboys for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he was always friendly, yet sorta edgy. For example, one year on the eve of training camp at St. Edward’s University in Austin Novacek…
We all know Jerry Jones’ grandiose vision: For the Dallas Cowboys to play in Super Bowl XLV. Furthermore, to be the first team in NFL history to play in a Super Bowl in its own city. Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the dreams. But odds – and next season’s schedule -…
Didn’t see much at’tall of The Grammys. But I see that Beyonce won six awards and Lady Gaga is an alien and Taylor Swift took the evening’s biggest prize: Album of the Year. Swift also, however, apparently sang horribly on a “Rhiannon” duet with Stevie Nicks. Which conjures a question …..
It was 28 degrees. Sky was gray. Grass was morose mustard. Calendar said Super Bowl more than Opening Day. But, hey, it was baseball. Spring can’t be far behind. I’ve been to several Rangers Fan Fests out in Arlington and Saturdays certainly had a different feel. As in, positive. Gone…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *One month into 2010, how’s your New Year’s resolution going? Mine? I was gonna be more positive and less cynical and … oh, screw it. Resolutions never last or else they’d…
I trust Bloomberg. I trust BusinessWeek. Put them together and, sorry, I don’t trust their b.s. Their b.s., as in their latest list of The 100 Most Powerful Athletes. They’ve put out their list and, despite his sorta newsy fall from grace, Tiger Woods is still No. 1. Really? And Phil…
Today’s offering will be short and not-so-sweet. Reason? Commute from McKinney, Texas to Fitzhugh and 75, Dallas: 1 hour, 37 minutes. Rain. Wrecks. And the HOV phenomenon. Goes like this: People cavalierly ignore the rules of the road and drive their solo vehicles in the HOV lane. Cops pull a stake-out and slow…
You know it’s bad when your biggest, best contribution to the team is an injury. This season Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams disappeared for long stretches, dropped passes in crucial situations and yet continually, defiantly insisted on his No. 1 role and his peerless pair of hands. But hey, it…
