Was chatting up Michael Johnson the other day about the relative impact of the looming Super Bowl XLV in comparison to what he’s seen happen to Olympic cities. Economic impact, enduring legacies, improved infastructures and whatnot. Johnson, a five-time gold medalist and Dallas’ most decorated Olympian, had two interesting points. 1…
With Humble Billy Hayes no longer the Dallas Mavericks’ voice at American Airlines Center, the team has whittled 175 candidates down to its Top 10 finalists. You waste time voting for Dancing With The Stars, might as well cast a vote for something that actually matters: 1. Rodney Blue 2. Doug Branch…
Since I’m usually on 105.3 The Fan as part of the Dallas Cowboys pre-game show, I no longer get to partake in Fox NFL Sunday. My reaction: Praise Allah. Because after seeing this video and learning that this “The King and Us” series is now a weekly staple, I’m embarrassed for Curt,…
Seems strange timing to bemoan the Dallas Cowboys’ receiving corps in the wake of Miles Austin’s record-setting day, but let’s face it – the trade for Roy Williams a year ago has been a gigantic flop. My first reaction to news that the Cowboys had acquired Williams and a 7th-round pick in 2010…
Don’t really get U2 so I’m not live on the scene in Arlington, but one of my faithful Sportatorium readers sends word (and the above photo) from Cowboys Stadium that U2’s monstrosity of a stage wouldn’t exactly fit under JumboJerry so it had to be, um, moved to one of the end…
It featured overtime. It was won by underachievers. Do you exhale in relief? Or boast with satisfaction? Glass-half full guys say a win is a win is a win. That Tony Romo found his smile and Miles Austin at just the right time. That 3-2 is heck of a lot…
This was the plan: Cowboys will trounce the sorry ass Chiefs, so I’ll sneak off with friends to the Fair on Sunday afternoon and let TiVo leisurely give me the highlights when I get home. During a Cowboys game Fair Park shouldn’t be too crowded. And the weather will be…
10. Say what you will about the Cowboys’ lack of execution, their enthusiasm and effort was impressive. Keith Brooking. Jay Ratliff. Tashard Choice. They didn’t always play well, but you can’t say they didn’t play hard. 9. I even liked – for a change – the report just before halftime by Fox’s…
In the midst of a pennant race into mid-September for only the fifth time in 37 seasons, the Texas Rangers promptly lost 13 of 19 games. Their uncharacteristically punchless offense failed to score at least 800 runs for the first time in 14 years. Star outfielder Josh Hamilton crashed back…
You ask for it, you got it. The Dallas Cowboys owner tells me and Newy Scruggs this morning on 105.3 The Fan that he not only accepts criticism of his team’s play this season, he desires it. Demands it, even. “I knew when we walked outta Denver with that loss that we…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Ho hum, The Ticket’s dynasty rolls on as one of the most dominant entities in sports. In September’s Arbitron PPM ratings – I hear, by the way, that only 1,400 meters…
Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America’s pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn’t be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn’t be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer standards–top teams earning international…
See that? Over there. To your right? That’s not the money you could be saving with GEICO. It’s the money you lost last year betting with Richie Whitt. But, alas, in the spirit of persistence, stubborness and doubling down, we’re back at it again in 2009. I owe it to…
Flipping through my Avid Golfer magazine this week I came across the most interesting of tournaments. A media tournament. A fantasy media tournament. Who knew? Seems the boys over at Avid couldn’t herd all us cats into actually playing a tournament, so they produced a speculative tournament won by 106.1…
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…
It wasn’t exactly as declarative as when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones injected his all-or-nothing expectations into the season a month ago, but Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban believes his team is as good – actually, better – than the one that went to the NBA Finals in 2006. “The feeling…
All this hubbub over those feisty Minnesota Twins and those dramatic Detroit Tigers and the dawn of the baseball playoffs slapped me sober this morning. Ponder this, Rangers fans: Texas’ 87 wins would’ve been enough to win the American League Central Division. As I detail in this week’s column in your friendly Dallas Observer print…
I know Rowdy is gone and we haven’t lifted a sports championship trophy this millennium, but it could’ve been much, much worse. As in, we almost had a sleezeball for a mayor and – more ominous – we were almost all blown to smithereens. While we were busy diagramming a…
Thanks to this video shot by our good friend Larry Rodriguez over at Fox4, we have to question not only Tony Romo’s play late in the game at Denver – but also his mind-set. You tell me, did Romo think it was third down? Was he telling the refs he had…
Your Dallas Cowboys will someday get a new quarterback and will sooner rather than later be gifted with a different head coach, but Jerry Jones is and always will be the franchise’s general manager. Not surprising at all – he’s said it before, repeatedly – but today it just got punctuated. With…
Something’s up with the Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Tony Romo’s not the frolicking, free-wheeling player we fell in love with back in 2006 and ’07. These days he stays in the pocket. He sulks on the sideline. Most importantly, he sucks in the game. It’s different. And it ain’t better. It’s like…
Some news that will surely soften Broncos 17, Cowboys 10. Would you believe: R.I.P., Rowdy. Well, the obnoxious, foam, giant-noggin’ed Cowboys’ mascot isn’t exactly dead. But I heard over the weekend that at least we won’t be subjected to his stupid shenanigans any longer at Cowboys Stadium. I guess we were…
