The other day I told you about the voices you’d be hearing on Dallas Cowboys’ radio broadcasts this season. Now how about some good news on the faces you’ll be seeing? In particular, one Candice Crawford. Yowsa. I hear the new(ish) Channel 33 reporter/former Miss Missouri will be involved in some way…
10. Cult hero/roster longshot Jesse Holley had his highlight of camp, catching a slant in front of Orlando Scandrick during team drills. There. You happy? 9. Weird – unusually intense – afternoon practice here at The Alamodome. When’s the last time you heard of an interception by linebacker Bobby Carpenter followed…
To my eyes, second-year tight end Martellus Bennett is the early star of training camp. And I’m not just saying that because he stole the show with his impromptu rapping at The Dallas Observer Music Awards last month. He’s making all of us in San Antonio forget about Marty B TV and…
And now you know why I didn’t exactly shed a tear that the Texas Rangers decided against acquiring Roy Halladay in exchange for a package that included one Neftali Feliz. In a word: WOW! Merry Christmas, Rangers fans. The 21-year-old righty made a spectacular Major League debut last night in…
10. Sounds to me like Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is leaning against rebuilding the indoor practice facility that collapsed May 2, leaving special teams coach Joe DeCamillis with a broken back, scouting assistant Rich Behm paralyzed from the waist down and director of college scouting Chris Hall with a…
10. The whole city is one big Deep Ellum. 9. Two words: Cable. Access. The people willing to pay for their 15 minutes are incredibly entertaining, if not so much talented. On Saturday morning I was momentarily mesmerized by two pasty dudes sitting really close together on a love seat…
Still about a month before the Dallas Cowboys finalize their roster for the 2009 season. Not so for their new flagship radio station, which has most of its broadcast team already set. Told you a while back that the in-game trio of Brad Sham, Babe Laufenberg and Kristi Scales would…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Been buried in Camp Cowboys all week, but looks like 103.3 FM ESPN needs a new drive-time sidekick alongside Randy Galloway. Brian Estridge is leaving to co-host mornings on WBAP 820…
Send me your players and/or topics to watch and I’ll, well, watch ’em. 10. Goofball or not, Martellus Bennett is a badass. He’s got the biggest, softest, best hands on the team. Marty B doesn’t catch. He plucks. Expect to see plenty two-tight end sets with him and Jason Witten 9. At 6-2,…
Two years after sitting down with Texas Rangers’ general manager Jon Daniels for this positive story with the negative headline, I had a long chat with him last week. Daniels deserves tons of credit for Texas’ No. 1 farm system, for strokes of genius like Andruw Jones and Darren O’Day…
I only listened to Russ Martin’s show on Live 105.3 sporadically. I’ve met the guy just once. Talked with him for all of 45 seconds. So how do you tell the story of a guy like that? You talk to everyone that knows him. That’s worked for him. With him…
Russ Martin is a jackass. He’s a vulgar, pompous bully who for years physically and psychologically tormented his Dallas radio co-workers to gain fame and fortune. “Stuff he’d say to us on the air he wouldn’t say to us in the hall, because he’s a coward,” says J.D. Ryan, Martin’s…
Pass along your questions or suggestions of who/what you’d like a report on and I’ll watch it at tomorrow’s practices. Thursday is the first day of two-a-days. Who knows, we might even see pads. 10. So much for the new-and-improved-and-tougher Wade Phillips. The Cowboys worked out for two hours in…
Well, after yesterday’s signing of 3-point shooting specialist Tim Thomas I think the Dallas Mavericks are finished with their significant off-season moves. Of course, at points during the summer I also thought Marcin Gortat was coming, Brandon Bass was staying and Mark Cuban was losing to the SEC. And, come…
This? Just hours before the first practice of training camp here at The Alamodome, I decided to doodle up what the Cowboys’ final roster will look like come the Sept. 13th opener at Tampa Bay. It starts here. And ends up below. Clip ‘n save, woncha? OFFENSE: QB: Tony Romo/…
You guys tell me what you want to know about a certain player, coach, mascot, etc. during training camp. I’ll go to practice and come back with some tasty morsels. Or perhaps some disgustingly petrified crumbs. Whatever. Just got back from the State of the Union kick-off address over at The Alamodome…
A little vamping while I toodle down to San Antonio if you don’t mind. Usually I reserve my Video of the Week until Friday, but this one couldn’t wait. In last Saturday’s WNBA All-Star – wait, it gets funnier – Sylvia Fowles wanted to dunk. So the players cleared a lane. The refs…
Got a call back from former 103.3 FM ESPN radio host Dale Hansen yesterday afternoon, explaining how/why he kinda sorta abruptly walked away from the station last week. Seems Hansen – who told me last month he wasn’t happy at ESPN – quit amidst the worldwide leader’s self-imposed muzzling of the…
A year ago at this time I was pegging the Dallas Cowboys for the “Super Bowl.” Last time we saw them however – 44-6 losers in Philly on Dec. 28 – it was “or bust.” Coming off 2008’s 9-7 disaster, the Cowboys have shedded from their roster the leading receiver (Terrell Owens),…
As I told you back in June, Dale Hansen is a tip-toeing toward burnout these days. As of today, his work load is a little lighter. A radio industry source told me over the weekend that the iconic voice of Dallas sports will not sign a new contract at 103.3 FM ESPN…
And the consolation prize is … Drew Gooden. To which I say, not bad. Not bad at all. He’s no Marcin Gortat or Carlos Boozer or Emeka Okafor, but the 6-foot-10, 250-pound 27-year old journeyman can be a nice fit on a nice team. Gooden seemingly has the size and…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Once upon a time Walter Cronkite was the “most trusted man in America.” His death got me wondering who wears that crown today? The answer hurts: Oprah. *Sure smells like the…
