Last night was one of those nights. In a season of 82 Mavericks’ games and 162 Rangers’ games, we’ll remember April 15. For it was last magical night that we were treated to two – almost simultaneous – rare individual athletic feats in our own back yard: Jason Kidd’s Triple-Double and Ian Kinsler’s Cycle…
A Dallas Mavericks’ season that had more than its share of ups and downs and ups and downs enters the playoffs on a peak. Thank you – of all people – Michael Finley. The former Maverick’s overtime-forcing 3-pointer allowed the San Antonio Spurs to beat the New Orleans Hornets Wednesday night and allowed the Mavs…
Driving down Eldorado Parkway in McKinney last night I happened upon a slew of sign-holding, flag-waving folks staging themselves a protest thinly disguised as a “tea party.” Embarrassingly lame. “Bailouts Steal Our Children!” read one sign. “You Can’t Multiply Wealth By Dividing It!” screamed another. And my personal fave: “Obama…
If you claim to have witnessed the wildest game in Dallas Mavericks’ history, chances are you’re lying. Only 9,007 fans squeezed into the team’s makeshift home at SMU’s Moody Coliseum on April 26, 1984. The fifth and deciding game in Dallas’ first-round playoff series with the Seattle Supersonics was telecast…
Just when some of you – okay, and most of me – blamed the Texas Rangers’ weekend sweep in Detroit on the lack of a certain rosy-hued sartorial splendor, we’ve got a new scapegoat. The Rangers wore red again last night. But they also handed the ball to a left-handed reliever…
Granted only about 33 percent of the precincts are reporting, but The Sporatorium is projecting the 2009 Dallas Cowboys to win 10 games. Being that the Cowboys haven’t used any of their 11 draft picks or convened for the first quarterback school/minicamp/OTA/gee-ain’t-it-nice-not-to-have-T.O.-around meeting of 2009, I’d like to keep a mulligan in my…
While you were sleeping, the Dallas Mavericks officially succeeded in their lil’ game of Avoid The Noid. Thanks to the Lakers’ blowout of the Utah Jazz late last night, the Mavs won’t open this weekend’s NBA Playoffs as a no-way-in-hell-8th-seeded-underdog against Los Angeles. Not exactly how I planned it, but the Mavericks did…
Twiddling – or I should say Tweeddling – my thumbs until the 6 p.m. release of the NFL schedule and the unveiling of the Dallas Cowboys’ path to 9-7, I stumbled upon a couple of things. 1. This year’s NFL Draft is extraordinarily weak. (More on that later.) 2. The…
Embarrassing that the Dallas Mavericks had to pull a leftover Easter rabbit out of their hat last night against the Minnesota Timberwolves at American Airlines Center. But in this economy … sorry, in this Western Conference playoff race, a two-point escape beats the hell out of laying an inexplicable, rotten…
Step on a crack, break your mother’s back. Avoid black cats, the No. 13 and walking under ladders. And, above all else, wear anything other than red and find yourself dead. Hmm. Are the Texas Rangers superstitious about superstitions? Seems to me that rituals, traditions and even obsessive compulsive disorder could…
Aside from the Almighty He/She/It having the audacity to conjure up a downpour and wash out sunrise services across the Metroplex, which Texas culprit laid an egg Sunday and did the leaster for your Easter? 1. Dallas Mavericks 2. Texas Rangers 3. Chad Campbell The evidence:…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *What’s more obtuse: That Iowa is now a more progressively liberal state than California, or that the Texas Rangers woke up this morning as the only undefeated team in the American…
I know other columnists disagree, but I think this is it. Tonight’s the final game in the Stars-studded hockey career of Mike Modano. Horrible season. Getting called out. A team-worst minus-14. Only one goal in his last 34 games. Turning 39 in June. Her waiting at home. Just a gut…
With the Rangers over and the Mavs resting and the Stars playing a meaningless hockey game – ugh, is there an uglier phrase in the English language? – I flipped around DirecTV for a moment last night before wondering aloud: If I had my choice, who would I watch right…
I’m confused by the Rangers and their uncharacteristic 2-0 start. I’m confused by the Mavs and their 270 combined points and back-to-back victories after pratfalling in Memphis. And I’m confused how new Britney morphed from horrible Britney into bad Britney into a Britney that’s just as good as even original…
The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York is hallowed ground. The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio is a sacred shrine. The Basketball Hall of Fame is an absolute joke. I realize it’s weird timing, seeing that this year’s class – Michael Jordan, Jerry Sloan, David Robinson and John…
Seriously, who are these guys? With generally the same cast of characters that has face-planted out of the gate the last two seasons, the Texas Rangers are off to a dream start. Granted 2-0 gets only a subtle nod in Boston or New York or Anaheim, but in Arlington it’s cause…
“Athletes’ Feat?” by Richie Whitt, April 2 Dim Whitt I don’t know who you think you are, but you have no idea what you’re talking about. So why don’t you keep your screwed-up, backward opinions about the No. 1 sport in America to yourself? You don’t know what the hell…
Like the rest of us, Texas Rangers pitcher C.J. Wilson admitted to being a little confused during Monday’s Opening Day. “It didn’t look like us out there,” he said after throwing a scoreless inning in his team’s 9-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Of course,…
It’s all well and dandy that Jason Terry is all but guaranteeing a Dallas Mavericks’ victory tonight against the Utah Jazz and that Dirk Nowitzki is welcoming difficult games during the NBA season’s final week. They’re saying the right things. But will they do the right things? Who knows? In…
Economy’s a bummer. Taxes almost due. Stars out of the playoffs. He/She/It busy with other things. Times … they are tough. But I arrive today with great good marginally better news: It could be worse. Much worse. When I cleaned out my hunks-o-junk closet I found not only some “Hey,…
My old friend Troy Aikman says that if – I repeat, if – Roy Williams doesn’t produce like a No. 1 receiver, then the Dallas Cowboys’ trade to acquire him last season will be “one of the biggest busts in the history of the league.” The screaming headline on the…
