The NBA is a bunch of nit-twitts. Over the weekend the league fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $25,000 for his “criticism” of officials via Twitter, the real-time social network that allows schmucks like you and me to be flies on the walls of the rich, famous and exhibitionistic. Or…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Dallas Police Chief David Kunkel can apologize all he wants for the indefensible actions of Robert Powell, but unless the officer is fired it will be a complete and utter injustice…
Went out and toured “new” Rangers Ballpark last month. Well, not exactly new, but how about refurbished? New video scoreboard in left field. Information ribbons wrapping the place. A fashion-forward brick wall behind home plate. My thumbs-up review is here. With a heralded youth movement playing in a spit-shined stadium, there’s…
Lose a basketball game. Win another ratings period. Ho-hum. With Arbitron’s new Portable People Meter (PPMs) ratings, instead of a three-month window we can check out the stats monthly. And what do the PPMs indicate for February? That, just like last month, 1310 AM The Ticket is as strong as…
First, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says quarterback Tony Romo is untouchable. “I wouldn’t trade Tony for anybody.” Now head coach Wade Phillips – who never addressed his team after last season and has been publicly silent since 2008 – says he hasn’t talked just because, um, he hasn’t wanted to…
Texas Rangers fans attending games in Arlington this season will do something for the first time since their ballpark opened in 1994. Sorry, it has nothing to do with winning. Or does it? Thanks to a $4 million facelift, every fan in every seat at Rangers Ballpark will be able…
One player wore low-top running shoes and – duh – sprained his ankle. A guy in only a diaper was escorted out by security. And, in the end, the teen-aged girls reduced the middle-aged men to a hapless puddle of fart-and-fall-down. In other words, The Ticket’s game against a group of Lake…
Since I rip Ken Hamlin’s birthday parties and Martellus Bennett’s rap videos, guess I should lay into Leonard Davis’ band as well. Wait, Leonard Davis is in a rock band? I saw Dallas Cowboys’ offensive lineman Marc Columbo at a Godsmack concert at the Palladium in 2006 and wondered what he’d…
Dear LeBron James, Just ask, and I’m sure Dancing With The Stars will have you on their ridiculously cheesy show next season. I’m sure millions of potato-chip snackin’ housewives would be fixated on your every silly, pre-fabricated step. But as a basketball fan, I demand you immediately cease and desist with your…
A little radio industry birdie just chirped to me that the Dallas Mavericks and 103.3 ESPN have reached an agreement keeping the team in place through 2013. The Mavs would’ve become radio free agents after the current deal expired on April 1, but the sides finalized a new four-year contract on Monday…
More good news for Cowboys fans this morning comes courtesy of Julius Jones and Jacques Reeves. Remember them? Because the former Cowboys left via free agency and played kinda decent, the NFL has awarded Dallas compensatory picks in the fifth and sixth rounds in next month’s draft. The Cowboys, thanks…
The Dallas Cowboys and their new $1 billion stadium don’t have a corporate naming partner. (My idea looks better by the day.) Or, for that matter, an exclusive date with a TV network for the sparkling joint’s NFL debut. To which I say, fantastic! Let me repeat the off-season mantra I’ve encouraged…
Give the Dallas Stars credit for being spunky and resilient and stubbornly fun to watch. But the season’s over, right? To me it ended Saturday in San Jose. Not just with the 5-2 loss to the Sharks, but more so with another major injury. This one to Brad Richards, who…
Shockingly, this one isn’t on No. 76. In fact, it’s a good thing. At least I think it is. You tell me. The Cowboys last week mailed letters to all 2009 season-ticket holders, informing them that their dues for tickets and parking is surprisingly being delayed. Originally due April 1, customers…
What happened to the madness in March? Instead of dramatic buzzer-beaters and Cinderellas and Bryce Drew, the first weekend of the NCAA college basketball tournament brought us the Greg Gumbel Invitational – about as goose-bumpy as a piece of white bread laying on a chunk of cardboard. A year after all…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *It hit me this week: More than the Mavs being psychologically gutted from playoff failure or inherently soft or whatever, the thing that has stunted their growth is the regression of…
In case you haven’t noticed, the Dallas Mavericks’ new head coach is Prick Carlisle. His weekly radio shows with The Ticket’s Norm Hitzges have gotten progressively less insightful and decreasingly courteous. And last night he turned down right surly with ESPN Radio’s Chuck Cooperstein. For no reason. On the Mavs’ pre-game…
Instead of watching college basketball yesterday, I decided to get out the sticks for the first time this spring. Cue the Guinness guys: Brilliant! While one of my upsets delivered (Western Kentucky over Illinois) and one of my Final Four teams inexplicably pratfalled (Clemson?!), I carded a fresh 76 at…
Snagged this poster during All-Star Weekend ’97 in Cleveland. It’s the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players. Was going over it the other day and wondering how different it would look today? Would Kobe Bryant bump someone off? Who’d get cut? Would Tim Duncan squeeze into the picture? Steve Nash? Our own Dirk Nowitzki?…
Only 19 days until the Texas Rangers open the 2009 regular season at home against the Cleveland Indians. In other words, time for some mid-spring training grades. So far, so good I’d have to say. No major injuries. Josh Hamilton is pounding the ball. Michael Young is flawlessly fielding grounders at…
On February 24 SMU’s basketball team welcomed a special visitor to its sparkling new Crum Center practice facility. Ushered in by school president Dr. Gerald Turner, the guest was none other than Dallas’ newest celebrity resident, the Mustangs’ latest fan and the former leader of the free world. Fortunately, George…
“Gimme Shelter,” by Megan Feldman, March 12 No sympathy Cowards. I enlisted before 9/11 and still knew what I was getting into. I have deployed twice, have been in college and taken out of college for military reasons. I have dealt with leaving parents, wife, family, friends, etc.—just like other…
