According to the Pro Bowl, Peyton Manning and Kurt Warner are the two best NFL quarterbacks of 2008. According to me, nonsense. Warner has the best receivers in the league and throws in the worst division in football. Manning was steady, but hardly spectacular. My rankings, which take into account quarterback…
In news that should surprise no one, Michael Crabtree’s last college game will be Jan. 2 in the last Cotton Bowl played in Dallas. No official announcement, but I hear the Texas Tech All-World receiver and two-time Biletnikoff Award winner is making plans for the future. And they include more…
I do weird things while (only technically, it appears) on vacation. Like, for example, wonder if the sport of boxing is alive and wonder if Duncanville fighter Luis Yanez is well. The answer: Yes. And Yes. A lil’ boxing birdie whispered to me this morning that Yanez – who flamed out amidst…
Lowlights from the final night at Texas Stadium: *I know the Buccaneers and Eagles lost yesterday and there’s still hope for the Cowboys making the playoffs. But what happened Saturday night was inexcusable. *Safety Ken Hamlin, who played in the Pro Bowl last January, was unblocked and had both hands on…
I never claimed to be a great writer. Even a worse photographer.Nonetheless, armed with an iPhone and a life’s worth of memories, I’d be honored if you’d allow me to take you on a tour of Texas Stadium’s final night. Follow me. Right this way. Here it is. The house…
Since I’ll be on vacation the next two weeks, things will be a tad slower here in The Sportatorium until 2009. Slower, I said. Not stagnant. Between visits to/from family and frantically reaching my 2008 party quota, I’ll still make time to post about Cowboys’ games, major news events and the occasional…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week – even the end of the year – welcome to Whitt’s End: *Hold your horses if you thought tonight’s concert by Russ Martin and his band at Joe Avezzano’s joint up in Frisco was going to A)…
I’d totally forgotten about this. Now I know why. Jeff Rohrer. Steve Pelluer. Mike Saxon. And, yes, even Herschel Walker. A true Christmas classic. – Richie Whitt …
Larry Cole. Roger Staubach. Tony Hill. Pat Summerall. Tom Landry. Cowboys 35, Redskins 34 in 1979. They can take the Cowboys out of Texas Stadium, but they’ll never take Texas Stadium out of the Cowboys. I still get goose bumps. – Richie Whitt…
Back in August I started with a mythical bankroll of $10,000, courtesy of Bodog Online Gaming. First of all, because their site is easy to navigate. Second, because they’re based in Costa Rica and have had minimal success tracking me down in the past. I was to analyze games of local interest…
In this week’s episode I briefly venture out of my closet – funny, but no reason to get your gaydars all revved up – and into the cold, cruel Dallas winter. Strange things, man. Some high-priced. Some low-priced. Others priceless. You know the drill. Correctly identify the following photos in detail…
I grew up reading Tank McNamara. In accordance, I grew up believing sports cartoon strips were ridiculously unfunny. Lo and behold, today we get another early Christmas present. My ol’ buddy Mike Fisher over at DallasBasketball.com just crafted this beauty. It’s local. It’s clever. It’s topical. And, like his initial offering, it’s…
In here, past the endless cotton fields and wind-energy turbines at the West Texas intersection of desolate and dusty, he has too much time. Out there, thrust into a violent vortex of disorienting speed, blurring fire and chaotic cars, he had too little time. For six long years, Dwayne…
Your hints: *His next NFL interception will be his first. *I had to drive 250 miles to interview him. *He’s a good guy who made a really bad decision. *One of the major players in his life story has a mangled left leg, resides in Israel and refused comment for…
My apologies. In pronouncing the death of football as ancillary entertainment in our newfound era of recession, I somehow overlooked a fledgling league of scantily clad females. Let it be known that is the first – and last – time I ever type that sentence. Turns out the Lingerie Football League is set to…
Fittingly, the stadium with the hole in the roof – so God could watch his favorite football team, duh – was christened by a 10-day Billy Graham crusade. A month later – Oct. 24, 1971 – Texas Stadium opened for Cowboys’ business. Come Saturday night, the ol’ joint at Loop…
The Dallas Cowboys’ Pro Bowl representation dwindled from 11 players last year to 5 this afternoon. Will their win total similarly decline from 13 to 11? … 10? … 9? Tight end Jason Witten, center Andre Gurode, nose tackle Jay Ratliff, linebacker DeMarcus Ware and right guard Leonard Davis were…
Tony Romo, all is forgiven. At least for a week. After one of the most Gawd-awful performances of his career – or, let’s face it, any career – in Pittsburgh, the Cowboys’ quarterback went out Sunday night and padded his legacy with a game straight from Hollywood. Aching back and nagging…
T-Minus five days until the final Dallas Cowboys’ game at Texas Stadium. I have a vague recollection of climbing atop Dad’s shoulders and watching Don Meredith toss bombs to Bob Hayes at the Cotton Bowl, but basically my life’s screenplay starts in Texas Stadium. Section 12. Row 24. Seat…
When even football can’t survive, we’re officially in a recession. The Arena Football League – home to your Dallas Desperados – announced this morning that it has canceled its 2009 season because – you guessed it – shitty financial times. Actually, I believe the official wording is “suspending the 2009…
Silly us, we thought the season-long comparison would be between Felix Jones and Rashard Mendenhall. But, in retrospect, the Cowboys’ best pick was Tashard Choice. With Jones (and Mendenhall) long ago sidelined with season-ending injuries, the fourth-round rookie from Georgia Tech has been a shockingly successful surprise. He filled in admirably…
After the two teammates who disconnected last week connected this week, it was a third-string lineman and a third-string running back who ran the Dallas Cowboys past the New York Giants and firmly into their own playoff destiny Sunday night. Running behind beleaguered left guard Cory Procter, Tashard Choice clinched the 20-8…
