By the time Luke Laufenberg sat down at Mia’s, his life was destined to get worse before it got better. “I was eating alone, hoping the pain in my bones would just sort of magically disappear,” Luke says of his lunch in December. “But before I cou...

You know you’re the GOAT when you give a speech at your own funeral. On April 10, the Dallas Mavericks, at the merciful end of the worst season in franchise history, drew their second-largest crowd of the year to American Airlines Center. It certa...

In 2013, Kurt Johnsen started Simplified Genetics with $300,000. In 2017, the National Football League generated revenue of $14 billion. When a man sporting five zeroes butts heads with a corporation flexing nine, it’s no surprise who leaves with ...

There he is. Standing on a huge rock. Sitting on top of the world. “I just wanna say that yes, in fact, I do know how lucky I am,” says Wally Lynn, arms and heart wide open as he and his cup of Jack Daniel’s welcome a couple hundred guests...

​10. As of this morning, the Dallas Observer is out of the sports business, at least on a full-time basis. Though I'm not technically being fired ("laid off" is supposedly less damning), the paper and its owner, Village Voice Medi...