Temperatures Saturday night in Arlington could dip into the teens. If local ticket brokers are any indication, the mood inside Cowboys Stadium might be a tad chilly as well. With tickets and party passes still available through the Cowboys and TicketMaster and almost 10,000 seats floating around StubHub, Cowboys-Eagles just…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…
Tony Fay started working for the Dallas Mavericks in 1987 as the media relations intern; by the time he left in ’99, he was director of communications — which was no easy feat back then, given that was six months before Mark Cuban bought the then-struggling franchise just off a…
See, that’s the problem with the current bowl system. Even though they’re 12-0 and good enough to beat any team in the nation, a TCU team playing for nothing but a bag of Tostitos shows up unmotivated and loses, 17-10, in the Fiesta Bowl. If last night’s game was a…
TCU-Boise State — so far, quite the sloppy, defensive time-kill till Thursday night’s Big Game. Speaking of which, here’s a warm-up from tomorrow’s New York Times: a profile of University of Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle, who grew up in South Oak Cliff and shoulda gone to SOC but instead went…
As I said last week on 105.3 The Fan, the winner of Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles II would be the favorite entering the NFC Playoffs. No reason to alter that after Dallas’ dominating 24-0 victory. The Cowboys have a hot quarterback, a Super Bowl-caliber defense and a home game looming. They’re also…
10. Uh oh, Shaun Suisham misses a 30-yard, chip-shot field goal from right between the hashmarks. Okay, so the victory over the Philadelphia Eagles wasn’t perfect. But it was dang close. 9. I respect Eagles’ head coach Andy Reid, but I also question his strategy. He’s taken Philly to five NFC…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…
Punter Mat McBriar (he’s forced a league-high 23 fair catches) seems a thorny omission and a case can be made for quarterback Tony Romo (five less touchdowns than Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers, but 18 less sacks), but the Dallas Cowboys should be pleased to have landed six players on the…
Your Dallas Cowboys’ guaranteed trip to the NFL post-season prompts Bill Rhoden to visit with Jerry Jones in this sports pages of this morning’s New York Times. Much of the content feels reheated; most of the opinions, rehashed. (To wit: “Jerry Jones — owner, president and general manager — is…
The defense is excelling. The December Demons are exorcized. The Dallas Cowboys are in the playoffs. But is head coach Wade Phillips back next season? I’m sticking to Phillips being a Dead Man Coaching, short of a trip to the Super Bowl, but it’s sounding more and more like owner…
While we’re trying to figure out Florida coach Urban Meyer (one day it’s his health; the next he just doesn’t want to cede control) and muster up interest in this afternoon’s Independence Bowl (Texas A&M and Georgia are a combined 13-11), let’s again daydream of a world void of the BCS and…
10. I’m not ready to pronounce it Doomsday III just yet, but that’s some impressive defense being played by your Dallas Cowboys. The team’s first shutout in six years on the heels of holding the San Diego Chargers and New Orleans Saints to a combined 37 points? Two games against…
The SMU contingent stationed in Waikiki this holiday week appears to be having a fine time, judging by director of media relations Robert Bobo’s ecstatic Aloha SMU blog. Tonight’s the big game: the Hawaii Bowl, kick-off 7 p.m. Maybe not big to most, but huge to some — say, SMU…
Next time I start to criticize your 2009 Dallas Cowboys, remind me that these are the dorks I used to root for. Jeff Rohrer … Danny White … Ron Fellows … Gordon Banks … Bill Bates … Everson Walls … Steve Pelluer … Mike Saxon … Steve DeOssie … Todd…
Let’s see, in the last week we’ve been blessed with a Dallas Mavericks victory sans Dirk Nowitzki over an elite NBA team (Cleveland Cavaliers), a passionate, purposeful Dallas Cowboys win over an elite NFL team (New Orleans Saints)—in December, no less—and a record snowstorm veering out of our way. Even…
After the jump you’ll find a video invite just posted to Vimeo in which you’re invited to the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue February 13 for a shindig being billed as “Dallas Dynasty 2010: Flash to the Future,” which will be “hosted” by the Miami Heat guard. It’s but…
No kidding. The AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Jill Magnuson just sent word that on January 5 at 7:30 p.m., Roger Staubach, Mike Ditka, Bob Lilly, Randy White, Drew Pearson, and Tony Dorsett will take the stage at the Bill and Margot Winspear Opera House for the taping of a television…
Estephanie Aguilar will be spending at least part of this holiday season recovering from spinal surgery at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Of course she’s looking forward to getting home soon, but she and her family found themselves in the right place Monday afternoon for a visit from a…
We just got the invite: Tomorrow at 4 p.m., there will be a press conference “to announce the return of the Dallas Depserados,” which, as you may (or may not) recall, canceled its 2009 season exactly one year ago along with the rest of Arena Football League. Probably the most…
Okay, I’m technically on vacation. But I know the drill. When a dude predicts the Cowboys will lose 45-10 and is flat dead ass wrong, he needs to show up to take his Season’s Beatings. Right? So here I am, take your best shot. FYI, I like my crow with…
I love me some journalism. But, God, do I hate me some English. Through and threw. Chord and chat. Axe and aks. And when they’re finished, somehow buildings aren’t builts. In America they’re trades; in England they’re transfer windows. Don’t get me started … or is too late? This Saturday…
