My favorite comment on Deadspin this morning, concerning Josh Hamilton’s home run last night off Los Angeles Angels reliever Francisco Rodriguez, comes from Hustler of Culture: “No joking, hiting a walk-off homerun while fireworks go off and the theme to the ‘Natural’ is played must be a fucking amazing feeling.”…
Jerry Jones is our Pied Piper. The Dallas Cowboys’ owner has passionately hypnotized us into ditching Tom Landry, embracing Terrell Owens, believing Pacman Jones and, coming soon, leaving Texas Stadium. Not surprisingly—considering his unique combination of money and moxie—Jerry Jones has also marched straight to the top of the Dallas…
We wouldn’t mind seeing her around town, though. The Yankees and Madonna can have Alex Rodriguez. Evidenced by last night’s exhilarating 3-2 win over the Angels , the Rangers and their “24 kids” are doing just fine. You do remember A-Rod telling ESPN Magazine back in ’04 that he would’ve…
I like the way the Associated Press leads its story about Jerry Jones’ latest way to pay for his billion-dollar-plus Jerryworld in Arlington: “Fans of the Dallas Cowboys who might not be able to get tickets to the team’s new stadium in Arlington can leave their mark — underfoot.” In…
Hope Solo Had no idea till this morning that Dallas was getting yet another pro sports franchise: a Women’s Professional Soccer team, matter of fact, beginning in April 2009. Only reason I know about it is this morning the WPS announced how it’d be filling its franchises here and in…
The greatest current one-on-one battle in all of sports. As a stupid guy once famously said in a super movie, “Sorry I had ta fight in da middle of ya black pantha pawwty,” but I can’t let another day pass without opining on the greatest tennis match I ever did…
Speaking of amazing video … over the holiday weekend, I came across this snippet of a documentary shot during Super Bowl X at the Orange Bowl in Miami, where Tom Landry’s Dallas Cowboys lost to Chuck Noll’s Pittsburgh Steelers 21-17. It was done for pioneering SF-based collective TVTV; and, yes,…
Sean Avery and his ex, Elisha Cuthbert Really, the Dallas Stars’ acquisition of Sean Avery last week will go down as the Best Thing to Happen to Local Sports since, oh, Alex Rodriguez got married here in 2002, aw. Today, the Canadian National Post ran a Q&A with the Stars’…
While the All-Star Game is two weeks away, Your Texas Rangers are officially past the halfway point in the season and sit seven and a half games back of Los Angeles in the American League West following last night’s drubbing at the hands of the New York Yankees. Which means…
After last night’s debut, I hope he didn’t throw away this jacket. As I’ve mentioned a couple times this week, the Rangers are suddenly watchable again. Fun, even. But last night’s 18-7 loss to the Yankees proves why their still not legit contenders for anything more than a healthy appetizer…
Just got this from a Peruna-proud Friend of Unfair Park, concerning the football team’s uniforms for the upcoming season: The SMU football team will don new uniforms in 2008, it was announced today. SMU will return to white helmets and white pants and will have three jerseys to choose from:…
Welcome to Dallas, Sean Avery. You’re so awesome. –Robert Wilonsky…
Could you take this dude? Do you even care? At the risk of getting my ass kicked by a 106-pound 19-year-old, Luis Yanez should shut his pie-hole and follow the rules. That is, if like he says, his dream is to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. Duncanville’s Yanez,…
Deja Diop? DeSagana Diop? Matt Barnes? Shan Foster? Be still my bouncy basketball heart. Because the Dallas Mavericks are apparently going to next year look a lot like they did last year. Or, come to think of it, a lot like they did in 2006. NBA free agency started with…
Two games over .500! Where’s Laura Miller when we need her?! When Ian Kinsler snagged a pop-up for last night’s final out, Texas Rangers’ TV voice Josh Lewin screamed “Got it! Got it! Got it! The Rangers beat the Yankees!” This morning on The Ticket, co-host Craig Miller made a…
If this ball went foul, we’d be waiting another three minutes for a pitch. I see your Texas Rangers continued to hover around .500 in my absence. Which is a good, amazing, frustrating thing. Tonight they try (again) to get two games above .500 for the first time in the…
Sam Merten Willa you sign these? Mike Modano and the missus in Frisco Saturday, during that celeb charity baseball thing. Temperatures hovering around 100 degrees and the slight chance of rain were likely causes for the lackluster attendance at Saturday night’s Reebok Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game. But it didn’t stop…
Back to the grindstone. Ok, so where were we? First, a review of my week-long sabbatical: Dad’s house: Painted. Guadalupe River: Cold. Hootie & The Blowfish: Eh. As for sports, I’m playing catch-up today. The thing that has first struck me is that the Mavs nabbed a nice player with…
Vail, where it’ll be 75 degrees today. Dallas real estate developer Mark Masinter, a founding partner of Open Realty Advisors on McKinnon Street (which reps the likes of Bob’s Steak & Chop House, Fireside Pies and Billy Reid), is already fairly beloved in Vail, Colorado, where he’s been a frequent…
Or: Thanks, but no Danks. Clearly, the folks at Fast Company are not Texas Rangers die-hards; certainly they weren’t among those who cast their votes in this April poll pitting Rangers general manager Jon Daniels against his Minnesota Twins counterpart, Bill Smith, for the title of “worst GM.” (Daniels won…
Flickr photo: themikelee The Intern notes of this photo: “He’s gorgeous! Think he’s seeing anybody?” Yes, Spencer, I do. The Steve Nash Foundation, always raising dough to keep the kids healthy, played a little footsie yesterday on the Nike Field at Sarah D. Roosevelt Park in Chinatown NYC. Among those…
Let us not weep at the death of Reunion Arena, but rather rejoice in its life. For it was a splendid stadium, elegantly framing unforgettable moments for a generation of sports fans and bolstering a city’s image with its… Oh, who are we kidding? As an awkwardly flat and rectangular…
