The Dallas Mavericks won’t win the NBA’s Southwest Division championship. But last Friday night in San Antonio they earned something more precious: confidence. With a 92-86 victory over the Spurs, the Mavs proved they can win playoff-intensity road games against the league’s defending champion. And that will be important a…
There has to be a lot of hooplah going around about the Dallas Mavericks upcoming playoffs run, because I can promise you that if there was only minimal hooplah, I wouldn’t have any idea it was even basketball season. (Heart you, Mark!) Anyway, what would hooplah be without viral videos?…
Or, at least, you better. Texas Rangers fans, your old friend Kenny Rogers returns to the south park known as Ameriquest Field this weekend as a Detroit Tiger. Rogers, last seen in these parts attacking Fox 4 cameraman Larry Rodriguez for no good reason, takes the mound Sunday afternoon. And…
Plan your holidays around something different this year–like, say, football. The NFL just released its 2006 schedules, and your Dallas Cowboys close the season with home games against the Philadelphia Eagles on Christmas night and the Detroit Lions on New Year’s Eve afternoon. The Cowboys and new receiver Terrell Owens…
He ain’t the biggest waste of talent in NFL history. But he is the fastest. At this point in his afterlife, Alexander Wright was supposed to be kicking back and cashing in on a star-studded career adorned with Super Bowl rings and supersonic highlights. The NFL’s fastest player in the…
No, actually, it’s your other favorite Quincy. As in Quincy Carter, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback who led the team to the playoffs in 2003 only to be surprisingly and mysteriously cut six days into 2004 training camp. As with most transactions not involving Terrell Owens, Cowboys management remained tight-lipped…
From Frankfurt, Germany, courtesy the Associated Press, comes this news: “The man who discovered Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki has been charged with tax evasion.” That’d be one Holger Geschwindner, Nowitzki’s one-time personal coach, who’s in trouble with German officials for allegedly biting off a piece of Dirk’s Dallas Mavericks…
Texas Gigs has pulled off one of the coolest local music contest ideas in some time with its Dallas Mavericks Playoff Song Contest. A little more than a month ago, the site posted an open call to any Dallas-area act to write, perform and record a theme for the Mavs’…
Last time I heard the name Quincy Carter, he was on KTCK-AM (1310) being asked by Greg “The Hammer” Williams if he liked salad. (Long story. E-mail Greggo.) Now he’s turned up in Canada: Just moments ago, the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League signed the former Dallas Cowboys…
With the addition of Troy Aikman and Rayfield Wright to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in January, the Dallas Cowboys’ ridiculous roadblock to eternal honor finally crumbled. But just lookie what it has begat: a Dallas Mavericks bias. I know the Mavericks have generally sucked during their 26 years…
In FC Dallas’ 3-2 win over Chicago Saturday, the local kid made good, scoring the winning goal in the 70th minute–just five minutes after entering the game. But that kid wasn’t Mario Torres, the local Latino league phenom whose story we chronicled last July. Nor was it fellow Dallas products…
Maybe one day The Dallas Morning News will do a story on Bill Parcells’ feelings about the Terrell Owens signing. Till then, we’ll just have to take Peter King’s word for it. By the way, that is good enough for me. –Robert Wilonsky…
The Dallas Stars may win the NHL’s Stanley Cup this spring. Regardless, it’s already been a positive season, mainly because after tonight’s clash against the San Jose Sharks at the American Airlines Center, the Stars’ ridiculously hideous alternate third sweater will be loaded on a truck and sent to Goodwill…
My Associated Press pal Christy and her husband, formerly of local Fox affiliate KDFW-Channel 4, are in town this week for the Texas Rangers opening series against the Boston Red Sox–not to see the Rangers, mind you, but their beloved Red Sox. Also in town is their pal Dan Shaughnessy,…
The best radio announcer in Dallas Cowboys history is staying, and the best offensive lineman in Cowboys history is going. Of course, if you rely on the area’s mainstream media these days, you’re clueless to both transactions involving Brad Sham and Larry Alllen. The Cowboys new flagship radio station–KTCK-AM (1310),…
You gotta love the Texas Rangers. No, seriously, you have to. They need your affection, because going on 35 years of misery and misfortune, someone up there in the most exclusive luxury suite has it in for them. Since 1972 we’ve been screaming for the Rangers to get some pitching…
Hell hath frozen over. The Red Sox and White Sox won a World Series. The Seahawks played in a Super Bowl. The Clippers will make the NBA Playoffs. George Friggin’ Mason is in the Final Four. And somewhere Wile E. Coyote just nabbed the Roadrunner. Yet there, left standing at…
The Terrell Owens gamble notwithstanding, the Dallas Cowboys quietly are taking small steps to make big improvements next season. First, Dallas cured its chronic kicking cancer by signing Mike Vanderjagt. Despite being labeled an “idiot kicker” by Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning for running his mouth, and being nicknamed “Vandershank”…
Put the Southwest Division race with the San Antonio Spurs on the back burner. Press pause on their pursuit of a franchise record 61 wins. And momentarily disregard Dirk Nowitzki’s push for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player nod. Tonight in Detroit, the Dallas Mavericks are after one thing and one…
Because there’s no way you saw this yesterday, Dallas Stars goalie Marty Turco hearts new Chicago Bears quarterback Brian Griese. In related news, when I was 10 I thought that 1979 M song “Pop Musik” was about Brian’s dad. Seriously, didn’t the chorus always sound like the guy was singing,…
The Cowboys signed Terrell Owens and Mike Vanderjagt last week. The Mavericks have flirted with having the NBA’s best record all season. The Rangers open their season a week from today. And the Stars…eh, didn’t hockey die? While you were busy not caring even a little bit, the NHL skipped…
SMU’s athletic administration will take tackle its future by relying on the Dallas Cowboys’ past–and not the recent past, but the waaaaay back past. The good past, that is. Steve Orsini will be announced this afternoon as the Mustangs’ new athletic director, replacing the retiring Jim Copeland. Orsini got his…
