In April 2010, Mike Modano told us he wasn’t sure if he was ready to retire. He sure felt like it, he said: “At this point, on this day, I can make the decision: I’m done.” But, of course, he wasn’t: After a tear-stained farewell to the American Airlines Center…
Call it the Pat 12. As in, no thanks to expansion, we’ll stand. As in, the Big 12 — all but buried by a lot of us dorks — remains alive, like the muddy, bony, cob-webbed hand reaching up from the grave to snatch onto life. Again. Because it couldn’t get…
[jump] Underwhelming. Kevin Ogletree — Undrafted free agent. 14 catches in 3 years. Jesse Holley — Reality-show winner. 3 catches in 2 years. Dwayne Harris — 6th-round draft pick. 0 catches in 2 games as a rookie. Laurent Robinson — Cut by Chargers in training camp. 89 catches (4 TDs) in…
10. Only thing funnier than Oakland trusting Rich Harden is Comedy Central’s Tosh.0. 9. Michael Young countdown to 3,000 hits is at 953 … 952 … 951. 25 3-hit games most ever by a Ranger in a single season and the guy most of us thought wouldn’t be a Ranger…
Tony Romo was gutsy last Sunday in San Francisco, but because the Cowboys lost he wasn’t heroic. Jason Garrett should be fired for his insane 3rd-and-2 play call in the final minute that led to the loss to the 49ers. Dan Bailey might be a former NFL kicker. Jesse Holley is just…
It’s not a matter of if, but merely when. The Big 12 is kaput. When the Board of Regents at OU and Texas yesterday empowered their respective school presidents (David Boren and Williams Powers) to explore new conference affiliations, it officially signaled the beginning of the end for the Irving-based…
Nothing like a good baseball pennant race. Too bad this year there ain’t one. No divisional “race” is closer than 5 games in the season’s last week and even the Wild Card is producing nothing more dramatic than a two-game edge. With another Angels’ loss Monday the Rangers inched closer…
Jerry Jones said he was “outstanding” despite last week’s loss to the Jets. Sunday afternoon in San Francisco the owner almost shed a tear in talking about the quarterback’s gutsy performance in a 27-24 overtime victory over the 49ers. It’s already been a controversial, mesmerizing, fluctuating season for Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo. And…
10. Like me, were you scared to death that Jesse Holley was going to fumble while holding the ball up in premature exclamation at the end of his 77-yard overtime catch? 9. Rob Ryan may be a defensive genius, but it doesn’t show when he has Anthony Spencer trying to cover tight…
Editor’s note: Observer.com contributor Justin Bitner got drunk and admitted to being a soccer fan, so we made him attend Wednesday’s FC Dallas match against Tauro FC of Panama, FCD’s fifth game of CONCACAF Champions League play. Yes, soccer still has ties. After a battle that sportscasters would definitely call…
A Friend of Unfair Park asks this morning if we’ve gotten our hands on the Dallas Stars bankruptcy docs, which were filed, as expected, in a Delaware court at the end of the day yesterday. Why, as a matter of fact: On the other side you’ll find a Tom Wolfe…
What you see here, courtesy his Twitter account, is Jonah Hill throwing out the first pitch at yesterday’s Chicago White Sox game at US Cellular Field. When we spoke a little while ago at his Uptown hotel, he insisted: The stands were empty because it was a day game, and…
Got this letter the other day, from “The Desk of Leon Lett”: Even though I have three Super Bowl rings, made two Pro Bowl appearances and recorded 22 sacks during my 10-year NFL career, I’m only remembered for two mistakes. Including one monumental mistake I committed on an icy Thanksgiving…
Rangers pound out another 12 hits. Rangers score another nine runs. Rangers win again. Lead in the AL West remains three games. Magic number shrinks to 11. Rangers are 21 games over .500 for the first time since 1999. Not that good great baseball is boring, but the West…
Tony Romo is a strip club at last call. And this time isn’t like all those other nights, when 2 a.m. rolled around, the lights came on and no matter all the personal conversations and business transactions being forged, the girls vanished, and you were ushered out shoulder-to-slumped-shoulder with the…
I run a buffet here. Not every customer will like everything I put out, but hopefully most will find a little something to keep them coming back. I get this complaint frequently: “Why don’t you write more about the Rangers? They’re winning!” (Beat the Indians last night. AL West lead still at…
Let’s face it: If the Cowboys are going to be anything but mediocre in 2011, Dez Bryant has to be effective. And to be effective, he’s first got to be healthy. Bryant caught three passes for 71 yards early against the Jets, then disappeared in the game’s final 52 minutes…
After a meeting last weekend of school power brokers — including UT president William Powers and OU grand poobah David Boren — it’s clear that Texas-OU Weekend will survive regardless of where the Longhorns and Sooners wind up in this chaotic restructuring of conferences. According to a source familiar with…
Yep, the Angels somehow lost to this laughable outfit again last night — Anaheim has given up the division by going 5-9 against the A’s — shoving the Rangers’ lead in the AL West up to 3 with 15 remaining and trimming their magic number to 13. Nelson Cruz should be off…
In the wake of his infuriating, game-losing Texas two-stub Sunday night in New York, Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo is in the middle of a familiar tug-o’-war. In this corner: Supporters who claim he’s an elite player who simply, spectacularly goofed up trying to aggressively make plays to seal the upset win for…
One day Jason Witten will go into the Cowboys’ Ring of Honor. And likely the Pro Football Hall of Fame.But all we needed from him Sunday night in New York was a decent stiff-arm.Without one as a touchdown-generating exclamation point, the Cowboys collapsed in a kick-to-the-crotch, 27-24 loss to the…
The much-anticipated movie Moneyball opens in theaters next week. Perhaps the Oakland A’s should insert Brad Pitt into their give-a-shit lineup, because he can’t be any worse than what they’re currently trotting out there. Didn’t see a lot of Texas 8, Oakland 1 Sunday because I was fixated on Jets…
