Landmark win by your Dallas Mavericks last night at American Airlines Center, 109-100, over the Los Angeles Lakers? Maybe. But, eh, probably not. Most important, it broke a six-game losing streak. But it also lets them boast this achievement: Wins this season over the Spurs, Celtics, Heat (twice), Hawks, Magic, Thunder, Jazz…
Surveying the current sports landscape dominated by Jason Garrett’s staff, Dirk Nowtizki’s knee, Michael Young’s role and, oh yeah, the imminent arrival of Super Bowl XLV, it’s difficult to fathom a time when hockey mattered. But there was a period—back when Garrett was a quarterback, Nowitzki was a rookie, Young…
John Rhadigan. Great guy. Good voice. Only question marks are: 1. He’s funny, which we’ve learned team president Nolan Ryan doesn’t necessarily appreciate. 2. He’s never done baseball play-by-play. Ever…
Was pondering the disappointing Dallas Cowboys season and I decided to come up with one of my patented Top 10 lists that you guys are so fond of despise. Looking for the season’s crossroads plays, I got out my schedule and started thinking about the opener in Washington Sunday night,…
Last time we saw Tony Romo in action he was sprawled out on his back October 25 at Cowboys Stadium, victim of a vicious sack that resulted in a broken collar bone. Eventually placed on injured reserve, Romo missed the Cowboys’ final 10 games of the disastrous season. Even though he’s…
Some of us — guilty — figured that this weekend your Dallas Cowboys would be hosting the NFC Championship Game, just one step from staying in town and becoming the first team in NFL history to play in a Super Bowl in its own stadium. Those plans, to say the…
I’m fascinated by Mount Everest and absolutely bow down to those who have reached its peak. It remains at the, ahem, top of my bucket list. Watching the Dallas Mavericks lose again yesterday — this time to the lowly 15-26 Detroit Pistons by 14 — I’m left to equate their…
Is it kosher to like the son but loathe the dad? As in Andre and Mike Agassi. Luke and Bill Walton. Stewie and Peter Griffin. Good, then bring on new Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan. And may his father, Buddy, suffer from eternal gas. Rob is the twin brother of…
After a weird, scary ordeal that started with him being admitted to the hospital with early pneumonia and then kept longer than anticipated despite “significant improvement,” Texas Rangers’ outfielder and American League MVP Josh Hamilton was released from the hospital Sunday afternoon. The thing was handled strangely by the Rangers from…
In the past year — in the wake of Reggie Bush — Kim Kardashian has dated Dallas athletes Miles Austin, the Cowboys’ receiver, and then Kris Humpries, who played briefly for the Mavericks. Apparently she hasn’t, after all, moved on to Kanye West. While hotties like Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker and Pamela Anderson…
This isn’t shtick in advance of Monday’s annual observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It’s about the Dallas Cowboys’ locker room chemistry out at Valley Ranch. Ray Sherman was a respected voice and, at times, yes, a coddling sounding board among the team’s black players. Now that he’s gone, new…
Yes there’s a question mark in that headline, because — as always — I’m a little confused. On Tuesday we got this press release from your Texas Rangers about star slugger and American League Most Valuable Player Josh Hamilton: Arlington, Texas–Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton was diagnosed on Monday with…
On April 23, ESPNDallas ran a piece in which Mark Cuban announced he’d become an investor in the start-up United Football League, co-founded by Bill Hambrecht — the man who took Apple and Google, among others, public. Said the Dallas Mavericks’ owner at the time, he didn’t want to invest…
I will now—fear duct-taped and history ignored—utter the scariest four words in the history of Dallas Cowboys football: I trust Jerry Jones. You? It was a surreal scene out at Cowboys Stadium last week. Not only with a head coach announced and anointed in Arlington for the first time. But…
Fans of music and mimosas huddled up in the Meyerson Symphony Center foyer for a very special mystery announcement this morning — and with Roger Staubach and Mayor Tom Leppert slated to make an appearance, and with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra still short a CEO, you could guess where this…
You hear that Josh Hamilton has been hospitalized with pneumonia and what’s the first thing you think? Yep, relapse. Can’t help it. A guy with that kind of history of drug abuse who fell violently and infamously off the wagon two years ago and who still can’t partake in a celebratory beer…
Marshawn Lynch’s amazing touchdown run last weekend got me to thinking about the best runs I’ve seen by a Dallas Cowboy. I found three, by three very different running backs. (Though none of them tops Earl Campbell’s doozy.)…
Texas Rangers – Jim Thome. The left-handed slugging free agent would, I assume, join Michael Young for a righty-lefty platoon designated hitter. I know Thome is a sexy name with some pop left in his bat, just not real sure where he fits in. Dallas Mavericks – Dirk Nowitzki. The signing…
10. Cam Newton = Overrated. I take it back. He ain’t better than Vince Young was at Texas. 9. Sure he’s corny at times, but I love me some “Big Game” Brent Musburger. 8. Props to Auburn coach Gene Chizik for running a play to wind the clock down and…
Carmelo Anthony Sasha Pavlovic. The former first-round draft pick of the Utah Jazz is far from the answer for the reeling Dallas Mavericks. He’ll likely just get a shot via a 10-day contract after the team last week cut role player Steve Novak. Word today is that if the New Jersey…
A year ago I was correctly predicting Alabama over Texas in college football’s national championship game. In tonight’s Oregon-Auburn clash my heart says Ducks but my head says no way the Tigers don’t prevail. Why? 10. Oregon usually wins with its speed, but no conference is faster and more athletic than the SEC. 9…
After a wildly entertaining weekend of the NFL playoffs, the following will not be playing in Arlington on February 6: *Michael Vick *Peyton Manning *Who Dat?! *The Dallas-born Kansas City Chiefs Despite intriguing story lines being buried, that was some damn skippy football. Three wins by road teams and the 7-9…
