It would appear Norm Hitzges alone cannot keep Lone Star Park’s numbers from suffering a dramatic decline in the midst of a recession. The 65-day spring meet wrapped in Grand Prairie yesterday, and track officials noted with great disappointment the drop in both attendance and wagering, on-site and off. According…
A year ago at this time I was pegging the Dallas Cowboys for the “Super Bowl.” Last time we saw them however – 44-6 losers in Philly on Dec. 28 – it was “or bust.” Coming off 2008’s 9-7 disaster, the Cowboys have shedded from their roster the leading receiver (Terrell Owens),…
Check out more photos in our slide show.It took talent and intensity just to make it past Saturday’s first round of auditions for the 2009-’10 Mavericks Dancers squad, but for Sunday afternoon’s finals, they’d have less than a minute to perform, competing with four other dancers for the judges’ attention.Even…
And the consolation prize is … Drew Gooden. To which I say, not bad. Not bad at all. He’s no Marcin Gortat or Carlos Boozer or Emeka Okafor, but the 6-foot-10, 250-pound 27-year old journeyman can be a nice fit on a nice team. Gooden seemingly has the size and…
I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we’re all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August … September … maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top teams rewarded…
Patrick Michels is putting the finishing touches on what’s sure to be a sprawling slide show from last night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards at the Granada. (Hence, the reason for no DC9 postings today — but, look, back in my day, we wrapped around 1 a.m., grabbed an early breakfast,…
Remember that Tony Romo Funny or Die video last week? Didn’t think so. Now, via a very thoughtful New York City publicist, we have the outtakes — which are slightly more amusing than the real thing. Look, I said slightly. What do you expect for free?Update: Since the audio crapped…
To quote the great Eddie Izzard, “The problem with America? You fuckers keep tearing down your history, man!” Stubborn answer: Progress. Grim reality: Sadness. I remember a kinder, gentler era in Dallas when as a little punk I’d peer out the family Fury along I-35 and gaze in wonder at The…
Chicks dig the long ball. We all love the fireworks. But nobody is connected to home runs like your Texas Rangers. I know they have 20 sacrifice bunts, 78 stolen bases and a committment to try and manufacture runs this season, but in the end – same as it ever was -…
I guess there was some drama involved, but don’t tell me you’re totally surprised that the winner of Spike TV and Michael Irvin’s 4th and Long is – ta-da! – a Michael Irvin clone. Jesse Holley has the size (6-foot-3), speed (4.5) and smile of Irvin, and now he has a…
Just received an email from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban regarding the lawsuit filed against him by former owner Ross Perot Jr. I’ve covered the Mavs during both regimes and just let me say unequivocally that in any fight – fist, financial or basketball IQ – I’m siding with Cuban. In my earlier post I…
Just as Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban is finishing his jig in the wake of beating an insider trading charge from the Securities & Exchange Commission, today comes another legal pothole. This one from the guy who sold him the Mavericks. Hillwood Center Partners, which is controlled by Ross Perot Jr., filed…
While Ian Kinsler’s bat — the first player with both a lead-off and walk-off homer in the same game — last night gave the Texas Rangers a momentary pulse, let’s talk about the future of a dominant arm down on the farm. On his blog yesterday, ESPN’s Buster Olney made…
Now that Tony Romo is done with his girlfriend, his golfing and his goofs, hopefully he can start concentrating on his gift: A new wide receiver. While I was out on vacation, the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback dumped Jessica Simpson, created a buzz with this extremely unfunny video and finished second in…
Funny, we’d just been thinking we hadn’t heard from our local Lingerie Football League franchisees in a while — especially with the ABA throwing its weight around Dallas last week — when the Dallas Desire sent an invitation out to catch the team at scrimmage Friday morning.Friday’s media day –…
The painfully modest former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver’s new reality show bows on VH1 Monday (psssst … you can watch the debut episode in its entirety right this very second, if that’s what you’re into). Which is why he was on Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC late-night show Thursday — talking, yet…
A condensed version of Richard Sandomir’s visit to Cowboys Stadium, which appears in this morning’s edition:Jerry Jones, tour guide, was showing off. Lost in the excitement of the show and tell, Jones trampled a couple of traffic cones and nearly flattened two fans walking to the $15-per-person stadium tour. He…
So, yes, Jay Bowdy and I have made peace. If you haven’t been playing along this morning, the owner of the North Texas Fresh — that’d be Fort Worth’s new entry into the American Basketball Association — called me out this morning for ugh-ing the name of the franchise. (Wonders…
Says here that on August 22 at Mountain View College, the American Basketball Association’s Dallas Generals will hold it final tryouts and a combine — seriously, the ABA returneth? Dunno how we missed it, and I’ve yet to find mention made anywhere else, but at the end of May, the…
He giveth (Jonestown Coliseum). He taketh away (Terrell Owens). Not that it’s a push, but for Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, it is status quo. For the third time in the list’s four-year history, the ol’ oil wildcatter has rambled and gambled his way to the top of the Dallas…
Tony Romo: Product Spokesman from Tony RomoVia Just Jared, we find this brand-new Funny or Die exclusive: Tony Romo as a pitchman for “over 50,000 products,” among ’em yarmulkes, gas that tastes like chocolate and something called a “ball-pen hammer,” sigh. In short: The Dallas Cowboys quarterback is no Peyton…
In this photo, I mean, apparently taken last night near the Key Club on Sunset Boulevard, scene of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback’s Metal Skool performances with Mr. Belding and Jessica Simpson, awwww…
