If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? The Dallas Observer sports blog, duh. Right about now, we commence our sports exclusive blog, The Sportatorium. Unfair Park, of course, remains the award-winning trunk of our mighty blogosphere oak, where you’ll still get sportsy whatsits and the daily…
Mark it down. Avery Johnson will get another NBA head-coaching gig (he says he’s already been contacted by a team, by the way) and bring his new team into the American Airlines Center and kick his old team’s ass. Nothing new, really. It’s the curse of the ex-Maverick. I mean,…
On his way outta town Avery claims he never wanted Jason Kidd? Yeah, right. Listening to former — weird, huh? — Mavs head coach Avery Johnson speak from the cushy confines of the Ritz-Carlton, I was confused to whether he had just been handed a pink slip or a gold…
Per the GM, the guy in the middle isn’t a candidate to coach the Mavs. Methinks the other two have signficantly brighter futures. Just caught the tail end of Mavericks’ General Manager Donnie Nelson on The Ticket. As far as the next head coach, we now know: *It won’t be…
Ticket listeners just heard the morning Musers debate this a.m.’s breaking Pacman Jones news: Jailed 29-year-old Arvin Edwards tells Nashville’s CBS affiliate that the new Dallas Cowboys corner ordered him to shoot up a Las Vegas nightclub in 2007. Jones has maintained it didn’t go down like that: The former…
Attention Jerry Jones: Michael Vick gets out of prison in 15 months. Rae Carruth will be only 44 when he’s eligible for parole in 2019. Dwayne Goodrich is almost halfway through his sentence. Art Schlichter is a free man. No one avoids his pursuers like O.J. Simpson. And, who knows,…
If you’re looking for the proper way to lament-ebrate today’s firing of Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson — who, yes, loses his gig whilst Texas Rangers skipper Ron Washington keeps his, as so many of you have pointed out — look no further than this eBay auction featuring an…
Avery Johnson, picking up his Coach of the Year award two years ago. Which seems like a million years ago. Either Mavs owner Mark Cuban takes the suggestions of Unfair Park (and everyone else with eyes) pretty damn seriously, or else Avery Johnson’s dismissal had become that obvious. Probably the…
Brandon Bass. There. Now that I’ve addressed the positives from the Mavericks’ short-circuited post-season, let’s move on to trying to sort out the shit. Get comfy. It starts, of course, with the head coach. Avery Johnson must be fired. Now. Because of his micro-managing, defiant devotion to his blessed “system”…
Yeah, I know. The end is near. The Mavs packed their white flags and vacation itineraries on the flight to New Orleans yesterday. They are six-point underdogs against the Hornets tonight and, according to NBA history, have about a nine percent chance of rallying from down 3-1 to win the…
“I like the fear,” says Two-Face in this new NBA Playoffs promo that arrives just in time for the left side to bid adieu to the right. “‘It means I’m ready.” Laughing is fun. –Robert Wilonsky…
Really, the title of Avery Johnson’s new book gets a little funnier every day. Two sports shorts with which to commence the day, before the Dallas Mavericks end it ’round 8:30ish with yet another first-round shalom, y’all. Howard Beck in The New York Times documents yesterday’s Mavs practice that wasn’t…
Tonight at 7 p.m. in Philly, the 7-0 Dallas Desperados play the 8-0 Philadelphia Soul — you know, the team owned by Jon Bon Jovi? Moments ago, Sports Illustrated posted a lengthy Q&A with Bon Jovi about tonight’s …um … historic contest of undefeated Arena Football League teams. Bon Jovi,…
After last night’s dichotomous performances by the Mavs and Stars, it appears we’ll be having our spring over ice, thanks. Because while Dallas’ hockey team was dismantling the San Jose Sharks to take a 2-0 series lead, its basketball team put forth one of the most disturbingly ineffective efforts in…
It’s less than a month into the baseball season, and the Texas Rangers have already hit rock bottom. Texas is tied with the Washington Nationals for the worst record in the bigs at 7-19, and team president Nolan Ryan is scheduled to meet this weekend with a different Washington (Ron)…
There’s very little to say about this lengthy clip from today’s episode of The Michael Irvin Show on ESPN-FM 103.3, during which Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard addressed this article that appeared over the weekend. Because, really, it’s no biggie. So, sure, the Mav went on the air and admitted…
Something tells me Mrs. Mike Modano ain’t gonna make too many friends amongst San Jose Sharks fans with comments like this one, posted today to her official NHL blog: “The San Jose arena is one of the loudest and most violent crowds that I’ve ever seen in person. It worries…
Prepare for the most overrated, underwhelming non-event in all of sports. No, not another ho-hum Rangers’ loss. It’s the NFL Draft, also known as the most overdone entity this side of Mel Kiper’s hair helmet. It’s a day when dork draftniks like Kiper and Gil Brandt and Norm Hitzges and…
The supportive mid-season shirt: “Avery’s Team.” The distressed post-season edict: “Avery’s Time.” It’s time. Time for Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson to deliver. Time for his precious system and his hand-picked players to win a championship, a series or, at this point, a couple of playoff road games. Time…
I’m sure you’ll be shocked to learn that for the second time this week the Rangers got tattooed before you took your afternoon smoke break. Today it was a tidy 8-2 ditty in Detroit, during which Rangers pitchers surrendered five walks and five homers and Rangers hitters produced 10 strikeouts…
You did know FC Dallas was undefeated, no? Well, then, there ya go. Brought to you by the good folks who sometimes give you Monday Morning Meanderings: As noted this a.m., The Cowboys finally acquired Adam “Pacman” Jones for a fourth-round draft choice. Bitch and moan all you want about…
In The Tennessean this a.m., they’re bidding good riddance to one Adam “Pacman” Jones — “the biggest mistake in franchise history,” though of which franchise do they write, the Tennessee Titans or the Dallas Cowboys? Because late yesterday evening, word came down that Dallas had, at last, traded for the…
