If an agreement between the NFL Players Association and the league can be reached before the league’s first full slate of games on Sunday, the NFL’s drug testing policy could be amended to lessen penalties for recreational drugs, as well as include blood-testing for Human Growth Hormone. And that’s good…
Former Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton’s relapse, the one in January 2012 in which he allegedly got drunk at the Sherlock’s near Park Lane and U.S. 75 and had sex with a woman in a bathroom stall, has received a proper memorial. The handicap accessible stall in the bar’s back bathroom,…
It’s a phrase that’s uttered too often at Little League games and on the playground. Even adults playing slow-pitch softball use it as a crutch. “You throw like a girl.” It’s an easy, if seemingly sexist, shorthand for the lunging, forearm focused, dart-throwing motion that happens to be one of…
Behind a seven-inning, two-run start from Nick Tepesch and a two-run ninth inning, walkoff rally capped off by Adam Rosales’ game-winning RBI single over a drawn-in infield, the Rangers knocked off the Angels yesterday, ending a four-game losing streak overall and a nine-game skid against the Halos. It was yet…
After two years of scrutiny, controversy and corruption, the Texas Education Agency last month finally announced that it would revoke the charter of Prime Prep Academy, the publicly funded charter school founded and led by Deion Sanders. With the school plotting its appeal, the hits have only continued, in the…
News reports this morning indicate that one of the Cowboys’ few defensive bright spots from last season, cornerback Orlando Scandrick, has been suspended for the first four games of the 2014 regular season for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing substance abuse policy. Scandrick has already lost his appeal in the matter,…
Earlier this morning, a series of photos hit Deadspin ostensibly showing Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones engaged in various stages of sexually suggestive conduct with two unidentified women. In its initial post, Deadspin asked for help finding the photos’ provenance. The apparent story behind the photos, posted a few hours later…
We’ve written elsewhere about what transpired at the Cotton Bowl last night. In short, at some point during a pre-season exhibition game that was charging $50 a head and up, one fan decided to charge the pitch. This happens a lot in sporting events around the world. People run onto…
The Cotton Bowl was filled with 57,000-plus soccer fans last night, there to see some of the world’s greatest footballers do some very mediocre footballing. It was slow and scoreless for the first hour or so, until Roma’s Francesco Totti scored at the 58-minute mark. Fans were irritated and bored…
Ahh, the post All-Star Break, post World Cup, post LeBron, post everything doldrums. The Wednesday and Thursday after the Midsummer Classic have been proven — by science! — to be, along with Christmas Eve, the deadest days on the American sports calender. Clearly, local athletes are just as bored as…
Saying Texas takes high school sports seriously is like saying it can get a bit warm here in the summer. Contests between kids make adults do crazy things, like, say, letting a certain former football player open up a state-funded charter school. Or worse. Check out some of the low-lights…
Multiple outlets are reporting that Emmanuel Mudiay, the No. 1 rated high school basketball player in the country, will forego his commitment to play for Larry Brown at SMU and instead play at least one season of professional basketball overseas before heading to the NBA. Mudiay has released the following…
The Rangers lost again yesterday. It’s the eighth defeat in a row and 22nd out of 25 for a franchise that’s won at least 90 games in each of the past four seasons. It was the latest lowlight in series that’s been — Yu Darvish and Adrian Beltre excepted –…
Late last month, local media buzzed with the news that our very own Prince Fielder, the hulking, injured, $168 million albatross currently not playing first base for the Rangers, would be making an appearance in ESPN the Magazine. Naked. Because why the hell not? See also: Prince Fielder to Appear…
See update at bottom. A defamation lawsuit filed against anti-doping authorities and United States track and field star Tyson Gay is likely on the move after the United States Anti-Doping Agency asked that the case be moved from a state district court in Tarrant County court to federal court. Jon…
It’s a tradition for many college kids, getting wasted before, during and after campus football games. And at SMU, students may now do so without stuffing their Natty Lights and other fashionably lowbrow domestics into their pockets. After a long battle of negotiations between administration and Aramark, the concession company…
North Texas will be heavily represented in ESPN the Magazine’s upcoming Body Issue, according to the Associated Press. In addition to some athletes you might expect — the Arizona Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald, the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Serge Ibaka and the U.S. Women’s National Team’s Megan Rapinoe — the issue’s “Bodies…
The Associated Press is reporting the end of Dallas’ nascent and somewhat quixotic bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games. According to someone briefed on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s decision making process, the committee has selected Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington to further compete to represent the United…
Your browser does not support iframes. Texas Rangers outfielder Engel Beltre fractured his tibia. Catcher Geovany Soto tore his meniscus. First baseman Prince Fielder required neck surgery. And those are just a few examples of the Rangers’ injuries woes. With starting first baseman Mitch Moreland having surgery on his ankle…
Update, 4:51 p.m.: The below was written before this. The answer to the above question is no. Original story: Derek Holland. Matt Harrison. Martin Perez. Geovany Soto. Prince Fielder. Jurickson Profar. Engel Beltre. Three-fifths of the rotation, the starting catcher, the starting first baseman, the starting second baseman and the…
Mark Cuban has taken a thoughtful, nuanced approach to the Donald Sterling controversy, at once condemning the unapologetic racism the Clippers’ owner expresses on a leaked audiotape, and expressing deep discomfort with the precedent it sets to punish someone so severely for expressing his personal beliefs in private. Thoughtfulness and…
If you’ll indulge us for a moment, Dallas we’re going to briefly revisit one of the darkest points in our city’s history, a time when an unspeakable tragedy plunged millions into a state of bewildered mourning from whence sprang talk of shadowy conspiracies. We’re referring, of course, to the 2006…
