When a half dozen bulls chase hordes of borderline-suicidal pedestrians through the cobblestone streets of Pamplona, Spain, every year, they do so as part of a cultural tradition dating back centuries. The bull run began as a way to goad the animals from corrals to the bull ring. The weeklong…
Over the weekend, Mark Cuban posted a long and extremely detailed open letter explaining what’s happened to the club over the past three seasons: how 2011’s championship squad came together; the reasons it was subsequently picked apart (basically, the the players were too old); why the Mavs have whiffed on…
The square jaw and impressively rectangular goatee should be proof enough of the incredible manliness of the Rangers’ newly acquired righty Matt Garza. So manly is he that it’s all but inevitable that the testosterone that courses through his veins will eventually boil over and spill out onto Twitter, which…
There are still things you can’t do on a Texas in Sunday. Buy liquor, for example. Baseball, however, is perfectly fine. That wasn’t always the case. On this day in 1905, the entire Dallas and Fort Worth professional ball teams were arrested for playing a couple of games at what…
The image of John Rocker, his rope-veined neck pulsing as he charges maniacally from bullpen to pitcher’s mound, lives on in baseball history as a visual testament to the ubiquity of steroids in the game at the turn of the millennium. It lives on despite the fact that, unlike other…
Rangers reliever Tanner Scheppers had a simple explanation for the black eye that left him unavailable to take the mound during Friday’s 11-inning loss to the Indians: He’d been sucker-punched the night before as he walked back to the team hotel after grabbing dinner. He decided against filing a police…
Dwayne Harris doesn’t typically get a lot of ink in the local sports press. The wide receiver, selected in the sixth round of the 2011 draft, didn’t catch a pass in more than half the games he played last year, and his 222 receiving yards put him seventh on the…
The name “Cowboys Stadium” is everything the structure itself is not: concise, blandly functional, lacking in imagination, panache and, most notably, a high-dollar corporate sheen. There was never any chance that it was going to last, despite Jerry Jones’ protestations to the contrary. Today, it’s officially gone…
Mavericks were first introduced to Flula Borg way back in 2011, when the German DJ released a song, “His Name is Dirk,” and heaped praise upon his basketball-playing countryman. “He has dominated the NBA with a smooth jumper and intelligent plays,” he explained at the time. “He is like a…
When center Dwight Howard spurned the Mavericks and decided to take his talents to the Bayou City, it marked the second straight year the team had epically flamed out in free agency. And, for the second straight year, Mark Cuban is trying to rewrite history. “I think we’ve put ourselves…
Your browser does not support iframes. Because the way Andrus continually screws with Beltre like an annoying little brother — stealing his hat, touching his head, and constantly interfering with pop-ups clearly destined for Beltre’s glove — is the best thing going in baseball this side of the Canadian border…
If you’re a fan of the web site Deadspin, you’ve been mesmerized at least once this year by Manny Ramirez and Taiwanese baseball, which seemed to have a pretty fun marriage going. But that’s over now, because your Texas Rangers have signed Ramirez to a minor league deal and assigned…
Hoping to make a long-awaited splash in free agency, the Mavericks met for a few hours with free agent big person Dwight Howard on Tuesday, one of his last stops on his semi-annual You Know You Want Me Tour. If the experts are to believed, it will come down to…
At this point, putting money on where free agency will take Dwight Howard would probably be unwise. The free agent center is being courted by a significant portion of the NBA and is weighing offers from the Mavs, the Rockets, the Warriors, the Hawks, and the Lakers. He visits Dallas…
Brek Shea, whose first season of European football can best be described as an epic disappointment, is back in Dallas for the summer where he’s wasted little time showcasing his love for large firearms and gaudy American-flag tank tops, both of which are banned in England. He posted — and…
This picture is a little less magical when you learn that it’s part of the Dallas Zoo’s annual Wildlife Education Day at Rangers Ballpark rather than, say, an adorable inter-species friendship struck up between some baseball-loving African penguins and Captain, the team’s equine mascot. But it’s still pretty damn magical…
At about this time each year, Mattel rolls out a new collection of University Barbies®, who are invariably clad in pom poms and cheerleading outfits, the logo of their favorite educational institution emblazoned across their perky plastic chests. This year, the toy maker threw the Barbie-collecting community a curve ball…
Richie Whitt and Greg “Greggo” Williams have now had two months to reflect on CBS’s unceremonious cancellation of The Rage, their drive-time sports talk show on 105.3 The Fan, and they’ve come to starkly different conclusions. Greggo chalked it all up to ratings, which he says had dropped. Whitt, a…
Two weeks ago Josh Brent’s attorney managed to keep his client out of jail by convincing a Dallas County judge that, even though the alcohol monitor around the Dallas Cowboy’s ankle had detected booze, it didn’t mean Brent had actually consumed any. Court documents filed in the case today show…
Back in January, our sister paper, the Miami New Times, dropped a bombshell on Major League Baseball when it reported on the dealings of a sort-of doctor named Anthony Bosch who, through his clinic, BioGenesis, was apparently supplying an All-Star roster of professional baseball players with banned, performance-enhancing drugs. Among…
The anticipation building in advance of the official unveiling of the Dallas Stars’ new look was dulled somewhat when the logo was accidentally (or maybe on purpose) leaked on the team’s smartphone app. The club did a better job with the updated jerseys, keeping those updated jerseys under wraps until…
Free baseball tickets aren’t going to rebuild the town of West, Texas or bring back the 15 people who were killed when a fertilizer plant exploded there on April 17. But it’s certainly a nice gesture on the part of the Texas Rangers, who announced today that they’ve invited basically…
