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John Gonzalez

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What, Them Worry?

The Rangers seem happy. It must be a plot.

By John Gonzalez
Mar 31, 2005

Generally, I'm a slow learner. I was about 10 before I figured out that the stove was hot and I shouldn't put my hands on it (which is the main reason why this column is constantly twisted; it's hard to type with Kentucky-fried fingers). Later, in high school and college,...
Told You So

Nellie retires--you read it here first, sort of

By John Gonzalez
Mar 24, 2005

A few months ago I was walking through the American Airlines Center on a Sunday afternoon--during a Desperados game, of all things--when I ran into Fort Worth Star-Telegram basketball writer Art Garcia. Being an industrious young scribe, Garcia was on hand for Mavs practice (which was being held on the...
Hart Attack

Everybody loves a winner? Tell it to Rangers GM John Hart.

By John Gonzalez
Mar 17, 2005

SURPRISE, Arizona--The morning Arizona sun beams down and lets its presence be felt. It needs no help on that score--it's powerful enough to warm everyone below and tan the backs of their necks--but it's magnified nonetheless, made ever brighter as it bounces off the ridiculously large ring adorning John Hart's...
Rock of Ages

Don't send Michael Finley out to pasture just yet

By John Gonzalez
Mar 3, 2005

Shockingly, Mark Cuban has been quiet this year. No running out onto the court. No staged battles with refs. No comments about the league office. Nothing. For a while there after his television show went under (what was the name again? Mad TV? How I miss it so.), I wondered...
Making the Point

Jason Terry steps in and steps it up

By John Gonzalez
Feb 17, 2005

This is Jason Terry--everything you need to know about his personality encapsulated in one brief moment. Practice has just ended, and he walks off the court, leaving the free-throw line and a good sweat behind him. He could shoot past the gathered media, brush off the pack the way other...
Good Grief

Our columnist is a loser--again--which is more fun for us than him

By John Gonzalez
Feb 10, 2005

The poetry in sports is rooted in its symmetry, or so I'm told. For every star there's a role player. For every champion, a chump. There is a flip side to each situation, and therein lies the beauty, right? There is a reason the thrill of victory has long partnered...
Quiet Time

What's up with the Pokes? Anyone? Anyone?

By John Gonzalez
Feb 3, 2005

The season has been over for a while, and we still don't know any more about the Dallas Cowboys than we did before their season-ending loss to the Giants. The 'Boys and head coach Bill Parcells disintegrated in that final game, and now it's almost as though their remains have...
The Understudy

Avery Johnson will make a fine coach someday, but why today?

By John Gonzalez
Jan 27, 2005

Del Harris wasn't up for talking about Avery Johnson, not at first. In general, the Mavericks' assistant coach is a kind man, amenable to just about anything and happy to help. Harris is the type who, if you asked him for a quarter, would happily hand you a dollar and...
With a Whimper

Light at the end of the tunnel? It's probably an oncoming train.

By John Gonzalez
Jan 13, 2005

It was fitting. The Cowboys' inauspicious season ended exactly the way it should have--with a loss to the dreadful New York Giants, a team that hadn't won since Halloween, a team that was 0-6 with rookie quarterback Eli Manning under center and that had 15 vets on the disabled list...
Just Forget It

Move on folks, there was nothing to see in an ugly 2004

By John Gonzalez
Jan 6, 2005

This time of year is so depressing here at the Dallas Observer sports desk, mainly because I keep waiting for the bosses to sell the desk out from under me and jumpstart my next career--king hobo outside City Hall. (I've prepared myself for this by throwing rotten fruit at a...