10. Say what you will about the Cowboys’ lack of execution, their enthusiasm and effort was impressive. Keith Brooking. Jay Ratliff. Tashard Choice. They didn’t always play well, but you can’t say they didn’t play hard. 9. I even liked – for a change – the report just before halftime by Fox’s…
In the midst of a pennant race into mid-September for only the fifth time in 37 seasons, the Texas Rangers promptly lost 13 of 19 games. Their uncharacteristically punchless offense failed to score at least 800 runs for the first time in 14 years. Star outfielder Josh Hamilton crashed back…
You ask for it, you got it. The Dallas Cowboys owner tells me and Newy Scruggs this morning on 105.3 The Fan that he not only accepts criticism of his team’s play this season, he desires it. Demands it, even. “I knew when we walked outta Denver with that loss that we…
The NBA thought so much of Jeff “Skin” Wade’s discourse on Dirk Nowitzki’s new-look old-school haircut (” … that is like late ’70s basketball, it’s got a lot of flavor, no one’s rockin’ it like that …”) from Monday night’s Channel 21 broadcast that it turned locks-talk into a minute-long…
Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America’s pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn’t be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn’t be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer standards–top teams earning international…
On Tuesday, Nolan Ryan and Jon Daniels said that, well, it is possible that Tom Hicks could maintain a majority interest in the Texas Rangers, despite his efforts to sell the club since April. But how, with all that debt here and abroad? Well … who knows. But you probably…
Flipping through my Avid Golfer magazine this week I came across the most interesting of tournaments. A media tournament. A fantasy media tournament. Who knew? Seems the boys over at Avid couldn’t herd all us cats into actually playing a tournament, so they produced a speculative tournament won by 106.1…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…
So, yeah, I was only kidding, far as you know, when I mentioned that, oh, maybe I’d try out for The Voice of The American Airlines Center. As you’re no doubt aware by now, Mavs man “Humble” Billy Hayes has moved out of town to tend to personal business, and…
It wasn’t exactly as declarative as when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones injected his all-or-nothing expectations into the season a month ago, but Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban believes his team is as good – actually, better – than the one that went to the NBA Finals in 2006. “The feeling…
All this hubbub over those feisty Minnesota Twins and those dramatic Detroit Tigers and the dawn of the baseball playoffs slapped me sober this morning. Ponder this, Rangers fans: Texas’ 87 wins would’ve been enough to win the American League Central Division. As I detail in this week’s column in your friendly Dallas Observer print…
Thanks to this video shot by our good friend Larry Rodriguez over at Fox4, we have to question not only Tony Romo’s play late in the game at Denver – but also his mind-set. You tell me, did Romo think it was third down? Was he telling the refs he had…
Your Dallas Cowboys will someday get a new quarterback and will sooner rather than later be gifted with a different head coach, but Jerry Jones is and always will be the franchise’s general manager. Not surprising at all – he’s said it before, repeatedly – but today it just got punctuated. With…
Something’s up with the Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Tony Romo’s not the frolicking, free-wheeling player we fell in love with back in 2006 and ’07. These days he stays in the pocket. He sulks on the sideline. Most importantly, he sucks in the game. It’s different. And it ain’t better. It’s like…
Some news that will surely soften Broncos 17, Cowboys 10. Would you believe: R.I.P., Rowdy. Well, the obnoxious, foam, giant-noggin’ed Cowboys’ mascot isn’t exactly dead. But I heard over the weekend that at least we won’t be subjected to his stupid shenanigans any longer at Cowboys Stadium. I guess we were…
10. Fox’s Pam Oliver stinks. While she was busy reading some shallow, pre-orchestrated featurette, we went three series before learning that Gerald Sensabaugh was out with a bum thumb. And though Marion Barber played just one snap in the second half, we never received an update. 9. Not only is Kyle…
A colleague in Miami thought we might find this interesting: “The Consummation of Dirk,” penned by one Jonathan Callahan. It comes from the latest issue of something called The Collagist, an online literary journal. Right. You know the drill.At first, I thought maybe it was a chopped-and-screwed variation on Jesse…
On our midday show at 105.3 The Fan, I nervously asked Jerry Jones this morning if he had, um, seen the video of two fans “christening” Cowboys Stadium last Monday night in Arlington. After joking that he had called several committee meetings to investigate the situation, Jones simply said: “Yes. …..
But that’s just because the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals doesn’t want the Rangers’ shortstop to become a bullfighter. Oh, you missed that? Yeah — a couple of days back, the former Indians great said bullfighting is “one of my things on the to-do list.” That’s only because…
Let’s see, your Dallas Mavericks have a star with longer hair and a lighter mood. They have a free Fan Jam Friday night at 7 at American Airlines Center. And, lookie here, they have an opening at a key position – public address announcer. With long-time voice Humble Billy Hayes moving…
Catch the ball. Shut your mouth. It’s really not that difficult. Cowboys’ receiver Roy Williams is becoming a Terrell Owens starter kit, in every way. First he dropped what should have been a touchdown pass in last week’s win over Carolina. And now he’s questioning his role on the team. Oh…
If you need me between the hours of 4 and 6 p.m. on Tuesday, I’ll be at the American Airlines Center auditioning to be The New Voice of Your Dallas Mavericks. So. Not. Kidding. But, let’s see … what do I need to do? Oh, here it is: “Registered applicants…
