After Friday’s monumental, six-run implosion in a gut-wrenching loss to the Boston Red Sox, I heard lots of calls for Frankie Francisco’s job – if not his head. But give Texas Rangers’ manager Ron Washington credit. The guy is an unflappable optimist. At times to a fault, he trusts his players. “Frankie’s never…
With nods to the special teams and Mike Mickens and Jason Williams, the most troubling aspect of last week’s Cowboys’ pre-season loss to the Raiders was the most elementary of plays: The snap. After a season in which Andre Gurode sent back off-speed eephus pitches to Tony Romo in the…
Five months ago, Tom Hicks’s Hicks Sports Group defaulted on a $525 million loan; at the same time, he acknowledged that, yes, he was looking for someone who might be interested in buying some of the Texas Rangers offa him for the right price. Then, at the end of May,…
Okay, I’m impressed. Friday night’s kick-to-the-crotch loss to the Boston Red Sox felt like that moment. Big game. Big crowd. Gigantic implosion. Frankie Francisco’s blown save – six runs – felt like the big-bang instant in which a demoralized, gutted bunch of Texas Rangers’ youngsters starts sinking in the standings,…
I know it’s only August. It’s only pre-season. But it is, after all, football. Tonight at 9 on Channel 11 and 105.3 The Fan we officially begin washing 44-6 out of our mouths. What will you be watching tonight? As for me … …
San Antonio: Chicks and birdies have been usurped by X’s and O’s. At least that’s what the Dallas Cowboys and quarterback Tony Romo want us to believe. After the first two weeks of training camp at The Alamodome, it’s difficult to argue otherwise. For the first time in a long…
While the Cowboys finish saying goodbye to their old home one piece at a time, they’re busy finishing up the newest feature at their digs Arlington: 14 works of contemporary art commissioned specifically for Cowboys Stadium. Gene Jones led a media tour for through the building yesterday, along with family…
Got this “friend” named Newy Scruggs. He has his theory that the Texas Rangers “play well against the big boys.” Hogwash I’d tell him, until the Rangers took two of three against the Angels last weekend. Then I watch Texas last night and – yep – I’m starting to embrace…
Announced by Jody Dean?! Sportatorium spy sent me this pic of the new VOCS (Voice of Cowboys Stadium) working on his craft this week out in Arlington. T-Minus 10 days until the new public address announcer’s debut in Cowboys-Raiders Titans…
The day Jerry Jones introduced the world to his huge new TV screen, gamers wondered what it’d be like to plug in their PlayStation and have a game 90 feet above the Cowboys Stadium field.Well, wonder no more. While the stadium opened up to season ticket holders for Saturday’s open…
Former Highland Park star and Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford had himself quite the summer bash recently. Girls in bikinis. Dirty dancing. Some sort of beverages in those same red cups that I serve alcohol in at my pool parties. Who knows, maybe whipped cream made a cameo at some…
How you get shut down by Gio Gonzalez and then light up John Lackey I’ll never know, but your Texas Rangers deflected the dirt from their coffin in Anaheim this weekend. I still don’t think they’ll catch the Angels or make the playoffs, but taking two of three in California keeps baseball relevant past mid-August…
Hard to remember way back when we bitched and moaned about a “Cowboys bias” in the Pro Football Hall of Fame isn’t it? Saturday night in Canton receiver Bob Hayes became the 11th Cowboy inducted into Canton, continuing a trend that has seen four Dallas stars earn immortality over the…
My problem isn’t that Texas Rangers’ All-Star Josh Hamilton got drunk, took off his shirt and playfully licked whipped cream – and vice-versa – off three hot females in an Arizona bar last January. My beef isn’t that a born-again guy who continually tells us I Am Second decided to -…
Check out our slide show for more shots from the tournament and around the stadium.It was a moment you knew was coming ever since the Cowboys unveiled the largest-in-the-world 1080p HDTV screen hanging above midfield in their new stadium.Saturday afternoon at an open house for Cowboys season ticket holders, Sony…
So reports this morning’s New York Times, which takes a tour of the Dallas Cowboys’ new home with Gene Jones and finds the walls adorned with works by the Whitney-feted Lawrence Weiner, Franz Ackermann (who’s collected at the Museum of Modern Art), conceptualists Mel Bochner and Daniel Buren, Matthew Ritchie…
10. Tony Romo spent about 10 minutes after practice chatting with long-time San Antonio Spurs’ pest Bruce Bowen. Let’s hope the topic was winning, not defense. 9. For the first time in training camp the Cowboys brought in referees. Today’s lone practice focused on goal-line situations. 8. Amazingly, Flozell Adams…
Jody Dean. A prized pupil of Dallas radio icon Ron Chapman, Dean has been on the local broadcasting scene for 35 years. He’s worked at KRLD 1080 AM, KVIL 103.7 FM and Channel 11. He is currently the morning show host at 98.7 FM KLUV, has a booming voice, was once the…
After a summer in which he bleached his hair blonde, Washington Redskins’ running back Clinton Portis is spending part of training camp explaining that he is not, in fact, gay. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) We have a history of homosexual sports stars ranging from Martina Navratilova to…
It was two years ago that I sat down with Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels. We ate sushi. We swapped stories. We talked baseball and life and near-death and philosophies and farm systems and… We’ve barely talked since. My cover story in the July 12, 2007, issue of the…
10. Story out of Lincoln, Nebraska of all places – apparently the writer was in Dallas for the Big 12 Media Days – says at Cowboys Stadium there is for sale $800,000 suites in which you can purchase a $90 pizza. That’s about $11 a slice by my sportswriter math. However,…
Shawn Marion. Drew Gooden. Roddy Beaubois. Quinton Ross. Count ABC among the non-believers in your new-and-maybe-sorta-somehwhat improved Dallas Mavericks. The Mavs’ schedule for next season has them appearing nine times on ESPN, seven times on NBATV, four times on TNT and, um, zero times on ABC’s Sunday afternoon showcase. Last year…
