Jeff Pearlman’s book about the ’90s Cowboys may be better, but mine is, um, older? Don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s a little tussle between a couple decent football teams at Texas Stadium in, oh, about nine hours. If you’re more intellectual ponderer than face-painter, I’ve got a heavy-reading…
Thousands of Liverpool FC fans took to the streets on Saturday night to protest Tom Hicks’ ownership of their beloved, beleaguered team — 4,000 folks, by some counts, or the same number of people expected to turn out total for Texas Rangers home games between now and the season’s blessed…
Sorry, soccer is not available on this afternoon’s buffet. Or, really, ever. … I’m going to Eagles-Cowboys Monday night. Anyone interested in reading some live blogging from the game? Would look and feel something like this, but posted in real time. Seems like multiple multi-tasking to both watch the game…
Turns out, the University of Texas was toying with the thought of moving Saturday night’s game against Arkansas up to Dallas on Saturday. Alas, athletics director DeLoss Dodds said it weren’t meant to be “because of how many workers are needed to put on a game for 98,000 fans,” reports…
No doubt you’ve heard that Sean Avery, the latest and greatest (?) Dallas Star, is about to have his tenure at Vogue, where he served as an “intern” this summer, turned into a romantic comedy by New Line and the guys responsible for Journey to the Center of the Earth,…
Try to follow along. Which, if you’re a City of Dallas leader or a Dallas Independent School District accountant, will be mondo difficult. First, because some bozos don’t know how to subtract the 4 and carry the 1, DISD announces a $64 million shortfall. That’s shortfall. Opposite of windfall. Blamed…
Cowboys. Eagles. Monday Night Football. September. All that’ll be missing is these guys. Remember September? I do. Especially when the Dallas Cowboys played on Monday Night Football. I know, it’s not the same these days on ESPN as it was in the glory days back on ABC, but it’s still…
Bruised ribs. Stitched chin. Multiple penalties. Super start. In last Sunday’s NFL season opener in Cleveland, the Dallas Cowboys were missing two of their top four receivers, their starting left guard and a Pro Bowl cornerback. They didn’t, however, miss a beat. In their most dominant debut in 10 years,…
Look, at this point we’re just killing time till the 4 p.m. emergency press conference at DISD HQ on Ross Ave., from which Intern Courtney will likely report back with the bad news that the district’s suddenly “$64 million and change” in the hole, says one source with whom we’ve…
Aren’t they so cuuute together?! Jessica ain’t bad, either. Ramiro Romo, that is. While the quarterback with the stitched-up chin continues an “I don’t talk about my personal life” vow, Tony’s dad opened up a teensy weensy bit to NBC 5’s Newy Scruggs recently. Says pops of son’s girlfriend, “To…
What you see at right is the autobiography of Jamie Carragher, who you’d totally know and adore and maybe even worship if you lived in Liverpool, where, you know, Tom Hicks owns a soccer team. The 30-year-old defender’s book is being published in the U.K. tomorrow, and folks are giddy,…
The Cowboys’ former battering-ram fullback is now also the Cowboys’ former Director of Alumni Affairs. At a time when memories of past Dallas Cowboys regularly come rushing in, former running back Robert Newhouse is out. While trying to track down former players to share their Texas Stadium recollections, it came…
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Came across a quote from Texas Rangers’ bench Art Howe this morning that summed up the perverted perspective of our local baseball team: “ … if we finish second, we’ve had a heck of a…
Surprise, I’m here. Cowboys’ head coach Wade Phillips, whose crisp, hard-edged hair line looked not unlike Jimmy Johnson’s (when Sunday’s game started at least), just finished his Day After press conference at Valley Ranch. At look at what he said. And, of course, what I think about what he said:…
Jeff Pearlman, whose tremendous Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty is due in stores a week from today, appeared on ESPN’s Outside the Lines yesterday, discussing Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ penchant for taking troubled cast-offs. Joining Pearlman was The Dallas…
1 down, 15 to go. I’ll expound on these during the week, but for now here’s my Top 10 knee-jerk reactions to the Cowboys’ season-opening victory in Cleveland: 10. After all those training-camp parlor tricks, Pacman Jones had the audacity to go out and bobble a friggin’ punt? 9. Gene…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent days when and how the city will part with Reunion Arena’s seats — guess a few folks have media rooms and man caves to fill? Anyway, no word yet; an assistant in the office of Frank Poe, Convention & Event Services…
Should you happen to miss the first, oh, 10 plays Your Dallas Cowboys run Sunday against the Cleveland Browns in the Dawg Pound, the Browns forum on Scout.com has ’em for you. Here is but a taste: “Play action-fake handoff to Barber inside, Romo 13 yard pass to Witten in…
In a parallel universe, this photo is of me with some groupie chick. Big news from my wife over Labor Day: This guy has supplanted this guy atop her “list.” Alas, my rankings are unchanged. Anna Kournikova, feeble tennis resume be damned, remains the undisputed defending champion. Which is great…
Tom Hicks is still loathed in Liverpool — sounds like it ought to be the name of autobiography at this point. Last week, Hicks announced that the team’s new stadium wasn’t going to be built after all — looks like he and partner George Gillett kinda ran out of money,…
In the final analysis, no, actually, it wasn’t that great. Interesting, but not great. HBO’s Hard Knocks is over. Which means the season is beginning. After a five-week series that showed that – surprise! – two of the Cowboys’ leaders are Terrell Owens and Tank Johnson, we no longer have…
And it’ll only cost you $100, or thereabouts … With the Cowboys set to kick off the regular season in Cleveland Sunday, there really is no better time to get in the mood — even better if your flavor of football soundtrack skews toward the triumphant exultations of the marching…
