Kenny Cooper Yesterday, FC Dallas forward Kenny Cooper scored two goals in two minutes on his way to embarrassing the David Beckham-led L.A. Galaxy 4-0 in Frisco. Today comes word that Cooper, a beloved native son, may have played his last game for the Hoops. Really, you can’t blame him…
Courtesy Deadspin — which got it from here, which got it from here — a reason to watch local television after all: Adam Jones and Deion Sanders’ Drivers Select ad, which, notes Deadspin’s Clay Travis, features “the most persuasive opening to a commercial in the history of television.” Which is?…
Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Telander exchanged a few e-mails yesterday with Mark Cuban, one of three finalists still in the running to acquire, for more than $1 billion, both the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. Cuban wouldn’t tell Telander how much he thinks the Cubbies are worth — the…
Nice Associated Press story this afternoon about Nocona Athletic Goods Company and its damn-right resurrection, following the July 18, 2006, fire that destroyed the then-80-year-old manufacturer of the best danged baseball gloves in the U.S.A., located about 100 miles northwest of Dallas. While Rawlings and Wilson do most of their…
FC Dallas’s Dax McCarty A couple of sports notes this morning. First, out of Arizona comes word that the Cardinals are going to “Protect the Nest” this season by keeping Dallas Cowboys fans outta University of Phoenix Stadium. That is, if Cowboys fans — who, historically, fill up Arizona games…
Be the first on your block to wear Dirk’s Olympic jersey. All it’ll cost you is $79.95. Maybe it was the Tim MacMahon bump, but the sixth most-popular online petition in the entire world — at least at Petition Online — is the one containing the words “Dirk Nowitzki.” As…
Super Bowl. Or bust. If the Dallas Cowboys don’t win the NFL championship February 1 in Tampa, it will be a devastating disappointment impossible to ignore. If they don’t at least make it to the title game, it will be an unmitigated disaster improbable to restore. Anything less and Wade…
After the jump, Chris Bosh’s video adios to his hometown as he leaves for Las Vegas on his way to Beijing, where the Toronto Raptor forward will play for Team USA along with the likes of Jason Kidd, Carmelo Anthony, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade. The…
Because he knows that, sooner or later, the fun won’t be there for having. From Yahoo! Sports comes Michael Silver’s exclusive chitchat with the Cowboys’ QB, who, like, seriously doesn’t get why people are so damned interested in him: “No one’s going to remember me five or seven years from…
Till this morning I didn’t know what a Wigald Boning was — something to do with fish, maybe? Or a sexual position? Nope, turns out he’s “a German comedian, musician, TV-moderator and journalist,” or everything I wish I were. Only, I prefer his translated Wikipedia bio (“outer trademarks are glasses…
This picture is not from north Texas. Hard to fathom with our temps again flirting with triple digits, but over at the British Open at Royal Birkdale in Lancanshire, England it looks like December. It’s in the ‘50s with rain, 40 mph wind, guys hitting 9-iron from 205 yards and,…
Weird little story circulating in the nether regions of the Interwebs concerning well-known (almost legendary, matter of fact) con man Fred Brito and his claim that, yesterday, he became the “owner of Troy Aikman’s 1993 Super Bowl Dallas Cowboy’s Championship Ring.” The folks over at The Landry Hat, a Dallas…
Anthony Kim Through four holes at The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, Anthony Kim’s one stroke off the lead. And it probably doesn’t surprise the California native and current Dallas resident that he’s at par and near the top (and, sure, it’s early): He tells the U.K. Independent in a…
Things are looking up? The sky’s the limit? Corny captions notwithstanding, the Cowboys are gonna be a kick-ass team this season. The Cowboys re-signed Pro Bowl safety Ken Hamlin this week. Translation: It’s official, Super Bowl or bust. Not that Hamlin is that valuable, but his signing means one less…
The Texas Rangers’ plans have gone to shit. Ain’t it grand? Last winter, the franchise had designs on hosting the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 2015. Then arose the sudden proliferation of proposed new ballparks around the league, the Glory Park development stagnation in Arlington and— poof—the issue is…
Another in a long line of shining, yet ultimately hollow moments. Another American League All-Star Game victory. Another significant Rangers contribution to the win. But in the big photo, does it really matter? Texas shortstop Michael Young provided the game-winning sacrifice fly in the 15th inning of last night’s 4-3…
Flickr photo: BenYankee Before we let Josh Hamilton’s record-setting appearance at the Home Run Derby last night disappear from today’s topics of conversation, let me direct you to Peter Gammons’ column on the subject — the headline of which reads, “Hamilton an inspiration in so many ways.” A sampling of…
Wow. Babe Ruth may have built the house, but Josh Hamilton brought it down. I’m not much into Home Run Derbys – or baseball, for that matter – but the Texas Rangers’ slugger last night provided one of those goose-bumpy moments that remind us why we watch sports. In one…
After the jump, the official ESPN wrap-up of the Home Run Derby — during which, in the first round, Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton hit a record-setting 28 dingers, good God. And, sure, he didn’t win — Minnesota’s Justin Morneau did, feh — but, once again in the span of a…
One’s into women and wedges and the other’s coming back after a four-month retirement. You decide. Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo finished third in a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe over the weekend. He also fell into a lake when he lost his balance hitting a shot, hosted a party…
Thursday night’s Rangers-Angels game was the final game of one of the more entertaining series in recent memory at the Ballpark in Arlington. The series finale featured Josh Hamilton’s second two-run homer in as many nights and Brandon Boggs nailing Torii Hunter at home plate with Max Ramirez holding on…
Nope, don’t wanna see this again. Not with the game on the line. Okay? That, ladies and gents, was the most scintillating, entertaining four-game split in the history of The Ballpark. What we saw: The Rangers almost rally from down 8-0 in Game 1. A surprisingly stellar start by rookie…
