On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court killed the federal ban on sports betting outside Nevada, and there was, at least on the sports-friendly corners of the internet, much rejoicing. Behavior that, while routine, has been forced into the shadows, is headed for the light, at least in New Jersey,…
Let’s look at the ways Dallas sports have sucked in 2018. The year started with a Cowboys-free NFL playoffs in January. The Mavericks have been historically bad, and the Stars missed the playoffs after a hot start thanks to going 4-13 in March. Southern Methodist University missed the NCAA Tournament…
You know you’re the GOAT when you give a speech at your own funeral. On April 10, the Dallas Mavericks, at the merciful end of the worst season in franchise history, drew their second-largest crowd of the year to American Airlines Center. It certainly wasn’t there to show appreciation for…
Jason Witten, the greatest tight end in Dallas Cowboys history, is retiring. According to multiple media reports, Witten told the Cowboys on Thursday morning that he is leaving the team for ESPN and Monday Night Football after 15 seasons with the team. Witten is expected to provide color commentary alongside…
At the end of the 2018 Cowboys season, whether it comes in December, January or February, the month of April will have been just as important as any during the season itself. This month, thanks to a personnel decision long in the works, a potential shock retirement and the NFL…
The Cowboys took the easy way out Thursday night. Rather than trading up, trading down or surprising fans and pundits with their first-round selection, Jerry and Stephen Jones stayed at No. 19 and picked the player they wanted all along. Boise State linebacker Leighton Vander Esch wasn’t a shock selection,…
There was clearly something wrong on David Irving’s Twitter account Monday morning. Rather than the stream-of-consciousness ramblings that can usually be expected of the Cowboys’ budding defensive star, a series of statements that read an awful lot like accusations began spilling out. “Domestic vilance [sic] again,” the first tweet read…
The Dallas Cowboys are, at most, six players away from being really good in 2018. They could use a guard to fill in the otherwise stellar offensive line, wide receiver Dez Bryant and linebacker Anthony Hitchens need to be replaced, and a ball-hawking free safety would add needed steel to…
Texas Rangers announcer CJ Nitkowski has, once again, made himself the center of the story. With the team he covers coming off its best series of the year, having taken two of three from the world champion Astros in Houston, all anyone on Rangers or Astros social media could talk…
Dez Bryant is gone. The Cowboys released the big wide receiver, one of the most talented and most divisive players in team history, Friday morning. It was an abrupt end to a tumultuous, co-dependent relationship, one that seemingly had to happen but stings nonetheless for Bryant, the team and their…
Sometime Friday, provided he doesn’t elect to skip the meeting, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant is going to get together with team owner Jerry Jones. The news, from Bryant’s perspective, doesn’t figure to be good. Barring an unexpected turn of events, Bryant will face a pay cut, something he’s…
The Mavericks accomplished what they set out to accomplish this season. As hard as it might to be explain to your 8-year-old nephew — who still thinks sports are about, you know, winning — losing more than 55 games and locking up a bottom-five record was exactly what the Mavs,…
The NBA announced Tuesday afternoon that Mavericks center Nerlens Noel has been suspended for the remaining five games of the 2017-18 season. According to the league, Noel violated the NBA’s anti-drug policy. The league didn’t disclose details of Noel’s violation, but the policy mandates a five-game suspension for a player’s…
It didn’t take long Thursday afternoon for the Astros to debut their killer app for 2018. Houston broke out their new shift, designed to beat the Rangers’ best hitter and a century-plus of baseball conventional wisdom all at once, two at-bats into their season opener at Globe Life Park in…
It’s Opening Day. It’s not the biggest one in Rangers history, or even one of the five biggest. This Rangers team doesn’t have the talent level, expectations or big names that have come with so many recent Aprils at Globe Life Park. Still, with the first game of the season…
Competing to be a host city for a global sporting event like the World Cup might seem like a feat akin to winning the lottery, but the city of Dallas, the FC Dallas soccer club and some soccer experts believe the city has a solid shot. “We’re very positive about the…
The Men’s NCAA basketball tournament is in Dallas this weekend. It’s a big, but not huge, deal. The games being played are just first- and second-round contests, and Texas Tech, trying to advance to its first Sweet 16 since 2005, is probably the biggest draw. Barring an unforeseen miraculous performance…
Heading into the 2017-18 offseason, the Cowboys faced several large predicaments. They needed to sign DeMarcus Lawrence. They needed, and still need, to do something about Dez Bryant’s contract. They needed to do something to shore up the team’s linebacking corps and offensive lines after a series of disastrous games…
Finally, finally, the Cowboys’ long battles with the NFL over Ezekiel Elliott’s 2017 domestic violence suspension and Commissioner Roger Goodell’s new contract seem to be coming to an end. Wednesday, as first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones agreed to fork over nearly $2 million in legal…
Heading into the 2017-18 offseason, the Rangers had one big goal on the personnel front: signing Japanese two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani. The team, still a few years away from anything beyond fringe contention, wasn’t interested in any of the big domestic free agents and showed as much, electing instead to…
As soon as the Cowboys 2017 season ended, the team had a single priority, one thing it had to do before the 2018 season kicked off. Somehow, it had to secure the services of DeMarcus Lawrence, 2017’s breakthrough defensive star and the Cowboys’ first elite pass rusher since DeMarcus Ware…
Rangers broadcaster C.J. Nitkowski’s social media-inspired comeuppance couldn’t have come as a shock to anyone who’s paid much attention to the former big league vagabond. Since giving up on his Major League dreams and becoming a broadcaster in 2013, Nitkowski has frequently shown himself to be thin-skinned, reactionary and generally…
