Lamar Hunt, right, and then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle created the Super Bowl thanks to a tiny “super ball.” It was impossible not to like Lamar Hunt. At age 28 he took on the established National Football League with a new venture founded by a bunch of businessmen he self-mockingly called…
All he wants for Christmas is his two front feet. You’d wish for that too if, like 2-year-old Micah Diffee, you were born with disfigured legs bent backward and twisted like pretzels, the soles of your feet pressed against your bottom. “By far the toughest thing I’ve ever gone through,”…
Barry Zito may be a Texas Ranger yet. Or not. Probably not. Definitely not. But, I’m warnin’ ya, not a second before. So far this off-season the Rangers have added a journeyman spare part, a 39-year-old “stop-gap” center fielder and a reliever who’s missed the last two seasons with elbow…
Dallas sports legends don’t get much bigger than Dallas Texans owner and American Football League founder Lamar Hunt. Dallas sports icon Lamar Hunt is said to be in grave condition in a local hospital, his family desperately holding out for miracles at this point. In a year that’s already seen…
Just so happens that I scooted out to Southlake today to speak with Carroll High School coach Todd Dodge for next week’s column. Ta-da! Whaddya know? On my way it was announced that Dodge has accepted a job to coach the University of North Texas. This, of course, pisses me…
We saw these yesterday while Christmas shopping. And not at a deep discount, either. To be honest, you couldn’t pay us to take these. Well, Julius Jones, maybe. But the Roy Williams figurine? We’d just lose it 30 yards downfield anyway. Mike Karney 18, Dallas Cowboys 17. Where to start?…
Sunday’s White Rock Marathon looks like it will be bigger. And better: Thanks to the first sponsor — Wellstone’s — in its 36-year history, the Rock will this year award a record $150,000 in prize money. Sprinkled around the 26.2-mile course Sunday will be 12,000 runners; 100,000 spectators; 300 police…
Says here that FC Dallas has narrowed its list of head coaches down to a Final Four: interim head coach Steve Morrow, SMU head coach Schellas Hyndman, D.C. United assistant coach Tom Soehn, and New York Red Bulls technical director Jeff Agoos are the four candidates. Didn’t even know FC…
Martin Dramatica’s Miracle in The Meadowlands notwithstanding, there lives a man capable of instantly and permanently solving the Dallas Cowboys’ kicking quandary. Unfortunately, Steve Hoffman now works for the Atlanta Falcons. “I still have the utmost respect for the Jones family and the Cowboys, but I’ve got my own kickers…
As I told you a couple months ago, neither the Dallas Mavericks’ collapse nor the city’s premature parade plans were the fault of Celia Barshop. Yesterday, Dallas took steps to prevent its special events manager from ever again being conveniently abused as a scapegoat. You remember what you did last…
Turns out WFAA-Channel 8’s Erin Hawksworth’s reporting is also beautiful. On last night’s 10 o’clock newscast, Erin provided the first interview with former Dallas Cowboys kicker Mike Vanderjagt since his unceremonious release last week. The bubbly, buxom reporter bumped into Vandershank while he was playing golf with cornerback Terence Newman…
It is official: Your Dallas Cowboys are once more America’s Team. And Jerry Jones has the TV ratings to prove it. If the Cowboys are on TV, millions are watching. No one else even comes close. And they haven’t in a decade. Seriously, when you consider the fact there are…
Still hurts, doesn’t it? Now, D-Wade is the magazine’s Sportsman of the Year. Go ahead. Let it out. Unless you’ve been too mesmerized by Britney going commando to notice, the Dallas Mavericks — as predicted right here — rebounded quite nicely from their 0-4 start. If you’re reading this second…
Remember back when the New York Giants were all cocky and all celebratin’ like rappers-turned-hoopsters-turned-footballers? Remember even further back, when we were just so sure that if the Dallas Cowboys were gonna be worth a crap they’d have to get great seasons from Drew Bledsoe, Greg Ellis and Mike Vanderjagt?…
You really should read The New York Times’ account of yesterday’s Cowboys win over the New York Giants, if only for the picture accompanying the recap. I’ve already sent it to Mike Vanderjagt. Maybe he wants to use it on his Web site or, at the very least, as his…
This is the genius behind TonyHomo.com. Part of him wishes you didn’t know that. First thing this morning, I touted the greatness of Really Drew Bledsoe’s latest post on his blog, TonyHomo.com. An hour later, Tim Rogers at FrontBurner outed the man behind the blog: Amir Blumenfeld, a 23-year-old Los…
If nothing else, Richie does give us an excuse to run this pic of the future Mrs. Mike Modano. She seems very bendy. Thanks for taking my call. Unfortunately, the previous caller stole my thunder. I’m learning you gotta get up pret-ty early to beat certain blog editors (rhymes with…
USA Today says Tony Romo’s a “sex symbol” now. And, apparently, women like him too. USA Today’s the latest media outlet to go Romosexual, with a lengthy piece about how the Cowboys QB is giving the team “the same confident aura it had when Aikman engineered three Super Bowl championships…
First, we get buried beneath the Arctic Blast’s sub-zero temperatures and six feet of ice. And now Dallas is about to get dumped on again. Somehow amidst the downed power lines and white-out conditions comes news that Saturday’s Big 12 Championship Game between old Big 8 rivals Oklahoma and Nebraska…
The 107th game between Army and Navy takes place this Saturday at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and who better to comment on the great gridiron battle than former Naval Academy QB — and, sure, Greatest Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Ever — Roger Staubach? He tells The Baltimore Examiner today that…
Anna Kournikova grabbed my balls. Relax. It was for charity. Some aspire to climb Mount Everest, facilitate world peace or concoct a beer-flavored cure for the common cold. Me? I just want to hit on the hottest human ever to pick up a tennis racquet. And have her hit back…
So, the best the Rangers could do this off-season was acquire Frank Catalanotto? Been there, done that, right? The Ron Washington Era is off to a stumbling start. Phil Bennett is coming back to SMU. Bill Parcells has been invited back to the Dallas Cowboys. But, as for your Texas…
