The Morning News’ David Moore put it gently when he wrote that the Cowboys’ selection of Wisconson center Travis Frederick in the first round of the NFL draft is “not likely to satisfy [the] fan base.” The football cognoscenti had predicted he’d be a second or third round pick. Even…
The corpse of the Bowl Championship Series, college football’s much-maligned way of wrapping up each season in often incomprehensible fashion, has gone cold. The organization that will replace it now has a clever name — the College Football Playoff — that leaves plenty of room for a big-dollar corporate sponsor…
Update at 3:41 p.m.: CBS killed the entire show. Whitt’s tweet: Yep @1053RAGE = Dead ‘n Gone. Fired as a show by CBS today. Maddening. For now I’ll just say thanks to all FanFans for their loyal support. Original post: This isn’t the first time Greg Williams has abruptly disappeared…
The Mavericks easily dismantled the lowly Hornets yesterday, a decidedly unimpressive feat given the quality of the opponent and the fact that the Mavs are now officially out of the playoff hunt. Still, this was perhaps the biggest victory of the season, because it brings the Mavs’ record to .500,…
You may have been wondering how Delonte West has been spending his free time now that he’s on an indefinite hiatus from professional basketball. If Twitter is any indication, he’s still in the Dallas area and has mostly occupied himself by making cameos at local gyms and dropping in on…
It should have been a time of celebration. Willie Amendola had just led his Dekaney Wildcats to Texas 5A Division 2 football title and was giving a post-game interview near the Cowboys star at midfield. Then, something rather odd happened. A driverless golf cart barreled down the field, crashing into…
A few days after the Rangers sputtered into last off-season, running on fumes and whatever was left of Josh Hamilton’s CRUNK!!! stash, manager Ron Washington said what many fans and pundits had already said: “Maybe I played them into the ground.” Seven of his starters played 147 games or more…
Apparently, Head & Shoulders and Old Spice have teamed up to create a deodorizing shampoo. And Proctor & Gamble has apparently apparently picked C.J. Wilson and Josh Hamilton to pitch it. They co-star in the commercial above, with a cameo from Hamilton’s wife. Troy Polamalu and Old Spice Guy they…
Emilie Parker, a tow-headed and ever-smiling 6-year-old, was gunned down on December 14 along with 19 of her classmates at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Her parents, Robbie and Alyssa Parker, have coped with her death by sharing their memories of her in the media and on Facebook. She was a…
With the mammoth six-year, $108 million deal he signed last week, Tony Romo became the most richly rewarded player in Cowboys history. That put him fifth on the list of current NFL players, ahead of Eli Manning and Tom Brady but well behind Ravens QB Joe Flacco’s $20.1 million per…
tough break for that dirty jap yu darvish he should probably kill himself losing his perfect game— Andy Chacon (@Andle008) April 3, 2013 This Week in Racism … Even discounted for his putrid opponent, Yu Darvish pitched one of the best games in Rangers history last night, setting down 26…
Tony Romo is a flawed quarterback. Talent-wise, he’s on the cusp of being one of the NFL’s elites, but he has the unfortunate tendency to meltdown in key, late-game situations. But you have to give the man one thing: he (or, more accurately, his agent) is a helluva negotiator. ESPN’s…
Improbably, the Mavericks have managed to claw their way back into the playoff hunt after a season-long funk. With 11 games to go, they are a game-and-a-half out of the final Western Conference playoff slot, currently occupied by the Lakers, and have been gaining fast, winning nine of their last…
Not so long ago, the Dallas Magpies were perennial cellar dwellers in the U.S. Australian Football League, hovering near the bottom of the 35-team organization since the club was established in 1998. Then, something changed. “How’d we get good so quickly? It’s just chemistry, a good mix of guys,” says…
It’s possible that there exists, somewhere, a human being manlier than former Cowboy Darryl Johnston. Maybe some real-world version of the Old Spice guy. But Johnston, a legendary fullback with a square jaw, three Super Bowl rings and the uber-masculine nickname “Moose,” is certainly a close second. Johnston all but…
As the U.S. men’s hockey team prepared to take the ice before its improbable win over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics, head coach Herb Brooks said a few words. His speech, or, more accurately, a Hollywood writer’s imagining of it, was dramatized by Kurt Russell in the…
Chris Wright, whom the Mavericks just signed to a 10-day contract in hopes of patching their depleted backcourt, first felt something go wrong in March 2012. The point guard was playing professional ball in Turkey after going undrafted out of Georgetown the year before. He was running sprints during practice…
For much of the last decade, Roy Williams was the hard-hitting enforcer of the Cowboys secondary, pulverizing any player who dared to bring the ball in his general vicinity. His reputation has since been tarnished by the poor pass coverage and general descent into mediocrity that led the Cowboys to…
It was only fitting that Nolan Ryan, the Hall of Fame pitcher whose name is more or less synonymous with the Texas Rangers, would swoop in to help save the club from Tom Hicks two-and-a-half years ago. But his tenure in the team’s front office may be coming to an…
Just when you thought Robert Jeffress was going to let his jilting at the hands of Tim Tebow slip away, forgotten, after just one news cycle, the First Baptist mega-pastor took to the pulpit on Sunday and questioned the quarterback’s manhood. “I am grateful for men of God like these…
As Tim Tebow’s decision to cancel his Easter Sunday appearance at First Baptist continues to reverberate, the church and its pastor, Robert Jeffress, have gone on the offensive. In a radio interview with the American Family Association, Jeffress says he and Tebow “had a very pleasant conversation. He explained to…
It’s no secret that First Baptist Church of Dallas’ pastor, Robert Jeffress is a lightning rod for controversy because of his less-than-PC remarks on homosexuality. And Mormonism. And Islam. But it seems that Tim Tebow, who was scheduled to appear at the local megachurch as part of the grand opening…
