After more or less single-handedly propelling the Rangers past the Angels last night with two home runs and six RBIs, thus securing a playoff berth, it would take something extraordinary Mike Napoli to fall from a Rangers fan’s good graces. But dear Lord, Napoli came close. See also: Photos: The…
The website for the Bikini Basketball League is a bare-bones affair, little more than a clock ticking down the seconds to…well, it doesn’t really say exactly what is happening in a shade over 35 days, but one can make an educated guess, particularly with the help of the accompanying blurb…
Cowboys Stadium has pretty much everything Jerry Jones could imagine packing into a single building, but if there’s one thing it lacks, it’s a certain feminine touch. No longer. The Cowboys announced yesterday that Victoria’s Secret will open a PINK store at JerryWorld on Monday, just a few hours before…
The Cowboys nabbed Martellus Bennett in the second round of the 2008 draft with hopes that the 6-foot-6 tight end would be good to have on the other side of the formation from Pro Bowler Jason Witten. That never really came to pass, and Bennett was written off as a…
Via Over at Mavs Moneyball, Andrew Tobolowsky (who, in the interest of full disclosure, I routinely destroyed during pickup basketball when we were at Richardson High) stumbled upon something of a mystery yesterday. The Mavericks, it seems, have set up a bare-bones web page with a floating Dirk bobblehead and…
For the first time in five games, Josh Hamilton will be in the Rangers lineup tonight for the first of four against the A’s, who conveniently lurk four games behind in the West with 10 games to go. Hamilton has been sidelined with blurred vision and balance issues, reportedly caused…
A week after being thoroughly handled by the Seattle Seahawks, the Cowboys returned to Dallas to be thoroughly handled by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Fortunately for Dallas, Tampa didn’t have a running back near the caliber of Marshawn Lynch, and their punt coverage team couldn’t resist going for Cowboys’ punter…
The Dallas Cowboys almost snatched up the Cowboys.com domain five years ago. They called in the winning bid at auction but backed out after realizing that the “275” the agreed to was $275,000, not just $275.00, according to a report at the time from Domain Name News. The name was…
Yesterday, still irrationally giddy from the beatdown their Seahawks delivered on Sunday ( I for one blame the replacement refs for Felix Jones’ fumble on the opening kickoff. And the subsequent blocked punt. And the Romo interception right after. And — oh screw it, the Cowboys blew.) , our colleagues…
The Cowboys’ 27-7 pasting at the hands of the Seahawks was about as brutal as the final score indicates. From the opening kickoff (literally!), Seattle simply played with a level of physicality that the Cowboys could not match. Every Dallas ball carrier was getting plowed, while Seahawks running back/prehistoric torture…
David Sierra isn’t quite sure why the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department stopped allowing hunting in Dallas County. He’s not even sure when. He’s only been the agency’s director of Region 5, which includes Dallas, for 21 years, after all. He does know that, come September 29, you’ll be able…
It nearly broke the internet last week when, during the Cowboys-Giants game, cameras caught what appeared to be Jerry Jones’ manservant dutifully cleaning his boss’ glasses. The manservant turned out to be Jones’ son-in-law, Shy Anderson, who immediately saw a way to parlay his brief moment in the spotlight into…
Sean Payton is cooling his heels at his home in Westlake while he takes an NFL-mandated break from coaching the New Orleans Saints.
With the start of the NFL season this week, Forbes has been in something of a football-list-making frenzy. We were reminded, for example, that Drew Brees is the league’s highest-paid player and that you’re very own Dallas Cowboys is the most valuable team in football. This afternoon, Forbes gave America’s…
What a win for the good guys. The Bi-Ringed Mouth Breather from the Bayou finally got his comeuppance, Tony Romo executed like a champ when it mattered, DeMarco Murray was DeMarco Murray, and the defense held up its end of the bargain by keeping the Giants’ offense at bay much…
With the NFL season set to kick off with tonight’s Cowboys-Giants matchup in New York, it’s easy to be distracted by debates about who has the better team or who will score the most points and lose focus of what really matters in professional football: money. By that measure –…
If you watch a Rangers game on TV for more than about five minutes, you’re bound to encounter manager Ron Washington telling you wonderful things about Ace Cash Express. If you can ignore the glare from Washington’s shiny pate — he often appears sans baseball cap, even though he is…
Lance Armstrong’s decision last week to stop fighting the doping charges leveled against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency wasn’t an admission of guilt, though it sure seemed that way: The next day was the deadline for contesting USADA’s evidence at an open hearing complete with a parade of witnesses…
I’ve never played fantasy football. I like to catch a Cowboys game from time to time, but actually joining a league and drafting players and obsessively tracking them throughout the season seems like a lot of work and not a lot of fun. So I’d never really wondered or cared…
Justin Bitner is a local freelance writer. He last wrote for the Observer about FC Dallas. Oh, and sandwiches. As expected, the starters were firmly entrenched on the sidelines last night, having no intention of taking the field until postgame bro-hugs. The third and fourth deep, though, had to give…
Jerry Jones owns the Dallas Cowboys. He also really likes/has an endorsement deal with Papa John’s. That goes some ways in explaining the existence of the above video, titled “Hip Hop Jerry,” in which Jones proclaims his love for the pizza chain via a rap song. It’s about what you’d…
Somewhere deep in your blackened heart you’re rooting for Dez Bryant. Like a lot of his colleagues, his childhood was packed with a miniseries’ worth of drama and heartbreak, in and out of homes while his mom peddled crack. Then came the leaches, both men and institutions ready to exploit…
