A few months back the National Hockey League announced it was partnering with Stan Lee — the man who helped birth, oh, I dunno, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk and a few other make-mine-Marvel-ous comic-book heroes — on something called The Guardian Project. Long story short:…
The Cowboys have a history with both Super Bowl teams, the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers. Even after all these years some of the memories sting. But which one more than the other? Is it Jerry Kramer’s block in The Ice Bowl? (Grab a hanky and go to the 8:45…
The National Football League and FOX just made it official: The star of Burlesque will perform the National Anthem as part of Super Bowl XLV pregame festivities at Cowboys Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday. Says Christina Aguilera in the press release that just popped up in the in-box: “I have…
10. Some of us said all week that with the way the Jets celebrated wildly in New England, it was if they’d already won their Super Bowl. Proved astute right out of the gate as the Steelers set the tone with a 15-play, 66-yard touchdown drive to open the game. The Jets…
10. Awesome. In this microwaved society of information, I learned Bears’ third-string quarterback Caleb Hanie — thanks, Twitter — was a former Forney Jackrabbit before Fox TV viewers. 9. Personally, I don’t find Pam Oliver attractive. But when it’s like 15 degrees outside and she’s wearing a blue, knit doily…
On October 1, 2009, 14-year-old Jared Williams, at the time a freshman defensive back on the Pinkston High School varsity football team, was paralyzed from the waist down in a game against North Dallas High School. As The News would explain a few days later: “He had struck his head…
Landmark win by your Dallas Mavericks last night at American Airlines Center, 109-100, over the Los Angeles Lakers? Maybe. But, eh, probably not. Most important, it broke a six-game losing streak. But it also lets them boast this achievement: Wins this season over the Spurs, Celtics, Heat (twice), Hawks, Magic, Thunder, Jazz…
Surveying the current sports landscape dominated by Jason Garrett’s staff, Dirk Nowtizki’s knee, Michael Young’s role and, oh yeah, the imminent arrival of Super Bowl XLV, it’s difficult to fathom a time when hockey mattered. But there was a period—back when Garrett was a quarterback, Nowitzki was a rookie, Young…
John Rhadigan. Great guy. Good voice. Only question marks are: 1. He’s funny, which we’ve learned team president Nolan Ryan doesn’t necessarily appreciate. 2. He’s never done baseball play-by-play. Ever…
Was pondering the disappointing Dallas Cowboys season and I decided to come up with one of my patented Top 10 lists that you guys are so fond of despise. Looking for the season’s crossroads plays, I got out my schedule and started thinking about the opener in Washington Sunday night,…
Last time we saw Tony Romo in action he was sprawled out on his back October 25 at Cowboys Stadium, victim of a vicious sack that resulted in a broken collar bone. Eventually placed on injured reserve, Romo missed the Cowboys’ final 10 games of the disastrous season. Even though he’s…
Some of us — guilty — figured that this weekend your Dallas Cowboys would be hosting the NFC Championship Game, just one step from staying in town and becoming the first team in NFL history to play in a Super Bowl in its own stadium. Those plans, to say the…
I’m fascinated by Mount Everest and absolutely bow down to those who have reached its peak. It remains at the, ahem, top of my bucket list. Watching the Dallas Mavericks lose again yesterday — this time to the lowly 15-26 Detroit Pistons by 14 — I’m left to equate their…
Is it kosher to like the son but loathe the dad? As in Andre and Mike Agassi. Luke and Bill Walton. Stewie and Peter Griffin. Good, then bring on new Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan. And may his father, Buddy, suffer from eternal gas. Rob is the twin brother of…
After a weird, scary ordeal that started with him being admitted to the hospital with early pneumonia and then kept longer than anticipated despite “significant improvement,” Texas Rangers’ outfielder and American League MVP Josh Hamilton was released from the hospital Sunday afternoon. The thing was handled strangely by the Rangers from…
In the past year — in the wake of Reggie Bush — Kim Kardashian has dated Dallas athletes Miles Austin, the Cowboys’ receiver, and then Kris Humpries, who played briefly for the Mavericks. Apparently she hasn’t, after all, moved on to Kanye West. While hotties like Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker and Pamela Anderson…
This isn’t shtick in advance of Monday’s annual observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It’s about the Dallas Cowboys’ locker room chemistry out at Valley Ranch. Ray Sherman was a respected voice and, at times, yes, a coddling sounding board among the team’s black players. Now that he’s gone, new…
Yes there’s a question mark in that headline, because — as always — I’m a little confused. On Tuesday we got this press release from your Texas Rangers about star slugger and American League Most Valuable Player Josh Hamilton: Arlington, Texas–Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton was diagnosed on Monday with…
On April 23, ESPNDallas ran a piece in which Mark Cuban announced he’d become an investor in the start-up United Football League, co-founded by Bill Hambrecht — the man who took Apple and Google, among others, public. Said the Dallas Mavericks’ owner at the time, he didn’t want to invest…
I will now—fear duct-taped and history ignored—utter the scariest four words in the history of Dallas Cowboys football: I trust Jerry Jones. You? It was a surreal scene out at Cowboys Stadium last week. Not only with a head coach announced and anointed in Arlington for the first time. But…
Fans of music and mimosas huddled up in the Meyerson Symphony Center foyer for a very special mystery announcement this morning — and with Roger Staubach and Mayor Tom Leppert slated to make an appearance, and with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra still short a CEO, you could guess where this…
You hear that Josh Hamilton has been hospitalized with pneumonia and what’s the first thing you think? Yep, relapse. Can’t help it. A guy with that kind of history of drug abuse who fell violently and infamously off the wagon two years ago and who still can’t partake in a celebratory beer…
