On Sunday the Dallas Cowboys look for their first home win of the season. Manny Pacquiao has already won twice in Cowboys Stadium in 2010. In other words, it’s time to adopt the eight-time boxing champion as our “team.” After all, the bludgeoning he delivered upon the unfortunate noggin of…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
Dwyane Wade in specific. And the Miami Heat in general. Take this lightly if you wish, but consider the career/personal plunges of my previous targets: *Terrell Owens (cut by the Cowboys, irrelevant as Buffalo Bill). *Tiger Woods (lost his wife, reputation and No. 1 ranking). *Brett Favre (no ankle and/or playoff…
Back in February there was that story about Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys suing some 10 bidnesses for failing to pay the rent on their sweet suites at Cowboys Stadium. Total rent owed back then: $82.3 million. To that sum add another $37.7 million, per Courthouse News’s news that…
Neftali Feliz is the American League Rookie of the Year. Deservedly so. Cliff Lee’s Arkansas friends can’t imagine him leaving Texas for New York. Fingers crossed. But now Texas Rangers’ hitting coach Clint Hurdle is the new manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. What becomes of Josh Hamilton’s toe-tapless swing? I…
As I’ve said before, I like Jason Garrett. Really do. Got to know him a little bit personally when he was a backup and I was beat writer out at Valley Ranch in the ’90s. I’ve long pushed for him to be Dallas’ head coach in place of Stumbledoofus. What’s…
Last month your Texas Rangers finally made it to baseball’s World Series. Hasn’t been quite as long of a wait, but FC Dallas is at last in soccer’s MLS Cup. With a 3-0 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy Sunday night, FC Dallas won Major League Soccer’s Western Conference and…
10. It took all of one play to smack you in the kisser with the fact that these were not your same ol’ Stumbledoofus Cowboys. Bruised ribs and all, cornerback Terence Newman tackled Mario Manningham for a 2-yard loss after a catch on New York’s first play. Against the Packers last…
Tom Hicks is friends with Brian Mulroney, who served as Canadian prime minister from September 1984 to June 1993 — and was, at one time, a senior counselor to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. Anyway. In the you-gotta-pay-to-read-it UK Times today, Mulroney op-eds about Liverpool fans’ vilification of Hicks. Long…
On Veterans Day we stop — if only for a minute — to thank all those who have served in our military and fought to provide us the freedom to do things like vote, drink beer, sleep in if we want and, of course, blog insanely and/or sharply and anonymously criticize those…
The new/interim head coach of the Dallas Cowboys made some changes on his first day in charge at Valley Ranch. Mostly, players were met by this message — in all caps, and in red — on the daily grease board when they arrived: FULL PADS. “I was like ‘Whoa’,” says linebacker DeMarcus Ware. “That…
When he left in 2000 his going-away party was thrown at Sipango, because the guy with the red hair would never venture into the “white house.” When he returned in 2007 he was a 40-year-old virgin who’d never called, much less crafted, a playbook. And now—in a crazy, capricious 2010—he’s…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
After talking with a couple embedded folks I trust out at Valley Ranch, this is how I see it all going down: The next permanent head coach of the Dallas Cowboys will come from one of four corners. Owner Jerry Jones is as conflicted, confused and confounded as at any time…
I thought Elvis Andrus got ripped off last year when he didn’t win American League Rookie of the Year. But it’s nothing compared to the travesty of him not winning a Gold Glove yesterday. Think of it this way: With your life at stake and a grounder hit in the hole,…
Clips from Josh Hamilton’s Interview with Dr. Robert Jeffress from First Dallas on Vimeo.Josh Hamilton, who is second, was First Baptist Dallas’s special guest speaker this weekend. The result is the Q&A above, in which the Rangers’ center fielder talks about getting this close to a title, how he got…
10. Jerry Jones wants tangible improvements. Is that simply Jason getting the Cowboys to play harder? Or does he need to go 3-5 down the stretch? Either way, you can bet Bill Cowher’s number is handy. 9. Garrett played behind Troy Aikman and was coached by Norv Turner and Sean…
Can’t remember the last time Erick Dampier had 12 points on perfect shooting and 13 rebounds in a win over an elite opponent. I’m sure it happened, but not nearly enough. That’s why, in part, Dampier was traded in the off-season for Tyson Chandler. The positive effects for the Dallas…
10. Good to the last drop, hours after being fired Monday, Wade showed up at Cowboys Stadium for a previously scheduled charity event. He’s a better man than me for dang sure. 9. Lose some games? Jerry Jones has been down that road. But lose gobs of TV viewers? Heads…
Back in April we ran that Dirk Nowitzki film festival alluded to in the headline. Cute stuff, especially Dirk as The Dude. Tonight at the AAC, when Your Dallas Mavericks take on the Shaq-less Boston Celtics, debuts another addition to the filmography starring Dirk as Steve Martin as The Jerk…
Dallas Cowboys players at Valley Ranch have been told today that head coach Wade Phillips has been fired…
Wild weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. I saw girls in checkered-flag bikinis, monkeys selling programs, a rare pit-crew substitution and even a NASCAR fight. Delicious…
