Now it’s time to return the favor. Because while battling lung cancer, the former Cedar Hill High School basketball coach needs a lift. His spirits should be at least temporarily boosted Monday when family, friends and colleagues hold the David Milson Charity Golf Tournament at Tangle Ridge Golf Club in Grand…
Kobe Bryant tonight will do something Michael Jordan never did: Win a Game 7 of the NBA Finals. I know the simpleton argument is that Jordan was so good his Chicago Bulls were never pushed to the brink. Nonetheless, Kobe’s feat in this series – Most Valuable Player, rallying his…
Ties suck. Unless, that is, you’re Troy Dungan. Or Megan Fox’s brother. Or some calf-ropin’ cowboy over at the Mesquite Rodeo. But don’t tell that to soccer. Especially don’t whisper a word to the wonderfully fanatical gaggle of American fans that converged on Trinity Hall in Mockingbird Station last Saturday…
One has a lone white star on a blue background, flanked by large swaths of white and red. It represents a state whose football conference was saved yesterday. One has a lone white star on a blue background, flanked by large swaths of white and red. It represents a country…
Cowboys Stadium hasn’t yet officially celebrated its 1st birthday. Yet, by my count, the joint in Arlington has already hosted: Pro football College football High school football Pro basketball College basketball A high-school prom A high-school graduation Professional bull riding International pro soccer Motorcross Concerts American Idol tryouts I’m sure I’m…
I was at Texas Rangers’ spring training out in Surprise, Arizona the day they signed journeyman catcher Matt Treanor. Honestly, it registered a .5 on my 1-10 scale. The Rangers had their catchers of the future in Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Taylor Teagarden. Behind them, they had Max Ramirez. Surely Treanor…
With his broad shoulders squeezed in tightly next to Chuck Greenberg, Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan looked like he’d rather be tossing cow pies at the side of a barn or chasing snow monkeys than sitting in Fort Worth federal bankruptcy court this morning. But that’s exactly were he was,…
The Boston Celtics have the lead. But the Los Angeles Lakers have the advantage. Right? Boston needs just win one – tonight in Game 6 or in a Game 7 Thursday night – to clinch its record 18th NBA Championship. They won’t get it. As I said before the series, Lakers…
Who’s the commissioner/savior/magician of the Big XII Conference, David Blaine? In a death-defying, last-second escape that would make the famed illusionist proud, Big XII commissioner Dan Beebe has somehow kept his league alive and, I think, well. Lured to stay put by the carrots of doubled TV revenues, Texas and Texas…
If you watched Sunday’s 7-2 win in Milwaukee, you’d think Texas Rangers pitcher Colby Lewis (two hits, including a key two-run single) is a better hitter than first baseman Justin Smoak (0-5 with five strikeouts). If you’ve been watching forever, you’re convinced it’s time to shove Michael Young into the organization’s all-time elite…
Actually, it’s more or less one key revelation — and we already had an idea what it was anyhow, which is: Houston’s Jim Crane offered more for the Texas Rangers than Chuck Greenberg. And, according to e-mails from Hicks Sports Group’s legal counsel and Major League Baseball made public in…
10. When the doors opened at 6 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Hall in Mockingbird Station, there were already 20 people lined up for a day of World Cup watching. We can rip soccer (and we will), but it’s hard to criticize its fans’ passion. 9. In a sport where you…
Apparently, one successful season a rebirth makes, as SMU sends word today that Gerald J. Ford Stadium’s about to get quite the upgrade with the installation of a new video scoreboard designed and manufactured by South Dakota-based Daktronics — the very same company responsible for that towering hi-def monolith installed…
Been meaning to get to this for a couple of days, ever since the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee sent out its weekly newsletter that said, at the very top:TOM LANDRY SUPER BOWL HIGHWAY: On Tuesday, June 15 at 3:30 p.m., the Host Committee along with Alicia Landry…
Dallas Mavericks fans certainly salivate over LeBron James. Dirk Nowitzki wouldn’t mind having him as a running buddy. Mark Cuban’s already been fined for flirting with LeBron. And mayor Tom Leppert likely would appreciate the $2 billion economic impact that the most coveted free agent in the history of sports…
Yeah, it’s the world’s biggest sporting event. But we’re not in the world, we’re in Texas. Dallas, more precisely, where football is king, spring football is queen, basketball is a part-time curiousity, hockey is a memory, baseball is foreplay to more football and soccer is … Stupid? A game played by…
10. Josh Hamilton may never return to the 2008 form in which he already had 17 homers and 67 RBI through 59 games, but all the sudden he’s a pretty dang good hitter. The drop to fifth in the order and the loss of the toe-tap timing mechanism have done wonders…
Never experienced a flash mob. But if it’ll help the Mavericks lure LeBron James to Dallas, I’m down. James, the 25-year-old superstar and arguably the planet’s best basketball player, will on July 1 become the most coveted free agent in the history of sports. Free to sign with any team—the…
Five months before their first dribble up in Frisco, the Texas Legends have already sold 13,000 tickets. Not bad for an NBA Development League franchise that doesn’t yet have any players and just a month ago unveiled a logo. “We have had an absolute blast and the response from our…
Good news: Your Dallas Cowboys will play in Super Bowl XLV right here in our back yard, Feb. 6, 2011 in Arlington. Bad news: They’ll lose to the New York Jets and – giggle – quarterback Mark Sanchez. So sayeth The Sporting News in its 2010 Pro Football Yearbook, which…
Since 1994 we’ve enjoyed the Big 12 Conference. Offices based here. Alumni living here. Championship games played here. Savor it. Because, perhaps as early as Friday, it begins to crumble. With the Big 12 having slapped a Friday deadline on Nebraska to essentially commit or quit, news comes from Omaha this…
In its Tom Hicks puff piece a couple of Sundays ago, The Dallas Morning News noted that Hicks expects to lose, oh, maybe a “couple hundred million” on the sales of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars. But no worries: Hicks told the paper he’d make up those losses when…
