It’s officially put up or shut up time for all of you out there who consider yourselves true, degenerate pro football fans. With Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs having put the cherry on top of the NFL’s 2020 sundae, it’s time, this weekend,…
Los Angeles Lakers superstar and five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash in California Sunday morning, the Los Angeles Times and multiple media outlets confirmed. Four others, according to the Times, died in the crash and have yet to be identified. Bryant was 41 years old. As news…
It’s like they always say, a ballpark’s not a ballpark until it’s branded with its corporate sponsor’s logo. Globe Life Field, the Rangers’ new home, is starting to look a little like a finished article. Thursday, the team released video of the park’s sign being hoisted into place, along with…
The quickest emotion to crowd its way to most Rangers fans’ minds Monday was schadenfreude. The Astros, the team they’d had to watch bring the state of Texas its first World Series championship in 2017, six years after the Rangers gave theirs away, ended up not being so special after…
In 2018, one of the North Texas stops on the PGA Tour was moved to southern Dallas from Las Colinas in Irving. It was the fulfillment of a promise by Trinity Forest Golf Club’s backers that the new course — and the city’s $12 million investment — would attract a premier…
Sometime Wednesday afternoon, the Dallas Cowboys, for the ninth time in their history and their eighth time under the ownership of Jerry Jones, are going to announce that they’ve hired a new head coach. Mike McCarthy, he of a dozen mostly successful seasons and one Super Bowl victory with the…
That was fast. Monday morning, less than 24 hours after the Dallas Cowboys officially severed ties with Jason Garrett, the team’s coaching search is over. According to multiple media reports — the first of which came from Fox Sports scoop machine Jay Glazer — Jerry Jones and company have agreed to…
On the afternoon of New Year’s Day, right about the time the Dallas Stars face off against the Nashville Predators at the Cotton Bowl, the forecast calls for a chance of rain and temperatures in the mid 50s — not balmy, maybe, but well above freezing. Hockey, not to put…
Ask 10 Rangers fans about Ian Kinsler, who retired last week after a decade-plus in Major League Baseball, and you’ll get 10 different answers. Most of them will be bad, something about his lack of hustle maybe or his propensity for popping up. Eventually, someone will bring up his comments…
Being a Dallas sports fan in 2019 is about hope. The good kind that comes from the city’s best-ever crop of young athletes and the bad kind that leads you down the path to still, after all these years, being disappointed by the Cowboys. One of these days, one of…
You probably don’t need reminding, but we’ve been here before. A talented but underperforming Cowboys roster led by Jason Garrett has arrived at a mid- to late-December crossroads. Their record isn’t great, but a single win will get them into the NFL playoffs, a place where strange and stranger things…
This fall, Dallas Stars head coach Jim Montgomery was in trouble. His team, fresh off a surprise performance in the playoffs, began their 2019-20 campaign 1-7-1, striking a blow to their hope of returning to the postseason. Then Montgomery righted the ship, leading his team to a 16-4-2 record in…
After months of chronic failure, frustration and inaction, the Dallas Cowboys addressed one of their fans’ biggest issues with the team Monday, firing someone who it’s hard to believe hung on this long. Not that guy. Not the other one either. No, it’s likely the third or fourth guy on…
Like a lot of Cowboys fans on this otherwise lovely Friday, Jerry Jones is feeling the pain from his team’s 31-24 loss to the Bears Thursday night. Almost as soon as he went on the air with 105.3 The Fan, Jones went after hosts Cory Mageors and Kevin Hageland. “Hey,…
In the midst of the Cowboys’ ongoing circus, Luka Doncic’s sublime start to the 2019-20 NBA season and the Stars’ red-hot winter, the out-of-season Texas Rangers managed to steal Dallas’ sports show for a couple of hours Wednesday afternoon, giving North Texas baseball fans their best look yet at what’s coming…
The 2019 Dallas Cowboys are not a playoff team. At least, they aren’t a playoff team in the way one usually thinks about the term. They are led by one of the NFL’s worst head coaches and sport an underachieving defense and abominable special teams. They’ve lost six of their…
First things first, before we get all mealymouthed and try to make the case for the Cowboys, still in the wilderness after all these years, slaying Goliath on Sunday afternoon, we should all be thankful. This weekend, the last one before the three-day, pre-holiday slog and the feast that hopefully…
Myles Garrett did something dumb last week. With his Cleveland Browns moments from finishing a 21-7 win at home over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night, the Arlington Martin and Texas A&M product got involved in a melee with several members of the Steelers offense. Garrett eventually ripped off quarterback…
If you spent any time on Dallas Twitter or sports Twitter this week, you couldn’t have helped running into the Mavericks’ new jerseys, images of which leaked Tuesday night. We’re sorry about that, but not so sorry that we’re not going to make you look at it a few more…
If there’s one thing all but the most fervent apologists for the Dallas Cowboys head coach can agree on, it’s that Jason Garrett cost his team the game Sunday night against Minnesota. Dak Prescott, Amari Cooper and Randall Cobb did the best they could to save Garrett from himself, but…
It’s been about a week and a half since Deadspin, the sports-adjacent piece of what used to be Gawker’s media empire, died. Deadspin.com, the website, still exists, and some Vichy-ass version of the blog is sure to take its place, but Deadspin, which had become the daily go-to for internet denizens…
Working through the Cowboys’ schedule before the season, it was difficult for anyone but the most hardened cynics to imagine the team doing any worse than 4-2 through the first six games. A trip to New Orleans to play the Saints and a home tilt against the Packers looked daunting,…
