Late yesterday Tom Hicks made it clear: He intends to keep majority ownership of the Texas Rangers, despite all that danged debt. Three would-be buyers have already traipsed through Arlington to meet with Jon Daniels and Nolan Ryan, more parties may join the fray before the deadline, but Hicks ain’t…
The good news: Your Texas Rangers may be led next season and beyond by an ownership group that includes Nolan Ryan as a front man and Roger Staubach as an investor. The bad news … …
Let’s face it, SMU picked a bad year to have a good year. Coming off consecutive 1-11 seasons and without a bowl game since flight attendants were stewardesses, Danny White quarterbacked the Dallas Cowboys and the NCAA handed out its one and only death penalty, the Mustangs quietly earned their…
Wade Phillips wants more balance. Jason Witten wants to get back to the “brand.” Felix Jones and Tahsard Choice want more touches. You, the Dallas Cowboys fan, just want to win. I think Tony Romo is an elite quarterback and in the NFL you control the clock on the ground…
I like the football played by Dallas Cowboys’ offensive linemen Leonard Davis and Marc Colombo. Even like their music, in the form of Free Reign. But will I like their food? Today – right about now as a matter of fact – a new Smashburger (owned by Davis and Colombo)…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. 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…
Spent yesterday afternoon out at Cowboys Stadium, where about 30 mayors – from Southlake to Sunnyvale – convened for an update as to the goings-on about Super Bowl XLV. By the way, 445 days and counting … I was there hounding Roger Staubach about an upcoming Dallas Observer cover story…
Talked with a guy I really respect this morning. Peter King has been watching and writing about NFL football for years and years. First met him out at Valley Ranch in the early 1990s and have read his stuff at Sports Illustrated ever since and now watch him on NBC’s…
Since April, city officials have been pushing — hard — to land the Federation Internationale de Football Association’s World Cup, either in 2018 or 2022. Matter of fact, they’re even asking locals to sign a petition demanding FIFA bring the soccer matches to Dallas; so far, looks like 6,556 have…
Sportatorium lifetime member Scott can be a dork. His “Roy Williams … this or that” rants are as legendary as they are ludicrous. But every once in a while he delivers. Like Sunday, when he was at Lambeau Field in Green Bay and snapped some pics of the Cowboys’ carnage…
Tyrone Ellis’s pro basketball career in the U.S. didn’t amount to much: 10 pre-season minutes played for the Minnesota Timberwolves in October 2006, during which he didn’t score a single point. Also on his resume: a single-season stint, in 2001-’02, in the NBA’s D-League, during which his Huntsville Flight went…
10. I said on Sunday’s pre-game show on 105.3 The Fan that the only way the Dallas Cowboys could lose to the Green Bay Packers was to commit 3-plus turnovers. The Cowboys committed three turnovers. Add to that 10 penalties, dropped passes, a missed field goal and a couple injuries…
Fine, I’ll go first. Pride swallowed and head bowed, I enter the Cowboys Confessional. Inside this holy little booth—geez, Cowboys Stadium has everything—I take the Sacrament of Penance for Dallas’ football team, a squad I wholly underestimated. On bended knee I softly admit to my sins, my misgivings and my…
Back in 2005, Keven McAlester wrote one hell of a fine story for the paper version of Unfair Park about former Texas Rangers pitcher Dock Ellis’s immortal acid-drenched no-hitter, done, of course, while he was a Pittsburgh Pirate. Piece wasn’t just about the feat, of course; if memory serves, it…
Arrowhead Pride, a fanblog for the Kansas City Chiefs, provides a vaguely intriguing item this afternoon that reveals running back and bad Twitterer Larry Johnson, cut from KC Monday and now a free agent, is in Dallas at this very moment. And how do they know this? “Larry Johnson’s reported…
Dallas Cowboys’ free safety Ken Hamlin missed practice yesterday with a strained left groin. Bad news? Or good news? To me, Hamlin is the weakest link among Dallas’ 24 starters (including kickers). The drop-off from Hamlin to Patrick Watkins is smaller than from any other starter to any other backup. He…
…. tonight’s your lucky night. Mavs man Matt Miller sends word that just in time for tonight’s face-off against the San Antonio Spurs, Your Dallas Mavericks are launching what the team calls a “first-of-its-kind live game companion designed to enhance the television viewing experience for fans.” Which is …? The…
For a couple weeks I coughed and sneezed and hacked and blew and … denied. Last night I gave up and went to the doctor. Sure enough: Swine Flu. AIDS. Walking Pneumonia. Sorry, but today I gotta make this – ahhhhhchooooo! – short and sweet: *Rick Carlisle gets mad and…
… a behind-the-scenester was there to capture the whole thing, from pre-game to big finish. Here’s the formal how-do, featuring Voice of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Followill introducing Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert (who has “instituted many policies that have dramatically improved the quality of life in Dallas,” says the play-by-player),…
The Dallas Cowboys are 6-2. Your glass of blue Kool-Aid is more half-full than half-empty. Wade Phillips is Coach of the Year, Tony Romo’s in the Pro Bowl, Keith Brooking is Badass of the Decade and you’ve got the Cowboys penciled in for Super Bowl XLIV February 7 in Miami. Question: Who…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. 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…
10. Lots of heroes Sunday night in Philly, but the biggest – smallest – play was made by rookie linebacker Victor Butler. With the Eagles down 7 and facing third-and-10 from Dallas’ 33, Donovan McNabb scrambled right into what seemed to be an open field for a good 10 to…
